70's rock

[heath_the_great]

so, i just got some steely dan and toto's "toto"....whats some other great 70's rock bands/albums i should get?

[xampworshipx]

every black sabbath record. The first king crimson record (in the court of the crimson king), anything blue cheer put out, etc.

[John Wentzien]

Zeppelin
Thin Lizzy
Jimi Hendrix
{Early} ZZ Top, Aerosmith,Pink Floyd,ELP,Grand Funk

[John Wentzien]

Queen
The WHO

[Emmaemme]

David Bowie

[Hawaii Islander]

Mott the Hoople
Deep Purple
Grand Funk RailRoad
T-Rex (Marc Bolan)
Uriah Heep
10 Years After (Alvin Lee)
Jethro Tull (Pre Songs from the Wood)
Argent
The Raspberries
Eagles
Rolling Stones (Early to mid 70's i.e., "Goats Head Soup" Allbum)
Tommy James and the Shondells

+everything mentioned previously (and a lot more)

[John Wentzien]

Steve Miller band
Gentle Giant
Slade
Brownsville Station

[Hawaii Islander]

Scan through this list and check out any You Tube vids. The list includes funk and disco groups too (not my type of music, btw) so you'll have to sort them out.

http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/p...rtists70s.html

[pompompom]

Krautrock! :

Amon Düül II
Ash ra Tempel
Can

[mvw356]

Originally Posted by heath_the_great

so, i just got some steely dan and toto's "toto"....whats some other great 70's rock bands/albums i should get?

if you like toto, be sure to check their 2nd album Hydra, it's real good and more rock oriented than the first one.

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by Hawaii Islander

Mott the Hoople
Deep Purple
Grand Funk RailRoad
T-Rex (Marc Bolan)
Uriah Heep
10 Years After (Alvin Lee)
Jethro Tull (Pre Songs from the Wood)
Argent
The Raspberries
Eagles
Rolling Stones (Early to mid 70's i.e., "Goats Head Soup" Allbum)
Tommy James and the Shondells

Holy crap, I just had a major acid flashback to my formative years! Dude, methinks you and I would get along quite well

...er, at least if we were 13 years old again.

[ldervish]

Don't forget Humble Pie

and although she barely made it into the 70's, Janis Joplin

[Barkless Dog]

The Who - Live At Leeds

Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond

Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow & Wired

Pink Floyd -Animals, Dark Side Of The Moon & Echoes

Billy Cobham's - Spectrum

Frank Zappa's - Live At The Roxy, One Size Fits All

Johnny Winter - Live

ELP - Tarkus

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

James Gang - Best Of

Queen, I, II

Todd Rundgrens Utopia - Utopia

Roxy Music, Stranded, Country life (love the cover)

[scootron]

Derek and the Dominos - Layla

The Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore

Humble Pie - Live at the Fillmore; Smokin'

Grand Funk - Grand Funk

LZ - I, II

Steppenwolf - Live

Montrose, Cactus, Savoy Brown, Black Oak Arkansas (only 1st three albums, though), early Neil Young w/Crazy Horse, early BTO

[Joe Nerve]

The only Rush I ever really liked:

Rush
Caress of Steel
Fly by Night
2112
All the World's a Stage

Any older Yes albums:

yes
yessongs
tales from topographic oceans
the yes album
fragile
close to the edge

Jesus Christ Superstar - the play version with Ian Gillian as Jesus

Any Deep Purple album

70s pop compilations have a lot of great songs and playing on them. 70s disco compilations too.

[scottbass]

No one mentioned Supertramp! Well, now I just did.

I always appreciated live albums - The Who "Live at Leeds", Deep Purple "Made in Japan", Chicago "Chicago at Carnegie Hall", Cheap Trick "At Budokan", The Allman Brothers Band "At Fillmore East". Layered, multi-tracked efforts like Steely Dan are nice to listen to, but for me rock 'n roll is all about the performance.

[scootron]

Originally Posted by scottbass

No one mentioned Supertramp! Well, now I just did.

I always appreciated live albums - The Who "Live at Leeds", Deep Purple "Made in Japan", Chicago "Chicago at Carnegie Hall", Cheap Trick "At Budokan", The Allman Brothers Band "At Fillmore East". Layered, multi-tracked efforts like Steely Dan are nice to listen to, but for me rock 'n roll is all about the performance.

scottbass is right...some of the best of the seventies rock was captured in live albums. That is why I listed a few. There are even a few more obscure live albums that give you a great look at the bands, things like...

Three Dog Night Captured Live at the Forum

David (Bowie) Live at the Tower in Philadelphia

Bloodrock Live

Black Oak Arkansas - Raunch and Roll (newly remastered and expanded edition)

Grand Funk Railroad Live 1971 Tour (the newly released, not the old GFR "Live Album", although that one was okay, too)

Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus

Neil Young - Live Rust

EC - EC was Here

Cheap Trick at Budokan

Frampton Comes Alive

Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won (this was not actually released in the 70's, but the concerts from which it was taken were performed in the 70's and this is an absolutely stunning release...beats TSRTS hands down.)

There are more, but these are the ones that jump to mind.

[ryco]

Todd Rundgren (any solo & first two Utopia albums)
David Sancious and Tone
Jeff Beck - Truth
Zappa - Zoot Allures, Live at the Fillmore
Faces - First Step, Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever
Tower of Power

[yankeesman714]

I'd throw in Genesis - Selling England by the Pound and Nursery Crymes

... plus all of the above

[heath_the_great]

sweet, thanks guys...i've been into zeppelin for a while, and i've had jeff becks blow by blow for years, love that album!!!..i got the yes album, awesome...a thin lizzy best of and i had major flashbacks (yes, flashbacks for a 22yo) when i found jeff waynes war of the worlds the other day too!...my step father used to play that all the time when i was younger, i can still remember playing megaman 3 on the NES with that in the background....my search continues!.....MORE TOTO!!!!