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Forgotten 70's Rock Bands

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RichardW said:
Horslips--best band out of Ireland not named U2.
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions--put out one great album in 1980. Their bass player was amazing.
Jules and the Polar Bears--two great albums in '78 and '79. Terrific guitar rock with arch lyrics (a la Steely Dan). Now basically forgotten.
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I am at Amazon...they have Jules & The Polar Bears. Available for 'free' for Music Unlimited members. I will check these guys out.
Looking for Pearl Harbor & The Explosions next.
 
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WI Short Scaler said:
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RichardW said:
Horslips--best band out of Ireland not named U2.
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions--put out one great album in 1980. Their bass player was amazing.
Jules and the Polar Bears--two great albums in '78 and '79. Terrific guitar rock with arch lyrics (a la Steely Dan). Now basically forgotten.
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JimK said:
I am at Amazon...they have Jules & The Polar Bears. Available for 'free' for Music Unlimited members. I will check these guys out.
Looking for Pearl Harbor & The Explosions next.
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Jules Shear was the main force in J&PB; yes, very witty songwriting. The Bangles covered his “If She Knew What She Wanted”, and he was the original host of MTV’s Unplugged. Sometime around ‘83/‘84, he persued a solo career, and did a tour with Joan Armatrading. They played an old 2000 seater theater in my hometown. I was hanging out with my keyboard player at the time at a bar next door, and as we were leaving, saw him hanging on the sidewalk by himself. We struck up a conversation(I let him know I was a PB fan)so the two of us brought him along to a party that was going on. Nice funny guy, keyboard girl was quite smitten with him, but nothing happened.
 
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RichardW said:
Horslips--best band out of Ireland not named U2.
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions--put out one great album in 1980. Their bass player was amazing.
Jules and the Polar Bears--two great albums in '78 and '79. Terrific guitar rock with arch lyrics (a la Steely Dan). Now basically forgotten.
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Saw Horslips open for U. K. at the Spectrum in Philly

The man who built America
 
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Texan said:
One of my all time favorite bands is Trapeze, but very few people seem to remember them or have even heard of them, yet they are IMO one of the best rock bands ever. Another one is Bloodrock, just because of the song D.O.A. What are your favorite forgotten or unknowns?
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Ahh, Trapeze, You Are The Music, We're Just the Band featuring Mr. Glen Hughes, The Voice of Rock, and Head East, the first band for Petra front man John Schlitt. I'd throw Son Volt in there as well.
 
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fhm555 said:
The only non southern rock band on Capricorn. On the cover of their first album (Sufficiently Breathless) the big white rock on which the rock god is flying through the universe was said to be a giant rock of cocaine. I had a bootleg copy on eight track and wore it out.
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"New" Captain Beyond due out in June 2019 (according to Amazon)-
Live In New York July 30, 1972

I bought it from an EBay seller last week. Sound quality is about as bad as the other CB live albums recently issued.

Oh, yeah-
Sufficiently Breathless is their 2nd album. Different direction than the eponymous debut.
 

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