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Obscure 70s Rock Bands

#201
I've seen Budgie live. Good band. Both as main act, and opening for ...hmm... AC/DC. I liked their "Rushy" and power trio thing. I don't know why but I find similarities of their "In for the Kill" and Dixie Dregs "Country House Shuffle" from their "Night Of The Living Dregs" album. Don't know why...can you hear any connection?



And here's Dregs... Country House Shuffle:



Hear the similarity in main melody?
Don't know if Dregs counts as "obscure 70s" rock band. Rather fusion like... most of their material was in the 70s though.
 
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#202
Anyone remembers SPRING ?



Obscure and then some. 4 mellotrons, bass, drums, voice. More prog than anything else. Slightly boring B-rate King Crimsonish. And here comes a blinder:

Anyone remembers the first band actually called NIRVANA?:



Look at the cover... and think of the similarities between Later 90s grunge Nirvanas "Nevermind" cover? ;)
 
#203
stringthrough said:
Some rock jazz and jazzy blues by Blodwyn Pig (late 60's thought)





Some prog rock by Gentle Giant



And from one of the best (and rarely discussed) rock jazz albums of the 70's Billy Cobham's Magic (with a young American Idol's Randy Jackson on bass)... Wait for Pete Maunu's killer outro guitar solo.

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I would not consider Gentle Giant and Billy Cobham as obscure. Both acts had quite a lot of success and are very well known.
 
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#205
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String Driven Thing anyone ? From Scotland. As well as Horslips from Ireland. Horslips? You could bet that's Ian Anderson singing. However, no flute in sight for light years.

As well as these ones (since we're talking Blodwyn Pig).. anyone remembers PARIS ? :



With former Tull member Glenn Cornick, who later played in Carthago, and Wild Turkey, other real obscure bands.
 
#207
I'll bet that some (or most) of you consider even a band like Marillion as obscure. While obscure in US, they may be arena acts in Europe. And of course, the other way around.

Another obscure band I can't find anything about on the net, I've a sole vinyl album of them, are something called "STILL LIFE". It's a band reminiscnent of Rare Bird who got that one hit wonder hit with "Sympathy".

Still Life (1970s UK band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anyone heard of, or knows anything about'em?
 
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Honch said:
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String Driven Thing anyone ? From Scotland. As well as Horslips from Ireland. Horslips? You could bet that's Ian Anderson singing. However, no flute in sight for light years.

As well as these ones (since we're talking Blodwyn Pig).. anyone remembers PARIS ? :



With former Tull member Glenn Cornick, who later played in Carthago, and Wild Turkey, other real obscure bands.
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Paris also included Bob Welch after Fleetwood Mac and before his solo career and Thom Mooney from The Nazz and he went on to other projects.
 
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Honch said:
I've seen Budgie live. Good band. Both as main act, and opening for ...hmm... AC/DC. I liked their "Rushy" and power trio thing. I don't know why but I find similarities of their "In for the Kill" and Dixie Dregs "Country House Shuffle" from their "Night Of The Living Dregs" album. Don't know why...can you hear any connection?



And here's Dregs... Country House Shuffle:



Hear the similarity in main melody?
Don't know if Dregs counts as "obscure 70s" rock band. Rather fusion like... most of their material was in the 70s though.
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I would not count Budgie and Dixie Dregs as obscure by any means. Both are extremely well known and the members of Dixie Dregs also were, and are, members of Deep Purple, Winger, and other bands.
 
#213
There was a band from Ohio in the 1970s called "Law" who were really good, They had three albums (I have one of them); but, nothing on You Tube by them. I saw them open a concert for Ten Years After and Wild Turkey.
 
#214
gjbassist said:
Shooting Star is a home town band. They played at my junior high back in the late 70's before they were called Shooting Star. They are very well known in my area and still get played on the classic rock station. Technically they are not a 70's band since their debut album was realeased in 1980.
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Shooting Star had a few "hits" in the early 80's. Hollywood, Hang On For Your Life, etc.
 

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