Here was a Canadian band that managed to have a million selling single worldwide in 1970. Some of these guys ended up in versions of April Wine.
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Hold on! If those Paris folks above don't count, neither do Skid Row (as much as I like them), and you know why...
(Yeah, I'm well aware they're not the ones with Sebastian Bach.) Especially considering you also linked to Heavy Petting.
Man and Spring were mentioned above, by @Honch and @Michedelic respectively. Anyone knows what the link is between them? Without looking them up, that is...
Hold on! If those Paris folks above don't count, neither do Skid Row (as much as I like them), and you know why...
(Yeah, I'm well aware they're not the ones with Sebastian Bach.) Especially considering you also linked to Heavy Petting.
Man and Spring were mentioned above, by @Honch and @Michedelic respectively. Anyone knows what the link is between them? Without looking them up, that is...
Ah, yes, you are correct. Gary Moore was in Skid Row. My faux pas.
Also, Philo briefly sang lead with them. After that, Brush Shiels took on lead vocals and he taught Lynott to play bass - and the rest, as they say...
EDIT: Also also, Paul Chapman, later of UFO, re-recorded Moore's parts for their third album, which went unpublished at the time and only resurfaced in the 90s with Gary's versions (I have it somewhere). Other short-time members have had respectable careers.
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Yes So Cal And yes we did play the Cuckoos Nest. What was the name of your band?
I have Gynhouse, and Skyd Row...Skyd Row was Gary Moores first band! Now, how was it...with OT. Any band that contained future stalwarts should not be included?
Or as ... PARIS ... former members of way more famous bands they came from (Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac). Ginhouse was actually quite good I remember.
Or as ... PARIS ... former members of way more famous bands they came from (Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac). Ginhouse was actually quite good I remember.
Well, the Dregs was just a demo thing I made, that I thought when I first heard this Dregs tune, in 78-79 I immediately thought of Budgies "In For The Kill". For comparison only. Not that I think they were obscure by this standard. I think most fusion bands from US where literarelly unknown outside the states at that time. While Budgies albums where in the record bins, in any store, you'd always had to import and preorder any Dregs record to extortionate prices. Those were never ever in any record bin. That's what I reckoned as underground and obscure bands back then. Bands that you had to order on import! Not some band that you new were to become big and successful. By major labels. But stayed underground and obscure. Most succesful bands have been in their underground, cult environment, and reached a sort of "catch them before they becomes big" state. You know.. like... "before sell out". As Genesis actually was at the time, when Peter Gabriel was in it.
I mean I could list - for you obscure - bands from Sweden at the time, who sold a lot in Japan back then. The prog movement like Samla Mammas Manna, Kaipa, November, Egba, Wasa Express, Made in Sweden, Kebnekajse. They later on got hold of the japanese who liked and were into this nerdy thing, and ordered them like hell. But while those names doesn't ring a bell to anyone of you in the states, they were household names in Sweden. Instrumental rock/prog bands, with only November singing. The main thing they didn't do anything overseas was that they sung in Swedish of course. Who wants to hear that...? If you don't speak...well, the japanese did listen to it anyway without getting a zot. Just extremely exotic to them. But it must be so with any non-english band in the 70's. They were considered obscure in any country outside their own.
Yeah! I got their/his first album! Pompous prog, but with songs. A tad under-produced though...imho. But sure worth a listen!
Now we're talking. Not anyone of them from any other band, and none of them made it anywhere else later on. Never reunited. No one couldn't care less. I saw them open for Nazareth 1975, and thought "wow, who are they?!?" Made one or two albums (maybe three) and then lost it. Most obscure bands I've seen, are as opening acts.
Granted many of these obscure hard rock bands didn't had what it took to weed them out from the competition. While good performers, I can't help but think something in the vein of "stock-rock" so to speak. You were into music, bought everything that had long hippie hair and cool guitars on it, and went home. Give it a thorough listen, and didn't buy their second album.
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When playing poker with friends in between 11-15 years old, we always put vinyls on the table that was at stake. The ones we got fed up with. One Jethro Tull album was worth 5 other obscure bands, Neon Rose, Jade Warrior, Jobriath, Sir Lord Baltimore. Tull and Zeppelin was even. People put Zeppelin at stake because they thought they could win them back.
Later on one found all these obscure bands as CUT-OUTS in cutout bins, if you remember those sales. Poorer quality vinyls. That's how I got my most obscure bands. AFAIK that was leftovers from the record companies, when bands had broke up and so on. No use to flog a dead horse. One wonders what could've been if one saved all those out of print vinyls on original labels.
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Hold on! If those Paris folks above don't count, neither do Skid Row (as much as I like them), and you know why...
(Yeah, I'm well aware they're not the ones with Sebastian Bach.) Especially considering you also linked to Heavy Petting.
Man and Spring were mentioned above, by @Honch and @Michedelic respectively. Anyone knows what the link is between them? Without looking them up, that is...
I swear I haven't looked it up. I remember some producer stalwart name in Spring...Paul Moran? Motian? And that drummer Pick Withers later played with ...oh dear... Dire Straits!!! That makes Spring disqualified for this thread then. Oh bugger. I can't see the connection with welsh Man though. The only guy in that band I can remember the name of was Deke Leonard....
now I am bursting, of curiosity....
Aehhhemmmm....same producer? Pat/Paul Moran?
Is this the same Pat Moran, as the Moran in Spring?
Pat Moran obituary
Is this the same Pat Moran, as the Moran in Spring?
Pat Moran obituary
Lloyd and Verlaine were one of the best guitar duos in the history of music.
