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Obscure 70s Rock Bands

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the harp unstrung said:
Good Rats was the very first band that came to my mind when I read the title of this thread! I listened to Live At Last a month or so ago, and was Blown Away...AGAIN!
They used to make Frivilous Sal's Last Chance Saloon in Poughkeepsie a regular part of their rotation...Packed the joint...ROCKED the joint!!

New York Rock & Roll Ensemble was the 2nd band I thought of when I saw this thread. The bass line to Gravedigger is still a regular part of my warm up routine! Dorian Rudnytsky was a huge influence...:thumbsup:

Man! I really thought that I was the only guy in the world who knew about...gave a damn about...this stuff! It does my heart Good to hang with like-minded folk!:thumbsup:
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But here we go again. Michael Kamen was HUGE! Afterwards, mind you.
 
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I wont say Angel was anyway obscure by any means. Even in Sweden they were played on radio stations (national) and were NOT in the import bins. I liked them a lot.

And dutch Ekseption... obscure?! Well, let's make an exception then (ouch!) ...they were huge in Europe with their classically tinged light jazzrock.
 
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Honch said:
I wont say Angel was anyway obscure by any means. Even in Sweden they were played on radio stations (national) and were NOT in the import bins. I liked them a lot.

And dutch Ekseption... obscure?! Well, let's make an exception then (ouch!) ...they were huge in Europe with their classically tinged light jazzrock.
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Ekspetion are not known in the U.S.
 
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Richland123 said:
Ekspetion are not known in the U.S.
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That's what I was after. Obscure when and where? Genesis were an obscure band in the US in the 70s, and HUGE in the US in the 80's. I could list a dime a dozen krautrock bands in Germany in the 70s no one in US never ever heard about.
If you're obscure on one continent, you may be a major arena draw at another continent. Still, in the 70s.

Like I said, lets make an exception then...;)
 
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Honch said:
That's what I was after. Obscure when and where? Genesis were an obscure band in the US in the 70s, and HUGE in the US in the 80's. I could list a dime a dozen krautrock bands in Germany in the 70s no one in US never ever heard about.
If you're obscure on one continent, you may be a major arena draw at another continent. Still, in the 70s.

Like I said, lets make an exception then...;)
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You are absolutely correct. Some acts are extremely well known in one part of the world and totally unknown elsewhere. I have some great European band albums that nobody around here ever heard about and there are many North American acts that never reached Europe and beyond. ;)

I guess "obscure" is all geographically based then. :thumbsup:
 
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jerry said:
Streetwalkers Roger Chapmen was from the Family and Bob Tench was from Jeff Beck's bands they also had a bit of career besides Nicko. I still have some of their vinyl around somewhere.
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Yeah, these were all cheating a bit. Then again, you can make a six degrees of separation from pretty much anyone in the 70s British scene. Ooh, good idea for a thread... Maybe not!
 
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steamthief said:
A world away from the IE, haha
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This is kind of a weird story. A few years ago, Paul Collins of the Beat and Peter Case of the Plimsouls decided to tour together and see if they could reignite some of their magic from the Nerves, a band they were both in before their more famous bands. The tour started in Seattle and made it down to LA, where I saw them put on a great show. They played maybe a dozen shows when Paul was kicked off the tour somewhere in the midwest. No real explanation was ever publicly given, but apparently they just got on each other's "Nerves." The tour finished as a Peter Case tour. Paul put together a group of musicians he christened Paul Collins' Beat and he's been touring incessantly ever since.

So speaking of obscure bands, The Nerves. The third member was Jack Lee who wrote Hanging on the Telephone, later made famous by Blondie.
 
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the harp unstrung said:
Good Rats was the very first band that came to my mind when I read the title of this thread! I listened to Live At Last a month or so ago, and was Blown Away...AGAIN!
They used to make Frivilous Sal's Last Chance Saloon in Poughkeepsie a regular part of their rotation...Packed the joint...ROCKED the joint!!i
(You tell the story really well! You are, apparently a Really Good Son!)

!:thumbsup:
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There was a movie a few years ago called Roadie that had a lot of old tri-state trivia in it.
 
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tbplayer59 said:
This is kind of a weird story. A few years ago, Paul Collins of the Beat and Peter Case of the Plimsouls decided to tour together and see if they could reignite some of their magic from the Nerves, a band they were both in before their more famous bands. The tour started in Seattle and made it down to LA, where I saw them put on a great show. They played maybe a dozen shows when Paul was kicked off the tour somewhere in the midwest. No real explanation was ever publicly given, but apparently they just got on each other's "Nerves." The tour finished as a Peter Case tour. Paul put together a group of musicians he christened Paul Collins' Beat and he's been touring incessantly ever since.

So speaking of obscure bands, The Nerves. The third member was Jack Lee who wrote Hanging on the Telephone, later made famous by Blondie.
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This is the only record I've ever heard by this band...and I really like it A Lot...Great Energy! Plenty Raw!
(My wife thought I looked a lot like this bassist...35 yrs ago. Musta bin the tortoise shell glasses and the weird hair...)
 
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