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Hey Richland123 - you are a never ending source of cool obscure 70s bands - rock on!
This is an interesting thread you started. Thank you for starting it. Lots of greats posts. There are some bands mentioned I never heard of either. Some of these bands are obscure for good reason and many of these bands should have gone further and are just as good or better than many famous bands.
Carrying on.
Earthquake. Gary Phillips joined The Greg Kihn Band after Earthquake.
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Remember them clearly! I had one vinyl. Their "greek" concept album called ENNEA I think. Of all these "horn" rock bands, Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, and so on ( Later Pacific Gas & E as already mentioned), CHASE played cirlces around them. Bill Chase on shred trumpet...
Well, if you ain't got that album, or never had heard of Neon Rose, it sure must be obscure enough! None of them went anywhere later on, either.
Are these the same ones as the swedish rockerrs Hooffoot ? Nah. for starters, those are active today, and formed in the 10s.
Check them out though, they play 70s underground rock, with instruments to match.
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EGG
Try find out the time signature of this one, if you dare...especially the middle "eight". Was now this early math metal, without any metal at all?
Well, here's some metal in this intro though, sludge, dronish, before they'll go to the jazzier parts... this is heavy and scary:
Try find out the time signature of this one, if you dare...especially the middle "eight". Was now this early math metal, without any metal at all?
Well, here's some metal in this intro though, sludge, dronish, before they'll go to the jazzier parts... this is heavy and scary:
What !? I can read the name j.stanley-clarke somewhere in there? Ineglible!
Well, Marsupilani was some oddball throw...and then some. I like it. The vocals wears on me a bit though, their "la la las" . There's some similarity within all these obscure 70s band. They share the same production, and it seems, for a while from the end of the 60's towards half of the 70's, record companies was willing to sign anything in those days. Just to see if they could keep it afloat. Dime a dozen of certain obscure and underground bands. The aftermath or hangover from the hippie era.
Ineglible!Well, Marsupilani was some oddball throw...and then some. I like it. The vocals wears on me a bit though, their "la la las" . There's some similarity within all these obscure 70s band. They share the same production, and it seems, for a while from the end of the 60's towards half of the 70's, record companies was willing to sign anything in those days. Just to see if they could keep it afloat. Dime a dozen of certain obscure and underground bands. The aftermath or hangover from the hippie era.
BTW EGG was part of the Canterbury Scene, but was the only band not mentioned here, among the others, Gong, National Health, Hatfield and the North, and so on. And if you find any Dave Stewart inside the band EGG he's definitely not the same bloke that co-headed Eurthythmics synth-pop duo in the 80s. Speaking of real obscure avant garde 70s "rock" from the Canterbury scene...Henry Cow:
These were a stretch even by the intellectuals and progressive crowd. Maybe not that eligble because of Lindsay Cooper who played and tracked fellow bands recordings. Steve Hillage and so on. While I could cope with EGG a whole album through, I had a very hard time with Henry Cow and the like (Matching Mole too).
These were a stretch even by the intellectuals and progressive crowd. Maybe not that eligble because of Lindsay Cooper who played and tracked fellow bands recordings. Steve Hillage and so on. While I could cope with EGG a whole album through, I had a very hard time with Henry Cow and the like (Matching Mole too).
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What !? I can read the name j.stanley-clarke somewhere in there?
Well, Marsupilani was some oddball throw...and then some. I like it. The vocals wears on me a bit though, their "la la las" . There's some similarity within all these obscure 70s band. They share the same production, and it seems, for a while from the end of the 60's towards half of the 70's, record companies was willing to sign anything in those days. Just to see if they could keep it afloat. Dime a dozen of certain obscure and underground bands. The aftermath or hangover from the hippie era.
That would be Singer Jessica Stanley Clarke; not the famous bassist.
Ha ha of course I knew this, it was someone else. Funny how they make surnames of famous artists, ha ha. Stanley-Clarke. In my town a somewhat official woman in the chemistry shop industry is named Pia Jeffbeck. Jeffbeck as the whole and sole surname. The ending 'beck' is common in Sweden, though not with jeff at the front. Bet she hears it all of the time, and are fed up with snide remarks...
You won't get any of the language in this article, but just look for the name Pia Jeffbeck. She was in the news when chemistrys went from state owned to private a couple of years back (just in case you don't believe me);
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You won't get any of the language in this article, but just look for the name Pia Jeffbeck. She was in the news when chemistrys went from state owned to private a couple of years back (just in case you don't believe me);
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To dribble you for a bit, anyone remembers CHARLIE ?
See how many posts there are for a member that makes them ineglible
See how many posts there are for a member that makes them ineglible
