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Obscure 70s Rock Bands

#361
Actually, all of Three Man Armys 3 albums - especially Three Man Army Two - still holds up very well today, considering its 70s acid blues/rock. The third wasn't released until 2005. Aborted, abandoned recordings.
 
#362
Honch said:
There's a saying when discussing anything obscure. Like,

- have you heard xxxxxxx [insert any obscure band here]
- No.
- That's a band that only God and one more knows about and have heard, but I've forgotten who that is...

Thanks for reminding us Richland123! Now we know who it was! Bands that God PLUS Richland123 knows about...
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You´re pretty right there! Not even the members of the band have heard of themselves. Only God and her obebient servant
 
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#364
Skeezix said:
Some of my favorites were already mentioned. Still have my Good Rats and Captain Beyond albums.
How about another of my favorites from back in the day...

Wally, can't find anything from them on youtube

And Triumvirat.
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Triumvirat - Had both "Double Dimple" and "Spartacus". Great concept albums, ELP clonish but I was too young (like 13) to care.
Gonna listen to your youtube post of it. How freakin' cool. Now I just need some cheap 1970's weed ...
 
#371
Honch said:
Ok, since we had Bloodwyn Pig, Wild Turkey, Paris... so, anyone else remembers CARMEN ?



Just to see, if you can catch the connection with abovementioned bands.
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When David Bowie taped a show at London's Marquee club that ended up as a 'Midnight Special' show in the US, Carmen was one of the featured acts. They toured the US a little bit, usually as an openenig band, and disappeared. The Bowie show was the one with Marianne Faithfull in a nun's outfit singing 'I Got You Babe' with Dave. A transitional moment for him as he was previewing 'Diamond Dogs' material but Mick Ronson was still on board(breaking a string at the crescendo of the 'Jean Genie' guitar solo').
 
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#372
I saw Carmen opening for Jethro Tull in Scandinavia. Actually they were so-so, but having seen their simple but very powerful and effective ending with a real tap flamenco dance done in a strobe light at the end of the show, I thought (and still does) that was one of the more impressive stage effects I've seen ever. Including Rammstein and Pink Floyds decades later. Fandangos in Space is the tune. After the middle section when they sampled som folklore choir singing a capella in spanish... then the strobe flash starts. You can almost HEAR that is supposed to be played live in a strobe light.
 
#373
My humble contribution at last - Moloch, a band from Memphis, TN, whose first, self-titled album was produced by Don Nix, came out (to the best of my knowledge) in 1970 and featured the first published recording of the classic, Nix-penned, rock-blues standard "Going Down". Of course, this one as well as "Same Old Blues", another Nix composition, were heard and liked by Freddie King who re-recorded them on his Getting Ready... in 1972.
 
#378
Richland123 said:
Angel should have been a much bigger band. They were very good and never got the exposure they deserved. Keyboardist Greg Guiffria had some minor career recognition in the 1980s and 1990s with the bands Guiffria and House Of Lords.
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Had the first Angel album been released in '85 instead of '75, I think they would have been much bigger.
They were 10 years ahead of their time

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