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Posted: February 17 2018 at 12:35
micky wrote:
ummm hmmm...
a good many smart people have Montrose's debut album tagged as one of the best of the 70's and thus with the best of the heavy hitters of the era. I'd tend to agree....
Not only are the first two Montrose albums (with Sammy as singer) time-tested classics, they're essentially the template for Van Halen's sound. Ronnie's tone was fantastic, too. The final song on Montrose, called "Make It Last," alone puts them several notches over most other '70s hard rock bands.
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Posted: February 17 2018 at 12:44
mathman0806 wrote:
On the underrated side is Ronnie Montrose's other band, Gamma. Though didn't rock like Montrose did, had some solid arena rockers in the late 70s/early 80s - Mean Streak, I'm Alive, Fight to the Finish, Thunder and Lightening, and Voyager are some tracks I recall. The last one had a bluesy, Robin Trower feel to it. Lead singer Davey Pattison later sang for Trower in the late 80s.
Gamma's first two albums (they're all titled numerically, —1, 2, 3, 4) are superb. They're somewhere in the grey area between heavy rock and symphonic rock. They wouldn't be the same without Jim Alcivar's synths (check out his solo on "Skin and Bone"). Some of Ronnie's best playing is on those first two records, too.
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Posted: February 17 2018 at 13:06
verslibre wrote:
micky wrote:
ummm hmmm...
a good many smart people have Montrose's debut album tagged as one of the best of the 70's and thus with the best of the heavy hitters of the era. I'd tend to agree....
Not only are the first two Montrose albums (with Sammy as singer) time-tested classics, they're essentially the template for Van Halen's sound. Ronnie's tone was fantastic, too. The final song on Montrose, called "Make It Last," alone puts them several notches over most other '70s hard rock bands.
Montrose's debut is great! The first three songs "Rock the Nation", Bad Motor Scooter" and Space Station #5" are like licking light sockets. Better than anything Van Halen ever did.
Also a mention for Nazareth's Hair of the Dog". I remember everyone walking around school shrieking "Now you're messing with a son of a bitch!"
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Posted: February 18 2018 at 03:29
siLLy puPPy wrote:
I'm actually curious if there's any X-rated 70s classic rock
Maybe bands like Bang, Budgie, Sir Lord Baltimore? More popular today than at the time i believe
There was a lot of x-rated prog in the 70s. John L. of Ash Ra Tempel appearing nude and with painted penis on stage and letting himself be whipped. Limpe Fuchs of Anima-Sound dancing like mad around her various percussion instruments, banging away on them in the nude with body and face painted black (but red lips). Hawkwind with the larger-than-life primal Goddess Stacia dancing nude and with painted body (and of course the Hawkwind song "Kiss of the Velvet Whip", also known as "Sweet Mistress of Pain").
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Posted: February 18 2018 at 07:32
BaldFriede wrote:
siLLy puPPy wrote:
I'm actually curious if there's any X-rated 70s classic rock
Maybe bands like Bang, Budgie, Sir Lord Baltimore? More popular today than at the time i believe
There was a lot of x-rated prog in the 70s. John L. of Ash Ra Tempel appearing nude and with painted penis on stage and letting himself be whipped. Limpe Fuchs of Anima-Sound dancing like mad around her various percussion instruments, banging away on them in the nude with body and face painted black (but red lips). Hawkwind with the larger-than-life primal Goddess Stacia dancing nude and with painted body (and of course the Hawkwind song "Kiss of the Velvet Whip", also known as "Sweet Mistress of Pain").
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Posted: February 18 2018 at 07:48
^Sperm was the theatre & music collective in Finland who caused a lots of offence in the end of sixties. Often their shows were interrupted by the police. They were acting coitus and also showed porno films.
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Posted: February 18 2018 at 08:16
^ I wouldn't call Sperm rock though. Unless they had rock in their live shows not present on their albums. They were more of a stream of consciousness noise outfit in the vein of AMM. Very cool though. I've actually reviewed their albums here :)
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Posted: February 18 2018 at 13:44
Hmmm....some of the band suggestions have strayed from what I consider to be classic rock of the 70's......at any rate since we are naming bands the following two are from the early 70's.....and are what I think to be rock.....classic or otherwise. They also get included on prog web sites like PA but imho there's nothing particularly proggy about either band.
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Posted: February 19 2018 at 01:35
siLLy puPPy wrote:
^ I wouldn't call Sperm rock though. Unless they had rock in their live shows not present on their albums. They were more of a stream of consciousness noise outfit in the vein of AMM. Very cool though. I've actually reviewed their albums here :)
No, Sperm wasn´t ever rock at all. Their performances just came into my mind about that Baldfierd-comment. And I think you know they made only one album (which was not double in the 1970 as you said in your review, overlong anyway in vinyl, so soundquality might not be the greatest one) and one e.p. But on the other hand Sperm was really much just Pekka Airaksinen (yes there was those great vocals from P.Y. Hiltunen & Koponen in e.p and other guitar from Wigwam man Nikke Nikamo and three saxplayers in album) and Pekka has really large discography. I think you should listen at least his seventies albums One Point Music and also another group-album Samsa Trio if not yet listened, you will like them! I think Pekka is one of the most unique musicmakers (well I think somebodies say him soundmaker or even noisemaker as you can see on the review that has become after your review). He may have influences from other experimental musicmakers and also from Hendrix in the sixties, but really going into his own direction already beginning. If somebody claims he´s alien, I will believe it!
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