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Posted: February 12 2018 at 20:16
^I thought of Humble Pie at first too but I wondered if they were underrated or not....all my friends at college '69-75' liked them but no one seems to mention them all these (40) years later...great band and the best work Frampton ever did.
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 20:21
I would throw Blue Oyster Cults First 3 albums in there.Hard rock but with some threat instrumentals I put a vote in for Wishbone Ash too Live Dates Also a superstar band but if you havent heard Queens first album its a bit more rockier and raw
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 21:00
dr wu23 wrote:
^I thought of Humble Pie at first too but I wondered if they were underrated or not....all my friends at college '69-75' liked them but no one seems to mention them all these (40) years later...great band and the best work Frampton ever did.
:)
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exactly what made me think of them Doc. Who the hell plays.. much less mentions Humble Pie these days. Even Rory has a big fanclub... find me a group of more than 2 Humble Pie fans today. Good luck
on that note.. and for many of the same reasons.
2nd place...a close one for many of the same reasons... good luck finding fans or ever hearing them on the radio.. and yet some of the best sh*t IMO to come out of the 70's classic rock scene
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:00
Mortte wrote:
Ten Years After: Let the sky fall
I quite like the Ten Years After album Rock & Roll Music to the World, and in particular the track Standing at the Station from the album. At 7:11 in length, it should appeal to any prog-lover.
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:15
I prophesy disaster wrote:
Mortte wrote:
Ten Years After: Let the sky fall
I quite like the Ten Years After album Rock & Roll Music to the World, and in particular the track Standing at the Station from the album. At 7:11 in length, it should appeal to any prog-lover.
Or this from one of the most underrated live albums from the 70s, Recorded Live, 1973. Sixteen minutes of proggy, jazzy blues (with the middle ten minutes almost all one long lead):
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:45
I prophesy disaster wrote:
Mortte wrote:
Ten Years After: Let the sky fall
I quite like the Ten Years After album Rock & Roll Music to the World, and in particular the track Standing at the Station from the album. At 7:11 in length, it should appeal to any prog-lover.
Itīs still the album from TYA that I havenīt yet listened. Have to soon. At the moment "A Space In Time" is my favourite, really love that album mix of blues & psychedelia & great melodies.
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 02:25
dr wu23 wrote:
One of my favorites......
One of my all time favorite albums.
On this album, Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton (I love him), Greg Ridley (Spooky Tooth) and Jerry Shirley all have their say. So you have country, folk, blues, rock, boogie. It's the perfect 70's album, if you ask me.
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 02:35
Nobody mentioned REO Speedwagon.
Before the went all FM-Radio AOR pop-ballad, MOR, they were a hardrocking band. I'd even go as far to say they were borderline heavy metal in the seventies. Especially their double live album mid seventies is a treat!
Maybe they were really, really great in the 70's aswell, but they are kind of forgotten, aren't they? Well I like their 70's output.
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:21
Not sure how one defines underrated but if we are talking about air time one rarely hears James Gang on the radio and I listen to classic rock radio out of Chicago.....
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:22
No-one I ever spoke in my life about classic proggy rock, ever knew of this band called Home. Wich is kind of a crossbreed of Eagles, Wishbone Ash, Outlaws and Fleetwood Mac. In fact the guitarist of Home is Laurie Wisefield, who later played with Wishbone Ash and Tina Turner.
The bassplayer is Cliff Williams who became famous with AC/DC. Starting in a porgrockband and ending in a basic-rock-band, but Chris Slade did the same. Wich means AC/DC is almost a progband, hahahaha.
This great song is 9 minutes long and has lots of heavy bassguitar, lots of rhythmchanges, great guitarwork, some sort of mellotron in the middle section.
Edit: I looked it up. They are on this website under Eclectic Prog (wich is nonsense), they sound like Wishbone Ash meets Outlaws.
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:23
Cristi wrote:
^ again, not underrated at all.
REO Speedwagon is overrated, especially their 80's output. But when I let people hear their 70's output they are shocked to hear, how great they in fact are.
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:28
Kingsnake wrote:
I always thought that Wishbone Ash was the best non-prog-prog-band, but they are on the website (getting bashed for no apparent reason, except that they are not prog).
But anyhow, a great band with lengthy tracks, except they have mediocre vocals sometimes.
Fun fact: prog-bassplayers John Wetton and Trevor Bolder played in the Ash. ;)
is there a band he did NOT play in? he was in Mogul Trash, Uriah Heep, Family, King Crimson, U.K., Roxy Music, Asia, Wishbone Ash, Quango and Steve Hackett's live band, and he played as guest on other albums too
Edited by BaldJean - February 13 2018 at 09:31
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:59
Kingsnake.....
I have The Alchemist by Home.....their last album from 73.....I like it....a lot of these bands from that time 70-73 get lumped into prog or (or even late proto prog) but they often aren;t that proggy at all.
Edited by dr wu23 - February 13 2018 at 10:00
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 10:44
BaldJean wrote:
Kingsnake wrote:
I always thought that Wishbone Ash was the best non-prog-prog-band, but they are on the website (getting bashed for no apparent reason, except that they are not prog).
But anyhow, a great band with lengthy tracks, except they have mediocre vocals sometimes.
Fun fact: prog-bassplayers John Wetton and Trevor Bolder played in the Ash. ;)
is there a band he did NOT play in? he was in Mogul Trash, Uriah Heep, Family, King Crimson, U.K., Roxy Music, Asia, Wishbone Ash, Quango and Steve Hackett's live band, and he played as guest on other albums too
He was never in Yes or Genesis, Bill Bruford beat him to that ;)
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 10:53
Anybody ever headr of Charlie?
They had Nicko McBrain in the band, but never recorded anything with him, wich I'm glad of. The leader of the band Terry Thomas, became a busy producer for eighties melodic rock (Tommy Shaw, Bad Company, Giant, Foreigner, etc.)
Charlie played an american-styled melodic rock like The Eagles, but they were british (hence the accents). The failed to score hits, but I think they are underrated, because they have some really nice guitarwork, reminiscent to Triumph, Thin Lizzy and Wishbone Ash.
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