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Points: 23112 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2018 at 04:59
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Points: 1578 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2018 at 03:07
Originally posted by ClosetothSupperBrick ClosetothSupperBrick wrote:

Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi 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.

What are the best 70s REO songs, in your opinion?

At least Riding the Storm out and Wild Turkey Trot (out of my head)
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2018 at 02:28
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Bad Motor Scooter is one of the funnest tracks ever!
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How about this slice of obscure brilliance:



Again this is more under-heard than underrated I think.
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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2018 at 02:18
This is actually on PA under heavy prog, though IMO it's not really progressive:



I find it pretty groovy. Not so much underrated as little known.
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Points: 5538 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2018 at 23:47
Originally posted by ClosetothSupperBrick ClosetothSupperBrick wrote:

Originally posted by Jzrk Jzrk wrote:

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 haven’t heard Queens first album it’s a bit more rockier and raw


Which specific song from Blue Öyster Cult's first 3 albums is the best? (besides "Astronomy", I already know that one)
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

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

Wetton kicked ass in Heep, too! 
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Points: 183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2018 at 18:59
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Budgie
Epitaph
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Armaggedon (Germany)
Mom's Apple Pie


Are there good "starting point" songs for these bands, and if so, I would appreciate you naming them.
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Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi 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.

What are the best 70s REO songs, in your opinion?
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Originally posted by Jzrk Jzrk wrote:

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 haven’t heard Queens first album it’s a bit more rockier and raw


Which specific song from Blue Öyster Cult's first 3 albums is the best? (besides "Astronomy", I already know that one)
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Jimi's other drummer, Buddy Miles.  I saw him several times during the 70s and he always had a great, tight band.
 


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Points: 1578 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2018 at 13:53
^ maybe not Eagles, but at least some Outlaws (the guitar-duels and harmony vocals).

Funny thing, in the plastic eighties, Terry Thomas managed to have a warm production to some albums. I love Ambition by Tommy Shaw. His best solo-album, and Terry Thomas co-wrote all the songs, played guitar, drums ans keyboards and produced the album.
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Points: 18510 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2018 at 13:49
Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

Anybody ever headr of Charlie?
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Charlie played an american-styled melodic rock like The Eagles, but they were british (hence the accents).
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Have a couple of their albums ... Fantasy Girls is a great album to listen to. Later they had a small hit here on the West Coast ... and all in all, their first 3 or 4 albums are fairly good listens and very clean and well put together.  It's a shame that by that time, it was all pre-fab and copies only, and original stuff was not being paid attention to ... 

I would not compare them to the Eagles ... at all ... that bomb'assed over grown and over done band ruined life for many other bands, around here, just like Fleetwood Mac did in those days!
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Points: 1578 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2018 at 10:59
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

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.


I like the subgenre Proto-prog (not really a genre, but I'm not nagging), because it pays hommage to a lot bands paving the way to progressive rock.
Hence, a band like Home should be better filed under proto-prog or prog-related.
But again, I'm not nagging, at least they are in the website, and they have a great end-score on their albums!
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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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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by Kingsnake 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 ;)

They call these kind of musicians, journeymen.
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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.


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Originally posted by Kingsnake 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


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Originally posted by Cristi 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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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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