NAME THOSE OLD NOW OBSCURE BANDS

Max Webster - Good Call - Why are there so many Canadian bands in this thread?

Thought of a few more..


- Tiffany
- Bon Jovi
- Ram Jam
- Great White
- Motley Crue
- Helix
- Living Colour
- Huey Lewis
- Mr. Mister
- Survivor
 
Here's the list so far - I was duplicating quite a few of the others in my last post. Alphabetized and everything! (yes it's a quiet nite).

Accept
After The Fire (one-hit wonder - Der Kommissar!)
Alcatrazz
Amboy Dukes
Armageddon
Autograph
Average White Band
Axe
Babe Ruth
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Badfinger
Big Star
Black and Blue
Blind Faith
Bloodrock
Bon Jovi
Britny Fox
Budgie
Cactus
Canned Heat
Captain Beefheart
Captain Beyond
Chilliwack
Cinderella
City Boy
Concrete Blonde - Free
Cracker
Danger Danger
Dark Moon (Who?, you don't want to know)
Deep Purple
Diamond Head
Dokken
Dr. Hook & Medicine Show
Drive Like Jehu
ELO
Emerson,Lake,and Palmer
Europe
Flash
Focus
Foghat
Foreign Objects
Free
Frigid Pink...(beyond bizarre)
Gang Of Four
Gary Numan
Gentle Giant
Graham Central Station
Grand Funk Railroad
Great White
Guess Who
Harlequin
Helix
Huey Lewis
Humble Pie
Hurricane
Husker Du
Icon
James Gang
Jellyfish
Johnny and Edgar Winter
Kix
Krokus
Living Colour
Loudness
Love
Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare My Butt
Mahogany Rush
Manfred Man's Earth Band
ManoWar
Max Webster
MC5
Michael Shenker Group
Mission of Burma
Molly Hatchet
Montrose
Mothers finest
Mothers of Invention
Motley Crue
Mott the Hoople
Mountain
Mr. Mister
Nazareth
Night Ranger
Paula Abdul
Poison
Polvo
Posies
Quiet Riot
Rainbow
Ram Jam
Ratt
Renaissance
REO Speedwagon
Replacements/Paul Westerberg-Pleased to Meet Me
Rick Derringer
Riot
Roky Erikson
Roller Goblin
Roxy Music
Samantha Fox
Saxon
Shocking Blue
Shriekback
Simple Minds
Slade
Spirit
Spooky Tooth
Status Quo
Steppenwolf
Stone Fury
Strawbs
Stryper
Style Council
Supertramp
Survivor
Sweet
T. Rex
Television
Terrence Trent D'Arby
The Cars
The Hollies
The Kinks
The Knack
The Motions
The Pixies/Frank Black- Doolittle
The Runaways
The Ruts
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
The Sparks
The Stooges
The Storm
Thin Lizzy
Tiffany
Tigers of Pan Tang
Triumph
Triumvarat (sp)
Twisted Sister
UFO
Ultravox
Vandenberg
Vixen
Warrant
Wasp
West,Bruce & Laing
Whitesnake
Winger
Wishbone Ash
 
jefferson airplane/starship

quicksilver messenger service (guitar city)

buffalo springfield

turtles

lovin spoonful

Hey voxunit you mentioned love...they were a great band...


chicago (known at one time as chicago transit authority)

alice cooper

jeeze, I could go on but they would get even more obscure....gibs
 
Hey, is it fair to include artists like Captain Beefheart who always were obscure? (Trout Mask Replica is a utter flipped out masterpiece, weird and funny and wholly original.)
 
Heck yes, Alchuck, did you know Trout Mask Replica and Safe As Milk are on CD? (I've got copies.) Now if they'd only re-release Strictly Personal....
Anyway, my nomination: Genya Ravan & Ten Wheel Drive.
John
 
Wow......Ten Wheel Drive.
How about a band called Ramatam,which featured a female guitarist named April (can't remember last name)?
How about Pot Liquor?They did a version of Lady Madonna.
Of course,I am getting away from bands that actually made it.It's amazing how I can mention bands like Nazareth or James Gang to my students and they have never heard of them.
 
Just for laughs:

Saraya

Y & T

I'm embarrased to say that I bought their albums at some point in the 80's.
 
Robin Trower...anyone nab him yet?
Hey its a hard call with "Kids" these days, my Ex-wife had no clue who sang "Let it Be", and a dude at work never heard of Rush.
 
and how many of these "kids" have lowered a sylus onto a rotating vinyl LP in their lifetimes? that's another thread for another day.
 
Long live vinyl

Haha on the stylus comment..........when I ask some of my students if they know what albums are,most of them say,"Yeh....I think my dad still has some."
 
Did anyone come up with Manfred Mann's Earth Band?

What about Billy Thorpe (Children of the Sun)?

Whooooeeeee!
 
Someone's got to speak up for the unsung heroes of Boston's rock and roll scene (a scene from which basically nobody "made it" in the '70s and '80s). How about the following bands, who sort-of-made-it (as well as anyone was gonna in that timeframe):

Human Sexual Response (my personal all-time favorites)
The Zulus
Til Tuesday
Mission of Burma
The Lyres
The Fools
The Rings
The Stompers
Video Free Europe
Death in the Shopping Malls
Judy's Tiny Head

And of course, the all time definitive Boston band, from years before:

The Standels (Love that dirty water!)

Everybody knows about Geils, The Cars, Aerosmith, yadda yadda- but a lot of people schlepped a lot of shit for a long time in the early '80s, and have nothing but scars to show for it. They oughta be remembered.

Gotta tell this story. Here's another one that *nobody* will remember:

Red

This was basically two penniless newly-emigrated German brothers who had a loft space in South Boston, and did performance art that was primordial industrial socialist-leaning angst-o-rama atonal artrock. They wouldn't deserve a mention here, since I don't think that they ever recorded as a unit, except that one of the brothers has since gone on to great things in another musical genre. Their names? Stayfun (bass) and Ottmar (guitar/vox) Liebert...
 
Hey Skippy - I saw from your other posts you seem to know your sh*t - what's your background?

Bruce
 
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