NAME THOSE OLD NOW OBSCURE BANDS

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Guhlen
The alblum with fire on it is awesome and I have seen it on CD which I bought. I bought the original alblum also, awesome.
 
Black Betty........whoa.That song hit the airwaves like a ton of bricks.Wasn't it Ram Jam,or something like that?
How many were fans of Savoy Brown? Street Corner Talkin' was a great album.
 
Yeah Black Betty is still VERY good. by Ram Jam BTW. i like most that they throw in this kinda solo thing which last at least a minute but doesn't bore me... great.
hey dragonworks, how is that total album of arthur brown? as mad as that song cuz then i'm gonna have to pick it up ...

Guhlenn
 
Past bands

Yes - before center of the earth solo project

Booker T and the MGs

the O band
 
I recently picked up "Street Corner Talkin " and "Looking In" on cd - both great albums. "Sunday Night" is a great jam.


Good call on Steeleye Span. That's one I've been trying to remember for this thread, but couldn't remember the name. Could probably start a whole new thread on folkies.

New Christy Minstrels?

Remember that solo stuff Bob Wier did in the seventies?
Heaven Help the Fool.

Twist
 
I had the RamJam album with Black Betty on, plus a few other decent tunes - hard to believe this was the same set of musicians who did 'Sugar Sugar', yep, for RamJam read THE ARCHIES (GAAAAH!)
 
Guhlen,
Yea the alblum is great, the best version of I put a spell on you I have heard is on it. Thats the only cover tune on it. If you get the cd it is really cool because they
give you side one twice, once mono without the orchestration and then again in stereo with the orchestration which is the version that was released to the public. There are also some parts on the mono version that were left out of the public release. Be careful if you get it with the volume, there is one note
that he hits that I have blown speakers with, I think it is the first tune. The mono version is way cleaner and it is
much easier to understand the lyrics.
 
Colliseum
Cold Blood
Coven
Super Sessions(Mike Bloomfield,Al Kooper,Steven Stills)
John McLaughlin & the Mahavishnu Orch.
Daryll Rhodes & the HaHavishnu Orch.
Larry Coryell
Riggs
Glen Phillips (still kicking around in Atl)
 
Wow.........Cold Blood,with Lydia Pense on vocals!That little girl could flat sing.I remember a cover they did of a Bill Withers tune.
Steeleye Span.....good call.
How about Fairport Convention?Or Pentangle?
 
thanks dragon,

i'll go pester the local cdstores to order it... you made me VERY qurious...

guhlenn:)
 
Ghulen
Believe it or not my teenagers love that cd and they
may have it; I havent seen it for awhile. If it is out of print let me know I will try and find it and burn a copy and send it to ya.
 
thanks man , that would be great. but i'll check the shop first, don't wanna be a burden you know.

guhlenn
 
Beck,Bogart,and Appice...........all pretty well known players,but the band was obscure! They did put a live album out in Japan,but I'm not sure if it ever made it here.
 
Sir Lord Baltimore
Lucifers Friend
Dread Zepplin
Electric Flag
Ventures
Moody Blues
Herb Alpert and the Tinnie Winnie Brass
Tontos Expanding Headband
The Troggs
Zepher
Asleep at the Wheel
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Flying Burrito Brothers
Randy Hansons Machine Gun
 
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Obscure?

AlChuck, you have to admit that outside of the dwindling band of Jazz-fusion fans, very few people today know who John Maclaughlin or the Mahavishnu Orchestra are(were). Just because this site is frequented by musicians who have long memories and dog-eared albums from thirty years ago (including me) doesn't make us representative of the population at large.

At work the other day, a few of us put together our personal top ten Albums of all time (hey, we're civil servants - what else are we going to do?) and each of us had stuff that none of the others had ever heard of, and we go back a long way, with pretty wide musical tastes - my point is that if you've never heard something, it's 'obscure' to you, even if the artist in question has some kind of reputation.
 
hmmm....

Alias
Nelson
Winger
Stryper
Europe
Lita Ford
Wishbone Ash
Poco
Red Ryder
Men at Work
Midnight Oil
Blind Faith
Mountain
Sugarloaf
Hall & Oates
J. Geils Band
Dokken
Traffic
Bananarama
38 Special
Joe Jackson

I know there's tons more but I'm having a brain fart now...
 
Midnight OIL are still going strong,
Men at work still get together every now and then,the singer is doing his own thing now days in a Folky style.But I'm in oz so I hear bout them more!!:p

John Mcgoclan-He was out here quite a few years ago.
 
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