NAME THOSE OLD NOW OBSCURE BANDS

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How about Gamma. The band that Ronnie Montrose started when Sammy Hagar left Montrose. Davey Pattison was the singer, and I saw him one night singing for Robin Trower and he was really on that night, a very memorable performance. I still play the Gamma song Voyager on guitar. It's a great chord progression.
 
Gamma........I forgot about them.I don't know if Foghat has been named or not.
How about A Flock Of Seagulls?
man,the '80s was a real weird period for music------Land Of The Hair Farmers.
 
Tweed,
I hate to tell you this but, you started this thing so now it is up to YOU to go through all these posts and make a list of all the bands mentioned and make a list and post it. Then you have to keep up on this thread cause it aint never gonna die and you have to keep the band post updated. So now I am going to try and dedge the few brain cells I have left and name a few more for you to add to that list that I KNOW you are going to make.
Frigid Pink
Smith
Zombies
Argent
Ambrosia
Diesel
Mott the Hoople
Humble Pie
Cactus
Lovecraft
Flo and Eddy
Small Faces
John Mayalls Bluesbreakers
Delany and Bonny
Blues Project
Blues Magoos
Safaris
Ventures
Hudson and Ford
Velvet Underground
Bryan Ferry
Psychedelic Furs
Jan and Dean
Janis Ian
Maria Maldaur
 
i live in a student flat sooo we have a very big (collective) couch...

in Leiden BTW not too far from Haarlem. anyway i wuld have thought that aenima would help tool to go "mainstream". anyone who can make such a great album deserves some major credit. ah well

guhlenn.
 
Jeez, I can't believe I almost forgot "The Move". It was Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood before ELO. A post a few back made me think of it, cause their only album, as far as I know, was called "SPLIT ENZ" and had the original version of California Man. I believe there may have been another song on that album That was also done as remake later on. Another lost gem!

Twist
 
Me?!? Make a list?!? Awwwwwwwwww.......
I don't know if I can do that (heh-heh)---besides,this thread will never die,because there are bands out there that we still can't remember!By the way,Dragon Man,good list there!
Good call on the Move.
Pat Benatar......Them......Thr Royal Guardsmen (Snoopy and the Red Baron).....Quicksilver Messenger Service.....
MC5........The Stooges........The Herd (original Frampton!)
......John Fred and His Playboy Band......Jay and the Techniques.......Asleep At The Wheel....
Good Night,all!!!
 
Yeah a list would be cool, and I don't think I've seen Joan Jet (and the blackhearts) in there either.
 
Huh? STILL GOING? Ah well, as long as this is an active thread....

There is a band from the UK who have had Fifty Five (count'em) top forty singles over here and sold more than 100 million records worldwide yet they qualify as obscure, because they couldn't get any airplay in North America - the magnificent

STATUS QUO
 
Tweed man, take it as a right to manhood, it is your duty
to doe this, so here is some more work for you.
Gordon Lightfoot
Bob Seeger
Art Garfunkel
Sopwith Camel
J. Giles Band
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Guess Who
Bloodwyn Pig(allready mentioned?)
Stanky Brown
Marshall Tucker
Ides of March
Johnny Horton(The singin American)
Roy Orbison
Jerry Lee
Buddy Holly
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
Little Feet
Genya Raven and Ten Wheel Drive
Molly Hatchet
The Rheinstones
Orleans
Gary Moore
Jack Bruce
Thomas Dolby
Thomas Cage
Phillip Glass
I hope that helps with your list you are making.
 
Uh,about this list...............:o
I can remember all of them.....uh.....hmmmmmmmmmm......
Another good list,oh Dragon dude....especially liked Sopwith Camel.
 
I remember listening to Status Quo,

in the '70's.

I didn't know they were still around, and though it was mentioned at least once before on this thread, it's true, they do qualify as 'obscure'. (I'm from the US).

I remember listening to one of their records in the early-mid '70's, and that I liked it, but I can't remember anything specific about it.

I get this 'image' or recollection that when I was listening to Status Quo, it somehow reminded me of "Queen: Sheer Heart Attack"... don't ask me why.

Somehow, I relate one album to the other, but my memory from the '70's is quite foggy, er- uh- SMOKEY!
 
A Reel Man, your recollection of Status Quo sounding like Queen is a little off, what they are famous for is infinite variations on basic twelve bar boogie, and if anybody posts here about their songs 'are all the same' and 'they only know three chords' they will get an argument from me.

They opened the London end of Live Aid in 1982 because Bob Geldof said they were perfect for getting a crowd going, sums them up to a tee - you always left a Quo gig feeling like you'd gatecrashed one of the best parties ever.
 
Vease, didnt Status Quo do Pictures of Matchstick Men?
If not, do you know who did?
 
That's Them!

Dragonworks, you're spot on. Quo's first Top Ten hit was Pictures Of Matchstick Men back in 1967 during a short 'psychedelic' phase. Francis Rossi admitted stealing the chord sequence from 'Hey Joe' and adding loads of phaser/wah-wah effects in the hope that no-one would notice!
 
Atlantic Rhythym Section
Bob Welch
Big Country
Axe
Blue Murder (what tone John Sikes got , yikes!)
 
Vease,

thanx for the input. I think, really, when I have a mental connection of Status Quo and Queen Sheer Heart Attack, is that I think I was listening to that Queen album and the Status Quo album around the same time period, around '73-74.

I didn't mean to imply I thought they were stylistically the same, which they're probably not. Point well taken.

I DO remember that I liked Status Quo, at the time, and I'm hard pressed to remember what they sounded like, or anything else about it.

I'm glad to hear that they're considered a pretty good band, even to this day, while still somehow qualifying for the 'obsure' list.
 
Let's see....

Hot Tuna

Vanilla Fudge

Heart

Jethro Tull

Mick Abrams Band

Biff Snocker and the Void riders (just kidding)!!!
 
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