NAME THOSE OLD NOW OBSCURE BANDS

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Dragon,
Finally,someone who remembers Ramatam! Was Mitch Mitchell with them when you saw them? Was the crowd wowed by April ? This was before any other female guitaists had broken through,I believe.
I typed in Captain Beyond as a keyword,and they are still together,although the membership has drastically changed.
 
Dare I mention one from near my old home town (still going too)
Climax Blues Band

oh yes, and Dr Feelgood, pub rock par excellence

Did the Pink Fairies get a mention?
 
Tweed, call me DW, I dont want anyone confusing me with dragon allthough that is my last name. Mitch was playing drums but the crowd of 350,000 were expecting the headliners and didnt really give them a listen. I am trying to remember all the bands that were there. Sabbath, the Small Faces, ELP, Cactus,
Edger Winters white Trash, 3 Dog Night, Ramatam, Mothernight(send your roaches to Tricia Nixon) Stanky Brown, The Mighty Groundhogs, my memory fails me for the rest. 3 dog came on about 8am on the last day and blew everybody else away. I cant remember where else I saw Ramatam, they opened for some big act. I went to so many concerts in those days they all run together?
 
Climax Blues Band...

That sounds so familiar, but I just cannot recall. What song, album or person might I be remembering Climax Blues Band for? I think I remember listening to the Climax Blues Band in the 70's, but now I can't remember anything about it, other than the name's familiar, and I think I liked it. I think I had one of their albums. Wow, obscure! Now I'm curious. I'll go look through my album collection, or better yet, I'll whip out the "Who's Who in Rock & Roll". I bet I'll find even more rare obscurities in that book!:)
 
The single I remember was called "Couldn't get it right" in the late 70's. They are still going and have just released their 25th anniversary album.
 
Of course there was Man, with Deke Leonard and his black & white Fender, Wishbone Ash, King Crimson with Robert Fripp, now married to Toyah Wilcox, Uriah Heep, Judas Priest and Rosetta Stone.
 
Did these make anyone's list?

Caravan or White Witch?

You guys really jogged some memory cells with these listings. I was amazed at how many of these bands I've listened to over the years!
 
First 8-track I ever bought was bloodrock. I had a portable 8-track player for the car and got that tape and Cactus. My mom wasn't too sure about the bloodrock tape!

twist said:

I still think DOA by bloodrock is one of the spookiest songs I've ever heard.

Twist
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Hey, who was that one or two hit wonder around '81 that did a song called "Break out"? I was thinkin the band was called Starfighter.
 
This thread is killing me...

I always wondered if anyone outside of Cleveland, Ohio had ever heard of the Michael Stanley Band.

When I was a youngster of the "North Coast" in the late 70's and early 80's, MSB was the example of what hardworking bar bands could become.

Today, I think Michael Stanely hosts a TV news magazine in Cleveland.
 
Oh yeah. They toured through here about that time. I had an 8 track tape of them once upon a time.

One of the main results of this thread is, I've wondered over and over "whatever happened to those obscure items now missing from my collection?" Man, I'm missing a bunch of stuff! Now where is that Iron Butterfly album?

How about The Graham Edge Band? Moody Blues drummer solo album.

The other night I was watching "Jackass", and the soundtrack for one particular section was a song from MC-5s Back in the USA. I loved that album, but I haven't seen a copy for twenty years.

Damn, I feel old. I think I had better go lie down.

Twist
 
grrrr

KING CRIMSON !!! KING CRIMSON!!! and they're still touring (holy shit). with tool!
 
Are Hawkwind still touring? They seemed to have been going for years and years!
 
Hahahaha!!!!!!! This thread will never die!
Michael Stanley Band.........there's one for you.How about Entwistle's Ox?
 
Yeah, but whatabout ...

Glass Harp
Raspberries
Music Machine
Spooky Tooth
Sutherland Brothers & Quiver
 
Good one,Southerland Bros. and Quiver.
I mentioned this one before....Anyone remember a group called Bang? Early to mid '70s power trio,although they did do a heavy cover of No Sugar Tonight. How about Edgar Winter's White Trash?
 
I had the BANG album in the early '70s. Another one I lost along the way somewhere. That one however, I never really missed, as by my recollection, it wasn't that good (IMHO).

The first White Trash album - still one of my all time favorites. Those guys were incredible!

Twist
 
Wow, Sutherland Brothers & Quiver... how odd, I was just thinking of their song "Lying in the Arms of Mary" because I was thinking of Leo Kottke and the last time I saw him and he played a solo guitar version of that song and it was so lovely... in introducing the song, he commented humorously on the obscurity of that group...
 
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