Old bands you have just discovered

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One of these days, when I get around to it, I'll do a "Great Aussie Bands You May Have Missed" thread in the Cave.... all the ones I'm thinking of for this thread you probalby would never have heard of....
 
Richard King said:
I happened to live about 1/2 a block from the club and would see them every weekend when they were in town. GREAT band, both live and in recordings.
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Lt. Bob said:
I actually saw Captain Beyond live around 1971 or so ..... and their opening band is another one you should check out .... Trapeze. Their early albums were rockin' although later one they got more 'poppy' .... but Medusa was heavy duty for the time.

Oh ..... and Trapeze and Captain Beyond were both awesome live!
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man i was probably an infant. sometimes i wish i had a time machine!
 
I knew of them and have heard there music a lot, but I just got their album this week, but it is "Justice" with top hit DANCE, the French group!

I use to have a couple of their songs on a mix cd my friend made me, but when I was listening to Daft Punk, I looked up their followers, I knew most of them, but I saw Justice and listened to their music, and had to get the CD, great songs I have been missing out on!
 
Nobody has yet mentioned "Hawkwind" (unless I missed it). I played a Festival in the UK in 2006 and they were the headliner, great to see a legend on stage.

I saw Budgie last year when they did a tour through my town, good to see them still rocking.

Alan.
 
i'll see your Hawkwind and raise you a Gong!
but the Ozrics are still kinda sterile for my tastes.

Lt. Bob said:
and their opening band is another one you should check out .... Trapeze. Their early albums were rockin' although later one they got more 'poppy' .... but Medusa was heavy duty for the time.
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you know i keep meaning to check this one out. got one song "Jury" on a comp i got a couple years back. guess i'll hafta get on it. chop chop!
 
Lt. Bob said:
and their opening band is another one you should check out .... Trapeze. Their early albums were rockin' although later on they got more 'poppy' .... but Medusa was heavy duty for the time.

Oh ..... and Trapeze and Captain Beyond were both awesome live!
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fat_fleet said:
you know i keep meaning to check this one out. got one song "Jury" on a comp i got a couple years back. guess i'll hafta get on it. chop chop!
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Manslick said:
One thing about that song that always makes me go – What?

What is the sound at 3:02?

It’s on the second guitar track and I guess it’s a guitar but to me it always sounded like a train trying to stop. I looped it last night and I still can’t figure it out.
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grimtraveller said:
I've always loved that sound at 3.02 ! It's a guitar chord.
Actually chords like that turned up in heavy rock from time to time. Right at the end of Trapeze's "Jury", there's a similar kind of thing.
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I love Trapeze. When I was just starting to get into heavy music, I saw the album "You are the music, we're just the band" at a friend's house. I tried to play it but it was broken and wouldn't do a complete turn on the turntable. Anyway, a year later, I acquired "Medusa". Where I was living at the time, rock records were kind of rare so the guys that had the record shacks/shops would, for the price of a C90 tape, record 2 albums {or a double}, which was a great and affordable way to build an album collection in Nigeria in 1980. I remember getting Led Zeppelin 2 on one side and as an afterthought, selecting "Medusa" for the other side. It only because Glenn Hughes was on it and I'd liked Deep Purples' "Come taste the band". Well, Medusa turned out to be better than Zep 2 which in itself was a superb LP. Later, when I'd sing the chorus to 'Black cloud', my Rasta friend would laugh and accuse me of being so negative ! But I didn't really think a black cloud was following me. I just dug the song.
Each of the members of Trapeze that played on the LP went on to record with top flight bands {Mel Galley to Whitesnake, Dave Holland to Judas Priest and Hughes to Purple} though what state those bands were in at the time is open to debate ! I don't think any of them hit the heights Trapeze did as a 3 piece {they were originally a 5 piece} yet somehow, Trapeze never made it to where they should have.
 
While on the subject of old (and often obscure) bands, two that I delved into recently are Caravan and Aum. Caravan were a trippy band that nonetheless helped pave some of the way to progressive rock. Their early stuff has the weirdest sounding organ sounds.
Aum's first album "Bluesvibes", in many ways was the kind of album that handed ammunition to the punk movement with their dumb "all rock was just 25 minute solos" mantra. Because even with a cover of "Tobacco Road", there weren't really songs on the album, just jams. And they didn't even rate as a second division version of Cream, the Who or the Hendrix Experience. But fortunately, in those days bands were generally given a few albums to stiff before they got shafted and their next effort, "Resurrection" is not only a much better effort, it's a damn good one. Probably one of the few bands (a la King Crimson, Black Sabbath) to have a song named after themselves !
 
wow. i just got a decent old pressing of Caravan's In The Land of Grey and Pink a couple weeks ago so its kind of a coeenkeedink that you bring those guys up. a lot of prog stuff straddles a delicate line for me between the majestic and the wanky, but they're an interesting listen for sure.
on the topic of NWBHM bands, i'm sure you've probably heard UFO's first couple?
also the first few Judas Priest albums get overlooked a lot... Sad Wings of Destiny and Sin After Sin are two of my favorites, back when Rob Halford had long hair.

also for older psychedelic stuff i'm suprised noone so far has mentioned Arthur Lee's Love and T. Rex back when he was "Tyrannosaurus Rex".
 
fat_fleet said:
wow. i just got a decent old pressing of Caravan's In The Land of Grey and Pink a couple weeks ago so its kind of a coeenkeedink that you bring those guys up. a lot of prog stuff straddles a delicate line for me between the majestic and the wanky, but they're an interesting listen for sure.
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"Golf girl" on that album is one of my all time fave raves ! They can be a hard listen, yet, at the same time capable of singable songs and totally accesible
fat_fleet said:
on the topic of NWBHM bands, i'm sure you've probably heard UFO's first couple?
also the first few Judas Priest albums get overlooked a lot... Sad Wings of Destiny and Sin After Sin are two of my favorites, back when Rob Halford had long hair.
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Early UFO are interesting, they were releasing stuff in 1971 when they were barely out of their teens. Some of them might have actually been in their teens. I got into a couple of their later albums, "Obsession" and one that is generally dismissed but which for me is a great one and one of the best of 1980, "No place to run".
I was early on fascinated with Judas Priest (and not just coz I'm a brummie) but "British Steel" is the album of theirs that does it for me. I liked their LP covers and titles though, like "Stained class" and "Rocka rolla".
fat_fleet said:
also for older psychedelic stuff i'm suprised noone so far has mentioned Arthur Lee's Love and T. Rex back when he was "Tyrannosaurus Rex".
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I didn't mention Tyrannosaurus Rex because I've been into them for over 20 years. I think Marc Bolan and Steve Took were an incredible duo. Bolan said of them (before he ditched Took and went T.Rex and 'pop') "What the Pink Floyd do electronically, we do acoustically" and Syd Barrett was certainly an influence on him while acid claimed Steve Took as an early casualty.
You'd think, wouldn't you, that these "acoustic duos" like the Incredible String band, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Tir Na Nog would be boring, twee, acid brain fried hippy nonsense, but they were just the opposite. Not only did they make the most with the least, often one or both members were multi instrumentalists and excellent songwriters to boot. And there was not really any place to hide. They had to make their songs memorable and melodic and inventive or no one listened to them or bought their records and they never got paid !
 
I'm surprised how many of these bands I've heard live.
Tyrannosaurus Rex is another. I heard the duo version in 1970 at the 2nd Atlanta Pop Festival. I actually have a cassette tape I made of that.
 
Lt. Bob said:
I'm surprised how many of these bands I've heard live.
Tyrannosaurus Rex is another. I heard the duo version in 1970 at the 2nd Atlanta Pop Festival. I actually have a cassette tape I made of that.
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Did Grand Funk railroad play at that ? Though I no longer have the vinyl, I'm sure the sleeve of their "Live album" used to say "Recorded at the 1970 Atlanta pop festival". I remember wondering why such a heavy band played at a pop festival !
Words can be misleading, however.
 
grimtraveller said:
while acid claimed Steve Took as an early casualty. only
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didn't he join the Pink Faries after Bolan ditched him? now there's another hard rocking acid fueled buncha deviants (no pun intended) that paved the way for heavy glam rock.

grimtraveller said:
You'd think, wouldn't you, that these "acoustic duos" like the Incredible String band, Tyrannosaurus Rex and Tir Na Nog would be boring, twee, acid brain fried hippy nonsense, but they were just the opposite. Not only did they make the most with the least, often one or both members were multi instrumentalists and excellent songwriters to boot.
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these bands are among my favorites right now, especially ISB. I've literally been listening to Hangmans Beautiful Daughter since I was like 5. again my folks' fault.
none of these are bands I've "recently discovered" by the way but I sure love to yap about em.
 
fat_fleet said:
feel like sharing?
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I was just thinking I need to archive that stuff. I made around 16 hours of recordings of the pop festival. Got The Allmans before Duane was dead ........ got some bands that ceased to exist not long afterwards. Tapes are getting pretty old now ...... I'll probably have to bake them.
 
fat_fleet said:
didn't he join the Pink Faries after Bolan ditched him?
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He was close to members of the Fairies for years and jammed and recorded with them but I don't think he ever officially joined them.
As a total aside, he's buried in the same place as my Mum !
fat_fleet said:
none of these are bands I've "recently discovered" by the way but I sure love to yap about em.
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Yeah, me and you both. I could yap all day....maybe we should go and talk to Dave about it.

On second thoughts, I don't want to talk to Dave about anything. Dave Cameron, I mean.
 
grimtraveller said:
Did Grand Funk railroad play at that ? Though I no longer have the vinyl, I'm sure the sleeve of their "Live album" used to say "Recorded at the 1970 Atlanta pop festival". I remember wondering why such a heavy band played at a pop festival !
Words can be misleading, however.
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Yes they played ........ POP festival was just a term ...... didn't really have much to do with the Music. Hendrix played there .... Grand Funk ..... T-Rex ...... ummmm .... don't really remember others off the top of my head. I have tapes and pics and all sorts of stuff from that event.
Pics of us all skinny dipping in the nearby river. It was pretty awesome to a young musician.

And T-Rex was hardly an acoustic duo. Bolan was playing thru a couple of stacks.
 
witzendoz said:
Nobody has yet mentioned "Hawkwind" (unless I missed it). I played a Festival in the UK in 2006 and they were the headliner, great to see a legend on stage.

I saw Budgie last year when they did a tour through my town, good to see them still rocking.

Alan.
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Yes Hawkwind! Great band taking their name from Michael Morecock or was it the other way around?
 
moresound said:
Yes Hawkwind! Great band taking their name from Michael Morecock or was it the other way around?
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Judging by their stories of groupie gang bangs and suchlike, that's not an unreasonable question......
 
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