Good timing my friend just got that Dust album on CD only days back and we listened to it at work!
Here's where you can dump all the great unknown and underappreciated bands from your 60s and 70s trippin days that you think the rest of us should finally get around to digging too.
Dust
Toad - Vic Vergeat!
Open Mind
Budgie - Tony Bourge!
Captain Beyond
Edgar Broughton Band
The Pink Faries
Captain Beefheart
Lucifer's Friend
Good timing my friend just got that Dust album on CD only days back and we listened to it at work!
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.
Thanks, I'd never heard of most of these. I really liked Dust and Open Mind.
Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Ultra; pretty red Squier Acoustic;
Amps: Vox VT30;
Pedals: Dunlop Fuzz Face; Dunlop Crybaby Wah
My kids have: Squier Affinity Stratocaster MII; Fender G-DEC; Squire Acoustic; Jay Turser Strat-copy, Roland Cube amp
"I am a sworn enemy of the saccharine, and a believer in grace over karma." Bono 2001
Alright, here are three (somewhat) lesser knowns that were a regular part of my 70's rotation...
Gentle Giant
Be Bop Deluxe
Van Der Graaf Generator
Dust were one of my faves from long ago. They were fresh out of high school when they recorded their first LP and didn't go anywhere as Dust, by '72 they were gone. But besides having two of the best album covers ever, the drummer Marc Bell, became Marky Ramone and bassist Kenny Aarronson, having been a top NY session player for decades was also with Derringer in the later 70s and is doing the current reunion tour w/Rick. He was also in Brian Setzer's Radiation Ranch band that played the first Live Aid. Guitarist Ritchie Wise teamed with producer Kenny Kerner for the first few Kiss LPs then vanished.
Iron Claw
Necronomicon
Valhalla
Truth And Janey
Alkana
Flax
Zior
Tear Gas
Gift (w/stupid but funny gore film)
Epitath
Atlantis
Headstone
Tarkus
Black Cat Bones w/Paul Kossoff
Liquid Sound Company
Babe Ruth
Murphy Blend
Ancient Grease
Writing On The Wall
Brainticket
Amon Duul II - my most favorite German band. Sadly, the great guitarist Michael Karoli passed away last year.
From So. Africa no less - Suck
Buffalo
John Robinson - Keep your eyes on the hands...
Flied Egg
From Japan - Food Brain
Fraction
Warhorse w/Ritual - on bass Nicky Simper from Deep Purple Mk 1
Speaking of DP, God I wish Ritchie was still into tearing it up!
Note the 1/2" vibrato bar. He kept breaking them and asking his tech to make them sturdier. The guy made this and said "if you break this one I don't want to know".
Rare to see him ripping on a 335.
More rare Mk1 material with the II line-up. Idiot producers with their artsy crap messin up Ritchie's craziness.
Tucky Buzzard
Steamhammer
The Gun w/the Gurvitz brothers, Adrian (guitar) & Paul (bass).
The Human Instinct
John Kongos - I always dug this heavy pop ditty.
Groundshaker
Mariani w/Eric Johnson
Peacepipe
Virus
Heaven
Eternal Elysium
Corpus
German Oak
Schizo
Sweden's Baby Grandmothers
And here they are recently, still pretty crunchy.
Poe
Captain Marryat
Can't forget Bo Hanson - I've loved this guy's music from day 1, and this is the first LP's premier cut. Jimi did too and wanted to work with him.
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One of the great hidden gems off the first LP by Second Hand
One of my faves by a fave band, Golden Earring
Hawkwind
Time to rock with Highway Robbery
Truth & Janey had some REAL promise
London's via Canada... Thundermug
German engineering... Jeronimo
I have no clue about Steeplechase
You know 'em, you love 'em, Brownsville Station
RIP'r Cub
...figure it out yourself, yes Paris, this is hot!
Fuzzgasm with the Ron Wray Light Show
Praying Mantis... ?
Jerusalem
Viva le France - Variations
This is cool too
From Peru! Pax
Brainbox - Akkerman pre-Focus
Vintage JA ...sounds like a hit to me
Stretch'n the time line with this 1980 wonder... Raven THEY ROCK!
I'd hate to follow them
Fanny Adams - Australia's answer to FREE
their frontman steps out...
More Aussie power - Buffalo
Rare ELOY
Sludge on with Jex Thoth