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Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:21
Not sure how one defines underrated but if we are talking about air time one rarely hears James Gang on the radio and I listen to classic rock radio out of Chicago.....
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Posted: February 13 2018 at 02:35
Nobody mentioned REO Speedwagon.
Before the went all FM-Radio AOR pop-ballad, MOR, they were a hardrocking band. I'd even go as far to say they were borderline heavy metal in the seventies. Especially their double live album mid seventies is a treat!
Maybe they were really, really great in the 70's aswell, but they are kind of forgotten, aren't they? Well I like their 70's output.
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dr wu23 wrote:
One of my favorites......
One of my all time favorite albums.
On this album, Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton (I love him), Greg Ridley (Spooky Tooth) and Jerry Shirley all have their say. So you have country, folk, blues, rock, boogie. It's the perfect 70's album, if you ask me.
Sucking on the Sweet Vine is my all-time favorite song ever!
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:45
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Mortte wrote:
Ten Years After: Let the sky fall
I quite like the Ten Years After album Rock & Roll Music to the World, and in particular the track Standing at the Station from the album. At 7:11 in length, it should appeal to any prog-lover.
Itīs still the album from TYA that I havenīt yet listened. Have to soon. At the moment "A Space In Time" is my favourite, really love that album mix of blues & psychedelia & great melodies.
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:15
I prophesy disaster wrote:
Mortte wrote:
Ten Years After: Let the sky fall
I quite like the Ten Years After album Rock & Roll Music to the World, and in particular the track Standing at the Station from the album. At 7:11 in length, it should appeal to any prog-lover.
Or this from one of the most underrated live albums from the 70s, Recorded Live, 1973. Sixteen minutes of proggy, jazzy blues (with the middle ten minutes almost all one long lead):
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:00
Mortte wrote:
Ten Years After: Let the sky fall
I quite like the Ten Years After album Rock & Roll Music to the World, and in particular the track Standing at the Station from the album. At 7:11 in length, it should appeal to any prog-lover.
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 21:00
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^I thought of Humble Pie at first too but I wondered if they were underrated or not....all my friends at college '69-75' liked them but no one seems to mention them all these (40) years later...great band and the best work Frampton ever did.
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exactly what made me think of them Doc. Who the hell plays.. much less mentions Humble Pie these days. Even Rory has a big fanclub... find me a group of more than 2 Humble Pie fans today. Good luck
on that note.. and for many of the same reasons.
2nd place...a close one for many of the same reasons... good luck finding fans or ever hearing them on the radio.. and yet some of the best sh*t IMO to come out of the 70's classic rock scene
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 20:21
I would throw Blue Oyster Cults First 3 albums in there.Hard rock but with some threat instrumentals I put a vote in for Wishbone Ash too Live Dates Also a superstar band but if you havent heard Queens first album its a bit more rockier and raw
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^I thought of Humble Pie at first too but I wondered if they were underrated or not....all my friends at college '69-75' liked them but no one seems to mention them all these (40) years later...great band and the best work Frampton ever did.
:)
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dr wu23 wrote:
One of my favorites......
you are the man doc... read the OP's first post.. and Humble Pie was the first band that jumped to mind. Really quite hard to think of truly underrated and today largely forgotten 70's classic rock bands that truly deserve to not have such a fate. Humble Pie is first up IMO for that distinction.
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Posted: February 12 2018 at 14:44
Pat Travers, Robin Trower, Budgie, April Wine, Triumph, Man, Crawler, Graeme Edge Band, Jo Jo Gunne, Lone Star etc...off the top of my head.
Of course, I still consider Rory Gallagher the most underrated musician of all time, despite his loyal, cult following to this day! Should be up there in the top 5 in any guitarist polls - if talent rather than image won through! ✌️
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