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Rushman

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 13:30

The Doobie Brothers - I Cheat The Hangman

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 12:09

Not sure what album it was on but Spooky Tooth did a fantastic cover of I Am the Walrus Wink

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 10:58

^I haven´t ever listened those two last albums, when you´ve given four stars into the Mirror, I think I should. Really like all the four first. What do you think their "Supernatural Fairy Tales" as Art?

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 10:54

Spooky Tooth is even on this website. These are my ratings:

It's All About: ***

Spooky Two: ****

Ceremony: ****

The Last Puff: ***

You Broke My Heart, So I Busted Your Jaw: ***

The Mirror: ****

So the four star-albums are worth trying

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5316

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 10:47

I always thought that Wishbone Ash was the best non-prog-prog-band, but they are on the website (getting bashed for no apparent reason, except that they are not prog).

But anyhow, a great band with lengthy tracks, except they have mediocre vocals sometimes.

Fun fact: prog-bassplayers John Wetton and Trevor Bolder played in the Ash. ;)

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 08:47

Originally posted by ClosetothSupperBrick

ClosetothSupperBrick wrote:

I know so much about/listen to 70s prog rock that I want to try music outside of the strict "prog" parameters, classic rock. I'm looking for classic rock songs that are underrated to the point where you will rarely, if ever, hear them on the radio.

Triumph falls into the category of "rarely heard on the radio" these days. At least in my area. Other may have different experiences. Triumph had some prog leanings.

Some good examples from the 70s would be the songs, Blinding Light Show / Moonchild and Rock N Roll Machine

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 08:03

Spooky is great! Also their first album as Art!

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 07:44

Spooky Tooth and Trapeze (as mentioned above) are two good choices for bands that did some longer tracks but didn't get much attention by the mainstream.

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 06:12

Budgie

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Moses

Orang-Utan

Trapeze

Armaggedon (Germany)

Mom's Apple Pie

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 06:08

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 06:05

Spooky Tooth (psych bluesrock), everyone knows Humble Pie, but almost no-one knows their sister-band Spooky Tooth, wich has some really great albums. Try Evil Woman, wich has some high pitched vocals.

Al Stewart, everyone knows his period of Year of the Cat and Time Passages, but you should really try to get your hands on Orange, Modern Times, Love Chronicles, Past, Present and Future and Zero She Flies (all albums from 1969-1975), wich are almost prog-folk, featuring songs with Rick Wakeman, Jimmy Page, Gerry Conway, Fairport Convention. He has short folky songs but also larger 8 and 16-minute songs.

Edited by Kingsnake - February 12 2018 at 06:09

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 05:33

anything by Robin Trower, maybe not high-pitched as such but great vocals from Jim Dewar.

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Posted: February 12 2018 at 00:10

Wigwam: Losing Hold (well this is totally prog, but I believe you haven´t heard it anywhere).

Janis Ian: She´s Made Of Porcelain

Laura Nyro: Map to the Treasure

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Prodigal´s Return

Nico: No One Is There

Johnny Winter And: Nothing Left

Mott the Hoople: Thunderbuck Ram

Taste: Blister On the Moon

Ten Years After: Let the sky fall

Royals: More is What you give/get

Here´s few of my favourite, somehow proggy songs from the seventies I don´t think will play in the radio.

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Posted: February 11 2018 at 20:15

I know so much about/listen to 70s prog rock that I want to try music outside of the strict "prog" parameters, classic rock. I'm looking for classic rock songs that are underrated to the point where you will rarely, if ever, hear them on the radio. Also, I'm looking for only 70s (1969 and 1980-81 can be thrown in there too) songs, that have some aspect that can be called "proggy". Be it long duration, showy instrumental parts, or emotional, high-pitched vocals, I want a song that, to put it simply, is not mainstream... examples: "July Morning" - Uriah Heep, "I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home" - Grand Funk Railroad