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    Posted: March 11 2008 at 19:13
Name the HEAVIEST 70's Psych or Prog Rock bands from any country.
 
I wanna see what you all think the definition of HEAVY is.Evil%20Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2008 at 19:39
Amon Düül II, High Tide and Il Balletto De Bronzo. But their not nessecarily my definition of heavy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2008 at 20:31

well we have red by King Crimson, though i never really found it that heavy. It was rated in the top 100 of heaviest albums ever by some random magazine so I guess that counts for something.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2008 at 20:37
The bass tone on Fallen Angel fits my definition of heavy. but perhaps not the extreme metal definition of heavy, which means either "extremely slow" or "the studio engineer cut away everything that makes the guitar sound like a definitive instrument"...

I was thinking that Jannick Top's version of De Futura was unnecessary heavy for something recorded during the seventies. there's no blues anywhere near the song, though, and somehow that tends to score people hevypointz
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2008 at 20:46
Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:

Amon Düül II, High Tide and Il Balletto De Bronzo. But their not nessecarily my definition of heavy.
 
AMON DUUL is good, but they're not heavy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2008 at 20:49
Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:

High Tide and Il Balletto De Bronzo. But their not nessecarily my definition of heavy.
 
Great choices, I haven't hear II BALLETTO DE BRONZO - Ys in a longtime.  I can't remember how heavy that is.
 
HIGH TIDE is super heavy for the late 60's probably the heaviest.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2008 at 20:54
Necronomicon  ..the German band, not the Brussels one


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2008 at 21:15
High Tide, without a doubt. also of course Hawkwind and Atomic Rooster


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2008 at 23:49
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Necronomicon  ..the German band, not the Brussels one


 
Absolutely!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 03:35
I'll go with High Tide too... Absolutely superb band!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 03:47
Clear Blue Sky. British trio who made one of the earliest albums on Vertigo (1970).They reformed in the 90s but I haven't heard that material,

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 03:55
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 04:07
Great, CLEAR BLUE SKY! 
 
Keep em coming, there's a hellava lot more than just these ones mentioned.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 14:37
I think Van der Graaf Generator could be pretty heavy, even without guitars. I think the music was so dark and Hammill's voice so intense that they really outdid most metal bands in terms of heavy. King Crimson as well, along similar lines as my reasoning for VdGG.
and Just because they're here, albeit in prog related, Black Sabbath.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 14:45
Originally posted by Shadow Kingdom Shadow Kingdom wrote:

Great, CLEAR BLUE SKY! 
 
Keep em coming, there's a hellava lot more than just these ones mentioned.


of course there are, just check the HeavyProg category.. some especially good ones--

Fusion Orchestra
Dr.  Z
Accent  (Romania, not on PA yet)
Elonkorjuu  (Finland)

..tons of others







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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 14:51
Frumpy from Germany had some pretty heavy s#*%.Check out Frumpy 2 from `71. If Take Care Of Illusion ain`t a heavy track then I don`t know what is. Check out the video here on PA in their section. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 14:56
Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Frumpy from Germany had some pretty heavy s#*%.

Frumpy definitely deserve some more attention. they were a great band. Inga Rumpf is one of the most powerful female vocalists there are. I especially recommend their live album


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 16:20
I like FRUMPY, where's the link to the video?  I wanna see it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 16:21
FUSION ORCHESTRA was kinda hit and miss.  I don't remember it being particularly heavy.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2008 at 16:27
Mahavishnu first 2 albums are totally heavy and mad!!!!....Crimson's Red??

Atomic Rooster!!! My fave heavy prog band, although a pitty I only love 2 albums of them their first 2 the rest I really don't care...
Uriah Heep!! Check out Look at Yourself..!!
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