Hard Rock From The 70s

[kenyagkvs]

This is the place to here some great bands the only made one or two albums and then disbaned. I play bands like: Three Man Army, Neon Rose, Leaf Hound, Captain Beyond, Poobah to name a few. I mix these gemms with more known bands like: Budgie, Rush, Montrose and Ufo.

[vixen1700]

How about the little known Socialist band from London, Third World War. Two cracking albums from around '71/72 that wre well worth a listen, sort of Clash well before the Clash.

[Greenwich Ross]

Flower Travellin' Band. Satori especially.

http://youtu.be/EDBdMnkcx0E

[Sprouts]

Edgar Broughton Band, great stuff from 69 to 73. After that I don't know. Bought the first three albums last year. On first hearing it's like Sabbath meets the Bonzo's

[vixen1700]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vFIvVjuoRM

Blue Cheer.

According to 'Whispering' Bob Harris, the loudest band he's ever heard.

[Seeker UK]

+1 on Third World War

If you like Leafhound then I'd recommend

T2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p98Q05lrpd4

Flied Egg - Japanese Hard Prog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg8SV-Z0T2I

Dies Irae - German band. One album only
dies irae

[Derestrictor]

Except that Rush and UFO made multiple albums in the decade! Moreover, are still going strong/limping.

Both produced world class boogie and if presented with the dominant quotient of wretched, sonic miasma which has infected output since at best, the very late 80s, might decide on defenestration of the offending 'r-n-b' drone, via cabled strangulation and attachment to the TV going through the hotel window - and rightly so.

Find time to uncork Blue Oyster Cult whilst you're in there, although I'd persevere until 1981 and their splendid opus, Fire of Unknown Origin.

Thin Lizzy's body of work from c.1973 (to the end in 1983) is laced with a rich seam of creativity that combines some charming Celtic influences with rock so heavy, a fragment of it was loaded aboard the Voyager probe in 1977 by NASA as a warning to aggressive alien species.

If prying, intergalactic eyes were to find humour in a chiffon cum leather arrangement with soaring, operatic proclivities, then Judas Priest's endeavours during the period remain stupefying secrets, imbibed these days by only a tiny band of enlightened metallurgists.

It goes without saying that the utter brilliance of Sabbath and early Rainbow works bestride the arena like a brace of duelling Colossi so presumed acknowledgement of their output is a given.

[duncancallum]

Strife any one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po6WITsWDK4

[Honk]

Baker Gurvitz Army?

[Wacky Racer]

Sprouts said:

Edgar Broughton Band, great stuff from 69 to 73. After that I don't know. Bought the first three albums last year. On first hearing it's like Sabbath meets the Bonzo's

Saw them at The Buxton pop festival in 1973.

Great band.

[Dr Gonzo]

Pink Fairies.