What other good bands from the 70's and 80's fell thru the cracks?

thunderbrick · « **Reply #80 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 09:42 pm »

I saw McKendree Spring at Johns Hopkins around '71.

Mike Nomad · « **Reply #81 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 10:44 pm »

For IL based, Proggy Goodness, there was always Starcastle.

orthobiz · « **Reply #82 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 10:58 pm »

Quote from: Mike Nomad on 31 Jan 2010, 05:51 pm

Read all the posts (so far), and I'm not sure I have a handle on this thread. So...

Armageddon (w/ Keith Relf)

Graham Parker (& The Rumour)

You got it Mike! Graham Parker, Elvis Costello and the Buzzcocks were my power trimuvirate of 1977.

Paul

orthobiz · « **Reply #83 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 10:59 pm »

Quote from: mikef on 31 Jan 2010, 07:56 pm

Anyone remember Seatrain?
How about Greenslade, a British keyboard-driven prog band of the 1970s?

Mike Fox

Seatrain? Just got the first album and Marblehead Messenger for 79 cents each at Goodwill.

Paul

orthobiz · « **Reply #84 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 11:04 pm »

Went to a record show today.

Picked up
Camel: I Can See Your House From Here
Triumvirat: Old Loves Die hard
Camel: The Single Factor.

Gotta decide where to start...

Paul

Wayner · « **Reply #85 on:** 1 Feb 2010, 12:38 pm »

Excellent!

budyog · « **Reply #86 on:** 1 Feb 2010, 03:38 pm »

I have a lot of this music deemed "Fell thru the Cracks" alive and well on my I-Pod in shuffle play rotation and on my Omni-Fi system also in shuffle play mode in my shop! I love shuffle play, its like having my own personal radio station without commercials!

I have 10262 songs so far in these systems and a lot of what has been mentioned here.

A couple I don't see mentioned and pardon me if they were;

PFM - Premiata Forneria Marconi (Italian prog rock band)
Family - (English prog rock band, acquired taste)
The Nice - (Keith Emerson's band before ELP)
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Steve Harley (solo)
Van Der Graaf Generator - (British prog rock, acquired taste)
ABC

Many that have been mentioned in this thread have web sites and are still performing, mostly solo careers.

Graham Parker has been coming to Britts Pub in Minneapolis every 1st Sunday in July for a Bastille Day free performance for the last 8 years. I go every year, its a great time! I also met him long ago when he was with the Rumour and played their first show in Minneapolis at the Guthrie!

Attached is a picture of me (in the middle holding the Book Early album) with City Boy at the St. Cloud State University in Minnesota around 1979. They warmed up Hall & Oats. My friend and I sat right in the front center seats, we knew all the words to the songs and sang a long. The band noticed and let us come backstage and eat and drink with them. Then they played the next night in Minneapolis at the Orpheum Theater with Hall & Oats and we got to go backstage again and then I got the picture signed by all them members. Even partied with Hall & Oats! Those were the days! I guess you could say, I was a groupie!
I just met and got my picture taken with Todd Rundgren this past summer! BTW, his new "Arena" album rocks!

ted_b · « **Reply #87 on:** 1 Feb 2010, 03:47 pm »

Nice mention of Family, Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney's great band. Their Fearless and Bandstand albums are still heard in my home!

Quick Steve Harley story. He was doing record signings at a local record store (Record Revolution on Coventry Rd, kinda Cleveland's Haight Ashbury back then

) and I went to see him. Well, he had been there for some time, not a huge turnout, and he'd mentioned to one of the owners that he was a bit hungry. I offered to take him over to the nearby McDonalds and he obliged. Very cool, very nice chat with him. Never did get a picture though.

budyog · « **Reply #88 on:** 1 Feb 2010, 03:54 pm »

Quote from: ted_b on 1 Feb 2010, 03:47 pm

Quick Steve Harley story. He was doing record signings at a local record store (Record Revolution on Coventry Rd, kinda Cleveland's Haight Ashbury back then ) and I went to see him. Well, he had been there for some time, not a huge turnout, and he'd mentioned to one of the owners that he was a bit hungry. I offered to take him over to the nearby McDonalds and he obliged. Very cool, very nice chat with him. Never did get a picture though.

Cool story! You lucky guy! I am a big Steve Harley fan, and one I have never seen perform "live" and would love too before I leave planet earth!
I forgot to mention,
"Icehouse"

orthobiz · « **Reply #89 on:** 1 Feb 2010, 06:04 pm »

Quote from: budyog on 1 Feb 2010, 03:54 pm

Cool story! You lucky guy! I am a big Steve Harley fan, and one I have never seen perform "live" and would love too before I leave planet earth!
I forgot to mention,
"Icehouse"

Have you heard the "maxi" single on CD from about 5 yrs ago celebrating the 25th anniversary of Come Up and See Me? It's pretty good. The Best Years album is terrific and I have a few others. I did pretty well the Timeless Flight record back in the day, a good record to chill out with prospective GF's...

Paul

BobM · « **Reply #90 on:** 1 Feb 2010, 08:11 pm »

Funny thing is that I "discovered" a whole lot of 70's stuff in the 90's and the last 10 years also. Here's a few, some have been mentioned already:

Crack the Sky
Happy the Man
Zebra
Ambrosia (the old stuff, not the pop stuff)
UK
Nektar
Bruford
Dixie Dregs
Gentle Giant
Focus
Gong
Brand X
Sea Level
Kraftwork
Saga
Soft Machine
Hatfield and the North
National Health
Renaissance
Passport
Steve Hillage
David Sancious and Tone
Andreas Vollenweider
Mike Oldfield
Banco
PFM
Kayak
Oregon
Paul Winter Consort

nodiak · « **Reply #91 on:** 2 Feb 2010, 05:57 pm »

Great thread. All that came to mind have been mentioned (Seatrain - Despair tire!). But 70's reminiscing always brings up Tommy Bolin who fell through a crack on his own. Played in several bands including Zephyr, Deep Purple, James Gang and 2 good solo lp's.

thunderbrick · « **Reply #92 on:** 2 Feb 2010, 06:03 pm »

Quote from: BobM on 1 Feb 2010, 08:11 pm

Funny thing is that I "discovered" a whole lot of 70's stuff in the 90's and the last 10 years also. Here's a few, some have been mentioned already:

Focus
Sea Level
Kraftwork
Passport
Mike Oldfield
Oregon

+1

Got 'em all.

irish 51 · « **Reply #93 on:** 2 Feb 2010, 07:31 pm »

Fairport Convention/Richard Thompson
The Cretones
The Incredible String Band
Simple Minds
The Psychedelic Furs
The Pentangle
Television
The Blasters
Magazine
The Fleshtones
The Violent Femmes
The Smiths
The Plimsouls
Spirit
The Specials
Kate Bush
Marshall Crenshaw
The Cramps
Weather Report
Can
Toots and the Maytals
Dead Can Dance
Echo and the Bunnymen
Big Country
Osibisa
Its a Beautiful Day
Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Stooges
Mink Deville

there isn't enough room...

BobM · « **Reply #94 on:** 2 Feb 2010, 07:51 pm »

Definitely not enough room ... my second go-round has more of those in the pop-rock vein, as well as prog. 2 lists - one that didn't get much airplay and a second that hasn't produced much since the 70's"

Not much airplay:
Jean Luc Ponty
Climax Blues Band
Todd Rundgren/Utopia
Uriah Heep
The Kinks
Mott the Hoople
Strawbs
Be Bop Deluxe
Ten Years After

Not much since the 70's:
Cream
Marshall Tucker Band
Peter Frampton
Kansas
Queen
Kiss
Deep Purple
Boston
Lynyrd Skynyrd
10CC
Bad Company
Heart
Journey
Jethro Tull
Cat Stevens
Abba
Earth Wind and Fire
Blondie
Edgar Winter (and his brother Johnny too)
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Alice Cooper
Traffic
Styx

... and last and least

Bay City Rollers

ted_b · « **Reply #95 on:** 2 Feb 2010, 07:56 pm »

??
Cream, ELP, Queen, Tull, Traffic, 10CC, Kiss, Dead Can Dance, Kate Bush, Weather Report, P-Furs, Violent Femmes...these groups did not fall through the cracks IMO. Guess I thought this thread was about those groups that we seldom hear from since the 80's. Weather Report, for example, is a classic fusion jazz standard if there ever was one. And ELP, Tull, Traffic, et al are among the most popular and often-played classic rock and roll bands.

BobM · « **Reply #96 on:** 2 Feb 2010, 08:22 pm »

I guess I interpreted it as those bands who were popular in the 70's and haven't really produced anything new since. Yeah, some of these still have songs on the radio (thank God for that or I probably wouldn't listen to radio at all). Maybe I went a little overboard then.

I guess you could throw Led Zeppelin into that category also, but I would hardly call them off the map. Hell, that's all some stations play at all, except for a Pink Floyd song here and there.

Wayner · « **Reply #97 on:** 2 Feb 2010, 08:36 pm »

Well, I was just wondering about bands that were good, but just never got the airplay (during their time) and consequently, had poor record sales (unless you bought them for the cool looking LP covers). I bought my first Klaatu at a head shop in town a couple of years ago, and later was surprised to find out their story. That made me wonder why I had never heard of them or saw any material in the record or CD shop.
So I thought there must be more and you Bob and others have done a great job and now I have a nice shopping list.

Wayner

irish 51 · « **Reply #98 on:** 2 Feb 2010, 08:38 pm »

Oh, I looked at it as bands that were not hugely commercially popular, although a few of mine I guess were fairly popular.

But people are mentioning The Band, Todd Rundgren, Grand Funk, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, King Crimson, and others which didn't seem to fall through the cracks but that's okay, it is a nice thread, and I'll be looking into some of these bands mentioned I don't know much about.

So keep 'em coming, except those damn Bay City Rollers....

Wayner · « **Reply #99 on:** 2 Feb 2010, 08:40 pm »

irish 51, that's funny! Also notice that no-one has mentioned any disco bands (thank you).