# Blow My Mind with Some Obscure Rock and Roll **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [September 11, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358 "2022-09-11T02:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/141 "2022-09-18T20:10:10Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I will recommend a Bay Area trio called **[Parish Hal](https://www.allmusic.com/album/parish-hall-mw0000489472)l**. I heard about it in a youtube video called 20 hard rock albums you probably never heard of. Here is the whole album on youtube [Parish Hall " 1970" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oELncnG_nQ) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/142 "2022-09-18T20:12:42Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pm7w9t1Tl-s/maxresdefault.jpg "My Wicked, Wicked Ways") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm7w9t1Tl-s) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/143 "2022-09-18T20:13:17Z")
I will try again later ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/144 "2022-09-18T20:46:11Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > … I always loved [this song sung by the son of a central Illinois hog farmer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-cF40OWeak) One of my favorite Dylan covers ever! I saw those guys in Detroit in the early 80s, but never knew Jason had Illinois roots. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/145 "2022-09-18T20:50:19Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > One of my favorite Dylan covers. 👍 > [@Akaj](#): > > One of my favorite Dylan covers ever! Hey! 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/146 "2022-09-18T21:02:46Z")
Yeah - Jason was from central IL. When I was down in Champaign for college/grad school in the 70s-80s, the Scorchers were regulars at Mabel’s. His family often attended, sitting up in the balcony. I met him and his family several times. Really nice people. Flash forward to when I got my current job 12 yrs ago. I had 4 weeks of training on DC. I checked out the local scene, and The Scorchers were playing. Only Jason and Warren still in the band. That was quite the training. Also saw X that trip. Man - Billy Zoom! I’ve got a thing for screaming guitar! As long as we are talking Dylan covers… [Mike Ness and Social D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEHqHUMjktU) ain’t exactly obscure either, tho they SHOULD be more well known. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/147 "2022-09-18T22:08:28Z")
Holy crap! When I told my wife about this thread, she said, “I hope you’re putting ‘She Sheila’ on there! You listen to it all the time and nobody has heard of them.” OTOH, they did release two damn fine albums and were popular enough to make national TV on NYE. She also wanted me to add Arrogance. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/148 "2022-09-18T22:17:35Z")
“Certain Kinda Girl” is a great one, too. I only learned of it from a drummer friend of mine earlier this year – he said his college band used to cover a couple of their tunes and, after listening to a few of their songs, I wondered how nobody ever told me about them before! ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/149 "2022-09-18T22:32:14Z")
There are lots of good songs. Both albums were released as a twofer on a single CD a few years ago. “She Sheila” was on EVERY SINGLE TIME I went to a certain sandwich place in the early 80s. It was a very popular video…and my sister-in-law who is the same age as me has said she has never heard of it at all. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/150 "2022-09-18T22:38:56Z")
BTW, Nelson did a cover of “She Sheila,” which seems odd. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/151 "2022-09-18T22:56:15Z")
I’m not sure how obscure **Love** or this song from 1966 are outside of LA, but I’ve been listening to it a lot lately. It’s not protopunk. It _is_ punk! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6An7KGK6U3c/hqdefault.jpg "Love - 7 And 7 Is") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6An7KGK6U3c) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/152 "2022-09-18T23:23:17Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > I’ll call your Shoes and raise you [the Redwalls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyP-AmJpFf4) – another weirdly named suburban Chicago band (from relatively affluent Deerfield) who somehow channel vintage Beatle-esque bands like Badfinger and whose singer has McCartney’s raw-throated “Dizzy Miss Lizzie” down cold. That is some nice raw-throated Beatlesque singing. The only other song I’ve heard that had the style down so well was this one, although the similarities are more in the singing melody than in the exact voice per se, and it is raw in a slightly different way: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lFIqkW4PiDY/hqdefault.jpg "Les Fleur de Lys - Prodigal Son (1967)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIqkW4PiDY) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/153 "2022-09-19T01:00:32Z")
David Linley and El Rayo X [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XRCbBkkG_nY/hqdefault.jpg "David Lindley & El Rayo X - Loreley 1982") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCbBkkG_nY) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/154 "2022-09-19T01:18:33Z")
I had long known that Love’s “Forever Changes” is generally on “Greatest Albums Of All Time” lists, and some years back, I found a CD at a used-record store and purchased it. That’s definitely one purchase I have not regretted! This is my personal favorite song off that album. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YbgyTHTs6n8/maxresdefault.jpg "Love - The Daily Planet") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbgyTHTs6n8) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/155 "2022-09-19T01:50:08Z")
Man, I was thinking about tossing some David Linley up here! Good call! ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/156 "2022-09-19T02:20:15Z")
I saw them play an outdoor show at Benbow on the Eel river back in the day, just blow us all away. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/157 "2022-09-19T14:35:46Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > m not sure how obscure **Love** or this song from 1966 are outside of LA, but I’ve been listening to it a lot lately. It’s not protopunk. It _is_ punk! The Ramones covered this in 1983 [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kThJsVGqo1I/hqdefault.jpg "The Ramones - 7 & 7 Is") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThJsVGqo1I) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/158 "2022-09-19T14:41:03Z")
So did Deep Purple [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MtFiVyYto4c/maxresdefault.jpg "DEEP PURPLE "7 And 7 Is" - Official Music Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtFiVyYto4c) ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfyre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfyre/32/9972_2.png) [@Shadowfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfyre)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/159 "2022-09-19T15:55:23Z")
I first heard this song on Colin Furze’s YouTube channel and then started hearing it in many other YT vids. I thought it was the Black Keys, but had to use Shazam to find the proper band and song name. I think that makes it pretty obscure. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VbEKizzk_eM/maxresdefault.jpg "Sven Karlsson feat. Divty - A Forbidden Smile (Royalty Free Rock)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEKizzk_eM) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/160 "2022-09-19T16:06:19Z")
Every time someone plays the intro to that song, the ears on Jeff Lynne’s lawyer prick up a little. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358.md?page=9)