Whom Johnny Rotten loved.
Free Free - Wishing Well - YouTube
Supertramp Supertramp - It's Raining Again - YouTube
Nazareth Nazareth - Bad bad boy - YouTube
Rainbow Rainbow | Since You Been Gone (HQ) - YouTube
Whitesnake WHITESNAKE - here i go again (best version) - YouTube
Jethro Tull Jethro Tull-Bungle In The Jungle - YouTube
It is a great song though. A friend of mine is a huge Faces fan and has an enormous collection of all sorts of their stuff. They definitely hit a sweet spot of crunchy yet not over the top heavy fir my taste.
I see Spotify has a 2015 album of Faces 1970 to 1975 songs (65 tracks in all) as well.
Atomic Rooster ATOMIC ROOSTER - Devil's Answer - YouTube
Edgar Winter Group Frankenstein . Edgar Winters Group . 1973 - YouTube
Sensational Alex Harvey Band The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next (1973) - YouTube
Black Widow were more jazz-prog than hard rock, but they gave us the positively jaunty paean to Satan worship Come To The Sabbat And Lucifer’s Friend were German rather than British, but hit the sweet spot of proto-Dio hard rock wailing awesomeness. This is just a killer hard rock album.
There’s also the wonderful Radio Birdman from Australia, who were founded in 1974 but didn’t release their pretty much essential Radios Appear until 1977: most people file it under punk, but for short, sharp stabs of gloriously melodic hard rock which is equal parts the Stooges and the Doors, it can’t be beat.
Not mentioned yet: Robin Trower
Oooh, got a couple more, been trying to remember this first band for the last three days
Blackfoot Sue - 1812 - YouTube
and one that just fits into your time zone10CC -
Judas Priest fits the bill for that time. They didn’t become the full tilt metal ban till the late 70s, early 80s.
Gah, ninja’d! I scrolled through the whole thread and thought "What? No Judas Priest from the mid-70’s? Like "Sad Wings of Destiny’?
Thunder stolen!
No one mentioned Judas Priest before for some very good reasons, mainly a) it’s not the style of music that the OP is looking for and b) it’s not a band that anyone wouldn’t already know the name of (they’re quite famous, you know).
From the OP:
Judas Priest doesn’t fit that description at all.
The OP is looking for bands like The Count Bishops and other Chiswick Records groups before they started putting punk records out in like '76 or '77.
Hey, sounds good, I’ve always wanted to check out early Priest! Maybe then I can understand the fact why they called themselves after, of all Dylan songs, Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, one of the driest and most obscure folk songs from “John Wesley Harding”. Good song though and good album. But NO hard rock to find there.
I guess I need to read for comprehension better!
LOL.
Dylan didn’t originate the name: “Judas Priest” as a euphemism for “Jesus Christ” was first recorded in writing in the early 20th century, and was presumably spoken long before then.
I didn’t know that, that’s interesting. Nonetheless, I’m sure that I’ve read several times that the band Judas Priest was explicitly named after the Dylan song.