Mahavishnu Orchestra - yeah, but I think I’m more a fan of the numerous off-shoots Climax Blues Band - sort of. Around in the 70’s.
West Bruce and Laing Sun Ra Jack Dejohnette
Lake - Greg Lake? of ELP? Dixie Dregs - Big fan Blue Oyster Cult Foghat Tommy Tutone Joan Jett Golden Earring
**Blackfoot ** - I think a couple of their albums were passed around my HS pals in the '70s
Saxon
Fastway
Shooting Star Stevie Ray Vaughan
Zebra Dokken - know the name, not the music Survivor Yngwie Malmsteen - heard a couple of his songs back in the '80s the Motels - I know what boys like? I don’t know why anyone who wasn’t around during their 15 minutes would have heard of them. Robin Trower Guess Who Heart Fabulous Thunderbirds Foghat Atlanta Rhythm Section - We’re gonna have us a champagne jam :rolleyes: Outlaws Dave Mason Spirit Little Feat Big Head Todd and the Monsters - only from when they were getting started in Boulder and were basically a SRV clone band. Screaming Cheetah Wheelies - heard the name, know the Gary Larson cartoon, don’t know the music Jeff Beck Buddy Guy Eric Johnson Derek Trucks Band Lynyrd Skynyrd Kenny Wayne Sheppard - know the name, don’t know the music
Aaron Squirrel Band Joe Cocker - funniest Youtube ever!
I’m 37. But these artists span a lot of different genres. Tommy Tutone, I imagine, would not be known by name by folks outside of the US who didn’t listen to music in the early 80s. The Fabulous T-birds, similarly, were regionally famous and unless you were into the blues-rock scene, I wouldn’t expect people to know them outside of that genre. IMO there aren’t really a lot of transcendent artists, like SRV, Jeff Beck, Heart, and Joe Cocker, on this list.
Mahavishnu Orchestra - heard of 'em, don’t know their music
Climax Blues Band - nope
West Bruce and Laing - nope
Sun Ra - heard of him, know little of his music
Jack Dejohnette - nope
Lake - nope
Dixie Dregs - nope
Blue Oyster Cult - yes
Foghat - yes
Tommy Tutone - yes
Joan Jett - yes
Golden Earring - yes
Blackfoot - nope
Saxon - yes
Fastway - nope
Shooting Star - nope
Stevie Ray Vaughan - of course!
Zebra - nope
Dokken - yes
Survivor - yes
Yngwie Malmsteen - yes
the Motels - yes
Robin Trower - nope
Guess Who - yes
Heart - yes
Fabulous Thunderbirds - yep, I’m from Austin!
Foghat - again? Yes
Atlanta Rhythm Section - yes
Outlaws - nope
Dave Mason - yes
Spirit - heard of 'em, don’t know their music
Little Feat - heard of 'em, don’t know their music
Big Head Todd and the Monsters - yes
Screaming Cheetah Wheelies - nope
Jeff Beck - yes
Buddy Guy - yes
Eric Johnson - yes
Derek Trucks Band- heard of 'em, don’t know their music
Lynyrd Skynyrd - yes
Kenny Wayne Sheppard - yes
Aaron Squirrel Band - nope
Joe Cocker - yes
As a Waitresses fan, you’re confusing them with the Motels - “Only the Lonely” and “Suddenly Last Summer.” But they were both fronted by women, maybe that’s the confusion?
Mahavishnu Orchestra – saw them live. Twice. So loud they made ears bleed withing a ten-mile radius. Actually fairly good at reasonable sonic levels, but they liked to drown out nearby jet landings.
Climax Blues Band – has a few hits, actually.
West Bruce and Laing – The remnants of Mountain joining with Jack Bruce of Cream. Potentially a supergroup, but never did much of note.
Sun Ra – one of the icons of modern jazz
Jack Dejohnette – jazz keyboardist.
Dixie Dregs – “Cruise Control” was a FM classic. Never had a vocalist; they were a natural team-up with the Persuasions.
Blue Oyster Cult – “Don’t Fear the Reaper,” of course, and “Cities on Fire with Rock and Roll” One of the seminal heavy metal groups.
Foghat – “Slow Ride,” I think. Blues based rock.
Tommy Tutone – “867-5309” but basically one-hit wonders.
Joan Jett – Hard rocking woman. “I Love Rock and Roll” Model for the leather-clad female rocker image.
Golden Earring – “Radar Love” is a classic.
Blackfoot – made a big deal of their native Americanness.
Stevie Ray Vaughan – fine blues guitarist, died young, but his rep is deserved.
Yngwie Malmsteen – know the name, but not the music.
the Motels – A couple of hit singles, but I don’t recall the song titles.
Robin Trower – guitarist for Procol Harum who had a very successful solo career. I know his Procol Harum work – love his guitar on “Shine on Brightly.”
Guess Who – Canada’s hit factory.
Heart – Lot of press as a female-fronted rock band. The Wilson sisters sang and composed and “Barracuda” is a rock classic.
Fabulous Thunderbirds – faux-50s rockers
Atlanta Rhythm Section – “So Into You” and other soft rock hits.
Outlaws – Willie Nelson and friends.
Dave Mason – former member of Traffic with a successful solo career with the hit “We Just Disagree” and the album “Alone Together.”
Spirit – one of my favorite groups of all time. Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus is one of the greatest rock albums ever.
Little Feat – Country tinged rock. Founded by Lowell George, who was with the Mothers of Invention (Legend was that he played “I’m Willing” for Zappa and Zappa fired him on the spot and told him to form his own band). “I’m Willing,” “Dixie Chicken,” and “Fat Man in the Bathtub” are just great songs.
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – heard of them, but don’t know their music.
Jeff Beck – replaced Eric Clapton with the Yardbirds. His Jeff Beck Group gave Rod Stewart a start (and was the high point of Stewart’s career). One of the top five British guitarists of the 60s.
Buddy Guy – A blue legend. I saw him in concert watching him play a solo one-handed better than 90% of all pro guitarists do with two.
Derek Trucks Band – know of them, but don’t know their music.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Still well known these days. Maybe the number two or three southern rock bands.
Joe Cocker – probably the best vocalist and song interpreter in rock music. People make fun of his mannerisms, but no one makes fun of his voice.
Martha Davis of the Motels - mmmm, Martha. We used to play Mission of Mercy (audio with a photo from The Big Lebowski on YouTube) at fraternity parties at UC Santa Barbara…man, that was a hard lead to master back in the day…
Starred the ones I know. Only about half, and I’m orders of magnitude more knowledgable about music than almost everybody I meet. This is one guy’s taste, though, and while it seems to have some depth, it isn’t very broad.
Okay - see, I just love the geekery: you notice he is fashion-challenged with the goofy-ass belt buckle (I actually had a college astronomy prof who rocked the long hair, corduroys and offset belt buckle look - yeah; no chicks whatsoever ;)) - I notice he is playing an all-aluminum Veleno guitar(website to history, where the guy’s name - Pete Haycock of the CBB - is cited…)
**Cisco **- I can’t comment on your music knowledge but I will say the list is more time/era-specific than anything…
I think you’ve got the wrong Outlaws there. I’d bet dollars to donuts that the OP was referring to the southern rock group of the same name, of “Green Grass and High Tides” and “Ghost Riders in the Sky” fame.
They had a short period (late 80s?) during which they made it past the regional / niche band level. “Tough Enough” and “Wrap Her Up” were fairly popular on a national level at that time.
I forgot to star Golden Earring (Radar Love might’ve been my first favorite song ever), and a few others looked familiar but I wasn’t 100% sure if I knew them (Lake, Dixie Dregs, Blackfoot, the Motels, Screaming Cheetah Wheelies.) Other than that, who do I have a huge gap in my awareness by not knowing?
None of ‘em. I can argue for a few - I dig Derek Trucks’ slide playing in a huge way (see link in my earlier thread - I think his work stands the test of time) and I have a soft spot for the Motels, but I don’t think any of the unstarred acts are Absolute Must Listens. Many of them have their claims to fame: Mahavishnu was a very-highly-respected fusion band; their CD Inner Mounting Flame is held up there with a few other jazz-fusion highspots. Dixie Dregs is where Steve Morse got his start - he is a huge guitarists’ guitarist and currently with Deep Purple I think (and trivia moment - his drummer Rod Morganstern (also very highly respected, well except for…) became the drummer for Winger)…oh, and Saxon was a early band in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, but I was always a sucker for UFO over Saxon, Krokus and the like…
