Fleetwood Mac: 1970-1974 after Peter Green and the Chicago blues years (especially check out “Bare Trees” and “Penguin”)and before the Buckingham/Nicks years.
J. Geils Band: 1980’s “Love Stinks”. MUCH better (IMHO) than the follow up “Freeze Frame”
Penneywise, nofx, snuff, unwritten law, bad religion, the decendents, and all of the other punk-rock bands that are on tour 47 weeks a year. these are the hardest workers in rock n’ roll today
sorry old people you are not young anymore, there is a generation gap now, now shave off your gotees
Suicidal Tendencies. It is an eternal mystery why they never got the recognition they deserved, esp. in guitar publications. I have several hundred guitar magazines and there is like one ST transcription and two articles. What’s up with that?
Rocky George was a monster! Mike Clark was the riff-meister Hetfield wishes he could be! ST in all it’s incarnations, as well as Infectous Grooves just kicks my ass.
Oh, Slo Burn kicked ass too.
BTW, it may interest the children on the board to note that Pennywise is charting as we speak with “Alien” - you’re not overlooked if you’re in the Billboard 100; NOFX has religiously avoided mainstream popularity - you can’t be overlooked if you are hiding on purpose, and Bad Religion fucked Epitath years ago for the infamous “major label deal” - not really overlooked, just over shadowed by fellow musical whores Offspring.
Leslie West, the guitarist for Mountain, is overlooked, even though he was really good. And The Pretty Things are amazing. They’re this British Invasion band, and they were just as good as the Stones, the Beatles, the Byrds, etc. (no offense to those bands–I love them too) And I always really felt sorry for Christine McVie, the girl from Fleetwood Mac who wasn’t Stevie Nicks. And John Entwisle (sp?), the member of the Who who wasn’t Pete Townshed, Roger Daltrey, or Keith Moon.
You must listen to Cheap Trick’s “Standing On The Edge”. Without Cheap Trick’s influence, many of today’s “rock” bands have said they would not have gotten into the biz.
Thanks to MissTangerine for the nod to Christine McVie. She (Christine, that is) is a brilliant songwriter/keyboardist. If you get a chance to listen to “Bare Trees”. The track “Homeward Bound” is a nice little rocker. I hope Christine will release a new solo disc. Her last one was in 1984. Even though she some of Mac’s biggest hits, she was obscured in Stevie’s occasionally hulking shadow (hint: if Stevie looks like she packing on the pounds, it usually means she’s in rehab).
MissTangerine, how correct you are about Leslie West. Fine player, indeed. A couple of others, who are actually pretty famous, but their playing skills tend to be overlooked, are Glen Campbell & Vince Gill.
Possibly, just possibly, if you are old enough, you have heard their one and only seriously lucrative hit single. Cast yourself back to late 60s…
::siren sounds, of the European variety::
“I remember, we were flying low
and hit something in the air…”
This song [DOA] was good, if somewhat morbid, tunes; but quite aside from that, Bloodrock released 4 albums plus a greatest hits album, and the keyboard, vocals, lyrics, and overall tempo caused many of their songs to be spectacular for 1968-70.
Jessica; A Certain Kind; America [“Walking in an empty cement parking lot…”]; Breach of Lease; these in particular come to mind without digging them out to read the album liners…