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#31 Post by **mangocrazy** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:07 pm

Steve Hillage and Gong etc. were a bit hippy-dippy-trippy for my tastes (at the time), but Steve Hillage reinvented himself in the techno/dance era and went on to form System 7, who have actually done some pretty good stuff.

Heading smartly back to the 70s - did anybody else get off to bands like Little Feat, Steely Dan, Amazing Rhythm Aces etc. I've recently discovered a web resource for Little Feat's legendary 'Electrif Lycanthrope' bootleg. Some wonderful person has got the original live master tapes, digitised them at very high quality and put them on the web in FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Compression) format. It's here:

http://www.archive.org/details/lf1974-09-19.flac16

D-Rider · #32 Post by **D-Rider** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:47 pm

Hey, we never left the70s

Remember Steely Dan but wasn't over-thrilled by them.

Falcomille · #33 Post by **Falcomille** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:06 pm

Yep - like Steely dan and listen to them quite regularly (especially when cooking for some reason). Have to pick something that the wife can llisten to otherwise it's a good excuse to exit the kitchen). Anyone listen much to TalkTalk from the 80's? Very under-rated band spoilt by the charty stuff.
More obscure stuff from the 70's... Savoy Brown? And who could forget the mighty Groundhogs!!!! Tony (TS) McPhee if my memory serves correct.

TwinNut · #34 Post by **TwinNut** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:20 pm

D-Rider wrote:Hey, we never left the70s
Remember Steely Dan but wasn't over-thrilled by them.

You know what, it's great being back on here, it makes me feel really young again

...........My music taste was rubber-stamped in the 80's so all these bands leave me cold. Something along the lines of Van Halen, Maiden, Ozzy, Dio, Blue Murder, Lynch Mob, AC/DC (Bon Scott era only, mind) et al and more recently Alter Bridge, Audioslave, Linkin Park, Slash's Snake Pit, Gun, Airbourne and the like turn my crank........all class stuff with plenty of balls. The 70's-hippy-free-lovin-schmoozac does nowt for me, far too middle of the road, in fact so much so, it's runnin over the cast eyes......

D-Rider · #35 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:43 pm

70s ... too middle of the road ?? WTF ?? (..... bloody kids)

Deep Purple
Sabbath
Rainbow
Hawkwind
Led Zeppelin
Van Halen
etc etc

I could go on ....

Then the 80s came along - second rate pastiches of the heavy rock bands of the 70s
Thank God Punk came along as an antidote

#36 Post by **mangocrazy** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:44 pm

TwinNut wrote: Something along the lines of Van Halen, Maiden, Ozzy, Dio, Blue Murder, Lynch Mob, AC/DC (Bon Scott era only, mind) et al and more recently Alter Bridge, Audioslave, Linkin Park, Slash's Snake Pit, Gun, Airbourne and the like turn my crank........all class stuff with plenty of balls.

Now, how did I guess that from your avatar? Although I think you're 'avin' a bit of a larf using the word 'class' in connection with that lot...

#37 Post by **mangocrazy** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:20 pm

D-Rider wrote:Thank God Punk came along as an antidote

Ab-so-bloody-lutely...

There's more balls in the Sex Pistols and the Clash than there is in the whole catalogue of 80s metal.

#38 Post by **mangocrazy** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:24 pm

Anyway - seeing as we now appear to have moved on to Punk and the 80s; what about such luminaries as Magazine, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Talking Heads, Blondie, the Ramones, Television, etc. etc...?

D-Rider · #39 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:28 pm

mangocrazy wrote:Anyway - seeing as we now appear to have moved on to Punk and the 80s; what about such luminaries as Magazine, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Talking Heads, Blondie, the Ramones, Television, etc. etc...?

oooooohhh yes! we're back on track again!

Aladinsaneuk · #40 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:31 pm

Add U2, Simple Minds, Smiths etc..... there was some good stuff in the 80s - and also - punk happened due to some of those prog rock bands....

Samray · #41 Post by **Samray** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:47 pm

Bingo !!..... the quiz.

D-Rider · #42 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:47 pm

Aladinsaneuk wrote:Add U2, Simple Minds, Smiths etc..... there was some good stuff in the 80s - and also - punk happened due to some of those prog rock bands....

Simple Minds

The Smiths .... where's the "I'm going to hang myself" emoticon?

U2 were OK but nothing wonderful.
Saw them at a festival before they were famous - they were one of the early evening acts .....

Aladinsaneuk · #43 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:46 pm

lol

i saw U2 and simple minds at the UEA - as a double header - tickets were 50 p i think....

was a long time ago

(I could have been mistaken as to the venue... lets say i was in a bit of a purple haze in those days....)

TwinNut · #44 Post by **TwinNut** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:08 am

D-Rider wrote:7Then the 80s came along - second rate pastiches of the heavy rock bands of the 70s

Music from the 80's only gets a hard time from old folks because they don't get it, the reason for this, they were too old to get it............get it?......and Pastiche?......that's utter cock. Simply because the Hippies got there first doesn't render 80's metal obsolete.....far from it, it was merely the next logical progression. The musicians (read guitarists) were generally more skilful (save for Page, I'll grant thee) thanks mainly to Eddie VH and Randy Rhodes raising the bar so then everyone had to up their game or become obsolete and the music was better for it. ......but please don't get me started on that forest-botherer Blackmore or one-note-a-week-Clapton. The production in the 80's was crisper and more refined so each instrument was audible, the equipment was more sophisticated etc etc. I'm not saying the 70's was a waste (it can't have been I was born in it) and the best AC/DC material was from the 70's and the v.early VH stuff, whilst raw, still has merit........in the 80's metal moved it's game on and was the better for it (and btw, I'm not talking about Heart, Bon Jovi et al).......hurry up already.

I'll meet you half-way.........conceived in 70's (just), released in 80's (just, and all the better for it)............. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qe50BjAtFI (Genius, ignore the ad at the start)

D-Rider · #45 Post by **D-Rider** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:49 pm

Blackmore was a bit of a nob and a nightmare in bands but still a brilliant guitarist.

Clapton was also a great guitarist - though some of his newer stuff has got a bit boring.

Glad you acknowledge Jimmy Page

Then there's Rory Gallagher, Pete Townsend and Carlos Devadip Santana

.... and surely you're not going to tell me that James Marshall Hendrix was a talentless nobody .......

Not all of these are 1million-notes-a-minute merchants but fantastic exponents of the guitarists art.

.... when Saxon came along I knew beyond doubt it was time to move on .....

Anyway ... enough from you nippers - I'm just waiting for Howard and Tweaker to chime in with their reminiscence of the Glenn Miller era