moxham123 wrote:Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first record. Criteria include the influence and significance of the artist’s contribution to the development and perpetuation of rock and roll.
Well there you go. I can't believe that Madonna's contribution to "Rock and roll" would have developed and perpetuated it more than Deep Purple or the Moody Blues or The Hollies or Tommy James...come on man!
Those groups' influences are still heard and documented out of the mouths of todays musicians themselves!
Atomic Jim wrote:
Cold Blood with vocalist Lydia Pence (Tiny girl with a huge voice.)
Savoy Brown
Lighthouse
The Brooklyn Bridge
I'm old enough to do a 60s thread if you want to.
bsaller wrote: Hey Jim how about that stuff we did in Moth at the Oasis?
Hey Beau, if we start telling Oasis stories here we'll either end up in jail, divorced, in hiding, or all of the above. Don't forget Jordie and his cape (red table cloth) and his cardboard Uncle Sam Hat. I wonder how many people on rockpage remember the Oasis and all of our many bands like "Moth," and "Grape Jam." Of course, the Oasis might be like Woodstock. If you can remember it, you probably weren't there.
Did anybody mention the Cars? They started in the late 70's. Roy Thomas Baker was their producer on their first album. He also produced Queen. He was great at getting cool drum sounds and guitar sounds.
How about the band Hot Chocolate? They had a song back in the 70's called "Emmaline" about a girl who committed suicide waiting for her dreams to come true. It was really cool and kind of eerie. I always thought it would be cool to redo....really cool bass line and riffs.
CCdrums wrote:Did anybody mention the Cars? They started in the late 70's. Roy Thomas Baker was their producer on their first album. He also produced Queen. He was great at getting cool drum sounds and guitar sounds.
Yeah, I mentioned The Cars since they are one of my favorite bands from that era. Our drummer was a student at Berkeley School of Music in Boston in the 70's when some of the guys who became The Cars were students there and he said they were amazing players then and he was not suprsied that they put together such a great band. He also knew jazz guitar great, John Scofield.
I was also thinking about Dave Mason after he left Traffic had a very long list of hist in the 70's and 80's.
Hot Chocolate also did You Sexy Thing and originally had a hit in Europe with Brother Louie, later done by Stories.
They may have been mentioned but I'll have to say 'Jethro Tull'. There are so many albums of Jethro Tull that weren't that popular but sound so much better than the two tunes you hear constantly on the radio.
BassFinger wrote:They may have been mentioned but I'll have to say 'Jethro Tull'. There are so many albums of Jethro Tull that weren't that popular but sound so much better than the two tunes you hear constantly on the radio.
+1 An earlier mention of a Band named Moth caused me to think of the JT tune "Moths".
Another duo/solo forgotten was Simon and Garfunkel/Paul Simon.
Just a reminder (and shameless plug) that tonight (Sunday) at 10 PM on Q94, the "Closet Chronicles" will feature songs exclusively from bands and artists listed in this thread! You Rockpagers programmed tonight's show!
So tune in at 8 for the "Backyard Rocker" (Chris V & the Stanley Street Band with guests in studio, there will be some live jamming), followed by the Rockpage 'all-request' "Closet Chronicles" from 10 to midnight...4 hours of must-hear radio!
CHICKSINGA wrote:Grand Funk was and still is my all time favorite band. Hottest 3 piece EVER!
I like Point Blank (But thats probably cuz I dated Rusty Burns, the lead guitar player in the 80's when I lived in TX. They rocked, though!
I loved Uriah Heep and The Outlaws a ton, too!
I still have all the Point Blank albums on vinyl. Their first album was really some of the best Texas style boogie blues ever. I also used to play their version of Highway Star. I see that they regrouped a few years ago and are touring again.
Hey thanks for posting that! I am glad to see Rusty and the boys back to it. He's very christian now, which is the polar opposite of how he was back when I knew him. (We was ALL crazee then!) I got to attend a bunch of Shake Russell shows and went to the Texas Music Awards with him.
He helped me record a couple songs and I got to hang with him and Buzzy Gruen at Buford Jones' studio. He had a bunch of wild stories about ZZ Top (they had the same manager, Bill Ham)
I hung out with him at his parents house too and they were super wonderful people.
Rusty helped me get a road gig and went out on tour for a year across the county. I got in touch again 2000 and he wrote me back and was as sweet as ever. I'll have to look him up again!
Trace
Here's the playlist from this past Sunday's "Closet Chronicles," with all the music from bands named in this thread (the year and album are listed in parentheses):
HOUR ONE:
FLASH – “Small Beginnings” (1972, Flash)
THIN LIZZY – “Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed” (1976, Johnny the Fox)
STARZ – “Violation” (1977, Violation)
BLOODROCK – “D.O.A.” (1970, Bloodrock 2)
SPOOKY TOOTH – “I Am the Walrus” (1970, The Last Puff)
GOOD RATS – “Taking It to Detroit” (1978, From Rats to Riches)
RIOT – “Kick Down the Wall” (1979, Narita)
HOUR TWO:
SWEET – “Sweet F.A.” (1975, Desolation Boulevard)
ROSE TATTOO – “The Butcher and Fast Eddy” (1980, Rock ‘N’ Roll Outlaw)
ANGEL CITY – “Marseilles” (1980, Face to Face)
THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND – “Hot City Symphony” (1974, The Impossible Dream)
GOLDEN EARRING – “To the Hilt” (live) (1977, Live)
FOCUS – “Sylvia/Hocus Pocus reprise” (live) (1973, Live at the Rainbow)
MAX WEBSTER (w/RUSH) – “Battle Scar” (1980, Universal Juveniles)
And I won't rule out the distinct possibility of playing more bands off this thread this coming Sunday (the names I didn't get to)...
Jim Price wrote:Here's the playlist from this past Sunday's "Closet Chronicles," with all the music from bands named in this thread (the year and album are listed in parentheses):
HOUR ONE:
FLASH – “Small Beginnings” (1972, Flash)
THIN LIZZY – “Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed” (1976, Johnny the Fox)
STARZ – “Violation” (1977, Violation)
BLOODROCK – “D.O.A.” (1970, Bloodrock 2)
SPOOKY TOOTH – “I Am the Walrus” (1970, The Last Puff)
GOOD RATS – “Taking It to Detroit” (1978, From Rats to Riches)
RIOT – “Kick Down the Wall” (1979, Narita)
HOUR TWO:
SWEET – “Sweet F.A.” (1975, Desolation Boulevard)
ROSE TATTOO – “The Butcher and Fast Eddy” (1980, Rock ‘N’ Roll Outlaw)
ANGEL CITY – “Marseilles” (1980, Face to Face)
THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND – “Hot City Symphony” (1974, The Impossible Dream)
GOLDEN EARRING – “To the Hilt” (live) (1977, Live)
FOCUS – “Sylvia/Hocus Pocus reprise” (live) (1973, Live at the Rainbow)
MAX WEBSTER (w/RUSH) – “Battle Scar” (1980, Universal Juveniles)
Awesome playlist Jim, people driving through the area were probably really bummed when they lost the Q94 signal
was Simon and Garfunkel/Paul Simon.
