Great 70s Rock???

[Coen]

To me I think ofcourse the famous bands/artists like The Velvet Underground, The NYDolls, The Stooges, David Bowie are often claimed to have influenced bands.

I would like to add:
Kraftwerk, CAN, Captain Beefheart, Patti Smith to it.

Also bands like DEVO, Pere Ubu in America and Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle in England were early pioneers in music. I'm sure that almost every country had their pioneers. Like the Minny Pops were that in The Netherlands and Radio Birdman and The Saints were that in Australia. All very different styles, and may be shouldn't be just called Rock. But that's what people dis at the time.

[Mechi]

Nobody has mention Van Der Graaf Generator.. one of art rock's greatest bnnds in my opinion. I really like Peter Hammill.
Tangerine Dream is also a great group, they were the fathers of ambient with Brian Eno too.
70s music was great.. have a lot of vinyl albums from that era because my dad was very into Progressive Rock at that time and still is. He doesn't like NW very much.. but he says he's getting used to The Cure.. jaja.


Mercedes

[hutter]

Don't tell me I'm the only one here who thought that the Bay City Rollers rocked. [:D]

"Never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump" W.C. Fields

[Quite Life]

70s rock I dont care for.

It's my older brothers music.

UFO
Pat Travers
Rick Derringer
Yes
Genesis
Caravan
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Beep Bop Deluxe
Sweet
Dr. John

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[New Wave Dave]

Quite Life - I'm not a big fan of all the bands in your list either... except for UFO. Check out Lights Out, Obsession and Strangers In The Night.

Still, there were way better 70's bands than who your brother apparently listened to. So sad... [:D]

[InvisibleMan]

Golden Earring with Radar Love. They rocked my world with Twilight Zone too..[:D]

[Quite Life]

[quote][i]Originally posted by New Wave Dave[/i]
<br>Quite Life - I'm not a big fan of all the bands in your list either... except for UFO. Check out Lights Out, Obsession and Strangers In The Night.

Still, there were way better 70's bands than who your brother apparently listened to. So sad... [:D]
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Your loosing your NW Cred [;)]

Honestly Phil Moog, Micheal Schanker and gang. I can rember is my older brother used to play the Lights Out LP all the time.

I'm too, too hot(baby) to hot to handle...shalalala we roll you over...[xx(]
Pleeeeeezeee

[randy]

The 70's were actually loaded with great music-its another decade that doesnt neccasarily get its due. Unfortunatly when prople think 70's they think Saturday Night Fever and all of its nasty friends.
Before jumping onto the new wave bandwagon, which I must thank The Cars first lp for, ELO was my absolut favorite band. Jeff Lynne and friends were way ahead of their time. Too bad they wimped out in the Xanadu era. And why is it nowadays the only ELO tune I still hear a lot on the radio is "Dont Bring Me Down"? Would much rather hear Telephone Line , Livin Thing , Mr Blue Sky , Strange Magic , Turn To Stone etc,etc,etc. Also gotta agree thet Jungle is a awesome tune!!

Also really enjoyed Mott the Hoople, Queen, Blue Oyster Cult, J. Geils Band, Southside Johnny, Manfred Mann among a slew of others.

[bigwavedave]

I dropped 70's rock like a bomb when the new wave bug really hit me in 1980-81. I'd heard the big new wave bands (Cars, Split Enz, etc.), but didn't really fall hard for new wave until I bought some Clash, Pretenders, and the "Times Square" movie soundtrack lp. (It also didn't hurt that Seattle had a couple of good new wave stations and a great alternative weekly music mag.)

Like alot of us, I eventually let most of the 70's bands mentioned above back into my life. However, the ones that I stuck with during the peak of new wave I still listen to today:

The Who - If you've seen 'em live, you know what I mean.
Springsteen - Amazing run of albums through Tunnel Of Love.
Neil Young - The "Live Rust" DVD says it all.
Tom Petty - The man writes killer tunes.
Cheap Trick - Don't know why, but I like them way more now than I did then. Killer power pop.

This may be a different topic, but there were a few 70's bands who I think actually adapted and moved into the 80's sounding even better: Rush, Yes, maybe even Foreigner. A ton of their contempories didn't adapt and quickly croaked, similar to the death of hair metal when Nirvana hit ten years later.

[Quite Life]

I guess I can be simpathetic to some 70s bands
Like: Cheap Trick, J Giels Band, Tom Petty, The Tubes, Beep Bop Deluxe. Heck I even like the 60's band Love w/ Arthur Lee