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Post by walt on May 21, 2017 10:29:10 GMT -7
Your favorite songs/Bands that should have been,but never were.I'll start with Dirty Looks from Staten Island NYC.2 albums back in 79-81 first one is an all time great,with the 'should have been number one in several country's' track being side one closer "Let Go"Best line is-"don't you know rock and roll is still the best drug"
Another decades long favorite of mine is the Squires-Go Ahead,(which was the B-side!),A side Going all the way is also great,but Go Ahead is all time classic Pop.I think they were from central Connecticut,didn't do much else,but left 2 classic songs behind.
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Post by doctorice on May 22, 2017 5:19:34 GMT -7
Wow, The Squires. I bought that 45 (rpm record, I'm an old guy now). Still have it...somewhere. And, yes, they were from central CT, not far from where I grew up.
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Post by helmi on May 22, 2017 5:34:04 GMT -7
How wonderful to see a "stiff records" record label again. geez i miss those days, everywhere you turned, new music was coming out all around you! you never had enough time to soak it all up. now, i can go for months without hearing ANYTHING that's worth a second listening!
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Post by lowbudget on May 22, 2017 5:59:12 GMT -7
Not sure if this fits in with what you're taking about or not. Maybe this would be more of a "one hit wonder" kind of thing. But these guys just knocked me out cold. From the Tuscaloosa/Montgomery area, they were intertwined with a lot of the Southern Rock heritage but had a completely different sound. John Townsend's voice is really special too.
One hit, which was more than just regional, then poof!
From 1977, the Sanford-Townsend Band:
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Post by Maddog on May 22, 2017 7:21:39 GMT -7
Back in ole "Cow Town" (Ft. Worth) BW and I probably crossed paths many times chasing Johnny Nitzinger....Local blues/rock fella.... Very nice guy, great guitar player, and had a spunky, but short-lived success....never got the attention I feel he deserved, but then again, that's the biz, right???
I remember John playing a beer joint in Denton Tx in the early 70's ...small club, but he brought a Marshall Full stack anyway....and of course a Les Paul.... The following is not my fave John Nitz song, but I love the transition at the end ~2:40 on (whish he'd continued the slow blues a bit longer)..... DIG!
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Post by "Z" Steve on May 22, 2017 7:38:57 GMT -7
When I first heard this tune on AM radio my head almost exploded. This wasn't like anything else on the "HIT LIST" back then and I was just learning guitar. These guys are another Texas band as I recall.
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Post by BritInvasion on May 22, 2017 11:13:15 GMT -7
Some pretty cool stuff here! One I liked from 1999 was "Dangerman". Great CD , this tune got a little airplay here. I believe they hail from NYC_
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Post by sharkboy on May 22, 2017 19:30:08 GMT -7
I thought these guys were going somewhere in 1980. I was probably correct- just not in the music industry. One problem was that they were on the wrong side of Robert Stigwood's projectile curve. Part of that may have been their almost too slick production.
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Post by sharkboy on May 22, 2017 19:38:31 GMT -7
This was one of my favorite bands in the early eighties. I really liked how warped/twisted their take was on an American classic. I heard that the man in black wasn't thrilled with this, but he didn't mind the royalties. Marc Moreland's guitar work was very weird/cool.
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Post by walt on May 23, 2017 4:53:57 GMT -7
Not sure if this fits in with what you're taking about or not. Maybe this would be more of a "one hit wonder" kind of thing. But these guys just knocked me out cold. From the Tuscaloosa/Montgomery area, they were intertwined with a lot of the Southern Rock heritage but had a completely different sound. John Townsend's voice is really special too. One hit, which was more than just regional, then poof! From 1977, the Sanford-Townsend Band: Yea,that's exactly what I was thinking of. When I watch that clip I can't help but focus on the neon light name,and feel bad for the band that their royalties were wasted on crap like that.
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Post by walt on May 23, 2017 5:15:13 GMT -7
This was one of my favorite bands in the early eighties. I really liked how warped/twisted their take was on an American classic. I heard that the man in black wasn't thrilled with this, but he didn't mind the royalties. Marc Moreland's guitar work was very weird/cool. I remember this cover,it was a thing back then to do "electronic" versions of classics-Money by the Bakersfield boys is one I remember as well. Being a Wall Of Voodoo fan,ever hear Celtic Frost's take on Mexican Radio?My favorite metal guitar sound EVER.I listen to the first 6 seconds over and over.
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Post by sharkboy on May 23, 2017 6:30:24 GMT -7
This was one of my favorite bands in the early eighties. I really liked how warped/twisted their take was on an American classic. I heard that the man in black wasn't thrilled with this, but he didn't mind the royalties. Marc Moreland's guitar work was very weird/cool. I remember this cover,it was a thing back then to do "electronic" versions of classics-Money by the Bakersfield boys is one I remember as well. Being a Wall Of Voodoo fan,ever hear Celtic Frost's take on Mexican Radio?My favorite metal guitar sound EVER.I listen to the first 6 seconds over and over.
Yeah. I was never a metal head, but I really liked the KF cover. Stan (Ridgway, former WOV frontman) also has covered 16 Tons several different ways.
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Post by tjstrat on May 29, 2017 6:02:11 GMT -7
TWO great unsung bands. Crack the Sky never broke far beyond the DC/Baltimore area (although I saw them wipe the floor live once opening for UFO in Milwaukee). 1994 was a Jack Douglas produced hardrock band with proggy overtones and a vocalist waaaay better than Pat Benatar and approaching Annie Wilson at her best. Two bands that I still listen to today and that should have been massive.
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Post by sharkboy on May 29, 2017 22:06:16 GMT -7
We had also Tao Chemical in Santa Cruz in the 80s. They were pretty amazing and fun.
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Post by deltone on May 30, 2017 20:32:36 GMT -7
TWO great unsung bands. Crack the Sky never broke far beyond the DC/Baltimore area (although I saw them wipe the floor live once opening for UFO in Milwaukee). 1994 was a Jack Douglas produced hardrock band with proggy overtones and a vocalist waaaay better than Pat Benatar and approaching Annie Wilson at her best. Two bands that I still listen to today and that should have been massive. I agree; Crack the Sky was a great band. I used to listen to them back in the day, here in West Texas. That's a little bit beyond the DC/Baltimore area. Haven't thought of that band in many years. Thanks for mentioning them.
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Post by helmi on Jun 7, 2017 6:20:06 GMT -7
Some pretty cool stuff here! One I liked from 1999 was "Dangerman". Great CD , this tune got a little airplay here. I believe they hail from NYC_ Has a very "Joe Jackson" feel to it.
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Post by walt on Jun 11, 2017 19:13:46 GMT -7
Don Dixon-the other guy engineering and producing early REM records,did a great pop,soul record in the mid 80's.Here it is!
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