May Blitz were always one of my favourite bands from the early '70's . l remember they gigged constantly around the U.K . but like so many other fine bands never got the breaks . Check out their self titled debut and their second aptly entitled "The 2 nd of May" . Good and original heavy rock with great songs .
What strange narration. It sounds like a child when they've been asked to read out their essay at the front of the class. Sort of hurried, drone-like. I was looking firward to this when I saw the title but I'm afraid the narration made me stop. Sorry!
Hope against hope was dashed as the narrators voice revealed to me what was to come. A heavy leaning towards metal. metal! metal! metal! As if this is the only kind of music that was of any value that came out of the 60s or 70s. Metal was one kind of rock and whenever music narrows down to one specific and to the point of ruling out other forms has always looked back as forgotten. Like bell bottoms and wide belts. Embarrassing.There's plenty of songs and bands that wer'ent metal that were considered to be solid Rock bands and obscure espescially at the time..Steven Stills, Joni Mitchell, Arlo Guthrie most of Ian Anderson and Jethro tull...Jeff Beck...that didn't lean on thier amplifiers and caricature type voices, but had instead a large degree of talent.
Cactus was a really good band. I also liked Captain Beyond,Free, UFO,Family,Terry Reid most over looked talent ever , The Move ,Wishbone ash and I am too god damn old to remember anyone else.
Thank you for posting!! I only heard a few of the bands mentioned. I will check the others out, for sure! I would like to mention a band, and album, from my home city, of Minneapolis MN., called Cain, the album., a pound of flesh, 1975., and available at Rockadrome., and yet another brief, but shining moment, of the power, and glory, of the 70s, and the essence of raw, uninhibited, talented rock and roll musicians, at their peak, and heyday. Enjoy!
Very good clip , I was surprised to see Dust on this, saw them in 71 they blew the roof off the place, Sir Lord Baltimore, Cactus & Capitan Beyond ,Fuckin A ,!!! Arrmeggedon was not mentioned but worth checking out . these were the best times for hard rock ...
Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately) I have all these bands already in my collection so nothing new for me to snatch up. But I'd still like to say thanks for making this great video and helping turn people on to these awesome bands. Also check out great stuff from Truth And Janey, Pentagram, Atomic Rooster, etc. Too many to list. Keep these awesome bands in your ears and spread the word. Thanks again for making this vid!
great video. I'm really learning a lot here, and pleased to see that many of these albums have been reissued. Some are unofficial releases, but I think I'd allow them in my collection due to the rarity of the originals.
Adrian, please post additional vlogs. Your efforts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Did someone mention "BUBBLE PUPPY" ? I have absolutely no idea what the 3rd link you mentioned was.
Adrian, thank you for posting this. Please slow down your commentary, as alot of great info. got by some of us. Born in 1960, being the youngest of 7 kids I was introduced to alot of these bands at a very early age. A couple of my brothers took me to see my 1st concert in late 1969. A band named CACTUS opened for the Small Faces. The 1st Cactus album had not yet been released. Needless to say I loved Cactus and wanted to leave once I heard the Faces 1st song (no offense to any Faces fans)
I saw both Cactus & Captain Beyond in the early 70's. The incarnation of Captain Beyond that I saw has Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt on guitar,Lee Dorman on Bass & the great Bobby Caldwell on Drums with Rod Evans as the Frontman. I saw the original classic line up of Cactus with McCarty,Bogert,Appice * Day....Both did really good live shows!
While I've never heard of or listened to a lot of these groups : Cactus and Captain Beyond were not that obscure. I saw Cactus open up for Ted Neugent a couple of times. After Teds set the guitarist for Cactus (Mike Pinera) would come out and they would stage a guitar duel. It was pretty much a load but the concerts were good overall. Cactus was also prolific in album production. Captain Beyond's debut album and "Sufficiently Breathless" got airplay on underground radio. Thk God 4 Underground R
Adrian, you must be commended & encouraged to do keep doing this! I dunno how far your interests reach, but you went a step further than most lists (also commendable) by adding informative narration that people would want to know, and you did it with poise! I wish more folks would put that xtra bit of juice into giving tasty info bits that they would want to know and perhaps a few guiding comparisons. You have poise and clearly want to get others excited about things they've missed but might dig
