bar bands of the 1970s: a picture thread

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http://pnwbands.com/Airshow.jpg

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link

Haha the water aerobics class for old people at my local YMCA is called "Joint Effort."

sinister chemical wisdom (Jenny), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link

Were the members of bar bands a lot older back then? Or do I just not pay attention to bar band members today?

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link

pre-MTV

oreo speed wiggum (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link

couldn't resist!

http://i13.tinypic.com/53h3gc1.jpg

what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link

ok camel ain't exactly a bar band

what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Hampton Grease Band ain't exactly, either.

Outstanding thread.

Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 09:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Were the members of bar bands a lot older back then? Or do I just not pay attention to bar band members today?

Some of it is the optical illusion of see these haircuts for the last 30 years on the cohort as they age. The Night Crew looks like it might have a father and son, though!

North Americans were skinny once!

bendy, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Does "Joint Effort" refer to some kind of pre-Yes/Buggles merging of Uriah Heep and The Partridge Family?

maltsnapper, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link

North Americans were skinny once!

it really is sad to go through old photos up to the present and watch the ballooning waistbands expand, I gotta say

Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link

God... the bone structure of these people's faces. So strange.

fields of salmon, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Best thread ever.

Matt DC, Friday, 30 July 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link

holy sweet jesus.

The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 30 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link

a couple of the ones I posted are canadian

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link

I hope Airshow the band played at airshows.

kkvgz, Friday, 30 July 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link

is "consolidated talent" their tagline or management company?

elephant rob, Friday, 30 July 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link

I was hoping "Rock Creek" was the management company and "Consolidated Talent" the band!

Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link

^^^those dudes have GOT to be British. we don't make those kinds of faces in America!

Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link

lol they are

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link

searching for these has led me to a lot of nostalgic old dude blogs

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link

Which you are now going to link plz.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link

The guy in the middle kinda reminds me of Mick Fleetwood.

kkvgz, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link

major lol @ the concept of "British expressions"

Darin, Friday, 30 July 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link

This thread made my week.

your original display name is still visible. (Display Name), Friday, 30 July 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/MGCOM.JPG/201px-MGCOM.JPG

Mind Garage (1970)

gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link

http://mickdallavee.com/shama1978.jpg

gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link

more like SHAME amirite

Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link

The New Creation were hardly a bar band. They were more of a Shaggs-esque Christian garage outfit that released one record in 1970, recorded, I believe in a day. http://www.companionrecords.com/pages/newcreation.html#

And their song "Dig (The Evolution of Man)" is one of my favorite jams, despite its general dismissal of tempo.

biggray, Friday, 30 July 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link

The Appliances = yacht rock band trying to jump on the post-"My Sharona" skinny tie new wave/power pop bandwagon. Grumpy Michael McDonald on the far left is having none of it.

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 30 July 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link

I want to hear Mind Garage

I think I'm Big Bird, Harold Hooper (crüt), Friday, 30 July 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Jonah's Whale dreamed of having Roger Dean paint their album cover but only got as far as having their weed dealer make a passable Dean-knockoff logo.

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 30 July 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.jaypeedippel.com/tuffStuff-lg.jpg

gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Iommi looks like he is on his way to Idlewild to take shipment of 100 kilos from Medellin in that picture.

Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link

"Little Rock" based out of an office ten blocks away from where I'm sitting right now.

˙˙˙˙˙ (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link


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