bar bands of the 1970s: a picture thread

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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

The ghosts remain there. You must investigate.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link

Maybe they're still there, like that dead guy in Tokyo.

ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Friday, 30 July 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link

All you need to know about Barbara Allen and the Tennessee Hot Pants

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, July 30, 2010 2:58 PM Bookmark

^^^ wow!! This is a GREAT read, y'all, check this link.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, not kidding -- amazing read.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.rushisaband.com/images/200904/1084.f.jpg

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link

Who's the fourth guy????

Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 30 July 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30472833&id=1124012102

Wilko, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost -- Zeppo

Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link

xxpost -- That was during the week or so when both Rutsey and Peart were in the band. OK, I made that up. Jeff Jones, maybe?

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 30 July 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link

xpost -- Zeppo

― Ned Raggett, Friday, July 30, 2010 4:22 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think it's Shemp.

Chicago to Philadelphia: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 30 July 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link

yo ned here's one of the better put together nostalgic sites I came across. I'll try and find some of the others.
http://www.readysteadygone.co.uk/

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 30 July 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link

Seriously though, who is that 4th guy with Rush? My brain is now officially broken.

Moodles, Saturday, 31 July 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link

"I want to hear Mind Garage"

i used to have a mind garage album. pretty good.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20061120/110058215920.jpg

scott seward, Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link

I can't really suss out what kind of music they'd play.

rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Wikipedia sez Christian Rock
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Saintmarks.jpg/450px-Saintmarks.jpg
...looks like a barrel of laughs.

ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.beckett1040.co.uk/scanned%20photos/Beckett_72_73shrunk.jpg

I had to repost this one to make a note of the fact two of them are wearing the exact same shirt. 2-for-1 sale at The Gap?

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link

I have a friend whose first name is Beckett. I have informed him of this band's existence.

rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link

xp L-R: MES, Richard Stilgoe, John Junkin, David St. Hubbins, Noel Redding

ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link

the Beckett picture is potentially the funniest thing I've ever seen, genuinely in tears over here.

Dwight Yorke, Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link

The little beardy fella is my fave.

rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Five secondary school English teachers, circa 1975...

ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link

They had some uneven floors in the 70s as well.

ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Saturday, 31 July 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link

> that poor guy in the lower right from the Night Crew looks like a puppet or dummy or something!
>
> ― oreo speed cookie (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:37 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

He/they look(s) far more better now (The Blues Time Band):
http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/26/l_d473634df7bf93b3a7c88a5127f08ccf.jpg

meisenfek, Saturday, 31 July 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link

Bruce Hampton went on to semi fame with "Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit"

Shakeytown, Monday, 2 August 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Apparently no one has yet noticed that John Curulewski (in the first photo) was the guitarist in Styx who was replaced by Tommy Shaw?

The fourth member of Rush in the photo is Mitch Bossi. He wasn't in the band very long.

stahlhart, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link

Damn, I always miss Curulewski!

Trip Maker, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link

this thread is excellent.

by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link

http://carmenborgia.com/fave/pages/murderone/murderoneposter.jpg

zootster, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link

"Headband and Trilby" would be a good name for the genre Murder One played.

bendy, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link

Two Ibanez V's in one band. More than coincidence???

zootster, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link


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