bar bands of the 1970s: a picture thread

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.

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

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

How the pros did it:
http://birminghammusicarchive.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/black_sabbath_black_and_white1.jpg

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

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

The ghosts remain there. You must investigate.

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

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.

Yeah, not kidding -- amazing read.

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

Who's the fourth guy????

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

xpost -- Zeppo

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?

xpost -- Zeppo

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

I think it's Shemp.

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/

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

"I want to hear Mind Garage"

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

The little beardy fella is my fave.

Five secondary school English teachers, circa 1975...

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

> that poor guy in the lower right from the Night Crew looks like a puppet or dummy or something!
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> ― 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

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

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.

Damn, I always miss Curulewski!

this thread is excellent.

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

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

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

Saw these play once:

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/1692/maxwell.jpg

Second from right: Alan Partridge in fat suit

The guy on the far right in the red pants looks like his name should be "Maxwell Plumm"

Sounds like the title of a series of books set in a boarding school.

L-R:
Mr. Richardson - the trendy liberal English teacher,
Flashbastard - the school bully,
Mr. Werther - the dodgy ex-con school caretaker,
Donny - head of the 6th form, popular with the ladies,
Timpkins - currently digging a secret tunnel into the school tuck shop,
Mr. Thompson - jaded Physics teacher who hates kids and wishes that he'd kept playing keyboards in that band instead.

Also available in the series:
"Donny Wins The Day"
"Timpkins Can't Swim"
"Flashbastard Gets Drafted"
"Mr. Werther In Prison"
"Mr. Richardson Has A Fit"
"Old Thompson Goes Postal"

^^^ totally want these books

lol

Also watch out for a lucrative line of slash-fic.

at least two of the bands pictured I actually witnessed in the 70s: SAMSON at a high school dance and MUGGSY in a college-town bar (quintet pulling funny faces, posted in between TIGHT & MAGI)

Samson: guy on the far left looks like Jonathan Frakes (Riker in ST:TNG(, guy on the far right looks like the first drummer from Roxy Music.
What did Muggsy sound like?

Samson's bass player (far right corner, the guy kate masonic fancies) was guitar teacher at my local music store (and a classical cellist)

Muggsy were a hard-rocking Detroit area cover band w/two guitars. members went on to play w/Cub Koda and record in the 80s as Weapons

here's a 70s bar band that was really really good (my BFF Ricky played drums) two other members went on to sub for Tom Petersson in Cheap Trick

http://www.offbroadwayusa.com/d

Riff Johnson, motherfuckers!

riff - aka cliff - went on to front off broadway

It's a great name. And those guys dont look like a bar band, they look like they've already graduated to separate limos to shows and no red M&M's territory.