Great Legends of Rock You Don’t Know!

The seventies was a great era for music because it truly was a ground breaking time for rockers Nothing was (stolen|copied|rehashed and everyone had their own sound even though, as always with music, the 70′s was in flux|was a continuance and evolution of music from the 60′s|was a evolution of the previous generation Bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Free, Allman Brothers, Queen, Black Sabbath, Cream, David Bowie, Status Quo are all examples of acts who made their start in the 60′s but found their sound and style in the 70′s, and therefore gave rise to many other bands who then added their own flavor to these styles.

The seventies were a great era because it was truly a ground breaking time for music. Nothing was copied or rehashed and everyone had their own sound. The 1970s represented a culmination and expansion of sounds that were experimented on in the 1960s. Bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Free, Allman Brothers, Queen, Black Sabbath, Cream, David Bowie, Status Quo are all examples of acts who made their start in the 60′s but found their sound and style in the 70′s, and therefore gave rise to many other bands who then added their own flavour to these styles. Lesser known bands such as Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, Grand Funk Railroad, Scorpions (who became quite huge in the 80′s), and Thin Lizzy are worthy of mentions but would not necessarily legends, where as other acts such as Queen became absolutely huge and remain so to this day.

Rockers such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Free, Allman Brothers, Queen, Black Sabbath, Cream, David Bowie, Status Quo are all examples of acts who made their start in the 60′s but found their sound and style in the 70′s, and therefore gave rise to many other bands who then added their own flavor to these styles.

WISHBONE ASH: Guitarists: Andy Powell & Ted Turner. Choice albums: Argus and There’s The Rub. Excellent melody and twin harmony lead breaks, copied by many acts since! Very complex arrangements.

FREE: (later to become” bad company” another excellent act!!) Guitarist Paul Kossof Album: Best of Free. Songs: All Right Now, Fire and Water, .Mr. Big [live] Simplistic and slow style excellent natural tone, all feeling!!! A Les Paul plugged straight into a marshal, no pedals and no tricks.

There are many great bands that are worth listening to. Keep track of who gets into the rock n roll hall of fame and use the web to find these great bands. Don’t just listen to the big names and assume that is all there is. There is much, much more to rock than the biggies and he 70s produced a number of lesser known bands worth your time.