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I'm on mobile and can't check that link, but I'm pretty sure they were called Dirt, but they were a hard rock band. Super riff heavy?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrZbfmCdMI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhKeMc8mQRg[/youtube]

Also love this song:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKBRc8zNQ30[/youtube]

Chankgeez wrote: Like all the bands and musicians that Zeppelin "borrowed" from?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXTAAz4RJJg[/youtube]

Way better than Zepplin, haha! Forgot about them.

I gotta give some love to the Shadows too (even though they are huge).

How 'bout the guys that the Beatles took some of their sound from?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpgL4mqEis[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=holBS44V5gU[/youtube]

and one of his song writers:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr_e7gOYJgk[/youtube]

Sorry, had to get some Bakersfield in here haha

Don Rich was a badass too.

I feel like this is an exercise in trolling m, but I love that you guys went and showed off your encyclopaedic knowledge anyway.

I think we all know how I feel about this period.

Edit: posting from my phone sucks.

D.o.S. wrote:To some degree the further away you get the easier it is to separate the wheat from the chaff. On the other hand Rolling Stone is a garbage barometer for taste, and any sort of curated list is, by definition, going to be revisionist history to some degree.

Sorry for the video outburst but I really like a lot of the music from that era.

Like D.o.S. said well, there is a bit of "revisionist history" going on. Much like a previous discussion we had on punk, relegating a decade of music down to a few "greats" as a world view is really limiting the greatness of any particular era. 1965-1975 has such a wide variety sounds, great concepts, songs, and people (eventually leading to so many different paths of modern music) that it would be very hard to just talk about the bands that a list could even recognize due to it's scope.

There were multiple different views on the hippie and drug culture going on that manifested in different ways all over the world. Surf was going on. The creation of the boy band was in that decade (or right there abouts). Motown was going strong. The beginnings of modern electronic music and popularized deconstructionalist music (TG/CV/ETC). Prog Rock, Kraut Rock, Funk, etc etc etc.

There was the amazing network of songwriters and producers that could make a band and get rid of them at the drop of a hat...and result in some very memorable songs.

The times were changing from singles to album based rock. Bands were changing and looking outside normal "Western" sounds while still basing everything off of the blues. Nashville was just coming into it's own in terms of the modern perception of country (probably for the worse, though...but there is a reason that it is the giant it is today). Radio was getting more diverse and having more variety (noted from things my dad said about the era...like buildng larger antennas to get Los Angeles stations to get newer, edgier music). Television was becoming a bigger role in niche media and information spreading. There were a ton of "garage bands" running around trying to compete with the big names that made some great songs and thinking they could pull it off.

Some of the way I think of the 1960s and 1970s is probably very revisionist. I think we have the ability to get a larger picture of things these days with a quicker, easier (but maybe less accurate) sources of information and primary sources. Those lists are maybe a good tool for a quick overview and to point in a direction, but with a little effort it is easier to find very amazing forgotten information these days than even 10 years ago.

Slade is a great example. From being influencial in the Stadium Rock, Glam Rock, Pub Rock, Oi!, Punk Rock, and even some Metal circles they are largely forgotten here in the USA. They were fairly big at the time too (at least to some people that I have talked to).

But some of the behind the scenes songwriters were absolutely brilliant in writing and crafting awesome pop songs.

Also, when is Chankgeez going to get more time to post all those amazing songs and bands he knows from way too many eras. Miss those random new (to me) songs.

Basicually, it's impossible to universalize anything as the greatest. Or:

Chankgeez wrote:That's a lotta music.

Proooooooooooooog.

BoatRich wrote:I'm on mobile and can't check that link, but I'm pretty sure they were called Dirt, but they were a hard rock band. Super riff heavy?

Was it Dust (featuring Marky Ramone?):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btWMbhdniiM[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO_IyJU-ZbE[/youtube]

(Bonus points for one dude being in that band that covered "Brother Louie", steel guitar in hard rock and the Richard Hell connection)

yeah i like music
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPoTl1f26U8[/youtube]

Are you the kind of guy that wears shirts like this non-ironically?

I think Pope was right and I fell into it

I did not know Marky Ramone was in Dust. That's pretty rad.

I have a t-shirt that says, "Led Zeppelin are better than your favourite band, and they always will be."

If I saw you wear that in public, I'd judge you so hard with squinty eyes.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwpvO_JMSPI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ych8PPXc7GY[/youtube]