"Ahead Rings Out" by Blodwyn Pig led by Mick Abrahams lead guitarist on Jethro Tull's first album which got him crits comparing him favourably with Eric Clapton.
Well, as most of my favourites have already been posted, I'll have to go with his Flo & Eddie stage. I was 18 when I first got Filmore East and I thought it was hilarious and hard to forget the line - "I get off being juked with a baby octopus and spewed upon with cream corn"... Frank Zappa / The Mothers 1971 Fillmore East, June 1971 1972 Just Another Band From L.A.
One highlight of their performances with Zappa was a rendition of The Turtles' "Happy Together" on Fillmore East - June 1971, as a pair of 'Fillmore groupies', though the duo are credited by their given names on the release.
@rostasi your listing of Thirsty Moon (above), an absolutely top rate 1970s Krautrock band, reminds me of my theory that there are no bad bands whose name includes the words "Sun" or "Moon".
Examples of "Moon" are Thirsty Moon (yours above), Black Moon Circle, Electric Moon, Moon Duo, Moon Ra, Moon Safari, Moon Taxi, Moonchild, Moondog, Of the Wand and the Moon, Where The Moon Came From and Yellow Moon Band.
Examples of "Sun" are Black Sun Ensemble, Coldsun, Dark Suns, Drifting Sun, Empire of the Sun, Ephemeral Sun, Heart of Sun, Oblivion Sun, Quiet Sun, Sleepy Sun, Solid Sun, Sun Araw, The Sun Blindness, Sun City Girls, Sun Devoured Earth, The Sun Lightning Incorporated, Sun Ra, Sun Travellers, Suns of Thyme and Swallow the Sun.
Apologies that these don't all fit the1960s/1970s theme of our discussion.
Interesting that you bring this up on the day Michael "Apollo 11" Collins died ("the forgotten astronaut"). I can certainly agree about a lot of those bands and people that you've mentioned.
Also, here's what I had to say back on July 20, 2019 about a mix I uploaded called "Lunacy!":
I was in Oshawa, Ontario. I was 10 years old and it was past my bedtime. They had landed earlier that day at 3:17 PM and now at 9:56 PM CT someone was going to take the first steps on the moon. This mix of moon-inspired tunes is being uploaded at exactly that time 50 years later and the length of the mix is exactly the amount of time that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin trotted about on that surface.
Your story reminds me of being in Cuba in 2016. We were staying in this rather uninspiring house as everything else was booked out. So we cheered ourselves up by belting out the 1978 song "April Sun in Cuba" by NZ band Dragon. And yes it was April, the sun was shining and we were in Cuba!
On the Ayers Rock theme "Solid Rock" from Goanna's album "Spirit of Place" is a real must to listen to although it's cheating somewhat because it's from 1982!
"The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon" by The Sopwith Camel.
AMG says "From the fertile San Francisco ballroom scene, the Sopwith Camel emerged in 1966 with a refreshingly melodic spin on the overamplified electric kool-aid coming from their psychedelic peers the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Quicksilver Messenger Service". Their main claim to fame was that their name was nearly taken by another band - who eventually settled for the better name (!?) Big Brother & The Holding Company!
National Health were one of the top groups in the Canterbury scene in the mid to late 70s. Their two best albums, to my mind, were "National Health" and "Of Queues and Cures".
AMG says "National Health were one of those rare English progressive bands whose classic mid-'70s output still sounds fresh today" and describes "Of Queues and Cures" as "one of the last and finest examples of the instrumental Canterbury sound on record during the 1970s".
Progarchives rates them No. 11 album of 1977 and No. 3 album of 1978 respectively.
"American blues rock guitarist known for his innovative approach to electric guitar playing. A professional at twenty, he played with Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, The Rolling Stones, and John Mayall before starting a solo career." Harvey Mandel 1969 Righteous 1971 Baby Batter 1972 The Snake
This British band issued this excellent album in 1972 which almost disappeared without trace before being recently re-discovered. How familiar is that!
In fact, the band didn't even know that the album had been re-released. It came as a surprise to them when they heard about it as did its relative success!
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Great cover!
I was 18 when I first got Filmore East and I thought it was hilarious and hard to forget the line -
"I get off being juked with a baby octopus and spewed upon with cream corn"...
Frank Zappa / The Mothers
1971 Fillmore East, June 1971
1972 Just Another Band From L.A.
One highlight of their performances with Zappa was a rendition of The Turtles' "Happy Together" on Fillmore East - June 1971, as a pair of 'Fillmore groupies', though the duo are credited by their given names on the release.
AMG says "Their one album, First Loss, from 1971 is considered one of the classics of Teutonic heavy rock" and the Discogs rating is 4.31/5.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/murphy-blend-mn0000564110
https://www.discogs.com/Murphy-Blend-First-Loss/master/137267
Progarchives says "One of the premier bands to feature on the Canterbury scene".
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=128
To my mind, on a par with but not nearly as well known as Soft Machine, Caravan, National Health and Hatfield & the North
Genesis
1972 Foxtrot 1973 Selling England By The Pound
1974 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Examples of "Moon" are Thirsty Moon (yours above), Black Moon Circle, Electric Moon, Moon Duo, Moon Ra, Moon Safari, Moon Taxi, Moonchild, Moondog, Of the Wand and the Moon, Where The Moon Came From and Yellow Moon Band.
Examples of "Sun" are Black Sun Ensemble, Coldsun, Dark Suns, Drifting Sun, Empire of the Sun, Ephemeral Sun, Heart of Sun, Oblivion Sun, Quiet Sun, Sleepy Sun, Solid Sun, Sun Araw, The Sun Blindness, Sun City Girls, Sun Devoured Earth, The Sun Lightning Incorporated, Sun Ra, Sun Travellers, Suns of Thyme and Swallow the Sun.
Apologies that these don't all fit the1960s/1970s theme of our discussion.
Have I missed out any!?
("the forgotten astronaut"). I can certainly agree about a lot of those bands and
people that you've mentioned.
Also, here's what I had to say back on July 20, 2019 about a mix I uploaded called "Lunacy!":
I was in Oshawa, Ontario. I was 10 years old and it was past my bedtime.
They had landed earlier that day at 3:17 PM and now at 9:56 PM CT someone was going to take the first steps on the moon. This mix of moon-inspired tunes is being uploaded at exactly that time 50 years later and the length of the mix is exactly the amount of time that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin trotted about on that surface.
Your story reminds me of being in Cuba in 2016. We were staying in this rather uninspiring house as everything else was booked out. So we cheered ourselves up by belting out the 1978 song "April Sun in Cuba" by NZ band Dragon. And yes it was April, the sun was shining and we were in Cuba!
Goose Creek Symphony
1970 Goose Creek Symphony 1971 Welcome To Goose Creek
1970 Solid Bond
The Graham Bond Organization & Quartet
Recorded '63 & '66
1969 Grand Funk 1970 Closer To Home
1971 Survival
The Grateful Dead
1967 The Grateful Dead
True blue Aussie music at its absolute best!
AMG says "From the fertile San Francisco ballroom scene, the Sopwith Camel emerged in 1966 with a refreshingly melodic spin on the overamplified electric kool-aid coming from their psychedelic peers the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Quicksilver Messenger Service". Their main claim to fame was that their name was nearly taken by another band - who eventually settled for the better name (!?) Big Brother & The Holding Company!
Gram Parsons / The Flying Burrito Bros
1969 The Gilded Palace Of Sin 1970 Burrito Deluxe
1973 GP 1974 Grievous Angel
"May God and Your Will Land You and Your Soul Miles Away from Evil" by Pax. A Heavy Psych group from Peru.
How about that for an album title and cover that epitomises the era!
era!
AMG says "National Health were one of those rare English progressive bands whose classic mid-'70s output still sounds fresh today" and describes "Of Queues and Cures" as "one of the last and finest examples of the instrumental Canterbury sound on record during the 1970s".
Progarchives rates them No. 11 album of 1977 and No. 3 album of 1978 respectively.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/of-queues-and-cures-mw0000461907
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=257
A professional at twenty, he played with Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, The Rolling Stones,
and John Mayall before starting a solo career."
Harvey Mandel
1969 Righteous 1971 Baby Batter
1972 The Snake
This British band issued this excellent album in 1972 which almost disappeared without trace before being recently re-discovered. How familiar is that!
In fact, the band didn't even know that the album had been re-released. It came as a surprise to them when they heard about it as did its relative success!