(Kinda) Obscure bands

[genegodawa]

Studer's post, and bringing up Firefall, got me to thinkin' about some, more or less, obscure bands. These days its all about one-hit wonders, but I remember some from the past.

Let's list them, huh?

But try to keep it to ones we may/should have heard of.

I'll start with:

Atlantic Rhythm Section

Spandau Ballet

Hooters

Icehouse

[Willy]

ELO.

[Eric Wettschreck]

One hit wonder?

Rick Derringer.

Did somebody say keep on rockin?!?!?!

[Studer]

Genegodawa,

Firefall

Manhattan Transfer

Manassas

The Amazing Rythym Aces

Gerry Rafferty

Lee Oskar

Ben Sidran (used to play with Steve Miller)

Pure Prairie League

New Riders of the Purple Sage (old Jerry Garcia band)

Bread

Buffalo Springfield

The Flying Burrito Brothers

Gram Parsons

I could go on forever...these aren't so much 1 hit wonders but more or less stuff you might find in "THE VAULT" I happen to love all of it!!!

[Gissert]

Johnny Winter

Joe Ely

James McMurtry

Husker Du

Firehose

Todd Rundgren

Bruce Cockburn

Crash Test Dummies

Webb Wilder

Warren Zevon

Axe

Zebra

707

Toronto

The Kings

Doucette

Nantucket

Guy Clark

The Rainmakers

[Studer]

Y&T.....hahaha

The Tubes

[Jarrod32]

When I saw this post, I was sure that when I posted "The Rainmakers" that I would be the only one...but I see Gissert knows of them, as well. Lyrical excellence. Warren Zevon, too, but he is not quite as obscure...

[pocketknife]

gisset got a couple of the ones I was going to mention, good

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Black Oak Arkansas

Lonney Mack

Thin Lizzie

Slade

I had some others in mind when I sat down, now I better have a beer. ok bye.

[HaywardBound]

Boz Scaggs

The Guess Who

Little River Band

Limited Warranty

Samatha Fox

[not_nuf_time]

The Suburbs

[channelfats]

Firehose (NO, not firehouse)

[Huskers_05]

Kings X

[Dan Thiem]

Blood Hound Gang is a obscure bunch!

[genegodawa]

Coupla more I thought of:

Johnny Hates Jazz

Focus

Katrina & The Waves

Mott The Hoople

Nena

[DeBo101]

The Outfield

Classic lines like:

"Josie's on a vacation far away"

and

"Cause you know I like my girls a little bit older"

[Blaze]

Ditto on the Outfield. My brother lived by their music while in the army in Korea - his only connection back to American culture.

[lookincalifornia]

anybody ever see Detriot in concert? great show.

tripmaster monkey

the cure

the smiths

XTC

the mighty mighty bostones

they might be giants

of course, the violent femmes

[marbleeye2]

Mountain (Mississippi Queen)

Diesel

Kingdom Come

Gotta second the Kings nod, too...Switchin' to Glide and This Beat Goes On are excellent party tunes.

[skunk-ape]

How about some more local bands, Slave Raider and Gear Daddies.

[Lake Alice]

Trip Shakespeaere

The Feelies

The Posies

David and David

The Siegel-Schwall Band

Joy of Cooking

Steve Goodman

Paw

[genegodawa]

Wow, how could I forget The Outfield (that album you quoted with Josie is great) or The Kings (Switchin'... and ...Beat... are great, but let's not forget Partyitis either)

A few more:

Horslips

Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Wishbone Ash

[WalleyeGod]

Slade, Donnie Iris, Streetheart. Rossington Collins, Chameleon. Anybody have a Chameleon tape that could be

transferred to CD? Mine bit the big one. Well I could go on and on but will stop with these. WG

[Roscoe16]

Trooper

Bob Welch

Big Country

Gary Wright

James Gang

Foghat

ASIA

Georgia Satellites

Toto

Awesome! Roscoe

[Studer]

I have a Chameleon Record. Actually, when I opened that up for the first time there was a band photo insert and they all signed it. Pretty cool. If you want to use it let me know. This same thing happened after I bought a Guess Who album and when I was looking at it closely...Burton Cummings signed that as well!!! Not bad for $1. How could you forget The Ozark Mountain Daredevils and Wishbone Ash. Another couple that I don't think were mentioned are Canned Heat and Uriah Heep!!!

[3pronghook]

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction. title is -tattoed beat messiah.