Great older bands. List them here. I'm talking Boston, Toto, Doobie Brothers

[demtenjeep]

Gary Wright, Gerry Rafferty, Toto, Temptations, Chicago, Average White Band, Steve Miller Band


others...list them up

[demtenjeep]

1. Earth, Wind and Fire

KC and the Sunshine Band, Journey, LIttle River Band

[OriginalGeek]

2. Led Zeppelin

Rush
Triumph
3 Dog Night
UFO
Alice Cooper
Alan Parsons Project
The Who
Canned Heat
Traffic
Blue Oyster Cult
The Band
The Hollies
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Yardbirds
Golden Earring
Dead Kennedys
David Bowie
Curtis Mayfield
Ben E. King
Albert King
Joy Division
The Jam
Swans
The Kinks
The Moody Blues
Yes
ELO
ELP
Wire
Montrose

and prolly a couple others?

[sadbear]

5. I like to see UFO near the top of your list

Living my entire life in Texas, I wasn't exposed to them until I got XM a few years ago. I feel so cheated, but at the same time it's really cool to have a "brand new band" to listen to.

[OriginalGeek]

9. I grew up in Dallas

but left in the early 80s


I think I had heard of UFO back then but never really listened to them myself until about 5 or 6 years ago so I do know how you feel. I had always liked the Scorpions and I had peripheral knowledge that their guitarist, Rudolph Schenker, was the brother of Michael Schenker but for some reason I never explored Michael's catalog. been rectifying that for a while and glad I am...

This is why I come into these threads - I nearly always see something I hadn't heard of or maybe not considered before so I get to find new (to me) stuff.

And if I turn someone on to something that has made me happy, all the better.

one of my faves:

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[liberal N proud]

3. Boston - Boston is my favorite crusing music

I have received many speeding tickets to prove it.

Had to quit listening to it in the car.

[Tobin S.]

4. Black Sabbath with Ozzy

Can't go wrong with that.

This might sound weird after the Black Sabbath suggestion, but I really dig ELO. Led Zepplin, Queen, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dio's solo stuff, Van Halen with David Lee Roth, and old Metallica are a few of my other faves from the 70s and 80s.

[OriginalGeek]

10. Not weird at all, my friend, not weird at all.

Good music is good music and if it turns you on it's good. There are no rules to what might interest a person in a song or band or genre even.

Not saying there aren;t bands that suck - because there clearly are - lol - but that's isn't the point here. Hell, I even shamelessly like some of them.

[bluesbassman]

6. Ted Nugent

JUST KIDDING!

Hey, put down that tar. Whadda gone do with them feathers? Hey stop that.

[harmonicon]

14. No need to be kidding - I think he did some really great stuff.

Something I find very amusing though is that he claims he didn't know that "journey to the center of the mind" was about drugs. Hmm... Trying to make his older work not reflect poorly on his newer or image, or simply proof that he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer?

[bluesbassman]

16. True that. The Amboy Dukes period and solo with Derek St. Holmes produced some good stuff.

A lot of the lyrics were pretty sophomoric, but the guy could play. Maybe if he hadn't been such a douchebag he could have evolved into an elder statesman of Rock rather than it's old crank.

[demtenjeep]

7. Fleetwood Mac

Beatles
Abba ( I know...)

[bluesbassman]

8. OK, for real, here's ten off the top of my head...

Deep Purple
Wishbone Ash
Mountain
James Gang
Buffalo Springfield
Little Feat
Alvin Lee and Ten Years After
Rory Gallagher
Marshall Tucker Band
Thin Lizzy

[OriginalGeek]

11. My point exactly!

I have been really getting into Wishbone Ash for the last several months because someone in the Lounge a while back mentioned them and I went had a listen and loved it. Might have even been you but I don't recall for sure...

[bluesbassman]

13. Glad you're digging them.

I was fortunate enough to get to see them while I was stationed in Germany during their heyday around 1977.

[demtenjeep]

12. Eagles

Joe Walsh
The Guess Who

[RebelOne]

15. Here are 2 of my favorites from the '70s.

Blood, Sweat & Tears

Chicago

[HereSince1628]

17. Credence Clearwater Revival, Zager & Evans...whatever Painted It Black.

Which I suppose means I have to also say the Rolling Stones, and Country Joe and the Fish

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[Special Prosciuto]

18. More back in time:

The Chambers Brothers: "The Time Has Come Today," 1968.

[harmonicon]

19. Love

I'm at a loss to think of many who ever even came close, yet they're not as well known as most bands I've seen mentioned in this thread.

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[whistler162]

20. Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman...

those bandds you listed are yo young!

[trof]

22. There ya go.

Les Brown and his Band of Renown.
Xavier Cugat.
Paul Whiteman.

[demtenjeep]

24. Love Glenn Miller

Tommy Dorsey

[Bluzmann57]

21. Booker T and the MG's

The Staples Singers. The greatest band ever, the Rolling Stones, although they are technically still active. Foghat, Savoy Brown, Ten Years After, Humble Pie (one of the more underrated bands ever imo), James Gang. Need I go on?

[demtenjeep]

23. Humble Pie 30 days in the hole

wow, had forgotten that


Ambrosia

[applegrove]

25. I used to love the doobie brothers. Loved their sound. No idea what the songs were about.

[demtenjeep]

26. Steeley Dan

Styx

Reo Speedwagon

[Swede]

27. Grand Funk,Iron Butterfly and Deep Purple.

nt

[demtenjeep]

28. good song