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Ahh Laine solo album circa 73 while employed by McCartney. One song that rocked in particular On that Early Morning.

Buckingham Nicks Album The whole thing is great. It was the reason they got the Fleetwood Mac gig.

Heartily agree about the Buckingham Nicks statement.  A friend transfered the vinyl album to cd for me, but I some how lost it.  It was definitely a blueprint for what the great blues band would evolve into.
The self-titled Mother Loves Bone is also a great example a hidden gem that I haven't listened to in ages, but fired up "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns as I type.

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Nice one, Mike! wink

I know I had some real  lost gems amongst my vinyl, but most of that is still in the possession of my first wife. sad

Two obscure things I vaguely remember are a British band called Sharks, who I believe only ever made one lp but I thought it was great. There was also a one off that John Cippolina made after Quicksilver but I'm buggered if I can remember . sad

In the 'slightly well known but not well known enough' category I offer -

Safe as Milk - Capt. Beefheart

The first Velvets lp - a killer eons before its time!

and..........small drum roll if you please...............

Everything Little Feat recorded before Lowell's untimely death, most particularly 'Dixie Chicken'. cool


Now we are seeing dome real meat & veg.

Sharks George. Do you mean the Andy Fraser version that he started after Free, with Chris Spedding on guitar. Saw 'em twice. There was something missing somehow, although I thought the first album wasn't half bad.

Gary, Journey's first 2 albums. I think they should qualify on the basis you were polite enough to ask! Lovely.

Mother Love Bone - yes, what could have, should have been, but even those bands that didn't get their share of the spoils invariably were part of the DNA of something else.

Thanks to Rev Paul for correcting me on a couple of things. The passage of time etc etc, plus I'm not the completist I was since 1986 when returning from Australia after a couple of months my mother informed me she had 'got rid' of those couple of boxes of 'old' long players. Scratch my entire vinyl collection letters M-Z, and as I discovered later my entire West ham programme collection 1969-76. Mum is still with us (thank goodness) but I'm not denying I checked out the sentencing for a 'Crime of passion' at the time.

Back to Gems. Crown of Thorns, patchy in parts sometimes but some great music in there. I'll chuck in Bad English, who had a bit of success for while with the great John Waite on vocals and quite a bit of Journey in the band. Neil Schon, he pops up quite a bit doesn't he. Class act and very underated IMO.

Keep 'em coming, I've got a good list building already, with some names I didn't know. All good stuff.

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Amboy Dukes - Journeys & Migrations ( Double LP)

This LP is worth quite a bit now, i have been told, in G/C, and it is!

Also, Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes - Tooth, Fang & Claw

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Soft Machine "Bundles",Holdsworth way, and I mean WAY ahead of his time

"Armageddon"

Argent "Circus"

Stomu Yomashta "Go Too" and Live in Paris

Keef Hartley "Halfbreed"

Shotgun Messiah

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Tragically Hip Road Apples and fully Completely The early days of this band they were great straight up rockers A couple of my all time favs

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Keef Hartley "Halfbreed"


Couldn't agree more Mike. Not long ago I converted Halfbreed from vinyl to MP3 and even after all this time I still enjoy listening to it.

Can't convert the next 3 cos they were in a bunch I had stolen but would add :

Jack Bruce - Songs For A Tailor

Colosseum - Those Who Are About to Die Salute You

Juicy Lucy - Juicy Lucy (with the "fruit" cover)


Also, on the jazzier side :

Stanley Clarke - School Days

Billy Cobham - Total Eclipse


And a bit more far out (well reminded George) :

Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart

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Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Joe Jackson Live
All of Tower of Power stuff
Basia & Sade

AND

Cold Blood - Cold Blood

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Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Joe Jackson Live
All of Tower of Power stuff
Basia & Sade

AND

Cold Blood - Cold Blood

Touchin' all the bases with that list.  I still get out my Joe Jack from the back of my cupboard when I want to cool off.

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Symphonic Slam, feat. Timo Laine on guitar synth.

In high school, I met a drummer who turned me on to a lot of "out-there" progressive and jazz fusion bands, and this was one of my favorites.  Here's a YouTube (non-video slideshow) song, wouldn't be the first I'd pick but it's pretty cool:

Modane Train:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nRGAmxtSs

In addition: 

Trillion
Brand X  - Product (feat. the much cooler side of Phil Collins)
Early (P. Gabriel era) Genesis, ala Foxtrot
Mahavishnu - Birds of Fire - McLaughlin flat-out smokes.
Jean Luc-Ponty - Cosmic Messenger


Definitely cool to hear some of my old fav's listed here.  Keep this thread going!

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Symphonic Slam, feat. Timo Laine on guitar synth.

In high school, I met a drummer who turned me on to a lot of "out-there" progressive and jazz fusion bands, and this was one of my favorites.  Here's a YouTube (non-video slideshow) song, wouldn't be the first I'd pick but it's pretty cool:

Modane Train:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nRGAmxtSs

In addition: 

Trillion
Brand X  - Product (feat. the much cooler side of Phil Collins)
Early (P. Gabriel era) Genesis, ala Foxtrot
Mahavishnu - Birds of Fire - McLaughlin flat-out smokes.
Jean Luc-Ponty - Cosmic Messenger


Definitely cool to hear some of my old fav's listed here.  Keep this thread going!

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Love Ponty although I favor Imanginary Voyage with Alan Holdsworth on guitar as my fav from him .Love Cosmic Messanger too

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CarljMD wrote:

Symphonic Slam, feat. Timo Laine on guitar synth.

In high school, I met a drummer who turned me on to a lot of "out-there" progressive and jazz fusion bands, and this was one of my favorites.  Here's a YouTube (non-video slideshow) song, wouldn't be the first I'd pick but it's pretty cool:

Modane Train:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nRGAmxtSs

In addition: 

Trillion
Brand X  - Product (feat. the much cooler side of Phil Collins)
Early (P. Gabriel era) Genesis, ala Foxtrot
Mahavishnu - Birds of Fire - McLaughlin flat-out smokes.
Jean Luc-Ponty - Cosmic Messenger


Definitely cool to hear some of my old fav's listed here.  Keep this thread going!

CarljMD

Love Ponty although I favor Imanginary Voyage with Alan Holdsworth on guitar as my fav from him .Love Cosmic Messanger too

I"ll second the Brand X Morrocan Roll anyone

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Nice one, Mike! wink

I know I had some real  lost gems amongst my vinyl, but most of that is still in the possession of my first wife. sad

Two obscure things I vaguely remember are a British band called Sharks, who I believe only ever made one lp but I thought it was great. There was also a one off that John Cippolina made after Quicksilver but I'm buggered if I can remember . sad

In the 'slightly well known but not well known enough' category I offer -

Safe as Milk - Capt. Beefheart

The first Velvets lp - a killer eons before its time!

G Dawg, Copperhead is the band Cippolina put together after Quicksilver or another one he played in was called Terry & The Pirates.

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Everything Little Feat recorded before Lowell's untimely death, most particularly 'Dixie Chicken'. cool

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I dug out a few nuggets from my vinyl stacks, Halfbreed is among them as well as Buckingham Nicks, the picture of Stevie on the cover was worth buying the LP alone. Anybody ever heard of a band out of Boulder, Co. called Zephyr from 1969 featuring a very young Tommy Bolin on lead guitar? Great blues stuff with a Janis like vocalist named Candie Givens. Some others:

Jackie Lomax/ Three

10 C.C./Deceptive Bends

Sea Level     Allman Bros. spinoff

Spooky Tooth/The Mirror    Gary Wright & Mick Jones

The Man Band/Slow Motion     Anybody from the UK remember these guys?

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks/ Striking It Rich    Great shtick band from the Bay Area

Robert Cray/Who's Been Talkin'     Earlier LP re-issued after Bad Influence took off.

The Crusaders/ Scratch Live @ The Roxy  1974    A jazz classic w/ Larry Carlton in the band.

The Outlaws had a new studio effort in the can at the time of Hughie's passing, but as far as I know they still haven't released it, hope they will.

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Totally agree about Crown Of Thorns, great but in patches. IMO, their album 'Crown Of Thorns' is their best.

A few more to consider:

Sass Jordan - Rats
Bonham - The Disregard Of Timekeeping (The late great John's son Jason's first outing)
The Law - The Law ( Paul Rodgers/ Kenny Jones)
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Shadow King - Shadow King (Lou Gramm/ Viv Campbell)
Tractor - Tractor

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Shadow King - Shadow King (Lou Gramm/ Viv Campbell)

Yes, that is a good one and so is Riverdogs with Viv and Rob Lamothe.

Fire Merchants, a great three piece with John Goodsall of Brand X. Think Rush meets fusion.

First Hellecasters album

Badlands, Ray Gillen and Jake E Lee.

White Spirit, Jannick Gers long before his Maiden daze

Sound Barrier, Spacey Tracy on guitar.

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This is a neat thread

Been going through and playing some old vinyl of late

Jimi Hendrix/Trashman from 2:48 WOW  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI_tDv5MBso
UFO / Force It         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ub6w4k23AY   Great Guitar Sound
Riot/ Road Racin'     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIZ-bxN9qrc     Smokin' Track
Tygers of Pan Tang / Suzie Smiled  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnYWdP8l6LY
Automatic Man / Automatic Man   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcK723tkhsI  love this
Lonestar / Lonestar (the rock band)   Superb Album
Black Sabbath/ / Technical Ecstasy  my fave Sab LP
Rose Tattoo / Astra Wally ........... Brilliant
Nils Lofgren / Cry Tough
Pat Travers / Boom Boom OGTL   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5IS45jT468
Frampton Comes Alive !
Riot/Outlaw  Love this tune & great lyrics  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI_tDv5MBso
Pink Floyd / Animals
Bob Dylan / Desire  (one of my all time faves)
Jeff Beck / Wired

once you delve you find more

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Ah I can see you folks are really getting into this now.

MikeB, clearly a man of taste and discernment. I need a a couple of weeks and several cases of liquid energy to go through your album collection! Thanks for the Henry Paul tips. I enjoyed watching the videos. Takes me back. Your 'the Man of the Hour'.......................

BTW ,was Shadow King the band Lou Gramm put together when he first broke the shackles from Mick Jones? I heard he did one album that was soooo good, Jones forced the record company to stifle Gramms band so he would have to come back to Foreigner. Never heard the album but most reviewers raved about it? Is that the one?

Seeing Brand X coming up a couple of times remided me of Isotope and Gary Boyle. I have what I consider a lost gem of his called 'Electric Glide'. Jazz Rock Fusion I guess. Gary Moore steals all the thunder with a couple of absolutely blistering numbers. Excellent album in the ugliest blue vinyl you can imagine.

Michael, nice list, but can we consider Frampton Comes Alive a lost gem? Hasn't everybody in China got a copy? and is it possible anything by Floyd or Dylan or even Sabbath could be 'lost'. And isn't Jeff Becks 'Wired' the seminal rock album that inspired Led Zeppelin.

Sorry to go all German on you but zis a list vor ze lost gems ja? Dude you gotta delve deeper and as my beloved Nils would say - Cry Tough

J.Dawg - is that true about The Outlaws? You made my day. I would love to hear Hughie Thomasson's wonderful unique voice on some new stuff one last time.

BBJ thanks for the 'Bonham' remind. That is going on my list for Christmas, no question as is MikeB's 'Seventh Key' tips with Mike Slamer. Rock on Santa...............!

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Ah I can see you folks are really getting into this now.

MikeB, clearly a man of taste and discernment. I need a a couple of weeks and several cases of liquid energy to go through your album collection! Thanks for the Henry Paul tips. I enjoyed watching the videos. Takes me back. Your 'the Man of the Hour'.......................

BTW ,was Shadow King the band Lou Gramm put together when he first broke the shackles from Mick Jones? I heard he did one album that was soooo good, Jones forced the record company to stifle Gramms band so he would have to come back to Foreigner. Never heard the album but most reviewers raved about it? Is that the one?

Seeing Brand X coming up a couple of times remided me of Isotope and Gary Boyle. I have what I consider a lost gem of his called 'Electric Glide'. Jazz Rock Fusion I guess. Gary Moore steals all the thunder with a couple of absolutely blistering numbers. Excellent album in the ugliest blue vinyl you can imagine.

Michael, nice list, but can we consider Frampton Comes Alive a lost gem? Hasn't everybody in China got a copy? and is it possible anything by Floyd or Dylan or even Sabbath could be 'lost'. And isn't Jeff Becks 'Wired' the seminal rock album that inspired Led Zeppelin.

Sorry to go all German on you but zis a list vor ze lost gems ja? Dude you gotta delve deeper and as my beloved Nils would say - Cry Tough

J.Dawg - is that true about The Outlaws? You made my day. I would love to hear Hughie Thomasson's wonderful unique voice on some new stuff one last time.

BBJ thanks for the 'Bonham' remind. That is going on my list for Christmas, no question as is MikeB's 'Seventh Key' tips with Mike Slamer. Rock on Santa...............!

Turning into a good thread, this. It's bringing back a lot of memories.

Yeah , I think Shadow King was Gramm's first project after Foreigner. Unfortunately, they only did the one album, which was a pity, as the first one showed a lot of promise. Gramm eventually went back and Viv Campbell joined Def Leppard.

Bonham had a second album, Mad Hatter, that I felt wasn't quite up to the standard of the first but still had it's moments.

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