Top 10 Obscure/Underground UK Heavy Prog Psych From 1970
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- My personal picks from 1970 from the UK underground prog psych scene. These bands/albums deserve more recognition so if you like what you hear go check them out and support them! #prog #progressiverock #heavypsych #psychedelicrock #psych #obscureprog #obscurepsych #70s #1970 #70srock
Revisiting this list a little over a year later and I would rearrange and add some stuff for sure... maybe I will make a new one!
Yep. You need to add Indian Summer and T2 to the podium.
patto is not obscure at all
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and Czar
I think the Harvest sampler Picnic is the best overview of prog 1969/70...so much variety..and you do get Pete Brown and Quatermass..
Love progressive Rock UK 🇬🇧
That brings back some memories !
I played in a "college circuit" band in the 70's and remember supporting Patto. Ollie Halsall was probably the best guitarist I've ever seen.
That is awesome! Do you remember what they were like? Did your group have any recordings?
@@1234gab4 I don't really remember much apart from being seriously impressed - when you work a lot it all becomes a blur, and after so long only a few standout moments remain clear.
No recordings that were released, as far as I know. Our keyboard player was in possession of some live recordings but I lost touch with him many years ago.
Thanks Nick. Some great stuff on here that I have not heard before. Love the Aarvark bit and I have some Audience already. Happy Progging!
I have both of the cressida lps , Munich is my favourite song. 1970 seems to be a good year for music.
I really love Munich too. Its a symphonic progressive gem. Definately the highlight of their Asylum album. I also really love Lisa from the same l.p. The short but perfect guitar solo in that song is among my favorite moments from the whole U.K. prog rock genre.
With the exception of one l own all these albums . A great selection of some classic L.P's Quatermass is a particular favourite but l love 'em all . What brilliant music came out in the early '70's . lnventive , original and adventurous music played by fine musicians .
Audience audience🔥.
From all these on the list I had only heard of Pete Brown before, because of his collaboration with Cream in particular with Jack Bruce. E. g. Brown wrote the lyrics of "Sunshine Of Your Love" and "White Room".
Look up Pete Brown and The Battered Ornaments as well as Piblokto, excellent song writing.
Patto, totally awesome, Ollie Halsall one of the most underrated/unknown guitarists, listen to his work on 'Money Bag'.
He should be on everyone’s top guitarists lists!
He is pretty well known among guitarists tbf.
Wow - interesting compilation. Must check some of the out! Thanks.
Audience was a great band. Still have my vinyl LP of The House on the Hill from '71, which is a stellar album.
Saw Audience in'71 supporting Lindisfarne . The other supporting band was Genesis . Audience were great and played most of the THOTH album .
I have two albums by Audience in my collection.
I have a pristine copy of a single from HOTH, You're Not Smiling,at this minute can't recall the B-side!,but it was better than the A-side ! Always regretted not buying the album.Still have it,Purple Charisma.Can't recall the name of the album that came before,or after the House On The Hill album ? PS.The b-side is called 'Eye to Eye'.
Me too
@@donneumann6546 Dear Sir, Please can you tell me what they were called.Many Thanks.
Very good choices, esp. Patto AKA unluckiest band in the world, Ollie Halsall is amazing guitarist.
I AGREE. OLLIE EXCELLENT. R.I.P.
Wow so many memories. Here are the alternate albums that would appear on my top 20
1 Beckett - Beckett
2 Dream Kid - Sutherland Brothers with Quiver
3 A Third of a Lifetime - Three Man Army
4 The Garden Of Jayne Delawney - Trees
5 Too Many Crooks - Unicorn
6 Final Offering - Axe
7 Yeti - Amon Dull II
8 Theme From A Dream - Agnes Strange
9 The Long Road - Quatermass
10 Out Of Their Skulls - Mick Green & The Pirates
11 Diamond Head - Phil Manzanera
12 A Jug of Love -Mighty Baby
13 The Second of May - May Blitz
14 Maximum Darkness - Man
15 Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat [most if not all the Feat albums released in the 1970s would be on this list but FDFMN is my favourite]
16 Lark - Linda Lewis
17 Songs From The Family Tree - Late [ Later changed name to Unicorn]
18 Journey - Kingdom Come
19 Within Reach- A Band Called O
20 Kings Of Oblivion - Pink Fairies
List are albums that never made the charts and released in the 1970s, They are in no particular order
Good stuff there, some stuff I haven’t heard I shall check out!!
Very cool 😎
Yes I did there all on my want list now!!!!
Sweet! I recently discovered Budgie and it's cool to have some more heavy prog groups to checkout.
Sadly, no chance of finding any of this in the local charity shops...☹
Ich habe all diese LP.s von diesen fantastischen unbekannten Bands! Habe diese LP ,s in den 70/ 80iger gekauft! 😊
Enjoyed the content, love the 70s and band I'd never heard off. Will be scouring your videos now .
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From that year, I'd have included T2 "It'll All Work Out in Boomland", especially the amazing track "No More White Horses". ♥
Excellent list. I would like to mention Hard Meat and May Blitz!
Great bands especially May Blitz's first album which l brought at the time and remains one of my all time favourite L.P.'s .
Aardvark is a heavy gem. Never heard it before
I have this great Album! 👍
Excellent sounds. That Gracious clip reminds me a little of early Steely Dan combined with Deep Purple, but about 2 years ahead of the first Dan lp. Never heard of them here/hear. Hello from Texas.
Gracious are an excellent British prog band who released two great LPs, first one is better imo it mixes heavy prog with symphonic rock, classical, jazz, and avant garde… truly wild stuff! Greetings from MA
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I like how you titled this video as MY top 10. That saves lots of arguments. The only band that I really got into was Audience. House on the Hill is a Masterpiece. The problem listening to some of these samples is the tinny production
Fabulous, thank you for posting them
The album art is interesting
Danke, großartig
Patto,Audience and Pete Brown...but the others seem to have passed me by.After all these years it's good to be surprised.
All excellent!
These guys were nuts, LOVE IT
this sounds very interesting
Dig the last one, has that certain psychedelic element of the late 60s☮️
The lyrics, the musicality is half suspicious there must be something behind all these's songs in this list, plus the instrumental touches of each song I thought, and I thought it was normal for each one, in each song the instruments have a lot of genius!!.
Pete Brown was a lovely man.
What became of him ?
@@fraseredk7433 Pete died on June 1 this year. I met him twice. The second time he remembered me and reminded me of what we had spoken about previously.
@@bigtone1348 tks
His memoir is quite a good read. He was quite open about his shortcomings as a singer and that maybe he wasn’t the best band mate. I think his peak was writing lyrics for Cream/Jack Bruce.
A character.
@@PaulWilliams66 I bought his book. I am saving it for cold winter evenings.
Nobody ever remembers Stray. Not that much psych but very heavy. Busiest working band in south of UK in the early 70's.
I was in a band that supported Stray at Twickenham College in the early seventies.
Excellent! They were the first "proper" band I ever saw live about 1971 in Hitchin.@@keithbemrose3876
GREAT SELECTIONS. 🥃
Great list. My number one I think is Fuchsia.
Interesting.
Quatermass album is just so amazing, johnny gustafson should have gone far.
Grazie!
Nice selection. Some of these I'd never heard of, but I will be investigating.
Patto!
The shear richness of the 1970s music scene will never be equaled.
Yes!
No disrespect to these musicians or you but I’m not sure that’s an argument that has much merit. Apart from them all sounding pretty much the same they’re all white and all men.
I quite agree. The 1970's music was so rich and varied. More than any other decade you could say that there was something for everyone.
Sheer😅
@@PaulWilliams66sorry but that's how the progressive rock music scene was back then. It was a glorious time😊
Did l see Paul Gustafson somewhere in your collection? Had both Hard Stuff albums on the Purple label.
Johnny gustafson. Please try to listen to post war Saturday ècho from the album quatermass
I own 2 of the 10...
There was clearly some good gear going around in those days, I may have even caught the tail end of it, happy daze.
Tom Hayfrond from Quatermass plays a lot of solo gigs here in the east end of Toronto these days. He also played in the Trogs. He's a great and very talented guy.
I saw Quatermass in Liverpool (UK) in 1970 when they were supporting Deep Purple. It is still one of my most cherished albums, but I'm interested to know who Tom Hayfrond is. the original Quatermass was Mick Underwood, John Gustafson and J Peter Robinson. Please enlighten me.
Quatermass ruled, peter went on to play piano on Year of the Cat
I used to prefer British bands over American. More sophisticated, better lyrics
I agree. 🇵🇪
Cool. not much between those bands we hear on the radio and those we don't.
Cressida is the only group I recognized. Cressida was one of the most interesting groups of the obscure but good.
Two great albums from them, wish they did more!
I liked Cressida nice Progressive sound. What about including Midnight Sun😊
Not one of those gave me any reason to explore them further. But it’s interesting to hear.
Cool
Minha vida... Rock proguessivo
I have all f these except Aardvark and Cressida. Fantastic period for British music.
"Audience" was hardly obscure - though it's name makes it hard to find on UA-cam.
Principal Edwards magic Theatre ... now there's a WAF band from the time ... (Wierd as Feck) but their two albums on youtube are highly listenable.
Jeez, and I thought I knew a bit about obscure British pop and rock bands fro the 60's and 70's. I do not recognize a single one of these bands.
There’s an unreal amount of bands from this era. I still discover more every day and it has been years of exploring!
Spider by Web is fabulous. A band I have never heard of.
A stunning album… a bit like Van der Graaf, eerie atmosphere, great saxes, organ, and fuzz guitar!
Out of those, I'd only heard about Pete Brown. No Ornaments, though.
Не попались ранее,но даже сейчас интересно.
3:14 blew the advance on backline hehe
I was really expecting Andwella's Dream to be number 1
Andwellas Dream Love and Poetry on my 1969 video!
Some had a more 60s sound, one a bit Pink Floydish, some a bit like Black Sabbath, and a few seemed to be at the dawn of a uniquely 1970s sound which always amazed and enthralled me. The 1970s music had THE most revolutionary, deep, sophisticated . . unique . . feel of all the great decades I've been studying [40s,50s,60s,70s,80s] and apparently not heard since. Almost like it was some sort of culmination . .
The late 60s into the early 70s was certainly the most creative and unique period for music, nothing sounded like it before and probably never again!
The music of 1968-1972 is the best for me, aged 12 to 16 and so very receptive but I truly believe that that was the time that modern music peaked in energy and creativity.
Is there anything from this year calling itself punk or garage punk?
Nothing comes to mind right away for 1970… there must be though. Plenty from around 1964-1967 for sure however
Let's hope not😅
What about Camel? Andrew Latimer is an excellent guitarist
YEAAARGH MAN! 🤟🤟
I can tell why these are obscure.
Often plodding and turgid. Of historical interest though.
What I like about this period is that a lot of bands were free to experiment.
Not always successfully.
@@PaulWilliams66 Yes, I agree.
Yes, bad management, poor promotion, and too many bands competing for everyone to be successful.
@@1234gab4 yeah sure, that too, but mostly for derivative and un special music.
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Can you still get acid nowadays?
Inhale the chem trails
I’m 76 and had some of my grandsons puff next thing I knew I thought I was juggling dead rats Only to find the little fucker had nicked my pension to buy some more dope wouldn’t chance taking any acid these days probably give me the SYD BARRETS AND PETER GREENS COMBINDED Stick to WETHERSPOONS ITS SAFER😱
Hello rob
crazy
@@robor3880 Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
I want you to choose Czar.🐻
Spoiler alert: Czar will be in another 1970 video!
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Thank you, I'm looking forward to it! 🐻👑
Only remember Pete Brown and Quatermass.
Hard rock psicodelico
Byzantium
Ora
You have one band on the list twice
Yes they are one of my favorite bands
Most of this doesn't sound very "proggy."
It came in many forms I suppose. And definitions vary. Yes and Genesis couldn’t be more different to, say, the Mahavishnu Orchestra but I consider the latter to be progressive. But maybe progressive is not the same as Prog?
So much inflated bollocks, I lived through it all and was shocked but eventually relieved when punk came along and saw this nonsense off.
Cool story bro
You must have waded through a load of sh*te to find a few things that weren’t completely terrible. Wonder what happened to all these blokes? Probably civil servants
Punk was an abomination. Couldn't play, couldn't sing. Rubbish lyrics and very negative perspective on life. Not all prog rock was good. Some got very self indulgent but the musicianship was superb. Two albums not mentioned are The Alchemist by Home and McDonald and Giles (both ex-King Crimson). Excellent albums.
Most of these aren’t heavy
I utterly detest this entire genre of music.
Go be miserable somewhere else