The Top Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Albums of the '70s- The Underground
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Join host Pete Pardo of Sea of Tranquility as he discusses some of his favorite 'underground' gems from the '70s in the realms of hard rock and heavy metal.
Budgie, War Horse, Captain Beyond, Dust, Quatermass, War Pig, Sir Lord Baltimore, Weed, Lucifers Friend, Trapeze, Blueberry Pancake, Baker Gurvitz Army, Dog Soldier, Bullet, Eloy, Roky Erickson, Bullet, Gun, Cactus, Elf, so many amazing bands that got lost in the shadow of the big name artists.
Dust was HEAVY!
Thanks for mentioning Atomic rooster, Bang and Bloodrock..,Bang, and Captain beyond,forgotten greatness
Been listening to the Sir Lord Baltimore album for years, one of my all time favourites. That Buffalo album is one of the heaviest I've ever heard.
That Buffalo album really slaps hard n hevvy.
"Give Us A Wink" by Sweet. A hard rock classic that took me by surprise when it first came out.
Yeah Sweet were heavy
Totally agree Sweet were heavy and accomplished musicians too. 👍
Atomic Rooster.
Saw them way back in the very early 70's and the guitar lead !
Superb underrated band.
Great choice.
Love Atomic Rooster!
Where do you get these ratings from?
Love Captain Beyond Larry Reinhardt fantastic guitar player
Love your channel. You are opening new doors of classic rock experience for me. I missed most of these at the time because I was too young. That is no longer a problem. Keep up the good work.
The band I find no one mentions until more recently at least is Tygers of Pan Tang. Cant believe I missed them it sent me rechecking the entire 70s for other bands I might of missed.
Moxy- “Ridin’ High” is even more kick ass than their first album. Then, unfortunately the singer, Buzz Sherman died in a motorcycle accident.
Dude, you have an AWESOME, encyclopedic knowledge of all things rock! Much respect! LOVED the Buffalo reference!!
Yeah, Buffalo were well ahead of their time. Brilliant.
BUFFALO supported BLACK SABBATH in the early 70's here in Australia, They were one he'll of a band & heavily influenced by SABBATH 👊🇦🇺👊
Just bought some Budgies, definitely learning some great stuff from you brother. I, too, only own CDs. I prefer the clarity and separation. Keep doing this!
thank you my man! Budgie rules!!!!
Awesome finds, even bands I'd forgotten about like Moxy.
You're the man
Just discovered this channel and absolutely loving your work Pete. Looking forward to digging in further
Have you got the following 70's Underground albums in your amazing collection :-
1) Growers Of Mushroom by Leaf Hound.
2) The Axeman Cometh by Wicked Lady.
3) Psychotic Overkill by Wicked Lady.
4) Volume 1+4 by Incredible Hog.
5) Stoned Guitar by The Human Instinct.
6) Sweet Pain by Sweet Pain (USA band).
7) Horse by Horse.
8) Tear Gas by Tear Gas.
9) Blast Furnace by Blast Furnace.
10) Jerusalem by Jerusalem (English band).
11) Demon & Eleven Children by Blues Creation.
12) Dead Forever by Buffalo.
13) Assassin by Pinnacle.
14) Dark Around The Edges by Dark.
15) The Magic Shoemaker by Fire.
16) Yesterday's Children by Yesterday's Children.
17) Satori by the Flower Travellin' Band.
18) Let Me In by Poobah.
19) Can't Get Through by Hairy Chapter.
20) Dogfeet by Dogfeet.
21) Erupts! by Truth and Janey.
You're the fucking man for this list
This. was. excellent! I humbly admit you tough me a few things. :)
Great mention of Moxy. What a great band. My favorite Moxy album has to be 'Ridin' High'. The Canadian hard rock scene of the second half of the 1970s was something to behold. So many good bands. Maybe you could spend an episode on that?
Oh my God man!! Thanks a lot for this one. So many bands i’ve never heard of and that i need to investigate. Thank you Pete 🙏🏻
Just discovered this video! Amazing run down of some of the lesser known but equally amazing #HardRock and #HeavyMetal albums and artists. Thanks Pete!
wonderful simply wonderful
Thanks Pete.. another great watch. Certainly a few bands I'm not familiar with, and will check out. We were very privileged to get to see Angel play for us in London,England last year. Something I'd spent the best part of 30 years not expecting to happen. Great gig. Enjoy watching your vids
TOAD! Captain Beyond! Atomic Rooster! Thanks for talking about some of my favorites! Great stuff!
I saw Detective when they opened for Led Zeppelin and they were really rocking. Moxy should have gone far they were incredible live. The 70's hard rock band No Dice should be here. they're like a cross between Bad Company and Humble Pie with the Faces thrown in together.
Great episode that I'm watching 4 years too late. Happy to see you had the most enthusiasm for Sir Lord Baltimore. Wish you would have included something by Dust which included Marc Bell who later became Marky Ramone. Also, I can't think about Angel without thinking about the Zappa song with the great intro by your uncle Don
Thanks for introducing me to Sir Lord Baltimore !!
Flower Travellin' Band is a really great band that people need to be listening to.
I love a lot of the German hard rock from the 70s.. bands like Nosferatu, Gamohra, Ertlif, Mythos, Guru Guru.. such awesome music. 💥
The Captain Beyond debut album is absolutely one of my favorite hard rock albums to this day and a timeless masterpiece!
Top to bottom this album just rocks with every song and with a sound unlike others. The lead-in from one song to the next is a great twist to the convention as this album stands alone for creativity and well ahead of its time...
Couldn't have said it better. Captain Beyond's music was beyond the norm, that's for sure. Still one of my favourite album of all time.
100% - unbelievable album! Well said
Great topic, baby!! Love it! Cheers Sea of T!
CAPTAIN BEYOND ..... Very underrated band... one of my favorites.
TIN HOUSE!!!!!! Good choice
Bloodrock had similarities to early GFR, because they were both managed/produced by Terry Night. Underrated band, Time Piece, DOA, Jessica, Melvin Laid an egg, are all great songs. Nitzenger contributed to many of the early bloodrock albums. Nitzenger's debut album is also killer, one of my all time favorites. Moxy was also great, their first album was their best, with Buzz Shearman, I also like Riding High album. Atomic Rooster, love their stuff, black snake! Overall, great picks!
Great picks Pete. Surprised at the absence of Starz, but understand there’s only so much time and the ‘70’s were the golden age of hard rock & heavy metal. Thanks again for the great work my brother.
How about the band called Stray and a really heavy band called Wicked Lady from England
I could recommend tractor. Very underground doom metal
Atomic Rooster-in 1973-1974 discovered at an album store in Clemson in that time. Loved them. Blood rock- DOA played on radio. Loved them and bought 1st 3 albums
BANG! Philly origin! You know your stuff. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Definitely found some nuggets I will have to try out.
Fantastic list. This is the music i grew up with. Atomic Rooster-Death, Groundhogs-Split, Budgie-Kill, Stray Dog-1st LP, Armaggedon, Lucifers Friend--bought 'em all when they came out way back when. Those were the days!
Yeah! Death walks, Split and In for the Kill, 3 of my all time faves. The 'Hogs were such a great band.
Sir Lord Baltimore ! Never heard about them , I’ve just check and definitely my cup of tea ! Thanks 🙏
Update - hope you see this. I now own 3 Budgie albums, which I got a great deal on in a mini- box (the MCA years). Also Captain Beyond's eponymous album, Atomic Rooster's - Death Walks Behind You, two Buffalo albums - Volcanic Rock and Only Want You for your Body, and both Sir Lord Baltimore albums (which I also got a good deal on). All thanks to your vids and recommendations. Am greatly enjoying them. So thanks! Only wish I' d heard of these bands in the 70s and had been enjoying them all along.
Unruly Simian that is great news! Hope you enjoy those...never too late to discover new music!
Awesome!!! That's the reason for me doing shows like this, to hopefully educate people on bands & music they might not have heard of before. You picked up some GREAT stuff there!
I bought BUFFALO/VolcanicRock and OnlyWantYoufor... afew weeks back.Im a skirt lifter is a classic tune🤘
Dead Forever is my favorite Buffalo album. Dark and heavy!!
Granicus. Jerusalem. Cool Feet. Neon Rose. November. Plum Nelly. Aftershave. Seompi. Left End. IceCross. Hard Stuff.
November is covered in this episode. Granicus,, Jerusalem, Left End, and Hard Stuff I have and will look to cover in Part 3!
Comic Book Geezers damn I missed the November part. Lol. Really awesome episode looking forward to part III
Amazing episode! Hopefully we get a part 3 eventually!
Glad you are around. Sharing music from my era.
Your hairstyle says it all.
My friend.
Bless you. Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.
Take care 🙌
Den of iniquity. Norman haines band. Great video man. Superb stuff again.😊
I've used the Sea of Tranquility website for years for reviews and information but I've only discovered your youtube channel in the last two weeks and I'm really enjoying it.
I grew up in the seventies, heavy rock was everything for me. I enjoyed both shows a lot! Some obvious bands/albums that should have been included: Portrait of the Artist as a young Ram (Ram Jam), Sweet Evil (Derringer), Violation (Starz), Godz debut album, Fool for the City (Foghat), Making magic (Pat Travers), Just a Game (Triumph), Yesterday & Today, Accept debut album, If you don’t rock now (Downtrip), Trust debut album, St Paradise, Goddo debut
This second album of Ram Jam is a truly forgotten gem, no filler, all killers, very heavy
Man, you guys are awesome for commenting these lists. Gives a young guy like me so much to check out!
Always great to hear from a music lover, even when you don't agree.
Again sorry for being so late. Excellent show as always.
But also surprised with some of the obvious omissions in this 2nd segment as I was the first (the first segment glaring omissions were Sweet, ZZ Top and Black Oak Arkansas if their careers bled into the 70s count), but in this second segment obscure bands omitted could be White Witch, and NOT so obscure but hugely influential were Blue Cheer and of course Vanilla Fudge (both 60s bands that bled into 70s too) - Deep Purple basically acknowledged to have copied their sound... I'm sure there are more but these are just off the top of y head.
Hey Pete what about a history of Grand Funk?
Thanks for turning me on too a lot of awesome rock n roll
Captain Beyond is THE classic for me. What's the name of the episode that you talk about the album?
Can't believe Dust wasn't mentioned . Every time I heard German Prog I kept thinking Eloy . Some great albums . Some Heavy songs to consider are Hawkwind - Magnu 1975 , as well as Master of the Universe 1971 . UFO - 1 hour Space Rock 1971 album rivals Black Sabbath in sheer discomfort , and depressive Heaviness . Pre Schenker guitar virtuosity displayed by the mysterious Mick Bolton . Force It by UFO could of been considered Heavy Metal , it rivals Obsession for UFO at their best , and hardest Rocking albums . Another great band that could be considered a mix of Montrose , and The Mighty Legs Diamond would be Dirty Tricks . Angel - Under Suspicion from the White Hot album could be considered one of the Heaviest songs of the 1970s . It's often overlooked due to the fact it's the only Heavy track on the White Hot album.
Gave me sone great suggestions! Thanks! 🤘🏻
Hey pete thanks for bringing up the groundhogs split I heard cherry red after seeing it on Alice Coopers radio show and got it and glad I did
Wildfire-Smokin’. 1970 Great heavy album from Texas
I have some of the "TOAD" (2 live albums), a great band from Sweden, heavy blues and hard dynamic rock and roll, Sir Lord Baltimore, is another heavy metal band, from the very early years of good heavy rock bands, IRON CLAW (Scottish band), they sound more or less like Black Sabbath, although their sound is darker and deeper than Sabbath if you ask me; another band people do not know a lot is HOOKFOOT (I have the live album), they were a kind of funky-rock mix and they used to be the support band for Elton Jonh in some of his songs.
if you try "BEDEMON" (aka PENTAGRAM) their pre- PENTAGRAM ......... is a kick-ass sound of pure very heavy doom metal.
TRUTH & JANEY, another band from the USA, these guys were influenced a lot by CREAM as you can clearly hear it in their sound.
Toad is from Switzerland
Epitaph in the next one, cool! Hopefully, you get to Leafhound, Ultra and Hydra.
Great vid..... and you're killing my wallet because there are a few bands I didn't know!
Hey love your stuff Pete. Had never heard any mention of 3 of my all time favorite bands Bebop Deluxe, Crack the Sky, and Kings X
Hey! We share two similar favorites!
He does mention KX in the "Sophomore" album release episode with Gretchen.
Love BBD! Saw them on their last tour.
Atomic Rooster damn !!! How did I not know? Death walks behind you is killer. Thank you. 1970 what a year for albums, the year I was born, Black Sabbath etc. Thanks again definitely getting this album and slowly checking some of the other stuff on here..
Just subbed to this channel. So great to hear the Groundhogs mentioned- another classic 3-piece. Tony T.S. McPhee is a legend in my eyes! Everyone should own a copy of "Thank Christ For The Bomb".
BANG!! 1st album was on Capitol records. Great heavy guitar!........ Tempest! early Holdsworth! classic
Got one for you.Hard stuff 1st album .Rockin' good album with 2 Atomic Rooster guys and Johnny Gustafson on bass.Everyone should have a copy ! Jammin' band indeed. Got to mention Budgie also.First 6 albums are all worth having if you love hard heavy Rock !!
Yes, I got the Hard Stuff albums, as well as one they recorded as Bullet. Saving them for Part 3 of this series. Budgie we covered in Part 1.
Hey man. I just discovered your channel. Enjoying it immensely. This video is amazing. So many bands I never heard of but want to check out. I subscribed and am watching a lot of your videos.
Your tastes in rock music pretty much align with mine. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for mentioning Legs Diamond! Discovered them in the last year or so and love their stuff!
I dig what you do!!! I respect the knowledge & love of music!
I've heard mostly all of these awesome bands. Some I haven't heard of which I'm looking forward to listening to on UA-cam. Ironclaw is a Scottish group. Have the album you have got. Got the album Volcanic Rock by Buffalo. Also have Dead Forever by Buffalo. I've also got Orgasm by Head Machine, Toad by Toad, Warhorse by Warhorse, Orang-Utan by Orang-Utan, Fuzzy Duck by Fuzzy Duck 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Awesome stuff on here - tons of stuff I've only heard of or even not at all. Excited to check out some new music!
Great! Curious to hear what you think of some of this stuff!
With a names like Fuzzy Duck and Flied Egg, of course I have to look into them first.
The first time the term "heavy metal" was used to describe a band's music was in '71 when a Creem writer was talking about Sir Lord Baltimore.
Wasn't there an article describing a Jimi Hendrix concert as "heavy metal falling from the sky"?
I think that Humble Pies debut was criticized for being called typical heavy metal shit in 1969.
No Lucifer's friend or Riot. I like a lot of the music you talk about like sir Lord Baltimore and pentagram.
RIOT's FIRE DOWN UNDER album is the most underrated hard rock album of all time! Every track just shines with ferocity, complete skill and command of dynamics and white hot melodies, energy through the freakin' roof.....topped off with Guy's world class vocals! It is the first thing I play for unsuspecting friends and I never fail to see the same reaction every single time-JAWS DROPPING TO THE FLOOR and the question: "Oh my God, who are these guys?" as a big, shit eating grin comes across their face! The Narita album will also punch a hole in the universe! sakblabbath65 - NICE!
sakblabbath65-thanks to your Lucifer's Friend shout out, I just purchased their self titled debut after being pummeled by every damn song on the album-the vocals are freakin' staggering! Big thanks to you! Treff
Grew up in the NYC area and must have seen Riot open for 100 different headliners. They were great back in da day!
@@FlashframeFilms Oh man! I can only imagine how good they were live-up close! Riot should have been the headliner at most of those shows, I mean the Narita album and especially the Fire Down Under album are complete ass kickers! Awesome riffs, on fire rhythm section, and Guy's perfect hard rock voice..... Did they absolutely nail it, live? Was the crowd blown away, yourself included? Did you see them play the Fire Down Under material? YOU LUCKY BASTARD! You were in the presence of greatness! take care, Treff
Yo Treff, totally agree with you on all of ur Riot statements! Just an incredible hard rock outfit. Yeah Fire Down Under was their big breakout album at the time with “Swords & Teauilla” getting a decent amount of airplay on local hard rock radio. They definitely had all the right parts & pieces to be a killer, big time breakout band, but just never seemed to get to that next tier of popularity.
Armageddon: s/t. Best album ever!!!
I remember Kerrang giving a really positive review of that. I need to check it out.
Riot - Narita
Miss Taste (On The Bords) and O-Band (The Knife)
APRIL WINE a great canadian band. Really underated. Great material also in the early 80's.
Cool to see so many underground albums. I have a good number of them and have checked out some of the ones you mentioned that I don’t have. But there were still a couple I didn’t know and some I thought I should check out again.
You spoke of April Wine. My absolute favourite album of theirs is Electric Jewels. If you can track down a CD I’m certain you’ll love it. Also check out Warpig if you don’t already have their album.
I’ll be back to see what else you’ve got!
Great list. I actually think that the first Angel album sounds a bit like Yes with the Hammond, Moogs, and Mellotrons. Also, the Detective album is killer.
I bought Angel's debut recently on cd. It's on the Rock Candy label (UK) and sounds amazing. A little trivia here is guitarist Punky Meadows was originally in the band The Cherry People out of Northern, Va.
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Deep Purple - In Rock
Motorhead - Overkill
The Stooges - Raw Power
Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
Misfits - Static Age
MC5 - Thunder Express
Hawkwind - In Search Of Space
Budgie - Never Turn Your backs On A Friend
Hi Pete. Some excellent choices there. Stellar bands and albums. But there is one band that I rate above all-comers, be it underground or more main stream bands and that band is Jericho. It's criminal how seldom they are talked about but IMO they are at the very top of the heap. Above Zeppelin, DP, Sabbath etc etc. There - I said it.
Armageddon with Relf ties into captain Beyond. All your choies are super valid. :)
Thanks man I’m checking out some of these bands right now and I’m digging them, keep up the great work 👍👍👍👍👍
Hawkwind, Man space rock
Bloodrock had quite a big following in Sweden!
Hey Pete, if you talked about Steamhammer in either of these videos, I missed it. Add them to Part 3! Love both this and the prog series, keep up the good work!
Bodkin, Buffalo, Andromeda,Bakerloo,Fuzzy Duck,Bedlam,Big Bertha,Frumpy.
Wow never knew there were so many trio's
Tremendas bandas, tremendos albunes espectacular culto musical....
Klaatu Hope 1977 was my get high and impresses the honor students with my musical taste album. Klaatu debut Sgt Pepperish studio album was accompanied with rumor that secrete band was reunited Beatles. Hope was theme album about people leaving dying planet in spaceship in search of new home. It has one of the most impressive endings using every trick in music class. If you never heard or dismissed Hope because it was too operatic at least give “madman” a listen to wet your interest. Your grown up now, it might be amazing.
Hope was fantastic, too bad none of the albums after that even came close.
Bloodrock, excellent band,
Cain - a Pound of Flesh and Stnger, from Minneapolis MN. 1975 / 77.
you good people unfortunately failed to mentioned some of my most beloved and very most cherished 1970s underground heavy metal rocknroll bands budgie lucifes lucifers friend motorhead and uriah heep thank you though for interducing me to heavy metal rocknroll bands of 1970s i have never heard of and i am a middle aged man in my late 50s that was a teenager in the 1970 and early 1980s and the 1970s and i thought i had heard of all of the 1970s and the early 1980s heavy metal rocknroll bands that were around back then
Hi again Pete, sorry for all the posts. I think I missed this video and now have a list of bands to check out. A band I found maybe 3 years ago might be included here, Stray. I love this band, great hard rock from the 70s. Their first album I think was either 69 or 70 and does really have that 60s British sound, but after that, just amazing. I'm curious to hear your opinion on the band. Take care!!
I like Stray quite a bit! Great underground band!
Love STRAY🤘
I knew Vince Crane of Atomic Rooster (because of my work) in the late 80s - he dressed like Neil from the Young Ones (hippy) and we had a few excellent liquid lunches in London. Him in double denim and massive flares, in an old-fashioned pub near Piccadilly! At the time slightly embarrassing because suited businessmen sneered at his appearance (and there was me looking like a reject from Faster Pussycat or Skid Row). But I loved his vibe, and we got on well (kindred spirits, man!). Some nice choices on here by the way - Sir Lord, Jeronimo, Stray Dog, Point Blank etc., I already knew about and loved... but some of the others were new to me and well worth checking out. Thanks for not making this overblown like some reviewers do. Cheers!
I've listened to the first 2 already. Not so keen on Bloodrock but...Atomic Rooster! Wow! What a gem of a band!
Great Video
The Stray Dog debut has a cover of “Cheverlot” released less than a year after the ZZ Top original. Guitarist Snuffy Walden had BALLS. His documentary tells his crazy story.
The 2 Albums from the Band "Hard Meat" are so epic.
So said that they produced only 2 Albums from 1970 and 1971.But this Stuff is so amazing.
Lucifer's Friend debut albu. Scorpions too, Lonesome Crow. Both Schenker broz I recall. Both on Billingsgate vinyl quadraphonic compatible. Toe Fat Keef Hartley with ties to Heep.
Target from Memphis with Jimmy Jamison is very good. Saw them warm up Peter Frampton and two other times. Maybe reminds me of some Bad Company. Jimmy was a great front man.
Yeah, Target was awesome.
Awesome. Legs Diamond is new to me. Killer production!
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come, is stupendous.
Wow! Loving this ,thanks!!!
Muchas bandas que escucho y tengo fantástica música y muchas bandas de culto mucha creación mucho virtuosismo simplemente espectacular!!! Aporto con otra gran banda de los 70,s Samuel Prody...
Great show Pete! Great list of bands and thats only a start. Bands that could have made the list...Iron Claw, Highway Robbery, Tear Gas, Night Sun, Wicked Lady, Human Instinct, Ultra, Moxy, Riot & so many more 👍
Please watch the whole show- Moxy, Iron Claw, and Highway Robbery are all mentioned!
Sorry. Must’ve been when the wife was interrupting me. I had to keep pausing and playing. It was quite annoying
CACTUS, BUDGIE & a couple of great Australian bands BUFFALO & ROSE TATTOO 👊🇦🇺👍
Wow, Bloodrock. Respect!...I’m glad you mentioned Captain Beyond. They opened for Yes on their Close to the Edge tour. I had never heard of them. They nearly blew Yes off the stage if you can imagine that. The next day I found their second LP, Sufficiently Breathless. It turned out to be my favorite, a little more style and production than their first, which was a tall order. So they did two records and disappeared from the the earth, save for some failed efforts later in the decade.....and as another one said below, Bobby Caldwell did CB first, Armageddon a few years later. He also played with J Winter.........Budgie and Trapeze?
I have Captain Beyond's first and second album. I think the first is superior to the second although I love "Sufficiently Breathless" and "Evil Men". Glad to find many fans of the Captain here.