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I've been listening to these fellas for a while. Hearing their first album for the first time in my early 20s was a bit of a revelation to me, especially as I was already pretty well schooled in Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, and plenty other hard-rock-meets-prog bands of the era. I still wonder how these guys managed to remain rather obscure when their material is up there with the other more recognised greats.

Any other appreciators out there?

First album is a bloody banger, makes for fine summer driving 8)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR6MQgMdwCs

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Hell yeah.

Big fan of some of those forgotten 70s bands. Sir Lord Baltimore, The Groundhogs, Jerusalem, Atomic Rooster.

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hellblazer wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 12:13 pm Hell yeah.

Big fan of some of those forgotten 70s bands. Sir Lord Baltimore, The Groundhogs, Jerusalem, Atomic Rooster.
We opened for The Groundhogs once. Definitely wasn't our crowd....

Separately, I recall Tony McPhee doing a showcase for Aurock (sp?) guitars. They were made of reconstituted marble, were fitted with EMGs and weighed more than the sun. To show it off they gave him a Marshall half stack with more knobs than Jodrell Bank. He couldn't get a sympathetic tone for Africa. Poor bloke. It was a disaster.

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hellblazer wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 12:13 pm Hell yeah.

Big fan of some of those forgotten 70s bands. Sir Lord Baltimore, The Groundhogs, Jerusalem, Atomic Rooster.
They're all quality as well!

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Molly wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 12:25 pm
hellblazer wrote: Thu Nov 25, 2021 12:13 pm Hell yeah.

Big fan of some of those forgotten 70s bands. Sir Lord Baltimore, The Groundhogs, Jerusalem, Atomic Rooster.
We opened for The Groundhogs once. Definitely wasn't our crowd....

Separately, I recall Tony McPhee doing a showcase for Aurock (sp?) guitars. They were made of reconstituted marble, were fitted with EMGs and weighed more than the sun. To show it off they gave him a Marshall half stack with more knobs than Jodrell Bank. He couldn't get a sympathetic tone for Africa. Poor bloke. It was a disaster.
I remember the auroc guitars! had quite a few ads in metal hammer i recall.
edit-had to google: guitar-list.com/auroc/electric-guitars/auroc-guitar

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