Early 70's British Rock really was, with some exceptions, a bit ****. No surprise punk came along.

[Ashberto]

Watching this BBC4 hour, when Status Quo is one of the best bands on, you know that the genre is a little bit short in quality.

Fùcking tedious guitar solos. :rolleyes:

[Peeler]

:music:


:wave:

[Ashberto]

[arse-nick (avid-analogue-addict)]

Status Quo were never recognised as cutting edge musical giants, just a good-time r&b band, that happened to be massive. (I bought Pile Driver :hide: )

The era was swamped with some tedious guitar solos, but there was some quality bands treading the boards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnVugAQI9qU

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFs9YAH9Q_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5vau-djSrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52WvFy0Id3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzRpP0dFkNY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KmbUCwkyE
Thing is we could go on all day here, the early/mid 70's was full of bands with their own signatures, played and wrote all their own music, recorded at least one album a year, played loads of gigs, took lots of drugs, drank loads of liqueur and could still get up on stage and play for a couple of hours.

[Islington Exile]

[Doughboy-TSL]

[Ashberto]

Sensational Alex Harvey Band? No they weren't.

[agwee or disagwee??]

Certainly, most of the punk era was lacklustre banality, with Television, Magazine etc being the exceptions (the former obv not being English).

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]