General Music Chat

"Except for BOA, I've never heard of any of the obscure bands being mentioned here by anyone."

I guess that was the point of this thread, to share things you like that are obscure. So check out the links and if you like what you hear comment.

Some more obscurities:

The Flock
Gypsy
Seatrain
Pacific Gas & Electric

Yea, I remember PG&E

Have you ever listened to the message of their biggest hit? It was written just for you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HmSomEHZ0


Honestly, I don't know how people find the time to listen to new (or obscure) music today. It was easier before the internet when it was all on the radio. Now even radio has splintered in smaller specific genres that don't stretch any boundaries of my imagination.

Any obscure bands I could name since the 90s is because I saw them live, and that would be literally thousands of obscure artists. Saw 6 of them last night and couldn't tell you their names...but they were all fantastic or they wouldn't get a gig in San Fran.




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Jook

"During the time you were active" ??

I'm currently playing with two different bands, no rough schedules or road work like the old days of course but still... plus I jam with another sometimes about 50 miles from me just because I like them. (and everybody needs a bass man)

What do I need to do to be "active?"

Hint - I'm not doing another survey in Buckhead!

Talbot

Hint - I'm not doing another survey in Buckhead!

Talbot

I'm amazed you survived it in the first place.

My son and I pulled up at a convenience store in Buckhead once. There were about 17 scary crackheads hanging out in the parking lot. Put it in reverse....


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BOA...Trapeze...obscure? Not where I grew up (Ohio). Likewise Crack The Sky, an American band (formed by John Palumbo) out of WVA.

Sea Level? Very big for a while in the late 70s, but the songwriting kinda went south after Randall Bramblett left. I still try to sneak in some of their stuff around here (for ex., Had To Fall), but it's illegal in Tampa, so I gotta be real careful. Jazz-influenced music can get you arrested down here, or worse, blackballed in any live venue. I suspect BOA would be totally acceptable, tho.

i've been playing out, performing different styles of jazz for yrs....straightahead, bebop, hard bop, gypsy jazz, jazzgrass, fusion....you name it.

those times when it wasn't real obvious "straight ahead jazz"....often someone (often a younger person) has come up and enthusiastically asked "say, what kind of music is this? what do you call it?".

to which i conspiratorially reply in a hushed tone while darting my eyes around the room..."well, don't tell anyone, but it's JAZZ". often met by their reply..."wow, i never knew i LIKED jazz!"

my exp is it's best not to underestimate your audience. i played almost as much jazz in Fayetteville/Springdale/Rogers/Benton AR in the early '80's as i did when i lived in NYC! YMMV

and i play plenty of jazz here in MID MO! build it. they'll come.

listened to a band named Camel quite a bit out at Turtle's farm..in the mid 1970's.. bet nobody has heard of them.. they were sorta regional..
here is a taste of Camel.. Talbot these are symphonic rock dudes..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTVnCyDoQlQ

Seems like I've helped steer this thread a bit OT, but if you're referring to the English prog band Camel, yep, I'm familiar w/ 'em. I was on a steady diet of prog back in the day--I had older friends who schooled me on "good" music, FM was in it's early days (remember when they regularly played complete albums--sans commercials?) and w/ my Dad being a horn man... A friend of mine in Columbus had a great local band called Casper, and they played stuff that few folks had ever heard of--and no other bands even attempted. So I got exposed to a lot of obscure music.

Someone here mentioned how it's changed--become so fractionalized (is that an actual word?)--w/ the web and all, and I had the same thought a while back. Today it's less about the music and all about the $$$. It's a shame...