Exploring unheralded rock songs from many genres including classic rock, hard rock, psych, garage, metal, proto-punk, punk, post-punk, and the occasional blues tune...
Ah, 1967, the year when garage rock started to turn heavy. Here is a lost classic from the only single ever released by Texans' The Merlynn Tree. By the way, if you ever see this 45 in the wild, pick it up as it is worth $$$.
Not too long ago, a Stone the Crows tune was featured here in Deep Rock Mining. Well, just by chance, I happened to stumble on more great vocal work from their lead singer. This time, it is off of her first solo album.
London, the punk band(not to be confused with the American heavy metal band), was around for a short time during the dawn of punk. Here they are off of one of their 1977 EPs with a salute to the leader of the Banshees.
Warm Sounds was an English duo whose biggest hit was the pop single, Birds and Bees, that charted in Great Britain in 1967. It wasn't long, though, before their music took a decidedly psychedelic turn. Here they are from a year after their big hit, with a two-sided psych single that plays as one song.
Back in about 2003, I finally ticked off a bucket list item by attending my first Bruce Springsteen concert(at the Boston Garden). It was everything that I was told it would be. Bruce was/is a great performer, he and the band gave it all they had, and one definitely got their money's worth as the band played for three and a half hours. That said, only being the most casual of Bruce fans going into the show, I felt like I was at my older brother's party. I was happy that I was there, but didn't quite get all the jokes. So, while it was a fun time, the experience didn't launch me into being a bigger fan. A few years later, I started digging into Bruce's catalog a little deeper and there are some gems that sound like Bruce, but then again don't. See if you can understand what I'm rambling on about. Here is Bruce from his first album with a stretched out tune with a lot of organ.
Third World War was a band organized by Briton James Fenton and featured the songs of Terry Stamp and Jim Avery. The goal was to create a working class band. They were successful in that regard, but they did not play nice with the record company, leading to the band's demise by 1972. Here they are from their second and final release, Third World War II. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJySwr1U0cM
In addition to providing the lead vocals for 22 Nazareth albums over the course of nearly 45 years, Dan McCafferty found the time to release a couple of solo albums, as well. Here is a cover of the Isaac Hayes/David Porter penned You Got Me Hummin' from his eponymous 1975 solo debut.
