CycleChat Investigates - Glam Rock

[Oldhippy]

Musicianship at its finest. Clever, complicated but did disappear up its own b*m at times.

 

[Oldhippy]

@Drago in terms of bass players, they truly shone in the Prog period.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Glitter was good for what he was - or what he advertised himself to be (we know the rest!!)

but I always though he was rather aggressively "LOOK AT ME"
whereas T-rex and sweet and the like were more based on music and talent - then "look at me"

Slade were "look at me" but didn;t seem to take it so seriously or take themselves that seriously

Wizzard had the best Christmas song anyway!!!

my wife remembers a Top of the Pops where Saville was the presenter
and she remembers thinking it was a bit weird that Roy Wood was doing everything he could to keep all the kids near him and stop them going near Saville

and now we all know why

 

[Oldhippy]

Greenslade, Brand X were fantastic.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

If anything by sweet came on the radio and I was alone in the car then I would have the volume on full!!

same with T-Rex but maybe not so loud

 

[Oldhippy]

Heard a few big rock bands cover Sweet songs well.

 

[Gwylan]

Sitrep. A surprising early lead for T Rex, with Slade and Sweet coming up their rear.

Interesting that someone voted for he that cannot be mentioned. Didn't think any of his gang were left.

Oh, you mean "him".

 

[Rezillo]

Be Bop Deluxe did some good stuff.

I bought a bass from their bassist.

Charlie T?

BBD were great live.

 

[Gwylan]

Revisionist history. Everyone knows that the most popular glam rocker in the playgrounds of early 70s Britain was Gary Glitter.

Never knowingly described as a musician.

 

[Drago]

Charlie T?

Robbie Bryan. I think he was on their first couple of albums. They broke up and whennthey reformed Chalres Tumahai took on low end duties.

 

[stephec]

The Sweet by a huge stretch for me.
Hearing the Sweet FA album for the first time back in the day totally blew me away (my dad bought it and played it all the time). It's a bone fide heavy metal classic that I still give a regular airing.

Never heard of it until you mentioned it here, I had it on this morning but as we've only got the basic Amazon music it had some Wizzard and Mud shuffled in with it, brilliant.

 

[Drago]

Sitrep - T Rex romping away at speed. Let's hope they're wearing their seat belts this time.

 

[Gwylan]

Sitrep - T Rex romping away at speed. Let's hope they're wearing their seat belts this time.

I remember that bit of news. Roehampton wasn't it?

 

[Webbo2]

T Rex went down in my estimation after I found out Marc Bolan snubbed John Peel despite JP getting their name out there.
As a side thing I was in cycling team called T Rex. I wasn’t sure how the name about, was it because the guys who started were fans of Mark Bolan or because we were a load of old dinosaur.

 

[Oldhippy]

So many artists owe their popularity to the late great John Peel.