"Huge" bands who are 'forgotten'

[Sig SilverPrinter]

Feck knows, but not exactly "huge" bands, eh?

bc

granted they were never stadium rock bands but huge in my life

 

[CharlieB]

The only really great (and underrated) 3-letter band are XTC... discuss.

Never ever got the true recognition they deserved. IMO their final 'official' album Wasp Star Apple Venus 2 was them at their very best.
Don't get me started.

 

[CharlieB]

Ok, ok.

Hatfield And The North (more cult than huge, I grant you)
Caravan
(linked by bass maestro Richard Sinclair in both)

 

[oscarplu]

Sleeper (Louise Wener, what a babe!!!)
Catatonia (Cerys, what a babe!!!!)

 

[albal]

crass

 

[Flying_Monkey]

crass

You know, they really were something. And genuinely clever, unlike Chumbawumba, who I met as a result of some campaign a few years ago and who were right dipsticks. How about The Subhumans then...?

"Are you prepared to die for your beliefs, or just to dye your hair?" Classic...

 

[Bay Runner]

70s Rock On

So oldies from the 70s

Blackfoot Sue

Hawkwind

Wishbone Ash

Nazareth

Neil Young's Crazy Horse

Sweet

Slade

T Rex

Mike Oldfield

Slack Babbath

 

[Ivan Ardon]

Sweet

T Rex

Both are still touring and popular in Germany. I saw them both last month at a motorcycle festival (with some replacement band members, naturally).

 

[ufkacbln]

Hawkwind!

For those of us of a "certain age" -Stacia?

 

[Saluki]

Barclay James Harvest.
The Alan Partridge Project (Ahaa! - OK maybe it was Parsons)
The Wonderstuff
Smokie
Half Man Half Biscuit

Where are any of that lot now?

A couple of years ago I groomed the dogs of Smokie's keyboard player. Nice bloke.
Saw the Wonderstuff in London somewhere with some friends. Didn't mean to go, there was a spare ticket. They were great.

 

[Black Country Ste]

Saxon were/are ace!
The lead singer was interviewed on Planet Rock (DAB) the other afternoon when I was painting the bathroom.
747 Strangers in the night-excellence, probably my fave HM track.

Again, 1 min 15 in...

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd4dzyuzSdc&feature=related

I WAS THERE!

That was an awesome night.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Tears for Fears
Rainbow
The Farm - not a fan particularly but they seem to have fallen totally into obscurity
Heart

HMHB still going strong and superb entertainment.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Transvision Vamp ... I drooled over the lead singer when I was a kid!

Wendy James is still recording - I heard a recent album on Deezer. Her voice is okay, but the lyrics were gibberish...

 

[asterix]

Amon Duul ii

Was at a gig in Epsom around 1971/2

Never knew we were seeing the birth of Krautrock!

 

[asterix]

..and then there was the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Kingston-on-Thames around the same time. Awesome.