best under-rated band

[Moficky]

Steve Miller Band ; Traffic ; Blue Cheer ; Big Brother.

[ghost-57]

Faith No More, TOOL, Jane's Addiction.

[eddiebob]

Humble Pie, Mountain. Ed B

[Twizzler]

Steve Miller was highly rated not under rated and well known. High talent and great music.

Humble Pie was was most under rated and not well promoted in later years, very sad.

Jeff Beck was an egotistical asshole, but highly under rated.


OK I'll bite. I've discovered alot of video of bands I thought I'd never find and I'm still discovering a few new names every now and again on Youtube. I've been saving the url as most of these are really hard to find in a search. Unfortunetly Youtube or the user has been taking these videos down in part to new and old copyright infringements laws. Some of this may end up being lost forever. I've saved a brief with the url. In this case I put together a little history documentery sort of. Enjoy----

New old discovery, why I’ve never heard of this early hard rock band I don’t know but they have the most interesting history.
They were right in the middle of when all those great early rockers who many knew each other, were in a band for a month or tour and broke up to form or jockey to a new band. CACTUS was one of those 60’s to 70’s Rock eara trilogy bands whose story was lost in history but musically epic to later stylistically influence the next generations of Hard Rock bands. The fact Iron Butterfly and Cream were the major influences, but Cactus never gets mentioned; for bands down the road like Led Zepplin like Ted Nugent from Amoby Dukes and Ronnie James Dio from Elf and many Rock bands that went Hard Rock that followed . Cactus falls right into the trilogy. I.E. Smalls Faces Steve Marriot, I.E. the Nazz with Todd Rundgren and Jeff Beck I.E. Spencer Davis Group to Traffic and Steve Winwood, I.E. the Byrds with David Crosby which turns into the Yardbyrds. I.E. John Mayall and Eric Clapton joins the Yardbyrds then quits giving way for, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Peter Frampton joined Humble Pie, I.E. Blind Faith join Clapton Winwood Ginger Baker which then forms Cream, I.E.Vanila Fudge merge Cactus, Iron Butterfly, Appice, Bogert. I.E. Small Faces continued with the guy who looks like Paul McCartney since Steve Marriot left they hired Rod Stewart as emerging singer and Jeff Beck and Ron Wood on guitars. Around that time Beck must have been two or three timing bands as he was also in the Small Faces. Ron Wood hears the Rolling Stones looking and dumps the Small Faces connection. I.E. then try outs and forming of Led Zeppelin and ties.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZSeY...eature=related Cactus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAMJvdnR2E




Later Yardbirds with Jimmy Page well developed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mQvW0ROag
Spencer Davis Group with Steve Winwood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaVD7...eature=related
Early stuff the Nazz with Todd Rundgren and Jeff Beck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJVCcm7JL_4
Traffic with Steve Winwood on guitar singing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_nwb...eature=related
Blind Faith with Winwood Clapton and Baker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq5oJ...eature=related
Ron Wood and Rod Stewart leave the Jeff Beck and Cactus collaborations and join other guitarist of the Faces to create the Small Faces.
After Jeff Beck was injured during Cactus and Cactus split he wanted to put together a super power trio he could head line and have more control over the direction with his unique approach forming Beck, Bogert and Appice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBpSe...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Aq9...eature=related Cactus reunite in late 90’s but the singer Rune gets shot to death in a drug deal gone bad, sad ain’t it ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7ODYNuoiE
Carmin Appice has got to be one of the great long standing rock drummers of all time. From these early bands to better known in later bands like Rainbow and Ritchie Blackmore, Black Sabbath, Ronnie James Dio, and other rock to metal bands then many many more bands and later collaberations i.e. Joe Satriani and Toto. You just have to put him up there with Keith Moon and John Bonham but he seemed to last.
Tim Bogert influential bass player extraordinaire from the early Vanilia Fudge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aWFaZgwerY
Again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10aXR8vxzHQ You can see where Bogert’s style even influenced Jimi Hendrix scary.
Making a case, you’ll really enjoy this jam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcjAg...eature=related yep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9p-9...eature=related

At least I’ve learned some new discoveries of Cactus and Vanilla Fudge * Carmin Appice and Tim Bogert and their impact and shaping of the trilogy of R&R.
You are going to have to copy and paste the links into your url. Let me know if there is anything you would add to this I might like to know. Thanks, Aaron



Oh shit Youtube is killing all the videos. This documentery is now shot and I never got a single one of them saved. F* Youtube!

[pete1958]

King Krimson

[eddiebob]

I had the chance to see King Crimson in 1974, as a backup band. Robin Trower, King Crimson, and Ten Years After. Great show! Ed B

[ilovekittens]

Dax Riggs former singer of Acid Bath.

Dax Riggs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbG7r...eature=related

Acid Bath Featuring one of Moficky's ex-girlfriends: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQM-A...eature=related Trivia bonus this song has audio clips from two classic movies one at the beginning of the song, and one at 1:35. What are the two movies? ILK

[Moficky]

Alvin Lee and Ten Yeears After were the Best sounding band at Woodstock, best I can remember. Kinda fuzzy from wine and Hash. Crosby, stills and Nash sucked.First day , John Sebastian by himself - no lovin spoonfull and Richie havens blew me away(Accoustic ). Wanted to see Henndrix but he didnt show until Monday morning. I had to get bacck to work --- been there 4 days already. Dave

[Moficky]

Hitched to San Fran years ago . Bill Graham said I was too young to get in -- I said ask your momma about last night. He laughed. Let me in for free. J. Airplane rocked my world. Dave.

[eddiebob]

I missed the Fillmore East/West by several years. The best we could do down here was the Warehouse in New Orleans. And it was just that. A warehouse on the banks of the Mississippi River. Saw some pretty good shows there. Allman Brothers, Blue Oyster Cult, etc. Ed B