Check out the boot Jimi Hendrix & Traffic - A Session. Only 3 tracks/jams, all three worth owning! Funny I posted this before listening to the episode & Pete features the Traffic/Hendrix disk!
Hey Pete, I've liked Rosdmaster for ages, cool that you've finally picked up on them. Lots of interesting stuff as usual, some of which I'll definitely be checking out! Thanks again!
Nice pickup on Roadmaster. Their first album was produced by Todd Rundgren and featured a slightly different lineup. They were great live and opened for many well known bands here in the midwest. Rock Candy did a fine job on those reissues but if you want the first one you will have to find the vinyl version. Thanks for shining some light on them.👍🏻
@jimfritz2087 There are some great clips on CZcams from their reunion show at the Vogue in Indianapolis. I have it on VHS, that's how long ago its been!
@Kalprog I used to work for several promoters in/ around Chicago in the 70s - early 80s. The name sure sounds familiar. I either saw them or saw the name on a concert poster. Ok. The 1st album, self titled " Road Master". I remember selling it at the record store and they opened for someone ( a dark + Foggy night ). Parts of the 70s remain fuzzy !
Funny timing (or maybe not a coincidence) - this band came up over on the most recent UK Connection/AOR episode as an example of good/lesser-known 70's AOR (the band actually started in the late 60's as Pure Funk). Their albums s/t, Sweet Music & Hey World are very good records. They also had 2 80's albums: Fortress & Live + 5, plus the One For The Road Live video from '94...From Wiki: "Roadmaster toured with Pat Travers and Blue Öyster Cult and opened throughout the Midwest for mainstream rock acts such as The Cars, Cheap Trick, Peter Frampton, Eddie Money, Todd Rundgren, Rush, and ZZ Top". Wow nice concert lineups! My other choices for lesser-known 70's AOR to possibly feature on future shows: Airborne - s/t Chilliwack/Rockerbox City Boy - s/t, The Day The Earth Caught Fire, Dinner At The Ritz, Young Men Gone West Harlequin/Victim Of A Song King Of Hearts/Close But No Guitar Legs Diamond - s/t, Uncut Diamond & Fire Power Mama's Pride - s/t Michael Stanley Band/Cabin Fever & Stagepass New England - s/t Shooting Star - s/t Target - s/t & Captured Trillion - s/t Trooper/Knock 'Em Dead Kid 1994/Please Stand By & s/t
nice Roadmaster pick-ups Pete! Roadmaster has always been big here in Indiana and the midwest for obvious reasons. of course the Jimi & Traffic and Floyd are now on my radar brother.. \m/ \m/
Listening to: Back catalogue of Tyner McCoy - Dimensions and Enlightenment are Jazz brilliance. Linked to McCoy - Alpnonse Mouzon (Drums) and Mind Transplant. What a loss Tommy Bolin is to music. His playing on this album matches that of Spectrum with Cobham. Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie The Gary McFarland Orchestra - Misplaced Cow Poke worth the album alone Trapeze - Lost Tapes vol 1 - several. Tracks could have been on any of their albums. The Tragic Hip - Fully Completely Raspberries- Some of the 70s best pop songs that stand tall today.
Delighted to see that you're getting into CONAN. Every album is well worth checking out, excellent live band. They're actually from Liverpool, although I don't hear too many Beatles influences!
I think you'll dig the UFO. I just got it and it's fantastic. The remaster sounds great, and the live album is fiery. Enjoy! Looking forward to your review.
Went and listened to the Watchers. Sounded great. Ordered "Black Abyss". I thought I'd heard Conan, but I went and listened to a song and the singer didn't sound familiar. Ordered "Monnos". Thanks for the info.
How are you doing with the new Priest? I asked you on another but it was probably buried...it must be a setting issue but I don't have reply prompts anymore, pita to chase up.
@@seekah1 I think it kix ass, honestly. I wasn't impressed with a couple of the early singles, but most have grown on me. I think it's the best album released so far this yr. 8.5/10 for me.
1. The Who Tommy 3. The Doors L.A Woman 3. Aerosmith Toys In The Attic 4. Styx The Grand Illusion 5. AC/DC The Razors Edge 6. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
New stuff on rotation: The Obsessed Slift Big Scenic Nowhere Bruce Dickinson Judas Priest Chronicles of Father Robin Mr. Bison Older stuff: Pike vs the Automaton High on Fire Y&T Type O Negative
Nick drake - Family Tree. Nick drake- Made to love magic Roger Bunn -Piece of Mind. Queen - The concert for Kampuchea, the 1979 broadcast. Cat Stevens -The Early broadcast ,Classic transmission from 1970 & 1971. Paladin- Paladin/Charge(2 CDs) Mandalaband -Legacy the story of….1975-1978(4 CDs). I know this doesn’t look impressive to some but at least I’m discovering something on my own 🎼🎸🥁🎧❤️
Maybe but will pale in comparison when factoring in that Hendrix only recorded under his own name for basically 4 years. Right now there are literally many hundreds of Hendrix albums out there - maybe even thousands - and any "new" releases still sell very well. A Hendrix fanatic friend of mine personally owns over 500 & he says that he knows he doesn't have quite a few. Sure many contain a lot of the same music but still...Zappa is another one, I think there's A LOT in the 'pipeline' that can still be released plus he totally controlled his own music so the family can release what they want
With Johnny Winter, recorded live at a NY bar called The Scene Club March 1968 (videos on YT). I have it on boots - TBH dreadful sound quality & very sloppy playing (Morrison was supposedly drunk out of his mind & sounds that way "singing") - the description "chaotic" is an understatement as it also involved a fight. Much better '68 boots (but without Morrison) are from Live At The Café Au Go Go (with Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, Harvey Brooks & Buddy Miles), as well as A Session (with Traffic) featuring: Dave Mason/Chris Wood/Steve Winwood...Funny I posted this before listening to the episode & Pete features the Traffic/Hendrix disk!
Those Roadmaster albums are great! I've had those on Lp for years until the Rock Candy reissues. I'd throw Trillion in as a comparison as well. I'm glad you picked them up and like them. I just got that Arcos album(amongst other cds) today from Ken! Between ordering from LE and trading in some records for Prog cds... I'm swamped!
Black Sabbath. I decided to listen to them since they are one of the best metal bands of all time. And one of the most influential bands not just in metal history, but music history. Masters of Reality is my favorite Sabbath album. The 70s was Sabbath’s highlight of their career. I also listened to Duran Duran, Manic Street Preachers and Helloween during spring break. I enjoyed listening to all of them. Helloween is one of only two S Tier power metal bands that are brilliant. There are some about two A tier, some B and C tiers, and a majority of D and F tier bands since I don’t give a flying fuck about power metal at all. Those operatic vocals bullshit I just can’t handle. I couldn’t listen to those shite vocals and they’re just too over the top for me personally. I rather listen to Kerry King and Kirk Hammett’s guitar solos over any of the other power metal guitar solos any day with exceptions of Helloween and Gamma Ray. Give me some symphonic metal, I would rather listen to that over power metal anyday. I was listening to Epica and Nightwish, two of the best bands in that genre. I was also listening to Lacuna Coil, more gothic metal, but definitely one of the best. I also listened to Van Halen since I hadn’t listened to them this year so far, but I did now. Eddie Van Halen was one of the most talented and influential guitarists of all time. Van Halen was one of the funner bands of the late 70s/early 80s. Unpopular opinion, but 5150 is the fourth best album in their catalogue. They had snyths in the album, but I thought it was great. Sammy Hagar can sing. Sammy is the better singer, but David Lee Roth was the better frontman. I also listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd during break as well. One of my all time favorite bands, up in the top 20. The 70s era is so awesome, their debut album is just one of the best of all time. Free Bird never gets old. I agree with you on Vicious Cycles. That's their best album outside of the 70s classic era albums. Definitely more country on that album, but it's brilliant.
Always happy to see another listening room, I've been jamming The Ramones lately and it got me curious as to if you enjoy them personally, and if there's a chance for a Ramones discography ranking? My favorite is Brain Drain, love that production and the songs kickass
I listened to some Arco Iris a while back - the non-English lyrics don't make it for me (especially on the first 5 or so albums) but YMMV. More prog than fusion to me but definitely featuring some jazz influences - I think their later records (laye 70's/1980's) tend more towards jazz, after the band relocated to the US (also start recording in English). "Gob" is a good fusion track, so are "Cristalizando Los Rayos", "Necksa" & "Djin"...Walter Trout Band - pretty good new album but nowhere close to his best (Transition, Tellin' Stories, Prisoner Of A Dream, Live, Face The Music, Live Trout, The Outsider, Blues For The Modern Daze)... Some stuff I've been listening to lately: Raspberries - due to Eric Carmen's passing, their 4 original 70's albums are great Bobby Tench's bands - again just recently passed: early 70's Jeff Beck, Boxer, Gass, Hanson (UK), (later) Humble Pie, Hummingbird, Streetwalkers, Widowmaker Mattador - one 90's AOR album called Save Us From Ourselves The Watch - very Gabriel/Genesis-sounding prog band with a number of good albums in the 2000's Paul Butterfield Blues Band (and with Better Days) - for some reason always 'discounted' this band but have now 'discovered' some great stuff from '67-'73
Pick up some Therion albums on CD, Pete. They're a symphonic metal band from somewhere in Sweden with the main guy Christopher Johansson doing the project retiring from singing in 2006 after the Lemuria and Sirius B studio duality of albums. Check out Therion, Pete! You don't know what you're missing.
loving these listening rooms! so inspiring! I am looking forward to the next one
Love the listening room. Always discovering more great bands from this show.
Most of Traffic played on " Electric Ladyland" 1968 .
Check out the boot Jimi Hendrix & Traffic - A Session. Only 3 tracks/jams, all three worth owning! Funny I posted this before listening to the episode & Pete features the Traffic/Hendrix disk!
Hey Pete, I've liked Rosdmaster for ages, cool that you've finally picked up on them. Lots of interesting stuff as usual, some of which I'll definitely be checking out! Thanks again!
Roadmaster were an excellent band. Their bass player. Toby Myers, played in John Mellencamp's band for many years.
Pete love the rapid-fire format! Cheers
Brian
Nice pickup on Roadmaster. Their first album was produced by Todd Rundgren and featured a slightly different lineup. They were great live and opened for many well known bands here in the midwest. Rock Candy did a fine job on those reissues but if you want the first one you will have to find the vinyl version. Thanks for shining some light on them.👍🏻
That name rings a bell. I'm sure I saw them somewhere . Thanks
@jimfritz2087 There are some great clips on CZcams from their reunion show at the Vogue in Indianapolis. I have it on VHS, that's how long ago its been!
Yea, the first one I could only find on Lp.
@Kalprog I used to work for several promoters in/ around Chicago in the 70s - early 80s. The name sure sounds familiar. I either saw them or saw the name on a concert poster. Ok. The 1st album, self titled " Road Master". I remember selling it at the record store and they opened for someone ( a dark + Foggy night ). Parts of the 70s remain fuzzy !
Funny timing (or maybe not a coincidence) - this band came up over on the most recent UK Connection/AOR episode as an example of good/lesser-known 70's AOR (the band actually started in the late 60's as Pure Funk). Their albums s/t, Sweet Music & Hey World are very good records. They also had 2 80's albums: Fortress & Live + 5, plus the One For The Road Live video from '94...From Wiki: "Roadmaster toured with Pat Travers and Blue Öyster Cult and opened throughout the Midwest for mainstream rock acts such as The Cars, Cheap Trick, Peter Frampton, Eddie Money, Todd Rundgren, Rush, and ZZ Top". Wow nice concert lineups!
My other choices for lesser-known 70's AOR to possibly feature on future shows:
Airborne - s/t
Chilliwack/Rockerbox
City Boy - s/t, The Day The Earth Caught Fire, Dinner At The Ritz, Young Men Gone West
Harlequin/Victim Of A Song
King Of Hearts/Close But No Guitar
Legs Diamond - s/t, Uncut Diamond & Fire Power
Mama's Pride - s/t
Michael Stanley Band/Cabin Fever & Stagepass
New England - s/t
Shooting Star - s/t
Target - s/t & Captured
Trillion - s/t
Trooper/Knock 'Em Dead Kid
1994/Please Stand By & s/t
nice Roadmaster pick-ups Pete! Roadmaster has always been big here in Indiana and the midwest for obvious reasons. of course the Jimi & Traffic and Floyd are now on my radar brother.. \m/ \m/
Loving these Floyd boots !
Listening to:
Back catalogue of Tyner McCoy - Dimensions and Enlightenment are Jazz brilliance.
Linked to McCoy - Alpnonse Mouzon (Drums) and Mind Transplant. What a loss Tommy Bolin is to music. His playing on this album matches that of Spectrum with Cobham.
Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie
The Gary McFarland Orchestra - Misplaced Cow Poke worth the album alone
Trapeze - Lost Tapes vol 1 - several. Tracks could have been on any of their albums.
The Tragic Hip - Fully Completely
Raspberries- Some of the 70s best pop songs that stand tall today.
Definitely 4️⃣8️⃣ hr hidden days. lol. All kidding aside/ you get “ full value” out of your time. Thanks again Pete 👍💯
Delighted to see that you're getting into CONAN. Every album is well worth checking out, excellent live band. They're actually from Liverpool, although I don't hear too many Beatles influences!
I’ve been digesting Judas Priest’s ‘Invincible Shield’
Awesome to see Pete exploring Conan. Immense doom band!
I think you'll dig the UFO. I just got it and it's fantastic. The remaster sounds great, and the live album is fiery. Enjoy! Looking forward to your review.
Shame the postage from the US is so bloody expensive!
Thanks Pete that turbulence is great
going to check out Conan and the other one Watchers 🤘🤘
Pretty cool 👌🏻
Older Running Wild and Destruction. First Rush record while I work on 50th anniversary piece about it.
Went and listened to the Watchers. Sounded great. Ordered "Black Abyss". I thought I'd heard Conan, but I went and listened to a song and the singer didn't sound familiar. Ordered "Monnos". Thanks for the info.
How are you doing with the new Priest? I asked you on another but it was probably buried...it must be a setting issue but I don't have reply prompts anymore, pita to chase up.
@@seekah1 I think it kix ass, honestly. I wasn't impressed with a couple of the early singles, but most have grown on me. I think it's the best album released so far this yr. 8.5/10 for me.
1. The Who Tommy
3. The Doors L.A Woman
3. Aerosmith Toys In The Attic
4. Styx The Grand Illusion
5. AC/DC The Razors Edge
6. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
New stuff on rotation:
The Obsessed
Slift
Big Scenic Nowhere
Bruce Dickinson
Judas Priest
Chronicles of Father Robin
Mr. Bison
Older stuff:
Pike vs the Automaton
High on Fire
Y&T
Type O Negative
Flo and Eddie produced roadmaster fortress
Nick drake - Family Tree. Nick drake- Made to love magic Roger Bunn -Piece of Mind. Queen - The concert for Kampuchea, the 1979 broadcast. Cat Stevens -The Early broadcast ,Classic transmission from 1970 & 1971. Paladin- Paladin/Charge(2 CDs) Mandalaband -Legacy the story of….1975-1978(4 CDs). I know this doesn’t look impressive to some but at least I’m discovering something on my own 🎼🎸🥁🎧❤️
It's crazy how much Hendrix stuff has been released since his death. Imagine what a band like the stones will have when they are all gone.
Maybe but will pale in comparison when factoring in that Hendrix only recorded under his own name for basically 4 years. Right now there are literally many hundreds of Hendrix albums out there - maybe even thousands - and any "new" releases still sell very well. A Hendrix fanatic friend of mine personally owns over 500 & he says that he knows he doesn't have quite a few. Sure many contain a lot of the same music but still...Zappa is another one, I think there's A LOT in the 'pipeline' that can still be released plus he totally controlled his own music so the family can release what they want
The Jim Morrison and Hendrix jam was an interesting recording if you haven't heard it yet! 😃
I have it…it’s pretty terrible.
With Johnny Winter, recorded live at a NY bar called The Scene Club March 1968 (videos on YT). I have it on boots - TBH dreadful sound quality & very sloppy playing (Morrison was supposedly drunk out of his mind & sounds that way "singing") - the description "chaotic" is an understatement as it also involved a fight. Much better '68 boots (but without Morrison) are from Live At The Café Au Go Go (with Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, Harvey Brooks & Buddy Miles), as well as A Session (with Traffic) featuring: Dave Mason/Chris Wood/Steve Winwood...Funny I posted this before listening to the episode & Pete features the Traffic/Hendrix disk!
Conan - "Evidence of Mortality" is amazing. Think they're coming to Chicago. 🤔
What's the soundquality?
Of?
Hey Pete when’s the new bookcase arrive.😂😂
Have you checked out Alchemy fire be good to see a review power/prog metal
Some great music there....
Ugh, hey Pete are you related to Don??
Those Roadmaster albums are great! I've had those on Lp for years until the Rock Candy reissues. I'd throw Trillion in as a comparison as well. I'm glad you picked them up and like them. I just got that Arcos album(amongst other cds) today from Ken! Between ordering from LE and trading in some records for Prog cds... I'm swamped!
Trillion was a quality band
Black Sabbath. I decided to listen to them since they are one of the best metal bands of all time. And one of the most influential bands not just in metal history, but music history. Masters of Reality is my favorite Sabbath album. The 70s was Sabbath’s highlight of their career. I also listened to Duran Duran, Manic Street Preachers and Helloween during spring break. I enjoyed listening to all of them. Helloween is one of only two S Tier power metal bands that are brilliant. There are some about two A tier, some B and C tiers, and a majority of D and F tier bands since I don’t give a flying fuck about power metal at all. Those operatic vocals bullshit I just can’t handle. I couldn’t listen to those shite vocals and they’re just too over the top for me personally. I rather listen to Kerry King and Kirk Hammett’s guitar solos over any of the other power metal guitar solos any day with exceptions of Helloween and Gamma Ray. Give me some symphonic metal, I would rather listen to that over power metal anyday. I was listening to Epica and Nightwish, two of the best bands in that genre. I was also listening to Lacuna Coil, more gothic metal, but definitely one of the best. I also listened to Van Halen since I hadn’t listened to them this year so far, but I did now. Eddie Van Halen was one of the most talented and influential guitarists of all time. Van Halen was one of the funner bands of the late 70s/early 80s. Unpopular opinion, but 5150 is the fourth best album in their catalogue. They had snyths in the album, but I thought it was great. Sammy Hagar can sing. Sammy is the better singer, but David Lee Roth was the better frontman. I also listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd during break as well. One of my all time favorite bands, up in the top 20. The 70s era is so awesome, their debut album is just one of the best of all time. Free Bird never gets old. I agree with you on Vicious Cycles. That's their best album outside of the 70s classic era albums. Definitely more country on that album, but it's brilliant.
Always happy to see another listening room, I've been jamming The Ramones lately and it got me curious as to if you enjoy them personally, and if there's a chance for a Ramones discography ranking? My favorite is Brain Drain, love that production and the songs kickass
pete's not a big punk guy
Not a fan, sorry.
@@seaoftranquilityprog, alright no worries brother. We all like different things, thats what makes it fun (and I appreciate the reply)!
I listened to some Arco Iris a while back - the non-English lyrics don't make it for me (especially on the first 5 or so albums) but YMMV. More prog than fusion to me but definitely featuring some jazz influences - I think their later records (laye 70's/1980's) tend more towards jazz, after the band relocated to the US (also start recording in English). "Gob" is a good fusion track, so are "Cristalizando Los Rayos", "Necksa" & "Djin"...Walter Trout Band - pretty good new album but nowhere close to his best (Transition, Tellin' Stories, Prisoner Of A Dream, Live, Face The Music, Live Trout, The Outsider, Blues For The Modern Daze)...
Some stuff I've been listening to lately:
Raspberries - due to Eric Carmen's passing, their 4 original 70's albums are great
Bobby Tench's bands - again just recently passed: early 70's Jeff Beck, Boxer, Gass, Hanson (UK), (later) Humble Pie, Hummingbird, Streetwalkers, Widowmaker
Mattador - one 90's AOR album called Save Us From Ourselves
The Watch - very Gabriel/Genesis-sounding prog band with a number of good albums in the 2000's
Paul Butterfield Blues Band (and with Better Days) - for some reason always 'discounted' this band but have now 'discovered' some great stuff from '67-'73
There is almost as much music as hydrogen in the universe..
Pick up some Therion albums on CD, Pete. They're a symphonic metal band from somewhere in Sweden with the main guy Christopher Johansson doing the project retiring from singing in 2006 after the Lemuria and Sirius B studio duality of albums. Check out Therion, Pete! You don't know what you're missing.
I doubt that he has never listened to Therion before
I have a couple of at Theron releases…not the biggest fan to be honest.
@@conspiracionesy believe me Pete has listened to everything
Nice/ say it again/ you must have hidden 4️⃣8️⃣ hour days. lol. Nice 👍 job 💯. Thanks Pete