Fave bands new to you that've been around for donkeys ears

[Barking Spiders]

Since lockdown #1 and with time to spare I've 'discovered' a few fave bands -all US - who've actually been around for at least 20 years or have disbanded. It's a minor regret I'll never see them live or that I overlooked them when they were at festivals I went to. White Zombie and Filter are two such. Dunno how I missed them as I was well into other American alt-rock  stuff in the 90s.  Only came across Filter via one of producer /musician Rick Beato's vids on YT. If you don't know his YT channel I 100% recommend it.

over to you 👉

[Lozz196]

I got into Guns N Roses around 2005, and kick myself for not liking them when they came out in 86/87 (at the time they were too bluesy for me). Pretty similar story with AC/DC too. Also discovered Volbeat last year who’ve been around a while.

[Doddy]

I've got really in to The Tragically Hip over the last year or so. They are a band that I was aware of but never paid any attention to. I knew how big they were in Canada because I was over there when Gord Downie died and it was headline news, but I never sat down and really listened to them until last year. Needless to say, when I was over there again before the last lockdown, I came home with a bunch of their albums. They've easily become one of my favourite bands and I'm disappointed that I didn't check them out earlier.

[Muzz]

I was very, very late to the Rival Sons party; I'd heard a couple of tracks when they were the Hot New Thing, but dismissed them as too close to a Led Zep Tribute act, when I was talked into seeing them a few years ago. Seen them three or four times since, they're extraordinary live, but to be fair they'd moved away from the LZ bandwagon considerably by then...

Ditto Creedence Clearwater Revival (I knowwwww...); I knew a few songs (and the covers thereof), but until one day on a whim I just said 'Alexa, play Creedence' and left it going for a couple of hours, I didn't know how much I liked them...

[cetera]

One of my fave bands of all time I actually only discovered a couple of years ago...... but their first 4 albums (from 1976 - 1980) are, to my ears, masterpieces.

The band is 'Lake' - a German/British rock band with a sound somewhere between Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Wish I'd known about them earlier.... but I would have been under 10 years old at that time! 

[SumOne]

Kyuss and Electric Wizard passed me by in the 90s, I'm making up for that now. 

[Cat Burrito]

This year I have bought LPs by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and the March Violets. 48 seems a great age to have an awkward teenage Goth phase!

[GBH]

I have recently come to enjoy jethro tull, for years I just thought of them as weird folky stuff about witches delivered by cat weasel standing on one leg, actually bothered to delve a bit deeper and found out I liked it.

[Doctor J]

The big one for me was probably Steely Dan a few years ago. I went from complete novice to near obsessive in a very short space of time. At the moment, I'm going through an 80's hard/glam rock appreciation phase - I believe the young people call it "hair metal" these days - and most recently took delivery of 'Look What the Cat Dragged In' and 'Open Up and Say... Ahh!' on CD. The band is called Poison, to the uninitiated. The kind of thing my teenage self would have scoffed at back then as I was a devotee of thrash at the time. They're actually ok, it turns out 😂

Edited April 28, 2021 by Doctor J

[Rich]

I first 'discovered' Frost* when they were already 3 albums in. Most annoying was that I was about a month too late for their Bristol Thekla gig. *kicks self repeatedly*

[Barking Spiders]

1 hour ago, Cat Burrito said:

This year I have bought LPs by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and the March Violets. 48 seems a great age to have an awkward teenage Goth phase!

I've must've be nurturing my inner Goth for 30+ years then as I still play albums by these geezers 😁. Spinning Round by RLYL is one of my go to tunes for putting pedal to the metal .

 

[Barking Spiders]

1 hour ago, Doctor J said:

The big one for me was probably Steely Dan a few years ago. I went from complete novice to near obsessive in a very short space of time. At the moment, I'm going through an 80's hard/glam rock appreciation phase - I believe the young people call it "hair metal" these days - and most recently took delivery of 'Look What the Cat Dragged In' and 'Open Up and Say... Ahh!' on CD. The band is called Poison, to the uninitiated. The kind of thing my teenage self would have scoffed at back then as I was a devotee of thrash at the time. They're actually ok, it turns out 😂

You got any love for Motley Crue by any chance? I don't have much time for the rest of the Hair scene but the Crue had a good run in the 80s

[Doctor J]

Oh yeah, definitely, they were a gateway band for me in the mid 80's. They were always a bit heavier than a lot of their peers which worked for me. I was one of the few who loved, and still loves, the Corabi album 😁

Poison just weren't acceptable to me on any level back then but, now, I can see there was a little bit more behind the make-up than I gave them credit for. Not much more, but still more 😂 If I'm feeling brave, I might pick up some Ratt soon.

 

Edited April 28, 2021 by Doctor J

[Muzz]

You might like this, then...early(ish -84) and very obscure LA/Hair Rock...more to it than a lot of its contemporaries (that bass intro is great), sadly they only ever released one EP...which I paid an arm and a leg for on import...  

 

[el borracho]

4 hours ago, cetera said:

One of my fave bands of all time I actually only discovered a couple of years ago...... but their first 4 albums (from 1976 - 1980) are, to my ears, masterpieces.

The band is 'Lake' - a German/British rock band with a sound somewhere between Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Wish I'd known about them earlier.... but I would have been under 10 years old at that time! 

Me too except I got close 20 years ago!

In the late 90s I found a record I wanted on a stall at Tynemouth Market but they were doing 10 albums for something like £3 - so I randomly picked 9 I'd never heard of before - Lake's first album being one of them. Shortly afterwards I redecorated & the record player went in the loft never to be seen again - until last year.

I dug the vinyl out & came across this Lake album still sealed in it's cellophane after 20+ years so I opened it & gave it a listen - it got me on the first song. Great stuff -  especially some of the solos on the outro of Between The Lines.

Another one I've discovered during lockdown is Max Webster (& Kim Mitchell's solo albums). I recall seeing their albums in the shops when I was 16 or so but had never heard them. A really good band.

[Andermtc]

Surprised no-one has mentioned Toy Matinee yet.

Couple of others I've picked up on are Save Ferris and No Doubt.

[cetera]

10 minutes ago, el borracho said:

Me too except I got close 20 years ago!

In the late 90s I found a record I wanted on a stall at Tynemouth Market but they were doing 10 albums for something like £3 - so I randomly picked 9 I'd never heard of before - Lake's first album being one of them. Shortly afterwards I redecorated & the record player went in the loft never to be seen again - until last year.

I dug the vinyl out & came across this Lake album still sealed in it's cellophane after 20+ years so I opened it & gave it a listen - it got me on the first song. Great stuff -  especially some of the solos on the outro of Between The Lines.

 

Lovely to share the discovery with you, Sir! Both of our lives are that much the richer for it!
 

[cetera]

8 minutes ago, Andermtc said:

Surprised no-one has mentioned Toy Matinee yet.

 

I've known about them/loved them for 10+ years, but I certainly wasn't aware of them at the time. Guy Pratt's vids have brought them to the ears of more people now than ever were fans back in the day. A fantastic album for sure!

 

[Crawford13]

I've just properly started listening to Paul Young. 

God damn Pino is good. 

[kendall]

31 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

Oh yeah, definitely, they were a gateway band for me in the mid 80's. They were always a bit heavier than a lot of their peers which worked for me. I was one of the few who loved, and still loves, the Corabi album 😁

Poison just weren't acceptable to me on any level back then but, now, I can see there was a little bit more behind the make-up than I gave them credit for. Not much more, but still more 😂 If I'm feeling brave, I might pick up some Ratt soon.

 

Another fan of the Corabi album here. Smoke The Sky is awesome.  Ratt was always my preference, great riffs and feel good tunes for the summer.

[cetera]

38 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

If I'm feeling brave, I might pick up some Ratt soon.

 

I always much preferred Ratt to Crue, Poison, etc.... they just seemed to have the edge on cool riffs and had much better guitarists.  

[Muzz]

Lack Of Communication is one of the great rock riffs...I always liked Dokken, too...

[Jonesy]

10 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

  Only came across Filter via one of producer /musician Rick Beato's vids on YT. If you don't know his YT channel I 100% recommend it.

over to you 👉

I've just recently found out that the singer from Filter is the brother of Robert Patrick, the T1000 in Terminator 2!

A couple for me are......James Gang. I hate The Eagles and always assumed they'd sound pretty similar, so never gave them a listen. Funk #49 popped up on a Spotify playlist though and I was hooked.

I watched the sound of metal on Amazon the other day (which is well worth checking out, even if you're not a metal fan), it's loosely based on a US band called Jucifer that have been out since the late 90s. Cracking noisy stuff!

[Barking Spiders]

1 hour ago, Jonesy said:

I've just recently found out that the singer from Filter is the brother of Robert Patrick, the T1000 in Terminator 2!

Huh, that I did not know. Filter's stuff would've sounded good in that film

[Cat Burrito]

16 hours ago, Doctor J said:

Oh yeah, definitely, they were a gateway band for me in the mid 80's. They were always a bit heavier than a lot of their peers which worked for me. I was one of the few who loved, and still loves, the Corabi album 😁

Poison just weren't acceptable to me on any level back then but, now, I can see there was a little bit more behind the make-up than I gave them credit for. Not much more, but still more 😂 If I'm feeling brave, I might pick up some Ratt soon.

I'm not really a Crue fan and don't like stuff that is too heavy but I thought that Corabi album was really well done. My ex-wife loved Crue but I was always more Hanoi Rocks (& if you know the history...).

After Ratt, check out Arcade. I thought the debut was good fun.