Some 1970's Rockers

Colin Burgess - 72 - Australian 1970's & 80's Hard Rock drummer with Master's Apprentice, His Majesty and origial drummer with AC/DC

THE MASTER'S AAPRENTICE ~ "IT'S BECAUSE I LOVE";


John Gosling - 75 - English keyboardist for The Kinks in the 70's ("Lola")

THE KINKS ~ "LOLA";


Gary Wright - 80 - American 1970's singer-songwriter ("Dream Weaver", "Love Is Alive") and keyboardist with 1960's UK band Spooky Tooth

SPOOKY TOOTH ~ "THAT WAS ONLY YESTERDAY";


SPOOKY TOOTH ~ "WAITIN FOR THE WIND":


GARY WRIGHT ~ "DREAM WEAVER";


Randy Meisner ~ 77 - Singer/guitarist/songwriter with Ricky Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, the Eagles, Poco, the Poor, Linda Ronstadt, John Stewart and solo

THE EAGLES ~ "TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT":


POCO ~ "HEART OF THE NIGHT";


Gary Rossington - 71 - Guitarist w/1970's Southern Rock bands Lynyrd Skynyrd & the Rossington Collins Band

LYNYRD SKYNYRD ~ "SWEET HOME ALABAMA";


LYNYRD SKYNYRD ~ "FREE BIRD";


Tom Leadon - 70 - Florida guitarist with 70's bands Mudcrutch and Silver as well as Linda Ronstadt

MUDCRUTCH ~ "ON THE STREET";


SILVER ~ "WHAM BAM SHANG-A-LANG";


Tony McPhee - 79 - English guitarist & singer with 1960's band the Groundhogs and Champion Jack Dupree & John Lee Hooker

THE GROUNDHOGS ~ "CROSSCUT SAW";


TONY McPHEE;


Jim Gordon; Wrecking Crew drummer w/Harry Nilson, Derek & Dominos, Joe Cocker, Frank Zappa, Alice Cooper, Steely Dan, Byrds, Beau Brummels, Johnny Rivers, CSNY, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Stone Poney, Van Dyke Parks, George Harrison, Bread, Cher

DEREK & THE DOMINOS ~ "IT'S TOO LATE";


HARRY NILSON ~ "JUMP INTO THE FIRE";


STEELY DAN ~ "RIKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER";


Ralph Humphrey - 79 - American rock drummer w/Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION ~ "KING KONG";


FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION ~ "OH MY THE SKY";


FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION ~ "LET'S MAKE THE WATER TURN BLACK";


Mick Slattery - 77 - Guitarist for 1970's British Space Rock band Hawkwind

HAWKWIND ~ "SILVER MACHINE";


HAWKWIND ~ "MOTORHEAD";


HAWKWIND ~ "ASSAULT & BATTERY";


Francis Monkman - Guitarist & keyboardist with 1970's UK Prog Rock bands Curved Air and Sky, also with Renaissance, Al Stewart, 801 (w/Brian Eno & Phil Manzanaro) the Shadows and solo, later film composer ("The Long Good Friday")

CURVED AIR ~ "IT HAPPENED TODAY";


CURVED AIR ~ "BACK STREET LOVE";


SKY ~ "TOCCATA";


Philip Shulman - 85 - Sax, horn and keyboard player with 1970's Scottish Prog Rock band Gentle Giant

GENTLE GIANT ~ "FREE HAND";


GENTLE GIANT - "ADVENT OF PANURGE";


David LaFlamme - 82 - American singer and violinist with 1960's & 70's Pysche and Prog Rock band It's a Beautiful Day

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY ~ "WHITE BIRD";


IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY ~ "SOAPSTONE MOUNTAIN";


Ron Howden - 78 - Drummer with 1970's English Prog Rock band Nektar

NEKTAR ~ "DESOLATION VALLEY";


Charlie Dominici - 72 - Singer with American Prog Metal band Dream Theater and guitarist with 1970's Pop band Frankie & The Knockouts

FRANKIE & THE KNOCOUTS ~ "NOT ANOTHER LONELY NIGHT";


FRANKIE & THE KNOCKOUTS ~ "SWEETHEART";


Essra Mohawk - 75 - American 1970's singer and songwriter w/The Primoridals, Frank Zappa, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper and "School House Rock"

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS ~ "SUFFERIN' TILL SUFFERAGE";


SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS ~ "INTERJECTION";


Erkin Koray - 82 - Turkish 1960's & 70's Psyche, Prog and Folk Rock singer-songwriter & guitarist

ERKIN KORAY ~ "CEMALIM";


ERKIN KORAY & HUR-EL ~ "SEVENIER AGLARMIS";


Ricky Wolff - 78 - South African born singer with UK 1970's Pop band White Plains

WHITE PLAINS ~ "MY BABY LOVES LOVIN";


WHITE PLAINS ~ "LOVING YOU BABY";


Johnny Fean - 71 - Guitarist with Irish Celtic Rock band the Horslips

THE HORSLIPS ~ "DEARG DOOM";


THE HORSLIPS ~ "FASTER THAN THE HOUND";


THE HORSLIPS ~ "TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL T";


Vlado Pravdić - 73 - Bosnian keyboardist with 1970's Yugoslavian band Bijelo Dugme

BIJELO DUGME ~ "BIJELO DUGME";


George Tickner - 76 - American guitarist with 60's band Fruminous Bandersnatch and later founding member of Journey in the 70's

FRUMINOUS BANDERSNATCH ~ "HEARTS TO CRY";


JOURNEY ~ "TOPAZ";


Sixto Rodriguez - 81 - American singer-songwriter AKA "Sugar Man"

SUGARMAN RODRIQUEZ ~ "SUGARMAN";


SUGARMAN RODRIQUEZ - "LIKE A ROLLING STONE";


Ron Altbach - 76 - American keyboardist & songwriter w/1970's band King Harvest, Celebration

KING HARVEST ~ "DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT";


Donnie Marsico - 68 - American singer with early 70's band The Jaggerz ("The Rapper")

THE JAGGERZ ~ "THE RAPPER";


Davis Causey - 74 - Guitarist with American 1970's band Sea Level

SEA LEVEL ~ "RAIN IN SPAIN";


SEA LEVEL ~ "GRAND LARCENY";


Cliff Fish - 73 - Bassist with 1970's UK Pop band Paper Lace ("The Night Chicago Died" & "Billy Don't Be A Hero")

PAPER LACE ~ "BILLY DON'T BE A HERO";


PAPER LACE ~ "THE NIGHT CHICAGO DIED";


Kevin Parrott - British singer with 1970's Folk Pop duo Brian and Michael ("Matchstick Men & Matchstick Cats & Dogs")

BRIAN & MICHAEL ~ "MATCHSTICK MEN AND MATCHSTICK CATS & DOGS";


Robert Haimer - 69 - American musician & songwriter w/musical comedy duo Barnes & Barnes ("Fish Heads") also in Soft Rock and America in the 80's

BARNES & BARNES ~ "FISH HEADS";


Alberto Radius - 80 - Guitarist and singer-songwriter with 1970's Italian band Formula 3

FORMULA 3 ~ "LA FOLLE CORSA";

Some 1970's Rockers

Chrisine McVie ~ 72 ~ UK born Singer/keyboardist with Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack

CHICKEN SHACK ~ "SEE SEE BABY";


CHICKEN SHACK ~ "I'D RATHER GO BLIND";


FLEETWOOD MAC ~ "RHIANNON";


FLEETWOOD MAC ~ "YOU CAN GO YOUR OWN WAY";


FLEETWOOD MAC ~ "GYPSY";


FLEETWOOD MAC ~ "TUSK";


Ken Simmons - 75 - Welsh guitarist with UK Blues Rock band Savoy Brown Band

SAVOY BROWN BAND ~ "I'M TIRED";


SAVOY BROWN ~ "TELL MAMA";


Meatloaf (Real name Marvin Lee Aday) ~ 74 ~ American 1970's Hard Rock singer ("Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad", "Paradise By The Dashboard Lights", "I Would Do Anything For Love")

MEATLOAF ~ "BAT OUT OF HELL";


MEATLOAF ~ "PARADISE BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT";


MEATLOAF ~ "TWO OUT OF THREE AIN'T BAD";



Nik Turner - 82 - Singer/sax & woodwind player with 1970's UK Space Rock band Hawkwind

HAWKWIND ~ "SILVER MACHINE";


HAWKWIND ~ "MOTORHEAD";


HAWKWIND ~ "WATCHING THE GRASS GROW";


Rick Anderson - 75 - American rock bassist with American band The Tubes

THE TUBES ~ "WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE";


THE TUBES ~ "TALK TO YA LATER";


THE TUBES ~ "SHE'S A BEAUTY";


Ray Major ~ 70's ~ Guitarist with 1970's UK band Mott The Hoople

MOTT THE HOOPLE ~ "ALL THE YOUNG DUDES";


MOTT THE HOOPLE ~ "YOU REALLY GOT ME";


MOTT THE HOOPLE ~ "ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY";


Manny Charlton - 80 ~ Guitarist with 1970's Scottish rock band Nazareth ("The Flight Tonight", "Love Hurts)

Danny McCafferty ~ 75 ~ Nazareth singer

NAZARETH ~ "THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT";


NAZARETH ~ "HAIR OF THE DOG";


NAZARETH ~ "LOVE HURTS";


Wilco Johnson ~ 75 ~ Guitarist & vocals w/UK band Dr Feelgood and actor in "Game Of Thrones"

DR FEELGOOD ~ "ROXETTE";


DR FEELGOOD ~ "SHE DOES IT RIGHT";


DR FEELGOOD ~ "BOOM BOOM";


Robert Gordon ~ 75 ~ American Rockabilly singer from the 1970's onward ("Fire", "Only Make Believe", The Way I Walk") worked with Link Wray & Chris Spedding

ROBERT GORDON ~ "IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE";


ROBERT GORDON ~ "THE WAY I WALK";


ROBERT GORDON ~ "ROCKABILLY BOOGIE";


ROBERT GORDON ~ "FIRE";


Graeme Thomas ~ 70's Australian bassist w/1980's Rockabilly bands the Rockabilly Rebels, the Wildcats & the Straight 8's and producer at Preston Studios

THE WILDCATS ~ "ROCK BOP";


THE WILDCATS ~ "RAIN";


Harvey Jett - 73 - Guitarist with 1970's Souther Rock band Black Oak Arkansas

BLACK OAK ARKANSAS ~ "JIM DANDY";


BLACK OAK ARKANSAS ~ "HEY Y'ALL";


Barry Bailey - 73 - Guitarist w/1970's US band the Atlanta Rhythm Section

THE ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION ~ "SO INTO YOU";


THE ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION ~ "SMOKIE";


John Hartman - 72 - Drummer with The Doobie Brothers

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS ~ "WHAT A FOOL BELIEVES";


THE DOOBIE BROTHERS ~ "TAKING IT TO THE STREETS";

Some 1970's Rock Figures

Steve Farmer ~ 71 ~ Guitarist with 1960's & 70's Detroit Hard Rock Band The Amboy Dukes ("Journey To The Center Of Your Mind", "Baby Please Don't Go")

THE AMBOY DUKES ~ "FLIGHT OF THE BYRD";


THE AMBOY DUKES ~ "JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF YOUR MIND";


Paul Campbell ~ 66 ~ English guitarist with 1970's & 80's Hard Rock bands UFO, Waysted, Lone Star and Skid Row (not the 80's Hair Metal band)

Pete Way ~ 69 ~ English rock bass guitarist (UFO, Waysted, Fastway)

UFO ~ "MYSTERY TRAIN";


Brian Howe ~ 66 ~ English rock singer w/1980's Hard Rock band Bad Company and Ted Nugent

BAD COMPANY ~ "NO SMOKE WITHOUT A FIRE";


BAD COMPANY ~ "SHAKE IT UP";


Ken Hensley ~ 75 ~ English singer-songwriter/keyboardist with 1970's Hard Rock & Prog bands Uriah Heep, Blackfoot

Lee Kerslake ~ Drummer with Uriah Heep and Ozzy Osbourne

URIAH HEEP ~ "WIZARD";


URIAH HEEP ~ "LADY IN BLACK";


URIAH HEEP ~ "EASY LIVING";


Ian Mitchell ~ 62 ~ Irish guitarist with the Bay City Rollers, Rosetta Stone & solo

THE BAY CITY ROLLERS ~ "SATURDAY NIGHT";


THE BAY CITY ROLLERS ~ "SHANG A LANG";


ROSETTA STONE ~ "SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE";


John Meyer ~ Australian slide guitarist (Rose Tattoo, Chain, Swanee)

ROSE TATTOO ~ "ROCK & ROLL OUTLAW";


Peter Starkie ~ 72 ~ Australian rock guitarist (Skyhooks, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons)

JO JO ZEP & THE FALCONS ~ "THE SHAPE I'M IN";


JO JO ZEP & THE FALCONS ~ "HIT & RUN";


Steve Holland ~ 66 ~ American guitarist (Molly Hatchet, Gator Country)

MOLLY HATCHET ~ "FLIRTIN' WITH DISASTER";


Max Merritt ~ 79 ~ New Zealand and Australian rock singer with the Meteors

MAX MERRITT ~ "FANNIE MAE" & "CAN'T COME BACK";


MAX MERRITT ~ "WESTERN UNION MAN";


Martin Griffin ~ English rock drummer with 1980's UK Space Rock bands Hawkwind and the Hawklords

HAWKWIND ~ "PSI POWER";


Mike Somerville ~ 68 ~ American rock guitarist (Head East) and songwriter ("Never Been Any Reason", "Since You've Been Gone", later covered by Rainbow and Cherie & Marie Curie)

HEAD EAST ~ "SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE";


Jerry Hludzik ~ Singer/guitarist w/US bands the Bouys ("Timothy" ("Give Up Your Guns") and Dakota

THE BOUYS ~ "GIVE UP YOUR GUNS";


DAKOTA ~ "


Keith Tippett ~ 72 ~ British Jazz and Prog Rock pianist & composer with King Crimson, Centipede

KING CRIMSON ~ "BOLEARO";


Jahn Tiegan ~ 70 ~ Singer w/1970's Prog Rock band Popol Vuh

POPOL VUH ~ "QUEEN OF ALL QUEENS";


POPOL VUH ~ "MUSIC BOX";


Dan Andrei Aldea ~ 69 ~ Singer/guitarist/keyboardist with 1970's & 80's Romanian Prog/Folk rock band Sfinx and solo

DAN ANDREI ALDEA ~ "BRAD BATRAN";


SFINX ~ "DIN NOU ACASA";


SFINX ~ "TE ASTEPT MEREU";


Lyle Mays ~ 66 ~ American jazz pianist and composer with Pat Metheney, David Bowie ("This Is Not America"), Woody Herman, Joni Mitchell, Bobby McFerrin, Toots Theilmans, Betty Buckley, Earth Wind & Fire

DAVID BOWIE & PAT METHENY BAND ~ "THIS IS NOT AMERICA";


Sorrel Hays ~ 79 ~ American Avant Garde classical "tone cluster" pianist, electronic music composer and video artist

SORREL HAYS ~ "TOUCH OF TOUCH";

Jo Dunne of "We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It" and a few other post punks

Nothing says the 1980's quite like the hairstyles of U.K girl group "We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It" (AKA known as "Fuzzbox" for those who get tired of excessive typing) which range from the ludicrous to the ridiculous. However there was no denying the infectious glee and innocence of their actual music.

"FUZZBOX" ~ "LOVE IS THE SLUG";


Like Bow Wow Wow, The Go-Go's, Bangles, and Toronto's B-Girls they are a reminder that setting aside the archetypal anger of hardcore the most important ingredient of Punk and New Wave was innocence and good old fashioned fun. Rock and Roll all night and party every day indeed. Just as it was in the 1960's Surf and Garage Rock and 1950's Rockabilly. As it always should be. Before soulless corporations and humourless political activists suck all the fun out of things of course.

"FUZZBOX" ~ "RULES AND REGULATIONS"


Fuzzbox were a group of wildly upbeat post punk girls from England who bounced on the scene with hair explosions, cheerleader ready songs, pounding drums and of course a fuzzbox. Which they did in fact use. Jo Dunne was their guitarist. She died this week of cancer this week at 43. Which also tells you just how young they were back in the 1980's.

FUZZBOX & THE NIGHTINGALES ~ "ROCKIN WITH RITA";


If the over the top perkiness of girl bands like Fuzzbox, Go-Go's, Bangles etc. seem a little too undignified for today's riot grrls keep in mind that in the 1980's the very idea of girls playing actual rock and roll (as opposed to just singing) was still a radical one. Of course eventually a major record label got a hold of them and softened their sound to a more Bananarama type pop which got them a few top 40 hits. But the first few singles are still great fun.

FUZZBOX REUNION REPORT ON BBC;



Mike Scaccia; Guitarist for Ministry on their classic 1990's "Psalm 69" album and such songs as "Jesus Built my Hotrod" and "N.W.O.", collapsed and died on stage in Texas on December 22 aged 47. He started out in Thrash Metal band Rigor Mortis in 1983, then moved to Ministry in 1992. Ministry's "Psalm 69" and the accompanying videos and and Lollapalooza tour did much to take Industrial Music (or a club ready version of it) to the mainstream. He also played in Ministry side projects like The Revolting Cocks, Buck Satan and Lard.

MINISTRY ~ "JESUS BUILT MY HOTROD";


MINISTRY ~ "N.W.O.";


Tony Sly; singer of 1990's California post hardcore band with a similarly awkward moniker "No Use For A Name" also died in July at age 41. No Use For A Name had actually had a series of different members over the years but Sly had been singer since 1989 and after Sly's death they announced that they would end the band. Sly had also recorded with Lagwagon as well.

NO USE FOR A NAME ~ "SOULMATE";


Sven Gali were a Toronto band of the late 1980's and early 1990's who started off as a Hair Metal Band before doing a quick chango when Grunge hit. It never really took of course which is kind of too bad since they were better than your average hair band. Guitarist Dee Cernile died this year.

SVEN GALI ~ "UNDER THE INFLUENCE";


Not post punk but from but from pre-punk Psyche/Space Rock bands that I couldn't find room anywhere else for;

Ed Cassidy ~ Drummer for late sixties Psyche Band Spirit. Cassidy was an oddity in the late sixties in being fully twenty years older than the rest of the scene, i fact he was actually the father-in-law of Spirit guitarist Randy California. Partly to hide his age Cassidy shaved his head making him stand out even more. ~ 89
SPIRIT;


Huw Lloyd-Langton ~ Guitarist for venerable UK Psyche/Space Rock band Hawkwind ~ 61
HAWKWIND ~ "SILVER MACHINE";


And in the "I can't believe I forgot to post this" department. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys! I know I played some stuff on my radio show when this was announced but apparently I forgot to post anything. Ooops my bad.
At this point it's easy to forget that in the beginning they were so viciously attacked on all sides. The hysterical attacks by the Legion of Decency types were predictable enough (and also hysterically funny at this point) but they were also attacked by women's groups (for sexism, natch) and by leftists for "racism" and "appropriating black culture". Like that's possible. Serious music critics dismissed them as a joke at first (understandable) but by their second album they had developed a distinctive style of densely produced mixes that could not be denied. They also managed to combine their laddish persona with some good work on some serious issues like the Environment and Free Tibet that any punk should envy. So there.
So here's some extra Beasties to make amends;

BEASTIE BOYS ~ "FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY";


BEASTIE BOYS ~ "SABOTAGE";


BEASTIE BOYS ~ "SO WATCHA WANT";


BEASTIE BOYS ~ "SURE SHOT";


BEASTIE BOYS ~ "HEY LADIES";


BTW people forget that the Beasties actually started out as a New York City punk band, but they did in fact release one punk ep "Pollywog Stew" and a single;

BEASTIE BOYS ~ "ODE TO...";