Biggest disappointments with promising 60s musicians
gera...@earthlink.net
because some people here go crazy as soon as you could past December
31, 1969. But the thread about the Zombies gave me the courage to
pipe up, so here it is.
We all know that the '70s was the time when musicians or lead singers
in successful rock bands either went solo or started a band that they
led themselves. Many were very successful and became household names
to music lovers. Others, who you'd have thought would have made it
big, never did.
Rod Argent did have one huge hit after leaving the Zombies, but never
was able to duplicate that success and faded from history.
Emmett Rhodes -- great with Merry go Round, very promising first
album, then fell by the wayside.
Bob Bruno of Circus Maximus. Brilliant musician, arranger,
songwriter. He should have been at least as successful as Jerry Jeff
Walker (who DID manage to make a long successful solo career for
himsef) but disappeared. About ten years ago I met a man who had
played on their second album, and he told me that Bruno had burned out
his brains with too much LSD, don't know if it was true but it rings
true.
Ray Manzarak. Great though Morrison was as a singer, poet and
songwriter, Ray's eerie instrument work were really critical to the
Doors' success too. I saw Manzarak live touring as the Doors after
Morisson's death, and he was terrific as a lead singer. You'd have
thought he'd have a much bigger impact in the business during the
1970s than he did.
How about Mike Brown? How could someone involved with "Walk away
Renee", "Pretty Ballerina" and "Desiree" just disappear? His one hit
with "Stories" was a fluke, a cover of a soul song, not anything he
wrote, and certainly not anything that flowed out of his '60s hits.
I'm sure I could come up with more once I start thinking about it.
What about you folks? Who did you have high hopes for from the 1960s
who never lived up to those hopes in the 1970s?
WilliamWMeyer
<gera...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I've been wanting to post this thread a long time, but held off
> because some people here go crazy as soon as you could past December
> 31, 1969. But the thread about the Zombies gave me the courage to
> pipe up, so here it is.
There is also the 1970s ng. Admittedly not a lot goes on there, but there
are a few interesting posters who don't "cross over" to the 60s group.
But I agree, the chronological boundaries of these newsgroups bring out a
lot of people's Rain Man tendencies.
Taliesyn
ab4c-45d5-804...@w3g2000yqf.googlegroups.com:
>
> Who did you have high hopes for from the 1960s who never lived up to
> those hopes in the 1970s?
>
Mitch Ryder decided to leave his Wheels in the garage and go solo. He was
quickly buried along with his name; nobody Came. ;-)
-Taliesyn
Jan Dean
(1) His name lives on in Winona Ryder.
(2) It wasn't his real name anyway.
Jan Dean
> There is also the 1970s ng. Admittedly not a lot goes on there
That's because '70s music sucks.
Wrongway
Joan Armatrading
A couple of highly talented performers who started in the early 70s,
both had very loyal followings, but neither had mass pop appeal so
their record sales suffered. From what I heard of their records, they
were much more suited to listening on a home stereo than a kitchen
radio.
Leo Kottke - the closest he came to a potential pop hit was "I Guess I
Owe It All To Pamela Brown". It was released on a 45, at least on a
Canadian pressing - I heard it quite a few times on the radio around
1974, but it never came close to cracking the top 100.
Joan Armatrading - the album that really stands out is her eponymous
album from 1976, which was as underrated as any album of that period.
It's still in print, and it's worth a spin just for the song "Save
Me". No other albums of her came close to this one.
Wrongway
elaich
news:R_ednbPb2MxRlKXX...@megapath.net:
> But I agree, the chronological boundaries of these newsgroups bring
> out a lot of people's Rain Man tendencies.
Not necessarily, because we can follow a thread which began in the 60s into
the 70s and later. The ones that invite Rain Man tendencies are the posts
which begin somewhere else, and lead even further elsewhere. The OP either
didn't care to look up the info, or was just spamming.