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Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, Jethro Tull etc

Started by leoos, February 06, 2019, 10:56:22 AM

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February 06, 2019, 10:56:22 AM
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole last year all pretty much thanks to the cover of Wytch Hazel's album II Sojurn

I started on a deluxe edition of Wishbone Ash' Argus which I really got into.
Any efforts with any of their other albums got nowhere

Then I latched onto Uriah Heep's Demons and Wizards.
Also fantastic.
Followed up by The Magicians Birthday, Abominog, Raging Silence and Firefly.
I tried other ones but those are the ones that stuck.

Then came the Heavy Horses and Songs from the Wood Tull phase
A couple more here and there but those are the ones I keep coming back to.

Any recommendations for other bands of that ilk I should try. Missing albums from those bands I should go and try.
I really know very little about 70's music. My listening history seems to have stopped in the early 80's up to now

There was also a trail of Whitesnake albums through the last 6 months also.
Streaming madness really. I'd never have randomly picked any of these up left to my own devices in a record store.
#1 February 06, 2019, 11:40:33 AM
never listened to any of the other bands you mentioned but  do love a bit of uriah heep for time to time. the magicians birthday is great. good mushroom music!
#2 February 06, 2019, 02:36:49 PM
Try King Crimson-Red
Also Blue Cheer
Deep Purple-Burn
Horslips: Book of Invasions or The Tain
Atomic Rooster are definitely a good one two


#3 February 06, 2019, 03:13:43 PM
Some more hard rock, some more 70's prog rock but these are albums I constantly get back listening to...

Lucifer's Friend - same
Uriah Heep -Sweet Freedom (my personal favourite by them)
Tasavallan Presidentti (FIN) - Tasavallan Presidentti II (1971)
Museo Rosembach (ITA) - Zarathustra (1973)
Jacula (ITA) - In cauda semper stat venenum
Coven - Witchcraft destroys minds and reaps souls (1969)

Ulver recorded an album of versions for 16 bands of the 60's called "Childhood's end" that I strongly recommend. I'm with you on Jethto Tull's Heavy Horses... I do like many of their albums, but this one I always go back to!
#4 February 06, 2019, 04:20:10 PM
Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
Mountain - Climbing and Nantucket Sleighride
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
Warpig - Warpig
#5 February 06, 2019, 07:57:31 PM
Ashbury - Endless Skies should be your first port of call.
#6 February 07, 2019, 10:13:42 AM
Quote from: Slaughterday on February 06, 2019, 07:57:31 PM
Ashbury - Endless Skies should be your first port of call.

Aye, and Winterhawk - Revival... if Fart ain't here to do shout outs for them!

Blue Öyster Cult too, for sure: Tyranny & Mutation, Secret Treaties, and Agents of Fortune in particular.
#7 February 07, 2019, 03:24:53 PM
Seconding all of O Drighes' recs. All fantastic.

I'd like to throw on Black Widow - Come to the Sabbath
Bolder Damn - Mourning
Roky Erickson - The Evil One
Wicked Lady - The Axeman Cometh
#8 February 08, 2019, 09:25:09 AM
I've heard some Uriah Heep only through bands covering their songs, never really sat down and had a good listen to them , so any suggestions which album would be a good one to start with, in the vein of  the tune Lady in Black?
#9 February 08, 2019, 10:03:40 AM
Quote from: Iron Aiden on February 06, 2019, 02:36:49 PM

Horslips: Book of Invasions or The Tain


Well, The Tain hit the spot anyway, listening away to it.

The Church organ mood of Jacula went down well here in the office this morning

Thanks for the recommendations people, I'll be working away through these for a while, keep them coming if anyone has any more to offer
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