Check this out! Rare stuff you might not have heard

[Axefiend]

I'd think so too. On one side there was already Zeppelin and Purple soon to come, on the other side you had King Crimson. Not to mention all the "proto-metal" stuff. But Sabbath did of course take it to a new level.

The Riffs! While most of those "Acid Rock" bands have the typical distorted guitars, menacing drums and wailing vocals, more times then not, the riffs are either not very memorable or non existent. Lot of cool stuff out there, but definitely not on the the level of "Whole Lotta Love", "Iron Man" or "Smoke On The Water", not even close!

I guess that's why bands like this never got a foothold and just kind of faded away:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeJ5_q2pQHI

Or these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGa4C7R7ZBM

[Zzzptm]

Lots of that fuzz swirling around out there in the early 70s, like Cactus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_y_m0mImGw

There's a lot of competent musicianship, but I think what separates competence from brilliance is the ability for a band to play a song that makes a listener not just say, "Hey man, that's pretty good. You guys jam." but to get that listener to sit up, pay attention, and realize that... whoa... that was AWESOME, DUDE!

There's what just about any good musician can do, and then there's what only the greats are able to do.

[Axefiend]

^^^ Absolutely awesome tune!

I love this one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM

That raw production just makes it sound so heavy!

[Zzzptm]

^ That music can go in almost any heavy direction... doom, metal, stoner... but it's 100% heavy rock there, my friends.

Here's something that got the punks a-thinkin'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHNTGkG-YXM

[JSTHECONQUEROR]

I recently found this album. I good mix of rock,metal,industrial weirdness. I bought it because Mr. Mike Patton was on the first track, but the rest of the album is pretty damn good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ZtNScPrBk

[Billy Underdog]

One of the few great bands from Denmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY0g_SJjA6Q

[Axefiend]

^^^ A cool tune I've never heard before! Cheers Billy.

Here's a quirky little tune by Mashmakhan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKweA-FI_M

[Axefiend]

A couple from Québécois Michel Pagliaro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JtmGo8rfAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsqv_ooI0uI

[Axefiend]

...and a 70's Canadian band from out west:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqdffSH6GWc

All these tunes I've posted make me think of many a Sunday afternoon, spent as a kid listening to Psychedelic Psunday on Q107 (FM radio station in Toronto).

[Zzzptm]

These were all very fun, thanks for the shares! My turn now...

Here's Enrique Guzman with the hit he had with Los Teen Tops, a reworking of Little Richard's "Lucille" titled, "La Plaga" (The Plague).

This is a later version, with Guzman as a solo artist and shows instrumentation updated after The Beatles made their mark on the scene. Guzman is a great singer and his daughter, Alejandra Guzman, is a force of nature all her own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om74tc48bUc

¡Rock con mas ñ! jajajajajajajajaja

[Axefiend]

Good Golly Miss Molly! What's he singing?  I've got the La Plaga? Awesome voice.

A later version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_g7X7KvJg

Here's what I get when I run it through the translator:

There comes the plague, I like to dance / There comes the plague, I like to dance / And when I'm rock'and rolleando / I'm the queen of the place

[Zzzptm]

^ The translation's pretty much what the lyrics are... The music is like a plague that makes everybody dance. Back then, that was a grown-up's nightmare, all their kids turning into rock and roll zombies!

Here's another from Los Teen Tops, a direct translation of "Jailhouse Rock":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nesyGNZjNCE

Love that voice, what a performer!

[Axefiend]

^ The translation's pretty much what the lyrics are... The music is like a plague that makes everybody dance. Back then, that was a grown-up's nightmare, all their kids turning into rock and roll zombies!

That makes a lot more sense in that context, Cheers!!

^^^ Speaking of versiones españolas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQ6wkK_Vtc

[Zzzptm]

Here's Alejandra Guzman (Enrique's daughter) belting out one of her signature tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap0h7KFsMIg

[Zzzptm]

^ The translation's pretty much what the lyrics are... The music is like a plague that makes everybody dance. Back then, that was a grown-up's nightmare, all their kids turning into rock and roll zombies!

That makes a lot more sense in that context, Cheers!!

^^^ Speaking of versiones españolas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jQ6wkK_Vtc

Total lolzorz, I wasn't familiar with that song, but I *was* familiar with this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyoOmhm5Jo

Don't ask me why I'm more familiar with a Chilean children's show more than David Lee Roth's solo material. I just am.