- what exotic fish I caught in the ocean of music -

Maria Franz. She is also in a band called Euzen if you want to see her in a more modern look.

Yeh, took some poking around, but found out who she was. Near-zero info about Heilung itself, though.

One guy looks like my neighbor. :smiley:

OMEGA (1973) Pearls in her hair

Seems good example that the song is still good if you don’t know the language…

With reference to Focus and Jan Akkerman at start of this post, they were a great band, and great song!
If you like a bit of comedy TV, there is a hilarious UK show “Saxondale” with Steve Coogan where he plays an old roadie from the 70’s.

He makes reference to a lot of bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Pink Floyd etc…

The song Hocus Pocus is used in the theme song.

Well worth watching if you can get it somewhere…

BTW Dchomak - that clip by The Stumble was brilliant - never heard of them before

Sophia Loren - 'Mambo Italiano'

With brilliant artistic environment in the song for this great actress...

Sophia Loren Mambo Italiano - YouTube

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and Blondie - Dreaming (1979)

Blondie - Dreaming (Official Music Video) - YouTube Still love you Debbie!

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Thank you dchomak for The Stumble introduction surprise... I missed them too.

Speaking of the late great Greg Lake. Unbelievable voice he had.

California Jam 1974

In California Jam 1974 (April 6, 1974) there was one man (in black) who had been upside down that day.
The most gloomy concert of Ritchie I know…

I saw Deep Purple in 1974 at Olympia Stadium in Michigan. Warm up band was Electric Light Orchestra. Awesome show. Ritchie was on point

Olympia Stadium is where the Detroit Red Wings hockey team played for years.

I have been playing a bit of DP in my car lately driving around enjoying the unusually good weather we have here.

Dident see DP in 74 as i was 8 then, but 2-4 years later i was aware of them.

Dont see much reason to pay much attention to modern music when so much good stuff was made in the old days.

one of my fav CD. I have only seen Al Dimeola in concert, but among so many great guitarists I’ve seen,
AD is insane.

One of my fav back in the days

Did we already catch

PMJ (POST MODERN JUKEBOX)
tank and the bangas
The baseballs

Aah…haven’t heard Wishbone Ash for years…

And who can forget:

Uriah Heep

Jethro Tull

Free

@Robowski

There is a country where July Morning is a informal holiday. Fully inspired by Uriah Heep’s song. Started at the beginning of ’80.

I attended some of the first gatherings.

Here are some videos of recent years …

Thank you for the Paul Rodgers remainder.
He is always in my top ten of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with his constantly good carrier during the years.
And in top five vocals also…

Uriah Heep was great. April 7th 1973 a bunch of us piled into a few cars to see them at Eastern Michigan University at Bowen Field house. Warm up bands were McKendre Spring, and Billy Preston.

Our seats were 1st row just right of center. We got there early and were watching the Roadies setup the stage, and this black dude with a huge afro walked down to our seats and asked us if we could spare a joint. (which of course we did) It was Billy Preston, and he put on an absolutely incredible and high energy show. He looked and smiled at us several times during the show, and at the end, stood in front, pointed at us and gave us the “thumbs up” and walked off.

Uriah Heep came on and started the set with the hard driving Easy Living . People went nuts, and was an unbelievable concert. Still remember it like it was yesterday, and one of the best I’ve ever been to.

Bonham - That festival is amazing - I didn’t know there were so many Uriah Heep disciples in Bulgaria!

RobertB - I chuckle at your story…

1973 was my first year out of school and my friends and I sound just like your bunch.
Billy Preston was brilliant, playing with the Beatles and the Stones. I loved his songs “You are so Beautiful” and “Circles”
I grew up in South Africa, before moving to Australia, and none of the good overseas bands ever toured SA there back then.
A lot of their records were banned on the radio, and some in the stores.
We had no television in the country and radio was government controlled and censored.
We had to learn about the good bands by word of mouth, and go to good record stores where they imported new music.
There were a lot of really good musicians though, who played covers of the overseas bands.
We spent most of our spare time hanging around night clubs and pubs watching bands.
Some of my friends and my brother played in some of the top bands.
A lot of the good musicians left the country and some made it big overseas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_John\_"Mutt"_Lange
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Mann\_(musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Mackay\_(musician)
Duncan was British born but lived and played in SA in the 70’s - we used to go and see him play in a pub all the time
There were many black jazz musicians who left the country in exile like Hugh Maskala, Miriam Makeba, Dollar Brand.

I saw the Woodstock movie while still at school, but all the nudity and drug use scenes were cut out.
Still, the performers like Jimi, Janis, Joe Cocker, Santana, The Who, CSNY, really knocked me out.
Also saw “Mad dogs and Englishmen” which had one of the best bands ever assembled.
We had to watch rock movies like this to see overseas bands.
Those were good days though, with lots of memories.

I also had friends in SA who were looking for a suitable country to establish at this time…

In the past, some of us really had a difficult access to this type of information, what is happening in world music, etc…
Well, the difficult access to such info caused the corresponding reaction and we found the right radio station, we knew the exact hours of the music rubric/news, etc…, so the possible information to be collected.
I always had my small Telefunken radio near me. :+1:

From that time I know that the hardly obtained information is remembered the longest.

As I guess, all of you remember only good things from the past time. :slight_smile:


Two Bee Gees songs before their disco era:

Melody fair - soundtrack of excellent movie Melody (1971), (–18) written by Alan Parker.

and Massachusetts.

Ah Yes… The Bee Gees

They were played on the radio a lot because they were considered safe for teenagers to listen to.
I liked them a lot before their disco days.
They grew up and recorded their first songs in Brisbane, Australia.
They council where they lived dedicated a mall to them which opened a few years ago called “Bee Gees Way”.
I visited that while on holiday 2 years ago.

I loved the Bee Gees up until they sold out to Disco. I have all their early albums.

I love this tune

Good. We share the same opinion on the Bee Gees career.

For me surprisingly/strange was the change of ZZ Top also.

Can you believe that the performers of these wonderful songs:

Brown sugar

Blue Jean Blues

Tush

and the bearded boys and the chicks on the highway are the same?

(very good video an song also)