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Zaentz, a salesman for the company, put together a group of investors and bought Fantasy. As a shipping clerk, Fogerty knew Zaentz, and Zaentz knew Fogerty. He saw what was happening in the Bay Area music scene with the rise of "underground radio" and venues like the Filmore presenting shows with groups like The Grateful Dead and The Great Society (who would become the Jefferson Airplane). They changed the name to Creedence Clearwater Revival, after a friend of a friend of Tom's, Credence Nuball. Revival, however, had one meaning. It was the band's aspiration, that after four years as the Golliwogs, after ten years of playing together, this new change in their fortunes would take the band where they all knew it could go. John would often say, "The most important part was revival."

https://www.tednugent.com/about/biography/

Ted Nugent’s professional music career began in the 1960’s when he performed with the band The Amboy Dukes. It was in 1967 that the band released its first album, The Amboy Dukes. This band featured metal and rock melodies. It was popular in the rock n’ roll fan back. The band released a couple more albums throughout the 1960’s: Journey to the Center of the Mind and Migration.

The Amboy Dukes [also known as Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes] in the 1970’s. While still with the band, he recorded the albums Survival of the Fittest Live, Call of the Wild, and Tooth Fang and Claw. However, he later left the band n 1975 to pursue a solo career. Some of his other albums from the 1970’s include Free for All, Cat Scratch Fever, and Weekend Warriors.

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Zappa said of his first guitar, "It didn't have a make on it – it had been kinda sandblasted! I liked it because it was so tinny-sounding. It was just an acoustic guitar, but it was moving closer to that wiry tone I liked with Johnny Guitar Watson, especially if you picked it right next to the bridge." On moving to an electric guitar he said, "My father had a guitar which he kept in a closet, a round-hole guitar of anonymous make, and I stuck one of those DeArmond sound hole pickups in that, so it wasn't a real electric guitar. I guess it was around four or five years later that I actually got an electric guitar. There was a music store not far from my house, and I rented this Telecaster for $15 a month. Eventually I had to give it back, because I couldn't make the payments on it."

https://alicecooper.com/about/

Considered the Godfather of Shock Rock, singer Alice Cooper came to fame in the 1970s, alarming audiences with his garish, often ghoulish stage performances. Rock musician Alice Cooper formed his first band in high school and by the late 1960s had caught the attention of guitarist Frank Zappa. The group hit it big with several successful albums in the mid-1970s.

Cooper was born Vincent Damon Furnier on February 4, 1948, in Detroit. After exhausting the local bar scene, the group moved to Los Angeles. By this time they had developed an angry, up-front and dark sound, which critics initially abhorred. However, with Cooper as its engaging front man, its music caught the attention of Frank Zappa, who inked the young musicians to a record deal.

The band released Montrose, which would become Ronnie Montrose's most successful record. The album included long-lasting tracks, such as "Rock Candy" and "Bad Motor Scooter," which would still receive sporadic airplay on radio stations decades later. In 1974, Montrose released Paper Money, which boosted the band's popularity even higher. Barry Taylor wrote in Billboard, "As a high-energy quartet, Montrose succeeded where others have failed due to the acessibility of their material and their razor-sharp arrangements." A few months after their second release, Ronnie Montrose fired singer Sammy Hagar, saying he was "too limited." Hagar went on to his own successful solo career, and sang with the rock band Van Halen for 11 years. "We have a long-standing joke now, because I did fire him from the Montrose band for some of the same reasons that I left the Edgar Winter Group," Montrose told John "Wedge" Wardlaw. "He was on to his own thing."

Geddy Lee: My parents were Polish Jews, survivors of the Holocaust. They met when they were thirteen at a work camp and they were both in Auschwitz for a time. My mom had such a strong Jewish accent, which is how I ended up being known as Geddy instead of Gary, my real name. My friend and I would be playing on the street and my mother would be calling me in, saying, ‘Geddy, come in the house!’ My friend would say, ‘What is she calling you?’ I said, ‘What do you mean? She’s calling me by my name.’ So he started calling me Geddy and I said, ‘Why are you calling me that?’ He goes, ‘Because that’s what your mom calls you.’ And basically, it stuck. Eventually my family was calling me Geddy. So a little later, when I turned sixteen, I legally changed my name to Geddy, because so many people were calling me that anyway.

Zior is a hard rock band with some progressive elements. The band obviously had a huge fascination with the occult and expressed this often in their songs (and mostly in their stage show). Tracks like "Angel of the Highway", "Your Life Will Burn", and "Before My Eyes Go Blind" show the band in it's rare form while the vocalist describes various occult imagery. Another LP single, "Every Inch A Man", came out in 1973. At times they have a tribal-like rhythm to their sound, very psychedelic and 70's. "Zior" is a great lost album of hard rock from this time period. Later era 'stoner rock' fans will like this. The same goes for fans of NWOBHM.

The first LP included artwork by the same artist who did Black Sabbath's first album.

Arthur Lee wasn’t just keeping songs for himself. In 1964 he wrote My Diary for R&B singer Rosa Lee Brooks. Searching for musicians to play on the session, he enlisted a little-known guitarist from Seattle called James Marshall Hendrix, who had recently been playing with the Isley Brothers. “I wanted someone who could sound like Curtis Mayfield,” he later said of Hendrix.

The pair had a mutual respect, but also an uneasy relationship. Lee would claim that the guitarist took some of his cues from him. “Jimi’s brother told me Hendrix took a look at my first album and said: ‘I think I’ll try it this way’. He stole my dress attire, and I don’t appreciate that. But then I can’t play the guitar like him at all.”

KISS traces its roots to Wicked Lester, a New York-based rock and roll band led by co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. . Simmons spots an ad in Rolling Stone placed by Peter Criss, a drummer "looking to do anything to make it". Criss auditions and begins rehearsing with Simmons and Stanley as a trio. Simmons, Stanley and Criss audition lead guitarist Ace Frehley. That same month the Wicked Lester name is dropped and the band becomes KISS. Stanley is credited with coming up with the name, while Frehley designs the original version of the now-famous KISS logo. January 30, 1973 - KISS play their first show at a club in Queens, NY called Popcorn.

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The band was active in the late Seventies and best known for its outrageous Black Magic stage act which enthralled the London clubs of that era.

Zior’s first album sleeve was designed by Keith McMillan who also designed the Black Sabbath album; both are now landmarks in the album cover world.

The band also released a second album called ‘Monument’. This was recorded under another name but it was still laid down by the same Zior musicians. ‘Monument’ was a strange album but it carries cult status today.

American Tommy Bolin, a native of Sioux City, Iowa, was a notable exception. Best described as the David Bowie of the guitar, Bolin jumped from one playing style to the next – making each one his own, before quickly discarding it for the next. Glenn Hughes, “Tommy was different, wasn’t he?” he says. “He had a very South American-flavoured, Brazilian, reggae-ish way of playing guitar; it wasn’t European. It was be-boppy, it was jazz, it was everything Deep Purple weren’t. He was a genius.”

https://www.loureed.com/ Lewis Allan “Lou” Reed was born in Brooklyn, in 1942. Reed also took formative inspiration during his studies at Syracuse University with the poet Delmore Schwartz. After college, he befriended Welsh musician John Cale, a classically trained violist who had performed with groundbreaking minimalist composer La Monte Young. Reed and Cale formed a band called the Primitives, then changed their name to the Warlocks. After meeting guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker, they became the Velvet Underground. With a stark sound and ominous look, the band caught the attention of Andy Warhol, who incorporated the Velvets into his Exploding Plastic Inevitable. “Andy would show his movies on us,” Reed said.“We wore black so you could see the movie. But we were all wearing black anyway.”

https://jimihendrix.com/ Al took notice of Jimmy’s interest in the guitar, recalling, “I used to have Jimmy clean up the bedroom all the time while I was gone, and when I would come home I would find a lot of broom straws around the foot of the bed. I’d say to him, ‘Well didn’t you sweep up the floor?’ and he’d say, ‘Oh yeah,’. But I’d find out later that he used to be sitting at the end of the bed there and strumming the broom like he was playing a guitar.” Al found an old one-string ukulele, which he gave to Jimmy to play, a huge improvement over the broom. By the summer of 1958, Al had purchased Jimmy a five-dollar, second-hand acoustic guitar from one of his friends. Shortly thereafter, Jimmy joined his first band, The Velvetones. After a three-month stint with the group. The following summer, Al purchased Jimmy his first electric guitar, a Supro Ozark 1560S; Jimi used it when he joined The Rocking Kings.

https://www.grandfunkrailroad.com/

Although a number of critics dismissed the heavy metal assault of Grand Funk Railroad, legions of fans filled stadiums to hear them. The band defied the early 1970s trend toward keyboards, complex arrangements, and poetic lyrics, opting for straightforward rock 'n' roll. While it took the Beatles three weeks to sell out Shea Stadium, Grand Funk accomplished the same feat in three days. Despite management upheavals and the derision of critics, Grand Funk Railroad became one of the most popular bands of the 1970s.

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“We had a big biker following who caused trouble, gigs would end in mayhem,” recalls Martin Weaver in PsychedelicBaby. “At one gig, fueled by the music, they fought with the police out in the street. Local residents had complained we were too loud and the Police were called to make us stop; that pub lost its music license and hasn’t had one to this day.” I’m telling you, the riffing and solos on 'The Axeman Cometh’ are practically orgasmic. I rate Martin Weaver’s performance as a guitarist as one of the greatest of all time. The leads are relentless. The wah pedal is put to constant use, with great artistic sensitivity.

http://www.glennhughes.com/biography.html

TRAPEZE were formed around the nucleus of ex PINKERTONS ASSORTED COLOURS drummer, Dave Holland, ex RED CAPS guitarist, Mel Galley and ex THE HOOKER-LEES/THE INTRUDERS/THE IN PACK/THE NEWS bassist/vocalist,

Glenn Hughes. The trio originally came together to form FINDERS KEEPERS with guitarist Alan Clees and vocalist Ian "Sludge" Lees. The latter individual later found success out of the rock'n'roll field, as a comedian.

https://wishboneash.com/band/ Wishbone Ash are a British rock band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s. Their popular records included Wishbone Ash (1970), Argus (1972), There's the Rub (1974), and New England (1976). They were one of the first of many bands to come who used twin lead guitars. Wishbone Ash are considered to be one of the major innovators of the harmony twin lead guitar format. Melody Maker (1972) described Ted Turner and Andy Powell as "the most interesting two guitar team since the days when Beck and Page graced The Yardbirds". Formed in Torquay, Devon, in 1969, out of the ashes of trio The Empty Vessels (originally known as The Torinoes, later briefly renamed Tanglewood in 1969), which had been formed by Wishbone Ash's founding member Martin Turner (bass/vocals) in 1963 and complemented by Steve Upton (drums and percussion) in 1966.