Bands that classic rock radio forgot

I used to hear the following bands all the time on "classic rock radio". I rarely hear these bands any more, and if I do it's only one or two songs, as playlists continue to shrink and old bands get pushed aside for newer ones (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Def Leppard, GNR, Bon Jovi, even Metallica are now classic rock bands).

The Byrds
The Rascals
Lovin' Spoonful
The Yardbirds
Squeeze
Traffic
Sly & The Family Stone
Blood Sweat and Tears
Jefferson Starship (Jefferson Airplane too aside from the 2 iconic Summer Of Love hits)

What other bands have largely been removed from classic rock radio playlists?

 

The Dave Clark Five
Paul Revere And The Raiders
Jan & Dean
Todd Rundgren

 

If you have an understanding of what a target market is you will understand why classic rock radio has moved from the late sixties to the eighties.

 

OP understands. Post was about bands affected.

 

MC5, The Stooges.

 

Pretty Things
Kinks
James Gang (except for Funk #49)
Move
Wizzard
King Crimson
Genesis
Steppenwolf
Three Dog Night
Grass Roots
Bebop Deluxe
Faces
Small Faces
Procol Harum
Deep Purple
Badfinger
Bob Seger
Cream
Creedence
Doors
Hollies
ELP
Humble Pie
Jethro Tull
Mott the Hoople
Mountain
Poco
Quicksilver
Renaissance
Strawbs
Roxy Music
Siouxsie
Simon & Garfunkel
Supertramp
Turtles
Argent
Uriah Heep
Zombies
And on and on

 

Spirit
Black Oak Arkansas
The Outlaws

Much of the 60s is now off the table with a few exceptions, but there is still plenty of 70s rock being played.

 

Granted I've never listened to a lot of classic rock radio, but a lot of the artists being mentioned I don't recall ever hearing on classic rock radio (per se, versus 70s radio).

 

Spooky Tooth
Gentle Giant
Amboy Dukes
Foghat

 

In my experience, the list of bands they remembered is far shorter than the list of bands they forgot. The sixties get almost completely ignored, with only the likes of Hendrix and the Rolling Stones (plus the occasional CCR or Doors song) getting featured regularly on the radio. From there on out, it's nothing but the most obvious hard rock, southern rock, hair metal, and grunge bands that get played, along with a few unavoidable hits from every other genre.

 

Give my friend Paul Gurvitz's show a listen to and all his great stories

RFP Presents The Paul Gurvitz Show!

 

13th Floor Elevators and The Velvet Underground.
Not that radio was ever bothered much by them to begin with.

 

Is that the guy in Gun and Baker Gurvitz Army etc?

 

Turtle songs that aren't Happy Together

 

radio, meh

 

Yep! I met him in 1975 and found out he lives not too far away and I go over to his home and shoot the breeze and listen to his stories which are funny and breat taking for lovers of rock.

 

Half the bands mentioned so far were never on the playlist.

 

King Crimson ?

 

True. Half were not, but the other half were once staples. Also, the bands that are played have been boiled down to a three song catalog.

 

The oldies formats play all of the above save for Squeeze and Starship.

 

So many of the bands proffered here were never on the radio in the first place.

You can’t forget what you never knew in the first place!

King Crimson? Gentle Giant?

If they qualify, then it’s my turn...hey, I never hear Keith Jarrett on the radio anymore!

 

Peter Gabriel era Genesis is non existent on Classic Rock radio.

 

King Crimson getting airtime... Hah, I wanna live to hear that!!

 

Depends on where you live, I would think.

 

My next door neighbor plays the Classic Rock station in his backyard during the summer. I call it the "Who's Next?" channel...