Your top three American bands in the Seventies?

Eagles
The Grateful Dead/New Riders
Led Zeppelin

 

Steely Dan
The Allman Brothers Band
Aerosmith

 

Black Sabbath
Wings
Grateful Dead

 

Van Halen
Lynard Skynard
Kiss

 

Eagles
Cheap Trick
Doobie Brothers

 

The Runaways
Cheap Trick
Blondie

 

VU (just)
Television
New York Dolls

 

Thought Sabbath were from England?

 

Got thru half the thread - all my favorites were mentioned several times.

Decided to up the ante to a strict interpretation of 1970s which means STARTED IN THE 1970s, so no groups starting in the 60s who got big or bigbig in 70s and no starting in 70s and obscure til the 80s Also no groups already mentioned.

So here goes . . .

Hot Tuna

Plasmatics

Barnaby Bye . . .

Here is a timeless classic from Barnaby Bye to refresh your memory, "Blonde" 1975

 

Big Star
The Grateful Dead
Creedence Clearwater Revival

 

Raspberries
Eagles
Steely Dan

 

Steely Dan
Doobie Brothers
Allman Brothers

 

Grateful Dead
Ramones

Rotating

 

No offence intended here, but we've just had some national school exam results released here in the U.K. and I can't help imagining some of the posters in this thread responding to one or two of the questions.....

Q: Name the six wives of Henry the Eighth

A: 1) Jane Seymour
2) David Hasselhoff
3) 1917
4) Pythagoras' Theorem
5) A Jockstrap
6) The Gross Domestic Product of South Africa
7) Lemmy from Motorhead

 

Brain malfunction.

 

3 favorites:
Grateful Dead
Allman Brothers
Little Feat

3 Honorable Mentions (although there are too many to count):
Hot Tuna
Santana
New Riders of the Purple Sage

Its heartening to see all the love for Little Feat. I mean I've always loved them, but I've had the impression that although they have a following, they were a bit underappreciated. So it was good to see so many of you have them on your list.

 

CHICAGO



BREAD


THREE DOG NIGHT

 

So difficult, but I think I'll be able to stay in the US at least

Steely Dan
Blondie
Eagles

With shout outs to
Doobies
Chicago
Tom Petty

 

Grateful Dead

Stooges/Iggy solo

Steely Dan

 

Steely Dan was a band for a short time but became a duo with studio musicians and session artists. It explains why most of their recordings are polished.

 

No one?

 

Aerosmith
KISS
The Ramones

Van Halen would be there, but they're sort of both '70s and '80s having only released two albums in the '70s (and recorded part of the third). Also, shoutout to Blue Oyster Cult and the original Alice Cooper band. They'd be 4 and 5.

 

This was one of the largest outdoor concert events in the 70's. It's called the BEACHAGO concerts.
Record producer James William Guercio persuaded the two great bands to perform together when Chicago was at the peak of their career and the Beach Boys was making a comeback as a nostalgia act.

 

Christgau thought the best TWO were The Ramones and Neil Young & Crazy Horse.

 

Ramones
Boston
Eagles