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Already asked this question but what's your ranking for 70s hard rock bands

Top dozenish

nahhh m8

major ones only or are we counting underground bands with like 1-2 amazing albums? gonna make list

Give me your pantheon then an honorable mention list of undergrounders

Would like to see riffsquads as well

That Jerry Lee Lewis rendition of Hit The Road Jack that was playing in the cafe toward the beginning of Two-Lane is from 1963 and I've had it on repeat lately

more than 12. i guess the S/A Tier is the pantheon

main:

S Tier:
Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, The Who

A Tier:
Thin Lizzy, Uriah Heep, Rainbow, Atomic Rooster, Blue Oyster Cult, UFO, Motorhead

B Tier:
Buffalo, Scorpions (could move to A), Ted Nugent, Queen, Aerosmith, Budgie, Captain Beyond, Wishbone Ash

C Tier:
AC/DC, Boston, Montrose, Mountain, Van Halen, Flower Travellin band, Kiss, Nazareth, Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper

undergrounders, basically equals to above tiers:

A Tier:
Wicked Lady, Truth and Janey, Sonic's Rendezvous Band,, Randy Holden, Pentagram (more metal and archival releases only)

B Tier:
JPT Scare Band, Granicus, Armageddon, Iron Claw, Leaf Hound, Lucifer's Friend, Jerusalem

@Elric you ever move on Fireball/Machine Head with Deep Purple or did you give up? cant remember :okay:

No Priest?

Lol gave all the way up but I'm down to hear some later stuff

theyre too solidly metal for me to include outside of like the 1st album. 70s Sabbath more hard rock enough to fit almost equally in both styles imo (besides maybe Master of Reality and Vol 4 which i dont feel are very hard rock-y).

some others too that could be argued for hard rock but rather fit in another category like the Stooges, New York Dolls

sabbath, hendrix and motorhead

Hendrix was 60s

Tbh I didn't think you'd out any metal bands on there but then thought no Priest was a glaring omission if you had all those other guys

not later, but this straightforward banger with obvious influence on metal bands like Priest, Motorhead. and assuming you've likely heard a few of the obvious radio rock staple hits from Machine Head

this is from 3rd era with different vocalist, i think youd like it less tbh but might as well try

wow hendrix died in 1970 damn

His death famously a big part of what killed the 60s vibe

the other ones are definitely more hard rock than Priest. Motorhead is for sure as much hard rock as metal or even more, with big rock&roll influence and more blues. Seems Scorpions got more metallic at end of the decade but everythings still hard rock easily. budgie, rainbow certainly hard rock as well too. I forgot Sir Lord Baltimore but theyre both hard rock/metal and would go in underground A tier. Pentagram is definitely a metal band (one of the key 80s doom bands) but their embryonic early then-unreleased 70s stuff is hard rock too i think. also related to them is Bedemon which is actually pretty damn close to pure metal tbh

feel like Priest was really the first to truly separate metal from hard rock. (and im not as big of a fan as you of their hard rock debut). honestly can't think of a single 70s metal band besides them that I wouldn't call a hard rock band as well. maybe could argue for some that came in like 1979 like when Iron Maiden recorded their debut

still got 1 album from 1970 and bunch of good live material but yeah wouldnt put him in the category anyway really, one of the key founders rather than a true proponent. same with cream, yardbirds

also probably some good blues,prog, southern rock bands that could fall under hard rock as well that im forgetting

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I saw this guy at a nightclub once