Don't recall the album names... probably weren't any albums back then... but I do remember...
in fact I don't think there were too many instruments, mostly just hollow logs.
The big ones were the drums, the skinny ones became flutes.
The real skinny ones became forks.
The short ones were toothpick.
A couple years removed from THE show up at Max's farm in M.Y., some fallout was still going on and some new arrivals that gained ground rapidly with my friends and I.
Little feat's Waiting for Columbus
Marshall Tucker's A New Home
Van Zant & Co. got their deal Pronounced Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Jackson Browne's For Everyman
Jimmy Buffet
E.L.O.'s Eldorado
Dave & Roger hit the big time on Dark Side Of The Moon.
I totally burned up on Stage by Loggins and Messina, as well as ';4 Way Street' by C.S.N.Y.
We paused long enough to listen to some island music from Bob Marley too.
following a brief pause, Southern Rock came into vogue. We went to as many shows as we could afford. $6 - $12 wasn't anything to sneeze at... one had to be picky!
With few exceptions though the flavor always was some southern based mainstay or firey newcomer.
KISS & Queen began to get attention and we had to see them.
I stuck with the local fare as my defaults.
The Outlaws Green Grass and High Tides
Black Oak Arkansas - Jim Dandy
Elvin Bishopp & dickie Betts with Great southern
Allman Bros minus 1.
Little feat
Little River Band
Charlie Daniels & and Marshall Tucker, seemed almost inseprable showing up at each others gigs routinely unanounced.
Billy Gibbons ZZ Top remains a fav today.
All in all, it was sort of a dull era wehn you stop to think and compare it to what passes for popular and hard rock now.
Oddly enough with all that, the songs that transport me to '71 - '74, are Gino Vaneelli's Storm at Sunrise, Robin Trower's Bridge of sighs, Golden Earring Radar Love, ELO's Can't Get you Out of My Head, and Marshall Tuckers Fire On the Mountain.
then disco came along and everybody lost their ever loving minds. Thankfully I was at ssea during much of that time.
