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RE: Music: Five from the Seventies Part One - An @slobberchops challenge
Agreed, the pub scene is but a fraction of what it was, but I was specifically referring to the fact that at some point around 1976-7 radio stations were holding Bee Gee Free weekends; allowing some other acts some room to get in. Southern rock bands like Skynnerd, Molly Hatchet, 38 Special, etc. had all been waiting in the wings to get some exposure. The mid seventies also produced some great rock bands like Boston, but having to wait for Disco to die, I never heard of them until I heard them on the Radio in 1978. By that time their debut album was 2 years old.
Ahh but we never had that huge range of radio stations in the UK. We had Radio 1, that was basically it. So we were stuck with their play lists and rarely got to hear anything that wasn't mainstream without going to the pub!