70s Invasion-Web Site Dedicated To Glam And Other Lost Music of the 1960s And 1970s - Page 2
© Marianne Moro
Alan- Both I guess. Sometimes you can type in something random online and up will come a band you've never heard about or you know. You search for a certain musician and up comes a discography he has with links to othermusic he or she was (involved) in..........Sometimes we have gone out of our way to document a band few have heard of, glorify them a bit and kinda preserve it all in this time capsule called the '70s Invasion. I like to think 1000 years down the line someone somewhere else in the universe will be reading it!
The Site
We work on the site in our spare time. Our girlfriends and our friend Diane (Skye) can be considered a part of our site, after all, they have helped us with reviews and trading music with others over the last few years since we began in '99, so we are grateful to them for their interest.
MM-What are your most exciting discoveries so far?
Alan-Stephanie de Sykes, I'm in love! Everyone interested in '70s glam rock who wants to see a great film that surfaced two years before punk rock should see the film she starred in called "Side By Side." You can get it through bootleg video sites based in the UK Actually there are many discoveries too many to mention. You may have noticed we have documented many unknown women in rock. One day someone needs to put out a "Glam Girls" CD featuring the music of Bobbie McGee, Zenda Jacks, Bonnie St. Claire, Thunderthighs, the Rock Flowers,, Fox featuring Noosha Fox, Pat Hall and so on................... You mentioned how you read about Zenda Jacks when you were younger. I guess there are so many categories for all this forgotten music of the '70s
The Screamers and underground punk bands of the '70s have to be one of our very best discoveries of the last few years. Elsewhere, there was a reggae-disco band called Typically Tropical who had a great song called "Going, To Barbados." Paul Nicholas had a surperb disco song called "Dancing With Captain"
Elsewhere in lost pop, Peter Shelley's "Love Me, Love My Dog"is so innocent. It fits right in there with the music of the Carpenters and so on,, and we can't forget '60s music; long lost classics by the National Gallery, whose sole LP is very much like the Velvet Underground. They had a 45 called the Bhagavad Gita, which sounds fantastic, like nothing else in the '60s. There were so many underground garage bands-"The Baroque Monthly" and their song "You are Your Only Mystery", the Nightcrawlers "My Little Black Egg" and so on.........
