Mainstream artists with an interesting garage/psych rock past

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I've heard The Hassles (Billy Joel), The Mushrooms (Glen Frey), The Birds (Ron Wood), The Rockets (Crazy Horse) and The Leathercoated Minds (JJ Cale) but are there any other notable garage/psych skeletons in the cupboard of mainstream artists?

― laticsmon (laticsmon), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

All that awesome Bob Seger stuff, although it's not so much skeletons as stuff he wears on his sleeve. I mean all that OTHER awesome Bob Seger stuff, obviously -- I don't want to diminish the man's "mature" accomplishments.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

ZZ Top

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the Movin Sidewalks!

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes it was early-Bob that got me going down this path. Meatloaf's stuff on Rare Earth with Stoney is pretty good either and, though it doesn't quite fit this category, early Kim Carnes is pretty cool, weirdly.

― laticsmon (laticsmon), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

What about the Mynah Birds?
60's rock combo featuring Neil Young and Rick James.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Ted Nugent mainstream?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Mick Hucknall (frantic elevators)

― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Eddie Grant (The Equals)
John Fogerty (The Golliwogs)
Warren Zevon (Lyme and Cybelle)

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

if you ever see darryl hall's album with the band Gulliver on Elektra don't buy it. it kinda sucks. I would like to give a shout-out to Cliff DeYoung (Clear Light) and Chevy Chase (Chameleon Church), two mainstram actors who made fine psychrock/psychpop records.

Oh, and Phil Collins! But that record isn't so hot either.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

John Kerry to thread

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

D'oh, I was just about to make that joke.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Do Fleetwood Mac count?

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

bruce springsteen - the castilles

debbie harry was in some kind of hippy band (I forget their name)circa 1970, and appears on their LP cover sporting some long straight groovy mousy-brown hair.

not a musical artist, but later famous:
john belushi - the ravens (reportedly)

― Fay Wray and Jean Harlow on nude pix, Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenny Rogers "Just Dropped In"

― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Rick James!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"debbie harry was in some kind of hippy band"

Wind & The Willows. I was just listening to that the other day! She has a really pretty solo on one song.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Status Quo - pictures of matchstick men, etc

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Stewart Copeland (police) - Frolkhaven

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

John Kerry (remember him?)

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

tony blair

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Stuart Copeland - Eric Burdon and the Animals, too.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

andy summers has stuart copeland beat with dantalion's chariot and the soft machine.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't that the madman running throught the fields?

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

you know, there are too many people to mention if you are talking about the u.k. i mean, ringo starr was in a psych band!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy Summers also played with Zoot Money back in the 70s, and he's good on Kevin Coyne's IN LIVING BLACK AND WHITE. Kevin can certianly be "garage/psych," in my experience.(That little ferryman in my cobwebbed head).According to my contacts among the lumberjacks, Bob Dylan was once known as Elston Gunn and played in various high school garage bands, like the Golden Chords and the Shadowblasters. Later he played piano for Bobby Vee (who was on his way back to the garage). Lou Reed was in a doowop group, the Shades, who recorded "So Blue," but they may have been more street corner than garage, if there street corners or garages in 1950s Long Island.

― don, Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Howe was in Tomorrow.
John Lydon was in a garagey band called The Sex Pistols before he got himself a real bass player in PiL.
When David Bowie was still David Jones he was in The Manish Boys with Jimmy Page who would later be in The Yardbirds.

― toothy philanthropist, Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Andy Summers also played with Zoot Money back in the 70s"

60's, don. and dantalion's chariot was zoot too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder had a band called The Rising Sons, IIRC.

― Will (will), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the electras weren't really psych or garage...

http://www.theelectras.com/hear.htm

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Frat rock is kind of related to garage, tho.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.electrasforkerry.com/site_images/kerryGuitar1.jpg

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Keith Olsen, who was the bass player in the Music Machine, became a big time producer.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

David Grisman and Peter Rowan had a proto-psych-folk group (a lot of the psych biggies started as folkies, like the Airplane and the Dead), called Earth Opera. Sounds like they recorded in a garage, or barn. From the barn to the auto assembly plant went Bill Monroe, following his big brothers from the hills to toil in places like Flint and East Chicago, and thence to devise manic mechaniic fusion, AKA bluegrass, or "factory music," as Deetroit's Creem did mandate.

― don, Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

and bluegrass did feed the mainstream, re Alison Krauss humming under Starbucks breath et cet

― don, Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry Wallis. Pink Fairies/Shagrat -> Motörhead.

― babyalive (babyalive), Friday, 21 January 2005 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QgD9Ap4Tx5Da1bkihMW0dA86MkP8LpiDNtDrFY8vlhtrXl5RmukozGJUGECmG6et1Cc7c7JOKed6UTi8faU0QS9KmDyZIiGJ!XjC7C5vGq4/Golliwogs.jpg?dc=4675446500159131221
the golliwogs -> ccr

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 21 January 2005 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Chevy Chase - Chameleon Church

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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