sam' lost bands

Today's lost band is Nektar. Nektar was an English Progressive Rock band, based in Germany. They were active from 1969 - 1982. In 2002 the band made a reunion, and they are still active. Back in the seventy's Nektar made it big with the album Remember The Future which was an album with pretty much one song on each side of the LP that were broken down into segments but mostly just one song... Read

Today in lost bands we will do a band a band called The Four Horseman who were a good band but short lived. Their lead singer couldn't stay out of jail long enough to get things going. Frankie Starr was always getting caught and doing time and in the end got run over by a drunk driver while riding his bike...

Elf was a rock band founded in 1967 by singer and bassist Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Doug Thaler Drummer Gary Driscoll, and guitarists Nick Pantas and David Feinstein(Dio's cousin).The band was originally called The Electric Elves but was shortened to The Elves in 1968 and finally Elf in 1972...

Starcastle is a progressive rock band that started in St. Louis with lead singer Terry Luttrell (formerly of reo speedwagon) , bassist Gary Strater, drummer Stephen Tassler, keyboardist Herb Schildt, guitarist Matthew Stewart and guitarist Stephen Hagler...

May Blitz were formed in England during the early part of 1969. Tony Newman ex Jeff Beck Group actually formed the band recruiting James Black & Reid Hudson. Black and Hudson were Canadians from Victoria, British Columbia who pioneered Canadian West Coast music prior to moving to England. Th...

Back in the day there were a lot of bands falling out that ended up getting back together. But while they were apart from what made them famous some of these guys got to cut some albums with guys from the other bands. That is what we have here in the Witford St Holmes band...

Today's lost band is another KSHE Classic. This guy was on the airwaves  back in St Louis on KSHE when I was a young man. His name is Ray Gomez and I can't tell you much about him other than I liked these songs and they did make the KSHE Classics...

Today my lost band is the same as my favorites a band called Spooky Tooth. The line up for this song was Gary Wright (keyboards); Mike Harrison (keyboards), Luther Grosvenor (guitar), Andy Leigh (bass guitar), Mike Kellie (drums). At one time Mick Jones the founder of the band Foreigner was in the band as well as the guitar player...

Today's lost band is one of my favorites and they are still around and kickin out the tunes. I am talking about Black Oak Arkansas. I have personally had the pleasure of partying with Jim Mangrum aka Jim Dandy more than once. He is a great guy that really likes his Jim Beam straight from the bottle...

This lost band was a band from close to my home town they were formed in St Louis. Their lead singer was the vocalist from R.E.O. Speedwagons first album. His name is Terry Luttrell and he fit in this band quite well. The band was a prog rock band named Starcastle and this song was on their first album...

This lost band was well known back in the late sixties and early seventies. The name of the band was Gypsy and they had a different sound going on but were a great band. From their 2nd LP "In The Garden" 1971 this song was what I thought kinda cool...

Well I have done lost band's on dust before but maybe they won't be lost for long. DUST "Dust/Hard Attack" re-mastered CD available April 16, 2013. Record Store Day exclusive vinyl to be released April 20, 2013. In 1970, three brooklyn high school friends (Marc Bell, Kenny Aaronson and Richie Wise) started DUST...