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The draft nearly ended Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1966, before they had even really begun. John Fogerty and Doug Clifford were called for military service, Fogerty enlisting in the Army Reserve and Clifford joining the United States Coast Guard Reserve...

Black Sabbath's debut album was released on Friday the 13th, February 1970.  The self-titled album was a commercial success, but it was not popular with critics.  If fact, Lester Bangs dismissed the album in a Rolling Stone review as "discordant jams with bass and guitar reeling like velocitised speedfreaks all over each other's musical perimeters, yet never quite finding synch". Read Mo

Kansas' self-titled debut album was released in March of 1974, nearly an entire year after it was recorded.  The album defined their signature sound, a mix of American style rock combined with complex, symphonic arrangements with changing time signatures.  Robby Steinhardt's violin was a distinctive element of the group's sound and set them apart from other progressive rock groups of the era. Read