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Ramsey said:
POOF! Yeah Iowa The Knack got Knuked. There brand of bouncy pop rock couldn't have come out at a worse time, sandwiched between punk and new wave. I like every Knack album and attended many a Knack concert, my last one about 8 years ago. They stayed in shape till the end. They had an apt for tuning a crowd into a sea of pogo sticks. This one is off their 2003 album.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP6iGP2INZ4

And a live Sharona from 2005...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqC2-7YcBt0
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We had a local band like that , when I say local , I mean Fort Dodge , Iowa , which is like 75 miles South of where I live , and that's what they were , bouncy pop rock, their self titled debut album came out around 1980 , I was like in Jr High , and I remember it got really great reviews in Rolling Stones magazine , , and then their second album came out , "30 Seconds over Otho" , which also got really good reviews , and a lot of people thought this was it , they were on their way to making it big and then.....................Poof , they were gone

And you are right , British new wave took over , and bouncy pop rock pretty much disappeared over night

One unique thing about The Hawks , if I remember right , there was like 5 guys in the band and 4 of them sang/sung lead vocals on at least one of the songs







 
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IowaRam said:
We had a local band like that , when I say local , I mean Fort Dodge , Iowa , which is like 75 miles South of where I live , and that's what they were , bouncy pop rock, their self titled debut album came out around 1980 , I was like in Jr High , and I remember it got really great reviews in Rolling Stones magazine , , and then their second album came out , "30 Seconds over Otho" , which also got really good reviews , and a lot of people thought this was it , they were on their way to making it big and then.....................Poof , they were gone

And you are right , British new wave took over , and bouncy pop rock pretty much disappeared over night

One unique thing about The Hawks , if I remember right , there was like 5 guys in the band and 4 of them sang/sung lead vocals on at least one of the songs







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Wow! I didn't think many late 70's, early 80's power pop bands escaped my attention. As of now... I am officially a "The Hawks" fan. Superb hidden gems! I read all about them on Wikipedia...interesting history.

Enjoyed the Bro's banter about King Crimson's first disc. My little brother was scared of the cover, but was somehow deluded into thinking the music upon "In the Court of Crimson King" was actually Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine. We didn't clear up that up until the mid 90's.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ntHpYocc0


Magenta? Not as metallic nor as sexy as Nightwish yet progish with female vocals. This is off their newest album The Twenty Seven Club. Which has song titles like "The Lizard King" and "Pearl". A concept album about famous musicians who died at age 27.

50 ROD Dollars to the first person who can post a song from this Twenty Seven Club member.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4PCanrFT50&list=PLmvF0Ca63mg6J6KunXjPhpotzpnNqMFna&index=2
 
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Roman Snow said:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tD5ZzGPpz4o

Very talented guy, Cheryl Crow's ex boyfriend- helped launch her. He was getting ready to meet with the guys from Genesis, when he died tragically, a few years after this. Kevin Gilbert RIP
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Yeah, very talented! I got turned on to him listening to the Stone Trek radio show (Greg Stone) on KOME in San Jose. Saw him with Giraffe and Toy Matinee in the late 80's-early 90's. Marc Bonilla toured with Toy Matinee and I ended buying some of his CDs as well.



 
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