Blog: 30 Days Out

By 1974, radio's hard rock trend was going strong – Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Humble Pie dominated the FM rock airwaves. Appropriately titled for the time, Hard Goods arrived in mailboxes with freshly minted rockers like Montrose, covering Roy Brown's "Good Rocking Tonight" and Foghat, offering its cover of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day." Ted Nugent and his Amboy Dukes show up, and the perfect marriage between glam and hard rock emerges in the then-new KISS (Casablanca Records were distributed by Warner Bros. until about 1976). The Doobie Brothers were still rockin' behind guitarist/vocalist [...]