Well, could there be a more underrated US Metal band than The Rods? Surely not .Along with Yesterday And Today (first album 1976), Riot (Rock City, 1977) and Anvil (first album under the name of Lips, 1980) The Rods laid the groundwork for futuregenerations of American Metal bands. When David Feinstein (vocals, guitar), Carl Canedy (drums) and Steve Starmer (bass) issued their legendary, totally self-financed Rock Hard album in 1980, it marked the beginning of a new era. David Feinstein himself, however, the cousin of Ronnie James Dio, had been in the music business for a few years by then. Together with Ronnie he had been in Elf (playing guitar on albums such as Elf, 1972, Carolina County Ball, 1974, and finally Trying To Burn The Sun, 1975).
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