Ruth Copeland - "Play With Fire" 1971

I got to be honest, I'm not crazy about a majority of her catalog, but I think this version of the Stones song kicks major ass. I mean shit, dig the lungs on her! Powerful. Ruth Copeland is best known for her involvement with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. She produced and wrote two tracks on their debut album, and continued to collaborate with Clinton on Parliament's future works as well.
And I felt at least this tune should get some acknowledgment on this page.

Stone Bunny - 1970

Although Pentagram did not officially form until 1971, the beginnings of the band dates back to 1970 when Bobby Liebling joined D.C. area band "Space Meat", who then, changed their name to Stone Bunny. Aside from Liebling the lineup featured John Jennings (guitar), Greg Mayne (bass), annnd Geoff O'Keef (drums). All of whom later turned up in Pentagram. Stone Bunny only stayed together for a few months because Leiblings harder vocal style wasn't right for Jennings often melodic material, and they parted ways with him and the other three remained a trio (Jennings,Mayne, O'Keef) and went back under the moniker of Space Meat before breaking up a brief time later.

Hiro Yanagida -" Milk Time" 1970

Hiro Yanagida, born in Japan in 1949, appeared on stage for the first time as a member of The Floral in 1966 through the audition for the Japanese chapter of The Monkees Fan Club. In 1969 The Floral changed their name to Apryl Fool, famous as an improvised psychedelic rock band in Japan amd disbanded right after they recorded their Eponymous debut. Whilst playing in FOOD BRAIN and LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE, Hiro, as a solo artist recorded four albums: "Milk Time" (1970), "Hiro Yanagida Nanasai No Rojin Tengoku)" (1971), "HIRO" (1972), and "Hirocosmos" (1973) all of which gained approval from worldwide psychedelic fans and reviewers alike. Recently, as a session musician, Hiro has recorded many songs for T.V., jingles, and commercials. It's pretty well Prog Rock with some serious blast-ass moments. Their core storm starts of on the second track "Running Shirts Long", and don't be deceived by Hiros soft keyboard solo on the beginning of "Love St", each insrumental solo gets exoloded and builds heavily and rampantly.

Chelsea - s/t 1970

Chelsea was an early 1970's band from NYC best known for being the band of Peter Criss before Kiss. They releaseed one album this eponymous debut in 1971, and then collapsed during the recording of their unreleased second album.
I August of 1971 the band became Lipps, a trio of Criss, and two other members of Chelsea Stan Penrige and Michael Benvenega. By the spring of '73, Lipps was just the duo of Criss and Penrige and eventually disbanded for good.

Shaggy - "Lessons For Beginners" 1975

Shaggy was a band formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1973. The band released just one album, "Lessons for Beginners" in 1975. The album is very rare and if you find an original, it will set you back about $300+. Illustration on the album shows a naked girl laying on a gallows with a sunrise in the background. It shows the band playing surrounded by mountains and UFO's. The opening track "Destination Nowhere" is a total killer track with obvious influence from Deep Purple through guitars as well as Hammond. "Vengence is more an accelerated pace on vocals and suggests early Queen. It contiues with "Bitch" which surley is another highlight. The bass and Hammond is intense as well as the instrumental "Lessons For Beginners." "I Can Feel" is another instrumental. Closing the album is "Brink of Nowhere" which is the longest track on the disc at &:30. Hammond provide support while the guitars go crazy with long solos.

Stone Garden - s/t 1969-1971

The Speer brothers Gary (guitar), Paul (guitar), and Neal (drums and piano) were at the core of what would eventually turn into Stone Garden. The Lewiston, ID pre-teens from a musical family, took up their instruments in the early 1960's. Their father built them makeshift amplifiers out of old stereo equipment and the Three Dimensions were born. Still barely teens they were scoring paying gigs. The trio took on Junior High schoolmate Dan Merille as it's full time bass player, and with his addition, adopted English style ruffled shirts as well as a new name, The Knights of Sound. The quartet made its first studio recording in 1965, and began to play regularly around Lewiston, eventually drawing the attention of aspiring manager Don Tunnell. With psychedelia in full flower, Tunnell renamed the band Stone Garden in 1967 after seeing a poster with the name. They began growing their hair long and ditched their Carnaby street duds for Nehru jackets and the quartet developed a repertoire loaded with songs by the Doors, Hendrix, Cream, the Beatles, and the Stones as well as a smattering of it's own original material. By 1969, Stone Garden was ready to record the latter, and a friend with a rather sophisticated basement studio helped put out the "Oceans Inside Me"/"Stop My Thinking" 45 single. A pressing of 300 that actually earned significant local airplay and got the attention of DJ Chris Adams, who became a vocal supporter of the foursome, eventually getting them time in a professional recording studio in Vancouver, WA. While there, Stone Garden recorded the remainder of it's original material, which went unreleased until re-issue label Rockadelic records collected it for a 1998 eponymous release. Once Gary left for college in 1969, the band went through a number of line-up changes, and due to constant instability, broke up in the early weeks of 1972.

Crank - "A Night in the Cave" 1971

This is the B-side of a split E.P. from two heavily obscure bands, (a limited press of about 750 copies from 1997) Thump Theatre being the A-side, which is of a more progressive flavor from what I've read. Crank however is: "Consistantly Heavy tightly played, energetic, hard bluesy rock. Owing a debt to Led Zep no doubt, but with it's own brand of aggression it stands on it's own merit as the sound of a young and extremely talented band that could have gone on to greater success. The final track regresses into blues rock, but this is eminently forgivable, acknowledging the influences this music emerged from." (this paragraph has been present on every blog I've read concerning Crank).
Other descriptions found on various mail order sights: "Heavy Rock with a progressive touch unearthed by the Rockedelic label featuring ultra-rare underground 70's rock sounds (c.1971) with one side by each band. These tapes came from the Cavern Sound studios (Stoned Circus, Bulbous Creation, Phantasia, Trizo 50) the Crank tape had 'Zep Jr' written on the box, which is a pretty accurate frame of reference. Thump Theater offers a more progressive rock sound with some good guitar breaks and catchy lyrics. Last copies from a long gone edition from 1997.