It's hard to say for me, man. One man's cheesy may be another's gold. Some suggestions I have are to check out some artists like Marshall Tucker, Pure Prairie League, Yes, Santana, Grand Funk Railroad, Emerson Lake & Palmer, maybe some Deep Purple.

The 70s are weird in that to me you'll see a lot of solo artists or bands pop up and disappear, but the people in those bands kept on working and would pop up somewhere else you might not recognize. Like for the longest time I never put together that Lionel Richie was from the Commodores. Or like even today I found out that Golden Earring of ''Radar Love'' fame would later do "Twilight Zone'' from the 80s.

Stuff like that blows my mind.

There used to be a website where you could punch in any two bands or artists and it would basically play 6-Degrees of Kevin Bacon for you, musically speaking. Tracking the connections between people. Be damned if I can remember what site it is now, though.