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70s music, from good to bad - 9/11/2016 9:15:31 PM   
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The decade started off with so-called 'classic' albums from The Who, The Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, etc.

Though seriously overplayed as any 'standard' of what is or what isn't the best of things (I fully agree on that point), at least it didn't ruin things for everybody else, as did disco.

The mindset at the time pushing even people like Elton John to do his best (Mad Man Across the Water), there were always things in the background that made people to want to pay attention to musical merit.

But the decade that started off with this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5tbQHd5pUw

somehow ended up with this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hphwfq1wLJs

Pardon my musical 'Puratinism', but if this is considered a cultural advance, then let's just all move on and regress in disharmony and dystopia together.

It's never 'bothered' me what 14-22 yr. olds of whatever era liked what they liked. I was all in on Grand Funk Railroad, Alice Cooper, etc. at the time.

So let's get to it, the good stuff from the 70s;

Radio and jukebox playlist in early 70s:

Apple Scruffs

Ring the Living Bell

Cross Eyed Mary

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Too High

Daydreaming

There was great variety on the radio, at one time.

Fuckalmighty I could do with out any 'classic rock' crap nowadays, who could actually buy that crap if they hadn't back in the day?

Gotta move on, folks, which leads me to believe that people so vociferously arguing for cultural dumbing down as occurred decades ago might not be the first to give attention to.






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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 9/11/2016 11:10:52 PM   
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I have to admit, all-in-all, the 70s cut a musical fart, but it was a decade that gave us some shining spots:

KISS
Aerosmith
AC/DC
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Suite
Cheap Trick
Ozzy Osbourne
The Winters Brothers (Johnny and Edgar)
(Anything meaningful by) Pink Floyd
Van Headache
Angel (Punky Meadows, Greg Giuffria)
(The "classic") Fleetwood Mac
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Creedence Clearwater Revival

Honorable mention to one of my favorites that never really took off, here: L'Orme (They're from Italy)

With apologies:

I happen to LOVE Donna Summers and Patti LaBelle



Michael

E.T.A.: How could I have forgotten:

Kansas
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer (who were supposed to be joined by Jimmy Hendrix to form: H.E.L.P.)
E.L.O.
The Eagles


M.P.C.

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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 9/11/2016 11:47:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's what it was like;

Whatever was on the radio by the Stones or The Who or Led Zep or whatever, this is what made people dance and be happy.

Want Adds

At least as what I observed firsthand on the lunchtime patio at the time. People thinking that disco was the first thing to make white people dance ... Oh goodness.


If Wilson Pickett didn't make you get up and dance, then just give it up.

Seriously ...

This vs. this?


While at it, it didn't escape notice here that when I was charged with babysitting the little sisters and and brothers and my own teen compatriots all at once, the one record that made -everybody- immediately jump out of their seats was this one that my older sister and I had bought sometime earlier...

Was this one;

Love is like an itching in my heart;

But, if sticking to the narrative of some here, disco was the first to accomplish that object, right?

Oh lord, how clueless ...
I have gone over the post and even though it said that I compared Rod Stewart, in not the best comparison, The site still insists that my links to Wilson Picket vs, Rod Stewart, though I have taken great pains to separate the two.






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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 9/12/2016 12:00:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		In any event, there is not any mention of the seventies proper of good evaluation that would leave out Al Green.

People who are fans of bands carrying 2-3 Les Paul guitars and screaming loudly into a microphone apparently missed out on it.

But here we are, any case;

I'm So Tired of Being Alone

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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 9/12/2016 2:09:28 AM   
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Pink Floyd

Mahavishnu Orchestra

Dixie Dregs

Mahavisnu again

Dixie Dregs again


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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 9/12/2016 4:31:46 AM   
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More 70s radio/jukebox;

The Delfonics - Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)

Yes, recorded in late '69, but was all over the radio in early 1970. So there.

Shocking Blue - Venus

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sweet Hitch Hiker

Family Affair - Sly and The Family Stone

Elton John / Friends

Harry Nilsson - Without You 1972

I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash

What a phenomenal tenor voice.

Harry Chapin - Taxi

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - For You






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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 9/12/2016 11:11:47 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
KISS
Aerosmith




Actually, my band feeling the need to cover Aerosmith is what made me get away from that venture. Too many other interesting musical pursuits that I was only barely capable of, forget the rest of them. It also helps, whatever genre, if one has legitimate or useful composition talents, which I didn't.

But KISS will always be remembered for that one song, the live version of this;

I Want to Rock and Roll All Night

Even my 'purist' folk-loving older sister turned up the volume for that one when we were out smoking joints and driving around in the most boring place in the world, Illinois, coincident with the most musically boring time in the world.

Having to make do with what was available at the time, we also had great fun in yelling out the 'ah Hah!' in this song when in came on, which it often did in those days. As did all the other flood of 'disco' at the time.

Voulez vous


Oh, but don't go away just yet. There is also this;

Lay All Your Love on Me


I have a soft spot for crooked or crowded teeth on ladies, so they got me twice on that one.




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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 9/13/2016 12:37:09 AM   
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I get it. I get it. You're musically superior to everyone on the planet.

Jeez you're an arrogant cuss!

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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 9/13/2016 1:53:16 AM   
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It's not that my musical tastes are 'superior' to any one else's, it's just that I don't cling to to my dying day what I might have been interested 30 years ago. I only refer back to it for reference, and then there is the fact that nothing out nowadays can hold any interest. And it's not just me, I've heard from many 'millennials' that there's nothing good out there, even for them.

I really had to think back a good bit to come up with all those examples given above. Heaven help us if I actually sought that out to listen to every day.


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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 9/13/2016 6:53:08 PM   
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But for those paying attention, you knew this was coming ...

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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/6/2016 8:21:37 PM   
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"Moar '70s, please."

OK.

My brother and my sisters sang this to perfection, while I plunked the guitar;

Elton John, before he put on the duck suit

Love Song

We do this one, too;

Hopelessly Helping

'69, not '70s. Kill me now.


This doesn't involve singing;

Mahavishnu Orchestra

In 25+ years working in live shows, I'm not sure I've ever heard any sound as fantastic as Lenny White's drum kit. And yes, he played the things pretty well, too. Here he is with Stanley Clark and Jeff Beck. Not live, sorry.

Hello Jeff

Lenny White is amazing.

And what would be any proper '70s recollection without Dan Hicks?

Moody Richard

You Got To Believe

Walkin' One And Only

And Dave Grisman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJ6OHJIucc

Regional stuff;

Dixie Dregs

Country House Shuffle

Leprechaun Promenade

B-52s, too. Same I-85 corridor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykEg_QEbXmo

Glenn Phillips Band

JuneFest, Atlanta, Ga. (Note the tile-layer knee protectors, and the hammer)

That video from 1984, but I can assure that Glenn Phillips Band was alive and well in '78-79 when I saw their shows, including that number.

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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/7/2016 1:41:01 AM   
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I prefer the 50s and 60s. . . . But for the 70s how could anyone miss these ;

Rod Stewart

Bonnie Tyler

Meat Loaf

Bee Gees

Bread


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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/7/2016 9:17:46 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Edwird

This doesn't involve singing;

Mahavishnu Orchestra



I screwed that one up.

Let's try this one;

Mahavishnu Orchestra

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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/7/2016 6:20:23 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Tangelo
I prefer the 50s and 60s. . . . But for the 70s how could anyone miss these ;

Rod Stewart


Ha ha.

If you read the OP, you'll know what I think of Rod Stewart. Though he was half decent in the earliest days, up to '72 or thereabouts.

But back to covering areas where I've been remiss thus far;

The Friends Of Distinction - Love Or Let Me Be Lonely

Alive & Kicking - Tighter, Tighter

I lubs this one to death;
Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman

Talking about '70s, and no Cat Stevens? I was trying to side step the most popular stuff, but hard to leave this out;

Where Do The Children Play?

Moonshadow

Peace Train

On to other things.

Another Al Green. Sorry, can't help it.

Call Me (Come Back Home)

This is so wonderful;

Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection


Well, I'll take a pause here. Seeing as that aside from Cat Stevens and Joan Armatrading, I've seriously overloaded the playlist with Phenomenally Good early '70s R&B, I should break from it else I go on half the night about it.

I remember in my 4th or 5th session of studio recording class, I was allowed (along with the rest of the small class) to hold in my own hands the microphone that James Brown himself (yes, that one) had sung his earlier classics into. Maybe the 'voodoo' from palpable insinuation or whatnot.

But all the examples above were what I listened to a good bit before that recording class, so maybe not.



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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/8/2016 4:23:57 PM   
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and the Moody Blues

and all of Elton Johns Good-bye Yellow Brick Road

the Who - Behind Blue Eyes


edited to add - Supertramp and 10cc

and even though it isn't fashionable, I really loved John Denver....



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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/8/2016 5:54:07 PM   
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Blame me. As I pointed out in my prior above post, I was trying to get to things aside from the most popular. Things that don't get attention as much, but what I feel to be More Than Worthy.

I did have Elton's Madman Across the Water. I'm not a fan of much of his after Yellow Brick Road. Island Girl, Grow some Funk of Your Own were kind of fun, though. I think Someone Saved My Life Tonight is a classic, even my not normally a big fan of 'classics.'

10cc used crazy production techniques for I'm Not in Love. They recorded their individual voices, one note/pitch at a time onto tape, then found a way to hook up a keyboard to tape machine such that the recorded voices were actuated by the keyboard corresponding key. Very time consuming. The voice-over of the woman saying 'Big boys don't cry" was performed by the studio secretary.

Here, read all about it yourself if you like. Be forewarned, this is the lengthiest article I've come across regarding one song.

http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-10cc-not-love


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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/8/2016 6:14:09 PM   
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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/8/2016 6:29:08 PM   
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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/8/2016 6:32:15 PM   
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RE: 70s music, from good to bad - 10/8/2016 7:30:03 PM   
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