Posted on 12/03/2010 10:01:00 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
I told my daughter and son-in-law just the other day that they missed out on one of the best things ever. Rock & roll and concerts and such.
Ich fahrn fahrn fahrn
auf der Autobahn!!!
Back in the mid 70’s I was a Prog Rock and Jazz Fusion fan, later moving on the Punk and New Wave scene, and in my condescending ignorance dissed a lot of the conventional rock and pop of that era. It was great to rediscover it years later.
There was SO much good music in the decade of the 70’s
My all-time favorite album came out in 1974, Genesis’ “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”, it still sounds fresh today, which is unusual for a lot of prog from that era.
Regarding concerts:
I was just looking through my Concert ticket stub album. A representative entry:
Jeff Beck/Mahavishnu Orchestra
Ambassador Theatre
St. Louis, MO
1974
10th row-Left Center
$6.50 (!!)
Overall 10cc lost their magic after Godley and Creme left.
10cc’s How Dare You was one of the best albums of mid-70’s. I bought if for “Art for Art’s Sake,” but the whole album was surprisingly good.
ping
“And the carpet crawlers heed their callers:
We’ve got to get in to get out..”
Now you’re talking, Mr Dallas!
I have that bit of prime Prog/Art Rock on my music server at the office, and my patients will often ask (among the other esoterica I feature [LOL]), “Who IS that band? I never heard anything like that before!”
I’ve saved most of my concert stubs too, spanning the 70s to the present day. I remember fretting over paying $25 to see Roxy Music in 1977.
$25.00 in 1977?
That must have been a Backstage Pass! {LOL}
Or, California pricing....
‘Can’ was arguably the best of the German lot (a bit earlier than Kraftwerk, though). ‘Tangerine Dream’ if you *really* want to go ‘far out’ on electronic music. (My favorite Krautrock piece remains to be ‘Solar Music Live’
by Grobschnitt - horribly compressed as it may be.)
They actually paid to have their music published? What's the point of that?
Would still be 650 now, just remove the decimal lol
I am exactly the same
Last five years have been an eye opener, and luckily I caught the tail end of the golden rock era with late 70s concerts
Recent learning curve focused on 60s and more British stuff like Status Quo
I'm right with you there.
This is precisely the kind of older rock pop I feature every Friday, fwiw
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/search?q=oldies
Heh! One of my closest friends in H.S. had an Olds 442 (performance version of the Cutlass) with t-tops and a 455 engine. That thing was awesome.
When I was in HS, Cutlass Supreme was the best selling car in the United States (1977)
Now it’s a freaking Toyota
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