Posted on 12/22/2022 2:50:39 AM PST by DallasBiff
It was a decade that spawned the Sex Pistols and the Vietnam War, platform shoes and Saturday Night Fever.
The Seventies also gave us The Godfather and Space Hoppers but those glam rock years will forever live in the shadow of the Swinging Sixties.
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Going about Orlando, nostalgia sometimes puts me in a frame of mind that I can recall something from years ago about most places. And, yes, Orlando's growth is progress because it has gone from a small if pleasant city of limited opportunities to a major metropolitan area abundant with services, amenities, and opportunity.
Orlando is becoming something like a cross between LA and Las Vegas. My guess is that casino gambling is eventually coming to the area as well.
Ok, thanks. I was hoping that was a typo.
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see casino gambling in Orlando in the future. Is it allowed in Florida yet? I haven’t kept up with that.
There are eight Indian casinos in Florida, and eight parimutuel casinos with more limited offerings. Logically, Orlando, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Tampa in that order would be the best venues for a cluster of intense Las Vegas style casinos.
Kent State shooting was in 1970
1971 saw millions protesting against the war
Bombings across the country in the early 1970’s by the Weathermen and other groups
Jane Fonda went to Vietnam in 1972
All true. I remember all of that.
Ten Years After and Gordon Lightfoot in quadraphonic.
Boarding school listening to Yes, Jethro Tull and reading Tolkien.
What we think of as the 50’s was actually more like 1955-1965. The Rat Pack was most active in the 1960’s. What we call the Sixties was more like 1965-1974.
My background allowed me to do two things after I became a professional historian: 1) circa 2008-9 through serendipity I became associated with the singer/keyboardist from Vanilla Fudge, Mark Stein. They were my idols as musicians. He asked if I’d write his bio, and I said yes provided that obviously he gave me access to everyone and that I could make the story as much about rock since 1960 as about him. The book is called “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.” I gave Mark full authorship taking a “with” because I wanted no part of self-publishing marketing expenses. But it’s a darn good book. Through Mark, I got to interview: Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Liberty DeVito (Springsteen’s drummer); Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze); Dave Mason; Felix Cavaliere (Rascals); Vinny Martell (Fudge); George “Shadow” Morton (producer); David Paich (Toto); and many more. That led me in 2009 to make a documentary film called “Rockin’ the Wall” about music’s role in ending the USSR. I got to interview Robby Krieger (Doors), Rudy Sarzo (Blue Oyster Cult/Quiet Riot), Grammy winning music score prouder John Van Tongeren; Alice Cooper; and Billy Joel. That led me to a second music doc, “Other Walls 2 Fall,” with Yanni, Busta Rhymes, Clint Black, many Islamic rockers, and so on.
Very cool!
I’m not a fan of late 70s arena rock I’m more an early 70s guy
Add late 60s the music you hear from age 12 to 20
Who?
I like music from the 60’s, 70’s, then some of the 80’s, and also some of the 50’s. Also anything by Tom Petty or the Rolling Stones no matter when written, are good for me. When our kids play music from their generation, we generally like it, though I’m not into rap or hip hop.
She was the 90s version of short skirts. She dresses even more scantily now.
Man was that thing just a beaut! The doors alone were almost
half the length of the whole car, a dream of a car. Had a kind of muted green metallic color. A real ''dragon wagon''.
Me too it’s kind of like decent music ended with grunge
It’s kind of like there’s some decent music comes and goes sits there but it doesn’t really get very popular because they just don’t make it anymore it doesn’t get distributed the same as the audience among young people is overwhelmingly either hip-hop or pop country dirt road music tailgate music whatever you call it but my kids like the music that I grew up with they’ve discovered quite a bit of it on their own and they will ask me about it
Would rock music lost its blues chords that’s what killed it in my opinion and you just can’t do the same thing over and over there are a lot of bands today who are doing what’s been done before and they do it well but it’s just not the same phone
I detest Rap music personifies everything about black culture I don’t like as opposed to blues music and soul music which was mostly black which I liked a lot
And all these girls singers today so I’m just a like compressed heavily produced music with the same voice range and similar bawdy lyrics
I do like what they called I guess Texas beige or Oklahoma red dirt music but even now everyone wants to sound like Zach Bryan or Tyler Childers
Jann Wenner an insufferable leftist very urban upper middle classes raised crazy mom Jewish cosmopolitan anything goes except traditional values and the founder of Rolling Stone magazine I listen to his autobiography recently just to hear the stories about all the rock people particularly Mick Jagger who apparently he was infatuated with but he said rock music has become like jazz and he has a point no question of that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrwk9SvdaLk
Ten Years After - One of These Days - A Space in Time - 1971
“What we call the Sixties was more like 1965-1974.”
Exactly. Well, maybe beginning in late ‘63, early ‘64 when the Beatles hit.
Exile is a high point then it started ending
From a youth culture standpoint likely Deja Vu was the high water mark before the fall of hippie and yippie dom
Sixties pinnacle who knows
Sgt Pepper
Revolver
Surrealistic pillow
Pet Sounds
Let it Bleed
Hell it started Animals and Kinks
And commercial stuff wasn’t bad
Soul music with white rhythm sections
Juxtapose that with the black crap music now
Yes I liked the 60s and 70s
Spirit in the Sky
I was five years too young for Indochina
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