Posted on 06/14/2023 7:36:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff
With the departure of guitarist Gary Richrath, REO ceased to be a rock band and become just another middle-tier pop-band.
Allman Brothers 1969
CCR - 1967
Lynyrd Skynyrd -1969
The 60’s, Jack.
I have the ringing ears to prove it!
“80s doesn’t age well, because of the over-reliance on synths and drum machines.“
….And gated reverb.
What the hell is Stax?
Are you serious, Clark?
What the hell is Stax?
Are you serious, Clark?
Au contraire, if AI and computers will be making the music of the future, it will be the earlier, more human music that sounds dated. Plus, people will be too harried or too deadened to put up with ballads and story songs.
In no particular order:
John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
Jon Lord (Deep Purple)
Alan Price (The Animals)
Matthew Fisher (Procul Harum)
Steve Winwood
Ron Argent
Rick Wakeman (Yes)
Keith Emerson
Greg Allman
Booker T. Jones
...that and the prevalence of illicit drugs, going from mind altering drugs in the 1960s to mind numbing drugs by the 1980s (both illicit drugs and prescribed drugs by the 1990s).
While each decade has it’s highlights I have to rank them this way:
1st - The 60s. This is because of the full body of work. The British Invasion, the experimentation with different instruments in classic rock & roll, the Motown sound which is the apex of the black influence (Rap and Hip-hop have tarnished the fantastic leaps of Soul music), the blending of audio and video to the public.
2nd - The 80s. The styles of the 70s were horrendous. Clothing, cars, hair, houses, etc. and the music reflected the same. The 80s were a breath of fresh air to lift us out of that. I grew up in the 70s and it sucked.
3rd - The 50s. Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, The Everly Bros. and Elvis got it going.
4th - The 70s. Well, listening to 70s music is still head and shoulders above anything since Rap and Hip Hop came on the scene.
‘1966-1986 was the greatest 20yr span, so the answer is the 1970’s.
I was thinking of the Top 40 at the time. I have to admit, I think of Led Zeppelin as ‘70s, and I do not like their work (despite teh fact that they have talent).
Most of these others were album rock acts. I was thinking of all the Top 40 songs slapping an organ in because it was what you did, hilariously parodied in the original “The Producers” in the performance of “Love Power”, which is a GREAT send up of late ‘60s pop music. Heck, even Veronica Lodge played the organ (though you could never hear it)!
Sorted in some order by impact, not necessarily by invention:
-AM Radio
-Vinyl Albums
-Electric guitars
-AM Radio in automobiles
-Multi-track recording
-Solid State Transformers
-Portable Radios
-8 Tracks
-FM Radio - Clearer music, stereo sound. Singer/Songwriters, lyrics to the forefront.
-Cassettes
-Music Videos
-Boom Boxes
-Personal headphones like the Sony Walkman
-Compact Discs
-MP3 players like the iPhone
-Digital Downloads
-Online videos
-Mobile phone listening such as with Spotify
“While each decade has it’s highlights ...
Interesting. What about the 90’s and on up to the present? You are better than I am in summing up our pop music scene. There’s also country.
Eras don’t begin neatly with decades.
I would say the late 60s-early 70s saw a sea change in the rock (Beatles, Stones, Who, CSNY, Led Zepplin). The music was dazzling, even though the politics and social climate were awful.
Doug Ingle - Iron Butterfly
Goldy McJohn Steppenwolf
Sounds like a candy bar or something
When he was growing up, my oldest son used to say: “ You have to understand that the music I was exposed to was based upon my Dad’s musical collection in in that Mozart was next to Meatloaf.”
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