<p>Talk about a downer, the summer before my junior year, Janis Ian came out with “At Seventeen”. Really made me cry on my birthday, I had no where to go, and nothing to do. </p>
<p>“I learned the truth at seventeen, that love was meant for beauty queens…”</p>
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<p>I said the Golden Age of ROCK, which would not include disco, any more than it includes country.</p>
<p>There were several smaller waves during the 60s and 70s (such as the huge crop of new music in 1976). Then, there was a New Wave of completely different music from 1977-1982. A huge amount of rich, innovative music came from this period. Later, in the mid-80s, it got commercialized into mainstream pop (the MTV music) but at its roots it was completely non-commercial and as wide-ranging as the 60s-era wave.</p>
<p>I don’t count any waves during the 80s or 90s, such as the Grunge wave, because that music was not really very different, imo. It just got people back to good rock, after disco and 80s pop, but if you consider it musically, not really anything too different happened with that. They make a big deal about it but that’s just commercially. I am speaking of musical quality, not commercial success. Underground bands like Roxy Music never hit the big time commercially, but their innovation was undeniable and their influence was HUGE.</p>
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<p>But you’d be leaving out PROG! (Genesis, Nectar, Van der Graaf Generator, etc.) and the development of METAL! (taking Deep Purple to a new level) Did you perhaps miss the underground music scene of the 70s? Even the music that made it into the mainstream - Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Yes, etc…so much, so rich!</p>
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<p>I’M SO JEALOUS O_O</p>
<p>Lindsey Buckingham came to Phoenix over the summer and I was planning to go see him but the tickets cost too much. :(</p>
<p>Anyone hear about Led Zeppelin getting back together for some kind of reunion in England?</p>
<p>And to one of the previous posters: I love the Clash. May Joe Strummer live on FOREVERRRRRRR! <333</p>
<p>I saw Fleetwood Mac in concert in 1977(?) in Philadelphia, when I was a college student. Someone was handing around joints the size of cigars…</p>
<p>I can’t believe no one has mentioned Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger. How can you NOT dance to Bruce?</p>
<p>I went to over 300 concerts (including Bruce, since you mentioned him) during the late 70s. I saw nearly everyone I wanted to see except Led Zeppelin and Peter Gabriel-era Genesis (though I saw Peter Gabriel several times later) and the earlier greats like Hendrix & The Doors, since they were already dead & gone by the time I got old enough. I had a boyfriend who owned a record store and had connections, so we saw most shows with excellent seats - often front row! I got to go backstage a number of times, and met a lot of the bands. I saw Scorpions from behind the stage & had dinner with them, met Judas Priest, Legs Diamond, UFO, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Budgie, Mick Ronson…and others, including lots of lesser-known punk rock bands.</p>
<p>Ah, those were fun times!</p>
<p>^^300! Wow, what brand of hearing aid do you now use?</p>
<p>Ha! Yeah, I do say ‘what?’ alot…</p>
<p>teriwtt- see my post #16 :). Have seen him at Madison Square Garden a few times since the 70’s – always an amazing show.
And I like Bob Seger, too, who unfortunately does not seem to be available on iTunes…</p>
<p>lspf72… sorry, I’m guilty of scanning the posts, and missed your reference to him. I’ve seen him four times, but the last was over 20 years ago. First time was in 1977 when it was much easier to get floor tickets!</p>
<p>Poor disco…the genre gets no respect! I happened to love Saturday Night Fever!! Now I watch Dancing with the Stars…</p>
<p>Sometimes I wish I was born earlier so I could’ve experienced first-hand many of the bands that are being mentioned. Can I just say, I love Jefferson Airplane? I don’t know if they were more 60’s, but whatever.</p>
<p>To the person who saw Fleetwood Mac in 1977 - That was the year Rumours was released. I can’t even imagine how amazing it would be to see them, especially the year that their most well-known album was released. -le sigh-</p>
<p>I felt that way about the 60s hippie movement. I remember seeing the war protests in the late 60s and wishing I were a part of it. And the music, oh, the music! I was 10 in 1970. By the time I was old enough to fully appreciate The Doors, Jim Morrison was long dead…</p>
<p>Ah well, fortunately there was still Led Zeppelin!</p>
<p>And, fortunately, music lives on…now we can find all sorts of videos on all these great bands on youtube!</p>
<p>When my son was about 6, after he’d outgrown Raffi, I turned him on to The Beatles…for about 3 years he was a major Beatles fan! Then he graduated to prog rock (not too heavy) bands like Supertramp, Styx, Kansas, Genesis, etc. When he was about 12-13 he started getting into heavier stuff, quite on his own…then I knew he was ready for Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Pink Floyd…</p>
<p>For some inexplicable reason, he’s never resonated too much with the might Zep, but he totally appreciates Sabbath, Floyd, Rush, etc.</p>
<p>I think music appreciation is a very important part of a child’s education. (Age-appropriate, of course.)</p>
<p>“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to
Its my party and I’ll cry if I want to- you would cry to if it happeed to you”</p>
<p>If you want a great list of wonderful concert experiences, do a search on “audiophile’s” posts. Hes been to the BEST</p>
<p>90% of S1’s iPod is Led Zeppelin. I don’t think he listens to much new stuff…</p>
<p>Ispf72: your S1 has good taste!</p>
<p>Thanks-- another group I wish I could have seen in concert!</p>
<p>Yeah, I got close…in 1976 they came to Houston. My bf drove there from SA & got there early & was almost at the front of the line, when the riot broke out and windows got broken & some people got hurt & had to be airlifted out. They shut down the ticket booth and they didn’t tour again, and then Bonzo died…so I never got to see them… one of the greatest tragedies in my rock career. <snif></snif></p>
<p>Leal–somewhat disagree. The Beatles were 60’s, and from the early 70’s till the late 70’s there was a dearth of good rock. Thank god for Bruce (whom I’ve seen many, many times, and hope to keep doing so), but he was an anomaly.</p>
<p>For me, music got better again with the late 70’s-80’s movements: Punk, New Wave, etc. actually, the whole alternative thread, which continued through the 90’s to now, is so much better than most “mainstream” rock.</p>
<p>I think also, that, no matter what music existed in the decade, it’s all that horrendous pop that dominated the soundtrack and which is identified popularly as “seventies music”, not the better stuff which wasn’t getting much airplay.</p>
<p>You’re right that the Beatles were all of the 60s, but I really only count their stuff from mid-60s, since that is when they got really progressive and complex. The early 60s stuff was popular, but that was more because they hit the right place at the right time, not because it was so extraordinary.</p>
<p>(some may accuse me of sacrilege here!) </p>
<p>I agree about the alternative thread. Unfortunately, I had a gap in my music: in the 80s I went thru a spiritual thing in which I (horrors!) got rid of all my rock albums. For about 15 years, I listened to only New Age music like Kitaro, Vangelis, etc. Needless to say, I regretted it! I totally missed Metallica and had to make up for it later!</p>
<p>Please do share the alternative music you’re into - some of which I may have missed. I’ve spent the last few years catching up - thanks to my son, largely - on bands like Radiohead.</p>
<p>I totally agree with the pop being horrendous. I get really annoyed whenever they do those 70s & 80s specials and only cover the pop stuff. They’re only concerned about what SOLD and not what got critical acclaim as true art.</p>
<p>Overall, I’m still the most partial to the 70s decade. That’s when rock matured and there was, as you say, a dearth of absolutely GREAT rock! Back then, every song on every album was great! There were so many ‘perfect’ albums back then, and each band sounded totally unique. Same with the early New Wave: The Cure, The Stranglers, Talking Heads, Simple Minds, etc. all sounded different. But then in the mid-80s so many new bands just copied them and they all sounded alike.</p>
<p>As for Grunge, I think it was totally overrated. There were some really good bands, like Soundgarden, but they weren’t really all that different. Just good rock. Nirvana didn’t ‘change rock as we know it’ like they always say. That has got to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. They just hit the scene when people were tired of the glam rock and brought the pop-rock scene back to some good, basic rock without the silly props. But the music itself wasn’t really anything extraordinary. Good, yes, but not extraordinary. </p>
<p>Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin. Now THOSE bands were extraordinary. They were PIONEERS. No one, absolutely no one, sounded like them. They did things that had never been done before.</p>