<p>I was watching the show on the Eagles last night and it reminded me of all the great music I used to listen to. I went down to the basement and looked through all of my old albums there sure were a lot of great bands and musicians. I favor the bands like CCR, the Bryds but really listened to almost everything.
On the show last night they discussed how Glen Fry lived above Jackson Browne in an apartment and how Henley and Fry played backup to Linda Rondstat. She really could sing. Both Fry and Henley spoke very highly of her.</p>
<p>Since many of us are of that generation who were your bands/musicians of choice?
Besides CCR and the Byrds I wore out my Jetro Tull album. I never really liked the Stones or Pink Floyd.</p>
<p>I liked Loggins and Mussina. Drank a lot of beer to Buffett but not a fan of the music just a fan of the fun. Karen Carpenter had a very nice voice.</p>
<p>I also get a kick out of the history of various band members and which bands they were with at various times. Clapton played in great bands. Poco seemed to send members on to great bands or successful teams.</p>
<p>I learned relatively recently that Glenn Frey went to my high school. </p>
<p>In junior hs it was Motown, then FM radio introduced me to Eric Clapton, The Band, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, etc… then James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Elton John, amazingly songs you still hear on the radio today - songs still performed today by the original artists. A little later still, Dan Fogelberg (gone too soon).</p>
<p>NJres- I loved the Band. I am a huge Clapton fan. Listened to Bread. In HS we used to blast Elton John from the 8 track (remember those) and Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven. We drove to school with 8 of us in the car the 2 miles took about an hour.</p>
<p>My favorite songs are “The Load Out/Stay” by Jackson Brown, “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” by Air Supply and no high school dance was complete with out the Doobie Bros and “Stairway to Heaven”!</p>
<p>I have a horrible singing voice, but used to love belting out The Carpenter’s “I’m on the Top of the World”. No air conditioning in those days so the windows were always open…yikes!</p>
<p>Even my college kids and their friends love the 70’s (not disco) music. I always got a kick out of the songs they chose for hockey warm ups. Mostly classic 70’s, but it was when Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” came on that they would break into song:p</p>
<p>Kinda depends on which part of the the 70s you are talking about. The early 70s were culturally and musically an extension of the 60s. The mid to late 70 were dominated by disco and lightweight pop music - the rejection of which set the stage for emergence of punk and New Wave in the late 70s and early 80s. And the Eagles/Ronstadt/Browne genre of sort of California Country Rock operated independently of the other trends in the decade.</p>
<p>I was already out of college by the disco era so I get the nostalgia from the Who, early David Bowie and Lou Reed, some Motown and a secret enjoyment of the Allman Brothers because of a college roommate from the south. There was also some great jazz that I still listen to from that era.</p>
<p>I think I’m a little older than you…I remember very well being in love with America 1970-74ish…Ventura Highway is STILL stuck in my head.</p>
<p>I actually studied too much in college and only latched back onto music in early 80’s and found that Paul Simon, Clapton were my thing by that time. Graceland came out the year our son was born and I have home videos of him ‘dancing’ in his walker to it as a toddler.</p>
<p>I liked the 60s bands that were still going: The Kinks, The Who, The Stones, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Ffloyd especially.
I liked a lot of the folkie stuff: Gordon Lightfoot, Simon and Garfunkel, Carole King and James Taylor, Don McLean, Joan Armatrading
I liked a bunch of country rock: The Eagles, The Byrds, George Thoroughgood
I liked New Wave: The Cars, Devo, The Talking Heads
I liked punk rock: The Clash, the Ramones, Blondie</p>
<p>I drove around the country in 1978-79 and discovered a whole bunch of country music - Willie Nelson, Wayon Jennings, Merle Haggard all put out terrific music in that era.</p>
<p>DH liked prog rock bands like Yes, but I never did.</p>
<p>When I was in high school in the mid-sixties in Queens, NY I had a friend who had a math tutor from Queens College with an unusual name who told her that he and a friend had an album soon to be released… yeah right we all thought …but so he did…his name Art Garfunkel and it was “Sounds of Silence”… by the way he was also a good math tutor…</p>
<p>When I was in college upstate NY one late spring day just before Cornell’s spring weekend and I attended a different college but not too far away, a guy drove up, parked in front of the student union where a whole bunch of people were hanging out and announced… “Hi my name is James Taylor and I’m in the area and I’d like to sing you all some songs”…</p>
<p>I agree with Coureur that there are different 70s. The music I like from then is almost always the still-connected-to-the 60s music, like the Kinks or the Who, or the later, reaction to the blandness of the middle 70s, like Springsteen and punk/new wave.</p>
<p>The central, most 70ish stuff (Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Air Supply, America, Jackson Brown, etc.) bores me silly.</p>
<p>Even though I was born in a similar time to many of you (1958), I was tremendously excited by changes in music in the later part of the decade which led to the 80s, which were much to my taste. Springsteen, The Clash, REM, U2–that’s the stuff I prefer to listen to.</p>
<p>off the top of my head: The Dead (I was a Deadhead) , The Band, Little Feat, Stones, CSNY, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, The Kinks, Allman Bros, Taj Mahal, Jackson Browne, Dan Fogelburg, Bonnie Raite, Linda Ronstadt, JT, Carole King, Pink Floyd, Yes, EL&P, Springsteen, The Beatles…</p>
<p>I stopped listening to pretty much any new artist after the 70’s.</p>
<p>I graduated HS in 76. The soundtrack for that summer was Boz Scaggs, Peter Frampton, Elton John. How bout these singles- Afternoon Delight and American Pie. Good memories. The Eagles and Linda Ronstadt were my favorites.</p>