<p>Beatles
The Who
Clapton
Dylan
Santana
Led Zeppelin
Moody Blues
Jim Croce
Rolling Stones
Eagles</p>
<p>My first date with my H was to a George Benson concert (1978).</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot CCR…</p>
<p>Earth Wind and Fire…fabulous percussion!</p>
<p>Lots of great memories reading this thread! I was introduced to Frank Zappa’s music in 1978-still one of my all-time favorites.</p>
<p>My little brother liked Kiss. I most certainly did not! </p>
<p>He also went through a Reggae phase, which I rather liked, and then a Dylan phase which surprised me. He now tends to listen to what his teeny bopper daughters are listening to, which means mostly not what I listen to! Justin Bieber anyone?</p>
<p>Ah, the 70s.</p>
<p>My first concert was the Jimi Hendrix Experience in November 1968. I had never heard of him. Thought he was a soul singer like Jerry Butler.</p>
<p>The 70s started strong. In 1970, I saw Led Zeppelin, the Who (playing Tommy), the Allman Brothers (with Duane), and Jimi Hendrix again playing the Star Spangled Banner on the 4th of July. Among many highlights were seeing the Grateful Dead a half dozen or so times and seeing Bob Dylan several times, starting with his return to the concert stage with the Band in 1974.</p>
<p>BTW, I think a tip of the hat is due to a very influential band, [Parliament/Funkadelic[/url</a>] that had a pretty strong impact on music. For example, without Parliament/Funkadelic is there ever a Prince?</p>
<p>And, in a totally different vein, but just as influential, was ill-fated Harvard drop-out Gram Parsons. His final two solo albums, duets with Emmy Lou Harris, with Elvis’ band, are still two of the best "country rock albums ever recorded. Songs from these albums have been recorded by EVERYBODY. </p>
<p>[url=<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube]Emmylou</a> Harris & Gram Parsons - Love Hurts - YouTube](<a href=“Funkadelic - Hit It And Quit It (HQ) - YouTube”>Funkadelic - Hit It And Quit It (HQ) - YouTube)</p>
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<p>At the time I thought James Taylor was somewhat over-rated, but I’ve grown to respect him more over the decades. Many of his songs have stood the test of time. Carolina in My Mind sounds better to me now that it did when it was new.</p>
<p>Anyone remember Mountain? I thought their one hit Mississippi Queen wasn’t all that good, but their albums were wonderful. Felix Pappalardi was an excellent song writer and Leslie West was a terrific guitarist. West got his start as a guitar player at age 13 when he was given a Fender Stratocaster for his Bar Mitzvah.</p>
<p>And for obscure bands, Premiata Forneria Marconi…</p>
<p>Lets see who has even heard of them :)</p>
<p>Mississippi Queen is one of the great all-time cowbell songs!</p>
<p>Loved Mountain. Saw them live in 1970, too.</p>
<p>New York Dolls
Big Star
The Rolling Stones
Wire
The Stooges
Sex Pistols
Ramones
The Clash
David Bowie
Bruce Springsteen
Elvis Costello
Can
Television
Talking Heads
Joy Division
Fleetwood Mac
Elton John
Nick Drake
Bob Marley
Neil Young
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Captain Beefheart
Led Zeppelin
Germs</p>
<p>As well as the musicians mentioned above, I’ll add
Heart
James Gang
Climax Blues Band
Humble Pie
Joe Walsh
Mott the Hoople
Zztop
Uriah Heep
Blue oyster Cult
UFO
Jeff Beck
Aerosmith
Judas Priest
Johnny Winter
Edgar Winter
Rick Derringer
Angel
Foghat
J Geils Band
Bob Seger
& I’m embarrassed to say
Ted Nugent, although the show that he opened for Aerosmith & Kiss was epic.
I met H in 1976. I was friends with a band that went on to win the first MTV basement tapes & a tour opening for Van Halen. They played mostly covers of metal tunes especially Aerosmith, Kiss & Sweet.
I saw them play a lot at a local roller rink when I was in high school ( they were a yr older), as I did Tower of Power.</p>
<p>Finally, someone mentioned Lynard Skynard, an all-time fave.</p>
<p>I liked it all. I just turned 50 so I seem to be a little younger than most of y’all, but I had a brother and sister many years older than me who had really different tastes. My sister was into Motown and pop, and my brother was into rock. I loved Deep Purple, and my first concert was the Bee Gees. Early '70s was a lot of Bread and Carole King; late '70s was disco. My parents listened to country, so I was primed when Urban Cowboy came along in 1980. The only genre I mostly didn’t like was heavy metal. I didn’t listen to a lot of punk rock, though liked the occasional song that kind of crossed over (think Relax in the mid-'80s, by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, which had its roots in '70s punk).</p>
<p>Has anyone mentioned ZZ Top?</p>
<p>^I saw a combined ZZ Top/Slade show, general admission at Convention hall in Asbury Park. It was…an experience.</p>
<p>(Getting there: nine people, yes, nine! in a Gremlin. There’s a 70s tale!)</p>
<p>I didn’t see anyone mention Alice Cooper. Always thought their music was much more interesting than most of the 70s hair bands.</p>
<p>Not to mention ELP— " From the Beginning", The show that Never Ends"
Actually I did like the music of the seventies. I had mentioned the earlier hard rock and roll bands ( today called “classic rock”) of the first half of the decade and figured by the response of mathmom most would not like that music of the 1970’s. it was indeed inferior to the rock music of the preceding decade. As for Elton John, Billy Joel, Tge Boss, Donba Summers, Bee Gees, Rick James and Queen … Well that was a totally different style of music and representative of the second half of he 70’s. yes the decade is a dichotomy … fairly inferior hard rock in the first half ( an attempt to continue the 60’s), followed by a more creatives second half.</p>
<p>Love, love, love the 70’s! (the early years - disco sucks) The OP mentioned the Eagles, Jackson Browne, and CCR. Some of H and my favorites are America, CSNY and James Taylor. If you have Sirius XM (we have it on Dish Network), “The Bridge” is a great station for all these more mellow bands. I could listen to it all day! Sometimes we see who can name the song and the band the fastest - (don’t judge - we have 3 kids and fun is hard to come by sometimes!) The great thing is, our kids love this music as much as we do because they grew up listening to it. My 12 year old’s favorite bands are America and the Guess Who! They also know all the words to “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield! LOL!</p>