I miss the 70's

[unclrob]

The only danger I remember from concerts in Florida was one night after a Pink Floyd concert on a particalur visual couple of hits of acid was the drive home.The concert was at a place called the Hollywood Sportatorium in the middle of nowhere and there were hundreds if not thousands of rabbitts on the side of the road and in the road.Everyone of those rabbitts had glowing red eye's.At first it scared the cr*p out of me then it became very funny.Oh ya and rather bumpy to.

[ST]

I don't miss the 70's.

I'm having too much fun living in the present.

[DaveyO]

Every  decade has its good and bad music,
but as a child of the 70's , I have to say the music was so good,
Chicago, Doobie bros, great rock that wasnt too hard and NO Rap!
Dave

[Tycho]

In the '70s, people trashed disco the way they now trash rap and hip-hop.  And yet we now recognize that some disco was great music: Chic, Dr. Buzzard, maybe even the Bee Gees, just to name a few examples, not to mention a lot of funk that got lumped in with disco (Parliament/Funkadelic, Ohio Players).

And in the 60s, people who loved "underground" rock trashed the songs we now recognize as Motown classics for being too commercial.

I'm not a fan of rap and hip-hop and I can't say I would even recognize any current artists (I wouldn't know Kanye West from  L'il Wayne), but it always makes me wonder if 20 years from now, some of the hip-hop we trash today will be seen as classic.

[mas music]

Many good points have been made on this thread. I was just a child in the 70's never the less I was a card carring member of the "Duck Frisco" movement. Not long ago I heard Donna Summers and though wow that girl can really sing. It's funny to think that FM radio was the internet of the 70's. AM played all the processed bubble gum but FM provided an open door for serious musicans to get airplay. As I recollect Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin and James Taylor would all share the same air waves. It seems today radio stations are aimed at specific demographics and target markets. Back then FM was an open door that is now being rediscovered on certain satellite stations." Backwards oh backwards oh time in thy flight".

[Tycho]

Many good points have been made on this thread. I was just a child in the 70's never the less I was a card carring member of the "Duck Frisco" movement. Not long ago I heard Donna Summers and though wow that girl can really sing.

No Auto-tune in those days either.

The other interesting thing about Donna Summer was her partnership with Giorgio Moroder, who brought the avant-garde ideas of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream into mainstream pop.

[mas music]

 It stands to reason that someone who fought a war in Vietnam would have a very different perspective of the 70's then someone like myself who was watching the Brady Bunch and going to Grammer school. I have really enjoyed gleaming from other peoples perspectives and experiences. There is no doubt that my 7 year old will reflect on the 2000's in a whole different light then I will 30 years from now. If he is like his dad he will remember the cars and music and not much of anything else. It's nice to young. 

[L07 Shooting Star]

Xmptle and mas music, I'm right between you guys.  My 60's would be mas music's 70's.  Beatles came out on Ed Sullivan in 1964 of course, and Rolling stones soon after.  British invasion, all the great motown hits by the Supremes, etc.  I always say the best or at least most memorial time of my youth was the summer of 1966 when I was 13 years old. Some of the classic songs of that summer were Wild Thing (by the Troggs), Do Wa Diddy (Manfred Mann), The Letter (the Box Tops). 

My pals, my brother and I first started getting into the music and formed our first "band", the Shooting Stars.  The first song we learned was "She's All Mine" by the Dave Clark Five.  We also covered "Silhouettes on the Shade" by Herman's Hemitts and "Kicks" by Paul Revere and the Raiders".  The first song we actually composed was, not surprisingly, entitled: "The Beatles"

George, and Ringo and Paul and John,
They all came together in Liverpool town.
When they come the girls don't frown,
All they do is jump up and down.

The Beatles were discovered by Eipstine,
and they have been on Ed Sullivine
The Beatles have performed for royalty,
and they have been on TV.

Oh to be young again!
Kurt

[Johnny M]

The only danger I remember from concerts in Florida was one night after a Pink Floyd concert on a particalur visual couple of hits of acid was the drive home.The concert was at a place called the Hollywood Sportatorium in the middle of nowhere and there were hundreds if not thousands of rabbitts on the side of the road and in the road.Everyone of those rabbitts had glowing red eye's.At first it scared the cr*p out of me then it became very funny.Oh ya and rather bumpy to.

                                               

[carruth]

I,m having trouble remembering much of it other than the quality of the Buddha Sticks.