'73.....was .....well better

JohnnyGoo said:
yes even the Bay City Rollers better than some shite out today but im just old i guess lol
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I don't think we're "just old" I don't believe there is much effort being put into to music and song writing these days.
Kids are looking for some kind of instant stardom. The old bands started playing because they loved music and then
they found success. Today they want to become famous and they just try to become part of the formula...
 
True.
There is a horrible sameness about it.
There is a lot of money involved ant the record companies refuse to climb out on a limb.
They stick with what is working and just do the same thing over and over.
 
DonP said:
Here's the thing. My parents' generation didn't like our music ('60s more than '70s) - it scared them and they didn't understand it. Now I find myself in the generation that should be scared of kids music, and I'm not. I find it formulaic, trivial and dull. I feel cheated.
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Even worse, I think the kids feel that way also. It does not seem like the soundtrack to their life, or the word of change in the wind, or the voice of rebellion to them. It seems as if it is just backround music. Nobody knows the words to any of the songs they listen to!
 
Darkside of the Moon. ..... Stairway to Heaven ..... Brown Sugar, and on and on ----that era of Music seems to have a lasting power that well this...........

The current #1 Billboard single ...............


just wont be remembered 40 months from now much less 4 + decades from now..........
 
I predict THUNDERSTRUCK will still be played at athletic events well into the next 6 decades at least ............

Timeless classics ......
 
Tony M. said:
Your parents didn't like your music either.
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Actually my parents loved my music because it came from their music. My Mom was a 60's hippie and listened to all the great bands of the era. Although I was born in 1960 she was only 17 at the time...so you see the music of the 60's and 70's was hers too...

When I grew up I had stuff like Ten Years After, Savoy Brown, Frank Zappa, The Allman Brothers...etc...
 
RVA said:
Even worse, I think the kids feel that way also. It does not seem like the soundtrack to their life, or the word of change in the wind, or the voice of rebellion to them. It seems as if it is just backround music. Nobody knows the words to any of the songs they listen to!
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True...and if you listen you'll see that most of the songs are meaningless...
 
My parents had everything from Perry Como and Johnny Mathis to Elvis, Sinatra, Crosby--- to Iron Butterfly, CCR, Dylan, Stones, ----
My Grand Parents taught me to appreciate Lawrence Welk....and Bobby Vinton , and Pavarotti, One Grandfather loved COuntry and Johnny Cash and Slim Whittman where 8 tracks I am familiar with --- everything from West Virginia hillbilly bluegrass to Opera which the other Italian Grandfather sang---well-- and also Catholic Choir ---- an eclectic mix of everything --- and THANK GOD --- because it allows me to appreciate well EVERYTHING ....even dare i breath its name DISCO--- yup -- there where some GEMS in there ---

BUT my point is ......the ICONIC timelessness of that 70's rock machine.........truly seems special.
 
Tony M. said:
True.
There is a horrible sameness about it.
There is a lot of money involved ant the record companies refuse to climb out on a limb.
They stick with what is working and just do the same thing over and over.
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It seems worse now than ever in that regard.

'73 was a great year for me musically - my first full year as a professional!
 
Tony M. said:
For the whole year?
Were you Chip or Dale?
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I think I was both Tony Manhattan me friend. I have a split personality.:confused:

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I was born in 1973. My favorite record from that year just might be this one:
 
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