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| From | Career Records <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: The early seventies: not the best of musical times? |
| Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:16:51 -0700 |
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I'm trying to remember that far back... Right, Saw the Who and Wishbone Ash
in '71. The Faces around then a couple of times. Slade, that was '73 maybe.
I sure was buying a lot of Bowie, Mott, T-Rex, Who, Move and such. Some of
those bands like Big Star didn't reach my ears right away, but I knew about
them. I was probably going to see the Beach Boys, Jeff Beck, Floyd,
Traffic+Free, Kinks.... I sure don't remember any slow days. A lot of that
top 40 stuff some of you like was there, but I wasn't into it. Just had to
sell it... I remember the first shop I worked in reeked of raspberry over in
the corner when the stack of their first album was....sort of ruined them
for me.
I was working at a radio station too, so I gladly took home as much as I
could carry. Traded the extras for even more junk....
I probably was searching for lots of 60's UK sike stuff then too. A lot of
import cut outs were showing up here, so I was digging it.
Who started this thread? Unless you lived through all these changes you
can't imagine how it really was. One clue: in 1976 when the Who played the
Day On The Green, Pete introduced Tommy as the "punk rock version". No one,
I mean no one in the crowd knew what he meant. Next year is was a town made
up and over....
I always say the 70's started in 1969 when Led Zep showed up. The difference
between that show and the last yardbirds show six months earlier was
stunning, I don't mean musical, I mean culturally.
Ron "even older, but not boring" Sanchez
Robert Sutliff wrote:
> I turned 16 in 1972 and started my first garage band - The Electric Salad
> Bowl. I loved the music of the time and still do - Mott The Hoople, The
> Flamin' Groovies, The Wackers, Wishbone Ash, Free, Badfinger, Steely Dan,
> Big Star and The Raspberries come to mind. By 1975 or so things certainly
> seemed to get worse. But then The Dolls, The Ramones and the Pistols
> straightened things out.
>
> Bob "Boring Old Fart" Sutliff
-- Ronald Sanchez
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