What was it like in the 60's and 70's?

Slartibartfast wrote: Maaaan, it was horrible, we all had to grow long hair, smoke a lot of dope, call each other "man", wear tie-die t-shirts and bell-bottom blue jeans.

    

lazland wrote: Yep, same here. My art teacher at secondary modern would play Yes, genesis, ELP, Dylan to us, whilst all the rest of the class wanted to listen to The Pistols, Clash & etc. I got a few beatings for being the only one who appreciated what he put on!

Edited by wjohnd - August 31 2011 at 13:39

I had a major problem with religion as a teenager in the 70's. I collected a few 20th Century composer type things and I would often play Penderecki's sacred choral works. Religious people were always around my parents house attempting to convert me. It was insulting to me due to the way they would write off music derived from many cultures as a threat to the scriptures. Religion was too in my face during the 70's and it made me bitter at a young age. Religions abused my friends in the 70's turning them into zombies. Whether it was a Satan cult or JW's it made little difference to me. Kids I grew up with and had laughs with were now preaching this dribble about the end times and that the hippie drug age was bringing on the end times more than anything.

Perhaps they thought the hippie age to be like the dark times. During that time there were all these jokes about your mother. It's all annoying now to think of the street lingo and fads. Fringe talk. They had good points to their nature and the music was of course special. They were never to return after Glitter Rock began in the early 70's.The tragic incident at Altamont led many to believe this would be the closing of hippie culture. Larry Magid during this time was putting the plan in motion for bands to play stadiums. I felt like death to music. There was no more "Electric Ladyland' or Crown of Creation. This all worked out very well for prog, but it placed a kind of cheapness in rock. Instead of hearing a beautiful rock guitar tone like Peter Green and Mike Bloomfield ....the A-hole button was turned up and the guitar sounded cheap. Hendrix never utilized distortion that way. He was way more creative and plus you gotta consider....they were just turning up the volume. Everything else was kind of cheap. The guitar no longer had creative purpose in rock for quite a few years and with that much volume it gives way and covers up mistakes. In 76' Frampton Comes Alive made Frampton a pop star and the sugar bowl was empty folks. You can truly hear his level of playing on "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" from Humble Pie's Rockin' the Fillmore. It was all about selling out in those days.  

Edited by TODDLER - August 31 2011 at 15:48

abit like this.....

Wow, I like this thread, it has brought back so many great memories. 

fascinating thread! thanks to all of you for your stories

         I'm 48, so was too young to really connect with things in the sixties and early to mid seventies-as i was growing up, i was faced  with things like disco,punk and new wave-all of which continue to turn my stomach even just being reminded of them
             as i expanded my experience of music, i developed an affinity with the early to mid seventies period, which has never left me-first the heavy rock, then jazz rock and progressive rock
         i like to think of myself as "58", when it comes to musical taste, and in rock or jazz type music, i am still mainly in the early to mid seventies-don't need the fashion or the drugs, man, it is the great music that counts!
     saw some great and memorable concerts in the mid to late seventies in my high school and in the Ottawa Civic Center, but would have preferred to have been a bit older to take in the early seventies
          it is great how even really obscure and foreign recordings are within reach, and i listen to a lot of seventies music that i had not known of then

Catcher10 wrote: Totally agree with moshkito, especially with the bit on FM radio in SoCal......KMET 94.7 was the dial spot for longer, prog type material. KLOS 95.5 was more mainstream hard rock, BTW I still have a bunch of the KLOS rainbow stickers they would give out at concerts.....I have Rush, Styx, Scorpions from KMET.....and a few from the US Festival ... '83. Below KMET and Rush stickers from I think the Moving Pictures tour at the LA Forum 1981. ...

Enjoying this you guys.  I remember my dad taking me to a drive-in (remember those?) to see A Hard Days NIght (the movie) when it came out.  I got to go see Help on my own.  This was obviously in the early-/mid-60's.  Anyone here from the Midwest/Rockies?   Then you'll remember KOMA out of Oklahoma City.  That station had incredible reach, 500-600 miles each way.  That's where I first heard The Beach Boys and The Beatles.  We moved about that time and I listened to some station in Denver.  This was during the heighth of the British Invasion.  I'd still put that era up against any, though music was to only get better, at least for a while.  The Beatles, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Animals, The Zombies.  Of course, this era was more innocent times.  I was maybe 12 years old.

 ^ but you were there, that counts

Jake Kobrin wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: Maaaan, it was horrible, we all had to grow long hair, smoke a lot of dope, call each other "man", wear tie-die t-shirts and bell-bottom blue jeans. I still do this! Minus the wardrobe.