@jssmith - have to agree that pop music of every decade has/does suck. Pablum doesn't get better over time. I was born in '56 and was in high school before we even had an FM station - and the Rexall Rangers fire bombed it for playing that 'devil music'. So...there was that as well. I happen to think much of the best music did come from that era, and by the 70's we started having some great concerts and venues locally. Saw Tull doing Benefit and later Aqualung, shows of a lifetime there (although we saw Ian Anderson probably 10 years ago with an incredible young violinist - Lucia Miccarrelli - doing a version of Kashmir that was to die for as well!). Also saw Led Zeppelin doing the second album, only to watch Bonham pass out halfway through the drum solo on Moby Dick...just the 3rd song, Clapton and Muddy Waters together, sound system so bad it was unlistenable. So it was definitely a mixed bag back then. I listen to the music still, and a great deal in between, and in the last several years I have also become a huge fan of symphonic metal ala Nightwish (we have tickets to their LA show in May '22), Within Temptation, Epica, Evanescence, Theater of Tragedy, Sirenia, Delain, etc. Still a lot of great music being made today. If, however, all I had to listen to were broadcast stations, and their Pop drivel, I wouldn't bother. Now, if I can talk the wife into Wacken in the next couple of years...
I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s.
I feel sad for GenX'ers and millennials that missed out on two of the greatest decades for music. The 60s and 70s.
Our generation had Aretha Franklin, Etta James, James Brown, Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Donna Summer, Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, The Kinks, The Stones, The Doors, Elton John, Velvet Underground and loads more
We saw these legends live during their peak, concert tickets were cheaper, music was the everything to youth culture, we actually brought album on a vinyl format (none of that crappy CDs or whatever the kids call it).
60s-70s were the greatest time to be a music fan.
Our generation had Aretha Franklin, Etta James, James Brown, Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Donna Summer, Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, The Kinks, The Stones, The Doors, Elton John, Velvet Underground and loads more
We saw these legends live during their peak, concert tickets were cheaper, music was the everything to youth culture, we actually brought album on a vinyl format (none of that crappy CDs or whatever the kids call it).
60s-70s were the greatest time to be a music fan.