Rock music

[matty7]

classic un heard song really by the stones standards

[Wintereis]

Rychard, yes. The big rock musicians were very good at taking music from unknown African American Musicians and not give them credit:

[Ultra]

Here's a great rock song and I would say it's a bit underrated nowadays.

[marshlander]

70s rock music was a very broad scene. This is Gryphon, a band I saw many times, mainly on account of Richard Harvey's recorder playing which was always phenomenal. Listen out for the Brian Gulland's bassoon quoting all sorts from Judy Garland to Cream via Glenn Miller and the television theme for Turkish Delight. Not bad in a 13th century dance tune. These days I think I would be playing much more attention to David Oberlé's percussion too!

[Ultra]

70's rock is great. This song always comes to mind when I think of it. Pretty much the epitome of 70's rock.

[marshlander]

... Pretty much the epitome of 70's rock...

What an interesting thing to say - and so untrue - but perhaps I ought qualify that by saying that GFR were much more significant in the USA than almost anywhere else, although I had a friend who loved their music when I was at school. Critics usually laughed at or ignored them while fans bought 25 million albums and filled stadia to see them.

Really, if you think any particular rock band "epitomises" the 70s I think you've missed the point. What was great about rock music in the 70s was the variety including some clear regional and national identities. Even within the USA I'm not sure that GFR (from Michigan) could have come from either the East or the West Coasts or the South, where (in all cases) the music was so different. The West Coast scene alone brought amazing diversity.

Here in the UK in first half of the 70s rock music was still very heavily influenced by blues, but jazz, folk and classical musicians made for a hugely eclectic musical environment. I could not say that, until the whole commercialised punk scene in the late seventies there was much homogeneity in rock at all and no one band could be said to "epitomise" the 70s in the UK, although I would listen to someone arguing a possible case for Led Zeppelin - even then it would be a shaky argument given the huge popularity of bands like Deep Purple, Ten Years After, Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. You'll appreciate that I am also making a distinction here between "rock" and "pop".

Other European countries were different again and Germany was very different. In addition to a thriving heavy rock scene, political activism was combined with psychedelia with a fair smattering of direct influence from avant-garde composers, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, on bands that developed a whole "krautrock" genre. Can, Faust, Neu! Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk were very important and influential on music that developed twenty years later elsewhere.

No one doubts the cultural significance of the USA, but the rest of the world was managing quite well travelling other paths too

[princealbertofb]

Hear hear!!! mile::tongue:

[Ultra]

What an interesting thing to say - and so untrue - but perhaps I ought qualify that by saying that GFR were much more significant in the USA than almost anywhere else, although I had a friend who loved their music when I was at school. Critics usually laughed at or ignored them while fans bought 25 million albums and filled stadia to see them.

Really, if you think any particular rock band "epitomises" the 70s I think you've missed the point. What was great about rock music in the 70s was the variety including some clear regional and national identities. Even within the USA I'm not sure that GFR (from Michigan) could have come from either the East or the West Coasts or the South, where (in all cases) the music was so different. The West Coast scene alone brought amazing diversity.

Here in the UK in first half of the 70s rock music was still very heavily influenced by blues, but jazz, folk and classical musicians made for a hugely eclectic musical environment. I could not say that, until the whole commercialised punk scene in the late seventies there was much homogeneity in rock at all and no one band could be said to "epitomise" the 70s in the UK, although I would listen to someone arguing a possible case for Led Zeppelin - even then it would be a shaky argument given the huge popularity of bands like Deep Purple, Ten Years After, Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. You'll appreciate that I am also making a distinction here between "rock" and "pop".

Other European countries were different again and Germany was very different. In addition to a thriving heavy rock scene, political activism was combined with psychedelia with a fair smattering of direct influence from avant-garde composers, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, on bands that developed a whole "krautrock" genre. Can, Faust, Neu! Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk were very important and influential on music that developed twenty years later elsewhere.

No one doubts the cultural significance of the USA, but the rest of the world was managing quite well travelling other paths too

That sounds pretty accurate to me. I'm not too keen with 70's rock. You make some extremely good and valid points.

[Rychard the Lionheart]

COZY POWELL - DANCE WITH THE DEVIL [Originally released as a solo drum instrumental in 1973]




The drums, oh the drums. Excellent!!!

[Ultra]

The Ramones - Rock 'N' Roll High School. Great song!