1970

I was a drummer in a rock band that year and definitely addicted to my music. I had albums of virtually every artist or band you mentioned. Some other favorites of mine which belong in that list were:

Grand Funk Railroad
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Deep Purple
Buddy Miles
Uriah Heep
Black Oak Arkansas
Iron Butterfly
Mountain


I think I could go on as well.

I certainly don't mind movies and music from before I was born, but I don't see what's so great about that particular year.

I have a different perspective because the kind of music I'm into is House/EDM where it's sort of a golden age right now with the numerous genres under House rapidly multiplying and pumping out more wicked beats and bootlegs than can even be listened to.

The mainstreaming of the underground dance scene to a worldwide audience over the last few decades is responsible for all the great music being produced today plus all the re-sampling of the many classics from the 60s, 70s, and 80s into those new beats. It's how many of those musicians, some of which you mentioned, are increasing their earning in spite of not producing new music in decades, they're taking a cut from the demand to resample their tracks into beats while gaining new younger audiences exposed to their work.

The result is some of the best stuff being produced today where the sound is constantly evolving. I honestly think part of the reason you're seeing the drop off in quality is that the talented new generations of musicians are focused on other types of music outside of rock.

Glen Campbell

Having been born in the early 1950's, and a teenager during the 1960's, there were some movies and rock groups of 1970 that I liked rather well myself:

Movies:

Mash
Catch 22
Gimme Shelter
Garden of the Finzi-Continis (although this was an extremely sad movie)
Ryan's Daughter
Little Big Man.

As for "Woodstock", I felt that this film wasn't honest enough; There was quite a bit of violence, many sexual assaults that went unreported, as was prone to happen during those days, there were many bad drug trips, and at least three people died; One from a burst appendix, one from getting run over by a tractor truck as he was sleeping in his sleeping bag to get out of the rain, one or two heroin overdoses, and another due to falling off the scaffold. All of that was deliberately cut out when the original 1969 "Woodstock" was made into a movie.

"Gimme Shelter", on the other hand, was much more honest, because, imho, it was a more rounded-out, accurate portrayal of what really and truly went on during rock concerts during that period.

Rock Groups:

Beach Boys
Steppenwolf
Simon & Garfunkel
Three Dog Night
The Doors
Joni Mitchell
Cat Stevens
Elton John
The Who
Rolling Stones
Neil Young
James Taylor
CCR
(the Beatles of the mid-1960's)