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Problem: music in 1976 sucked

posted 10 years ago by mburns955
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Graduated HS in 1973 and I think the movie captures the tone of the 70's
But music started to be big business in 1973-1974 time period and it's for the
Most part all down hill afterwards (90's grunge and some punk the exception.
Boston Fleetwood Mac Kansas etc blew. In the movie "Almost Famous" the character
Lester Bangs tells the kid (it's 1973) that music is dead. He was right. By the time I
Got to see Zepelin in 73, they were doing 8 straight days at Garden and had finished all
Their great music (up to h of h album) and everything was about money. Fillmore East
Closed cause they couldn't pay the bands. When money arrives, quality disappears.

[–] csweetleaf2 (3674) 5 years ago

I've thought 1976 was a strong year for pop/rock music, I mean Aerosmith, KISS and Foghat were at their prime then.

[–] csweetleaf2 (3674) 2 years ago

I wouldn't consider 1976 to be one of the worst years for rock music but it was definitely an era where rock music was on a downhill slide.

To me the best era of rock music is from 1967 to 1974.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

That's probably mostly true.

[–] mtxmind (3296) 2 years ago

I know I'm responding to an old post, but the mid-late 70's were a golden era in music for me.😎 Rock, Pop, Funk/R&B, Disco, Punk, Prog, etc, etc. I absorbed all of it.

[–] ebhaynz (3688) 2 years ago

music kicked ass up until around 1995.