Were things really better in the 70s?

BaldJean wrote: in my opinion they were. the freshness has been taken out of the music.

TeleStrat wrote: Teenagers spend an average of nine hours a day staring at one kind of screen or another. People in their twenties, about six hours a day. In the seventies if someone was in another world it was usually because they were stoned.

TeleStrat wrote: In the early seventies I saw many arena sized concerts for $5, $6 and $7.  Those were big name concerts with three bands.

I always bought from Ticket Masters.

bucka001 wrote:   Cstack, if you're in Chicago (like me) were you at the Magma show at Martyrs a few months ago? Absolutely, jaw-droppingly stunning. Or did you catch VdGG at The Abbey a few years ago? Another good 'un. Never thought I'd see either of those groups in Chicago, we're pretty lucky.

If you are listening to music intended to mimic music of a bygone era it will be stale, of course. There is plenty of great, energetic, experimental and exciting music that is being made today but most of it lies in a no-mans land where it isn't generally considered prog or at least purists will argue that it isn't... Because it isn't stale enough? Of course it won't be created in the same mold as Yes or Genesis but if you can try something new I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

^ What a bitter, depraved, bullsh*t thing to say.  "Hey man, I'm a gifted musician and most of the world doesn't care and they're all fools and so are the record companies...and your little dog, too".   No, Mr. V, the world doesn't care because they'd rather not listen to poofy electronic New Age.   Yes Mr. V, The Police and Van Halen and U2 have sold more records than you.   You're a highly successful composer with a career many would die for.   Deal with it and stop whining.

BaldJean wrote: in my opinion they were. the freshness has been taken out of the music. everything has to be "perfect" now, which in essence means "boring". the only thing I really still like are some live albums, but modern studio albums usually bore me because everything is sterilely clean

That's definitely a factor.

When electricity invaded music (in the 50's for rock and in the 60's for jazz and folk), a whole new continent was discovered, furthered even more with the electronic (synths) apparitions in the 70's with the likes of Tomita, Tangerine Dream Wendy Carlos, etc....

Within two decades, the whole continent was explored and chared and path beatened , grounds broken. Sure there is still the occasional music valley that escaped

The Dark Elf wrote: Yes, it was better. And you could also have sex with any number of people and contract nothing that a shot of penicillin wouldn't cure.

mmmmhhh!!!... I don't know how old you are, but outside the disease issues (clap abounded in the 70's - never moreso than during the next few years after the Summer of Love), the frequency of sex was not nearly great as it became in later decades. Sure compared to the 50's , this seemed so casual, but it wasn't as gratuitious as it became later (and I got plenty of pussy as a teenager)

 I'm still often astounded at  how quickly younger generations are jumping in the sack for pure joy and without much sentiments.

I was single a few years back, and I found that having sex with women of my generation was definitely not "as easy" than with women some 10 to 20 years younger than me, who even kind of initiated even on the first or second date.

Atavachron wrote: Dean wrote: It really was not better in the 70s. No, it wasn't.   But in our minds, certainly mine, the memories are lovely and halcyon and only the fun remains.   Rock still alive and thriving; Saturday Night Live in its youth; Double bills of bad exploitation flicks on weekend afternoons in sticky theaters; Running around the streets on warm summer evenings and then making it home to watch Mary Hartman,Mary Hartman followed by Fernwood Tonight and maybe an old Twilight Zone. We were richer when we were poorer.

.......are there no jokers on this website..........????