There are some recordings that have a slightly odd sound (can't really describe it) but they seem lacking in feel and atmosphere and sound like everyone recorded their parts separately (which they did). Some Glass Hammer and IZZ recordings spring to mind here, although I still like them.

I love 70's aesthetics.

The drum sound, the guitars, especially the licks and solos, which are easily identified from the decade. Also, keyboards and synthetizers, they still sound great today.

It's weird to me that someone would hate music from a time and place that is no more ... so you might as well hate Haendel, Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky and everything else that is beyond your timeline of music enjoyment, which in my book, is merely showing that you might consider evaluating "music" in your ears, so that something like that does not happen again.

Essentially, every period in the history of the arts, has ALWAYS brought out something original and different, and apparently this is not good for you ... it's strange that you mention the "drum sound" and I just watched ELP on a concert from 1970, and no a single drummer in the past 25/30 years can reproduce anything that good that Carl Palmer came up with ... it was not about the "click" and it certainly was not about that stupid and cheap snare drum that beginners love to hit, because they do not know how to count time, and the folks they are playing with have to have a "point of return" so they know where they are ... it takes guts and talent to do what Carl did in many of those shows, and "talent" is not defined as ... just do your 4/4, or 3/4, or BS/4 ... but keep hitting that snare so the bass player and the guitar know what they are doing and when!

There was a freedom in the early 70's that is not clear anymore, and only a handful of artists do work that is "beyond" the timing and the measures in music ... the next time you look at Beethoven, or Stravinsky, try to find the "clue" that this is the 4th beat ... which tells you that the current drummer these days, is nothing but a mechanical metronome, that couldn't drum his way out of a hole in the ground ... it would sound the same, see?

There is nothing wrong with the 70's any more than there is what is in any other generation of music ... but it is really sad when we see stuff like this, which has a tendency to suggest that the music appreciation is not quite on your side ... hopefully your school has a "music appreciation" course that gives you 500 years of music ... you might find that a lot of stuff that you hear these days, that people love to "fan'size" ... is really just really poor music that has a value in the annals of music history of ... let's say -50 and below!

As for the drum sound that never really bothered me either. The only drum sound that bothers me is the stuff from the eighties. I kind of blame Phil Collins for that in a way. He was a pioneer of that gated reverb sound which led producers in the eighties to try to get a punchier drum sound and people just sort of ran away with it ruining the production of a lot of 80's music. That said I like the sound he initially got and think it worked(PG 3 for example)but I don't like what it led to. I think  these days most drum sounds sound ok though.

I can't seem to listen to music made AFTER the 70s.... A lot of sh*tty production, sh*tty songs, etc.

I feel the same about movies.

As far as drum sounds, I can understand. For example on JTull both TAAB and Aqualung the bass and bass guitar parts are thin sounding, especially on my original LP versions. Both of the remixed versions by Steven Wilson he and Ian Anderson bumped the bass some and it has a much more appealing bottom end. I also find this to be the case with 50-60s jazz records.....Part of the reason is the analog playback equipment back then was not able to handle the low end and the stylus could/would jump out of the groove if the engineer was not careful, Don Was (President of BlueNote Records) discussed this regarding how Rudy Van Gelder mastered all those brilliant jazz recordings knowing this would happen. 

Today with much better analog playback gear that is not the case anymore, I can compare many originals with recent re-issues that contain a much beefier low end and the sound is simply glorious off my turntable.

Hate will leave you to the Dark Side it will, Dark Side of the Moon, yes.

Na, love 70s music. Love all eras. Probably prefer 70s above all others as a whole.

Fact is no one can now play like Carl Palmer , Phil Collins and Jon Hiseman. That level of drumming is a lost art in my opinion. Keyboards is a different matter. Listen to the latest Deep Purple album for a masterclass from Don Airey. Yes he is from that era but even Carl Palmer can no longer play like he did. Once he dropped the single bass drum set up for Asia that was it and he could never get it back. Check out ELP playing at Rich Colosseum (Buffalo) 1974 .Pictures At An Exhibition. There is nothing , literally nothing that is in the same universe anywhere anymore. Just the fact of it. Bands were testing themselves to the absolute limit until it came to an end about 1975. At least we have these recordings to remind us though.

Do I hate that music?  Not at all, reading the interviews of those days makes me curious and gives me appreciation for how creative those musicians were! 

Beatles had those huge Vox amps because the PA systems we are used to hadn't been developed yet.  Hendrix had to re-invent the guitar to get the sounds he had in his head.  

it's all good.  I've seen some amazing post 1970s bands, and they do not diminish the shows I saw....LTIA, CTTE, TAAB and other major tours.  I was there, it was good, and it is still good.  

Check these guys out, I saw them open for Dream Theater once!  Scary technical skills! 

Drums are probably the most difficult instrument to record in a studio to sound good. But I don't see why it's not possible to do it the same way they did it in the 70's. Also, I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "hard disk." However, if a band were to record something live in the studio wouldn't they get pretty much the same sound as in the old days?

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I'm wondering if we have to be careful with this ... for example ... I don't listen to Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky because of nostalgia ... so why would I do the same with Amon Duul 2?

Yes, many bands that are listed as "progressive" happen to be during my time, when their work came about, and yes there are many things that I appreciate from that time, but not "nostalgia" ... I liked the vibe at the Fillmore in its heyday ... and there is nothing nostalgic about it, because in the past 20 years, in any club I have seen, there has not been a single concert that was as far out and cool as many of those were ... we didn't stand there and say that the long cut suckks! Or the something or other was boring because the "song" did not follow a favored format by many fans that have had their heads so commercialized that they can not tell the difference in the music!

As for the drumming sound, or this and that ... the day someone takes that dang'd snare drum and splash it over a drummer's head, is the day I might like to appreciate a drummer again ... I'm tired of the overly loud, and un-necessary emphasis on the beat with it ... it's annoying and has a tendency to take away from the music itself ... so the music changes to something else ... and the drumming is the same! That's not a good drummer ... that's a person that does not understand the music, or can hear it at all! He/she is too busy counting the numbers to stay in touch! That's not a musician ... that's a hack!