My brother has that shirt. Provocative.
I am sure it started more than a few arguments 😂.
Some kids still enjoy listening to tapes, or maybe he's trying out a head cleaner. Can't tell.
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Yes, I totally agree! For me ABBA also belongs to the worst bands in musical history, doing high gloss polished but meaningless, hollow music just for the masses. Equally bad are all those glam rockers, Sweet, T. Rex, Slade, Mud, Bay City Rollers, you name it...
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👍 unbelievably creative band, all of them were talented multi instrumentalists and could all sing as well.
Excellent list of worthless, vapid bands. I especially hated the "hair bands." They're nothing but a mob of greasy dudes pretending to be chicks. I called them chicks with d!--s. I guess it made you forget how horrible the music was.
My disdain for 1970s and 1980s pop music stems from the fact that radio stations and music promoters totally abandoned rock music some time in 1976. Hey, I don't mind if you play some Olivia Neutron-Bomb (YUCKY!), but how about throwing some Pink Floyd into the mix? No can do said the bean counters. Rock is dead. When WDAI, a "progressive rock" station, became "Disco DAI", my ire was forever galvanized. That was WAY over the line and possibly a catalyst for the "Disco Demolition" night at Comiskey Park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night Chicago was a hardcore rock and roll town, yet the vacuous eggheads insisted on ramming disco down our throats relentlessly. It actually caused a riot, but they continued to play disco, disco, disco on the radio for another six years or so. All the old school people (like me) just stopped listening to the radio, and after disco died all the stations became Spanish speaking stations. Another swing and a miss, eggheads.
At least there's National Public Radio, which plays a nice mix of jazz and blues. I don't know what to make of make of commercial radio; I can't imagine who would listen to that garbage. They've made it as bad as TV.
Uh, the band was horrible. They sounded like every other post rock wannabe band of the era - washed out, diluted, annoying.
I agree that the musicians were stellar. Maybe if they just made music instead of listening to the eggheads they would have had a great band. But by that time rock had been neutered, castrated. There was plenty of pop and a dearth of rock music when they appeared.
Here's an underrated musician from the era that went on to become a major producer. He produced some of Pink Floyd's work, like Dark Side of the Moon.
Frank Zappa speaks for us displaced 70s rockers. We went from mainstream to pariah overnight.
I have remained faithful all these decades. NO fruity disco, NO Bee Gees, NO washed out crapola like Olivia Neutron-Bomb, and NO NO NO John Revolta.
I have remained faithful all these decades. NO fruity disco, NO Bee Gees, NO washed out crapola like Olivia Neutron-Bomb, and NO NO NO John Revolta.
Yes, it definitely was Disco, and eventually Punk that destroyed rock music, replacing meticulously crafted, challenging pieces by dilettantism. And yes, FZ is also one of my personal favourites, one of the greatest muscans in the past century. But Alan Parsons, especially your example 🤔😉?
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Best regards!
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/the-drummers-of-frank-zappa.393643/#post-7212201
For you Frank fans, I just put a link under music threads. This is fantastic. Glenn.
For you Frank fans, I just put a link under music threads. This is fantastic. Glenn.
Parsons was a stellar musical producer. Hello Pink Floyd?
I'm looking up articles about Disco Demolition night. In this era of PC it is being reframed as racist and homophobic. Poor Andy Gibbs was so butthurt he quit making music with the Bee Gees. Boo-frikkin hoo!
As Someone Who Was There in 1979, most of us were so sick of disco being forcefully rammed down our throats. Everything was disco disco disco. Personally I didn't care if you were gay, or black, or wore effeminate suits, or got a perm in your hair, or snorted coke until your face rotted off. I just wanted to listen to rock without having to go underground. I swear it was banished from the public arena by 1979, and all that was left was disco, disco, disco. My mother never liked my rock music (my parents actually destroyed a significant percentage of my record collection because it was "satanic), but she started listening to disco!
Luckily I was in college in the late 70s, and (strangely enough) there was zero disco there. I was being exposed to more jazz and blues by music major friends and I was loving it. But when I went home to Chicago, the whole frikking town was like one huge Saturday Night Fever scene. TV, radio, record store was nothing but disco, disco, disco.
I'm looking up articles about Disco Demolition night. In this era of PC it is being reframed as racist and homophobic. Poor Andy Gibbs was so butthurt he quit making music with the Bee Gees. Boo-frikkin hoo!
As Someone Who Was There in 1979, most of us were so sick of disco being forcefully rammed down our throats. Everything was disco disco disco. Personally I didn't care if you were gay, or black, or wore effeminate suits, or got a perm in your hair, or snorted coke until your face rotted off. I just wanted to listen to rock without having to go underground. I swear it was banished from the public arena by 1979, and all that was left was disco, disco, disco. My mother never liked my rock music (my parents actually destroyed a significant percentage of my record collection because it was "satanic), but she started listening to disco!
Luckily I was in college in the late 70s, and (strangely enough) there was zero disco there. I was being exposed to more jazz and blues by music major friends and I was loving it. But when I went home to Chicago, the whole frikking town was like one huge Saturday Night Fever scene. TV, radio, record store was nothing but disco, disco, disco.
Did I ever mention that I kept being a progressive rock afficionado since 50 years? With my favourite bands being Yes (until about 1980), Gentle Giant, VdGG, Genesis (up to Peter Gabriel's departure), King Crimson? But I also love Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash and other bands of the classic rock era.
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I still listen to a lot of that music. I recently "rediscovered" King Crimson and they're better than ever! I listened to Lamb Lies Down on Broadway last night. Wishbone Ash is better than ever too.
I like Phil Collins as a musician (NOT his awful pop songs) and consider him an important part of Genesis, but I agree he was a terrible front man for the band. Genesis was done when Gabriel departed.
Collins played with a progressive jazz band Brand X, which I listened to in college. His drumming is quite prominent in the band's songs.
I like Phil Collins as a musician (NOT his awful pop songs) and consider him an important part of Genesis, but I agree he was a terrible front man for the band. Genesis was done when Gabriel departed.
Collins played with a progressive jazz band Brand X, which I listened to in college. His drumming is quite prominent in the band's songs.
Yes, to all those! Add Floyd too... And FZ too. FZ gigs had the best produced sound of any gigs I went to. Immaculate quality - and playing! Still plenty of prog rock on the go, too... It just won't die! 🙂