19-11-2014, 18:15
I voted for the 70's , but it can only be attributed to the Progressive Rock from the early to mid 70's. There was outstanding Progressive Rock from the mid to late 70's which remained on the underground, but most of the Prog bands from the early 70's, (who were the innovators), were unfortunately required to sell out and continue to do their job. The industry revealed them as clowns in the late 70's and specifically clowns in the music department by allowing the pressures of the industry to persuade them in releasing contrived product. Straight up Rock bands like Humble Pie, Badfinger, Juicy Lucy, Spooky Tooth, and early Fleetwood Mac were creative and artistic, combining elements and producing a more interesting Rock song than what I remember developing in the "Stadium Rock" era of the late 70's. The Fillmore East and West closed and bands were then being shifted into stadiums to play for massive crowds. This had been attempted with the "Woodstock Festival" in 69'. That was a financial disaster , but promoters were willing to gamble on the concept of doing it right this time and they succeeded. This was when the "Rock Star" became physically separated from the audience by being placed on a huge stage in a stadium. There was no more 1 on 1 between the audience and the performer. Rock Stars used to play smaller venues in the 60's and very early 70's.
For example...Jimi Hendrix would play the "Electric Factory" in Philadelphia or Humble Pie would play the Fillmore East. The "Stadium Rock" era masked the reality of there ever being art in mainstream Rock music. People in general began to lose interest because it was no longer laid out on a silver platter for them by the industry. People over decades have developed a short attention span for music that contains art because they've been subjected over the last 3 decades to the process of limited solos, odd time signatures, or anything that contains the slightest complexity. This developed slowly within our social environment over the last 3 decades. Originally it was a plan to shorten the length of all commercially viable music presented through the media. The industry caused people in general to be less interested in how a piece/song was played and they became totally dismissive of it by the mid 80's. People were in the 60's.and early 70's were very interested in investigating music which was quite the opposite to the extreme.
For example...Jimi Hendrix would play the "Electric Factory" in Philadelphia or Humble Pie would play the Fillmore East. The "Stadium Rock" era masked the reality of there ever being art in mainstream Rock music. People in general began to lose interest because it was no longer laid out on a silver platter for them by the industry. People over decades have developed a short attention span for music that contains art because they've been subjected over the last 3 decades to the process of limited solos, odd time signatures, or anything that contains the slightest complexity. This developed slowly within our social environment over the last 3 decades. Originally it was a plan to shorten the length of all commercially viable music presented through the media. The industry caused people in general to be less interested in how a piece/song was played and they became totally dismissive of it by the mid 80's. People were in the 60's.and early 70's were very interested in investigating music which was quite the opposite to the extreme.