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did you ever wonder what caused rock to change so drastically in the early 70`s ? i mean in `69 we had woodstock,flower power and all that cool stuff.then just 2 years later we have master of reality (sabbath),black dog (zep),machine head (purple).it`s like a meteor hit the 60`s and wiped them out like the dinosaurs.what do you guys think?

Even worse....How the hell did we get from all that awesome progressive rock (Yes, ELP, etc..) from the 70's right into Flock of Seagulls, Devo, etc..(NEW WAVE HORROR) of the 80's??

Disco killed Rock & DJ's killed live acts in clubs.

Grunge put a damper on Thrash and now Grunge is dead...but Thrash is still alive.

Honest music will always come back before the end of the 10 count...no matter the era it came from.

Music changes because people and the times change. But the death of Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin and the Altamont fiasco sealed it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert

hendrix morrison,joplin all 60`s icons,do you think thier passing allowed the new bands to change rock forever? the the 60`s artist`s mentioned have staying power as do the early 70`s bands which are still with us today.flock of seagulls and grunge went the way of cavemen.

Not sure grunge went away, Pearl Jam is still very popular as is AIC and Soundgarden. And maybe, bands like The Doors and Hendrix are still huge because they passed away too soon. An artist's catalog sells even better after they're gone.

I don't see a huge change occuring during that time... by 1970 Led Zep released their 3rd album. There was some early heavy music in the late sixties.
VooDoo Chile, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida among others. I don't think the changes were in a blink of an eye.

Can't forget the Manson murders; this also put the nail in the hippie coffin.

Cocain

Everything changed when those f'in Colombians got big in the drug trade.
The whole peaceful lets be cool drug subculture went to sh*t.

Then all those hop head idiots started bopping around in the clubs to stoned to know music from noise.

Damn shame.

There may be something to that George; in the 60's it was pot and LSD, which for most people are peaceful drugs (Manson notwithstanding). As people started to do coke in 70's things became more cynical, dark and paranoid. The coke epidemic peaked by the mid-80's with the death of John Belushi, etc. Of course, the most destructive drug of all time is alcohol; people like Ozzie, Eddie Van Halen and Alice Cooper barely survived.

jimmydanger wrote:There may be something to that George; in the 60's it was pot and LSD, which for most people are peaceful drugs (Manson notwithstanding). As people started to do coke in 70's things became more cynical, dark and paranoid. The coke epidemic peaked by the mid-80's with the death of John Belushi, etc. Of course, the most destructive drug of all time is alcohol; people like Ozzie, Eddie Van Halen and Alice Cooper barely survived.

I'm telling you Jimmy ... I'm convinced ...

I was in the scene pretty deep in those days.

Early on it was a social thing ... If you were cool and knew somebody that knew somebody you would get an invite.
Spend the evening drinking, smoking each others herb and listening to music.
After the meal the stuff for sale would come out you'd make your deal, shake hands and say good night. ( more like good morning LOL )

Shortly thereafter it went to quick deals with people you did not want to know and everyone was carrying heat.

Yeah ... things changed ... the club and the music scene changed with it.

5KVJOHN wrote:did you ever wonder what caused rock to change so drastically in the early 70`s ? i mean in `69 we had woodstock,flower power and all that cool stuff.then just 2 years later we have master of reality (sabbath),black dog (zep),machine head (purple).it`s like a meteor hit the 60`s and wiped them out like the dinosaurs.what do you guys think?

My observation, rock was going thru a transformation while woodstock was happening. Hendrix played a part in that. Many bands imitated his drugged attitude and guttsiness. I takes a lot of guts to be black and PLAY rock.Rock bands began following his lead until they came in to their own.

Yes Mary Jimi changed everything as far as guitar playing goes. Nobody played it quite the same after him. I love the faces of people when he played at Monterrey Pop Festival, like they were watching a dinosaur fight a transformer.

He went through puberty.