le freak wrote:
The main difference between the 60s and 70s is the 70s feeling of sleaze and degeneration. At the same time I must say, that in retrospect, I like much music now, that I didn`t like back then, when it was new. -Plus I`m still not very fond of artists like Leo Sayer, Sparks, 10cc, Queen and Supertramp. It might be an age thing.
The feeling of difference was further strenghtened by the fact that we moved from one place of the country to another, in the summer of 1970, when I was 14 years old. That said, the years 1970 to 1972 was a different age altogether, dominated by prog, but more belonging to the 60s than 70s.
I tend to agree with you, some of it, still the taste thing is very individual. I appreciate more music of the late sixties and the Prog era today, than younger days. I myself discovered Roxy Music by quite a coincidence back in late 1976, when I bought a vinyl (VIVA) from a friend for a one pound. He didn't like them, but I blew away with the song "Both ends burning". I played it several times, and the funny thing, I was tuned on in, of the Soul era in the seventies (as a DJ), discovering varoius black music artists I even appriciate a lot today.
Then the world of RM, Ferry, Eno and the whole Roxy Music world were tuned in and turned on, in indeed intersting, highly artistic educated and creative gallery of personas.
Still, I'm classical educated like my wife, but mingles regular with experimental musicians, most of them performing instant composistions, jazz, electronica. I've had the pleasure og meeting people of Japan, Can, Eno (once) and the accliamed trumpeteer Jon Hassel, so I find music spanding from John Dunstable to Can via all forms and sorts of music expressions and experimentations deliciously surprising , but still, I hold RM one of my all time favourite bands. This band is so different, so appealing, to qoute Richard Hamilton.
Sounds moves in mysterious waves..
