Best deacade in rock

[Gawain of Orkeny]

When do you think rock was the best? The 50s, 60s , 70s , 80s , 90s or now and why? Wish I could figure out how to make a poll in this new forum.

[Orda Khan]

60's

........Orda

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

My favorite period for music was the late sixties/early seventies. However, if I have to pick one decade, it has to be the sixties. There's just too much good stuff-The Beatles, The Stones, Early Pink Floyd, Hendrix, The Who, and so on.

I really wish I'd been born in 1950.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

My favorite period for music was the late sixties/early seventies. However, if I have to pick one decade, it has to be the sixties. There's just too much good stuff-The Beatles, The Stones, Early Pink Floyd, Hendrix, The Who, and so on.

NMy sentiments exactly. Hey I was born in 48 is that good enough for you. Id gladly exchange my old age for your youth anyday. I could still buy and listen to the music

[lancelot]

Got to be 70's. Zep, Floyd, Stones, Who, ...etc

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

NMy sentiments exactly. Hey I was born in 48 is that good enough for you. Id gladly exchange my old age for your youth anyday. I could still buy and listen to the music

Yes, I suppose you're right. Hopefully we're due for another fantastic decade of music sometime soon.

I still think it's incredibly unfair that I was too un-alive to see the Floyd in concert, though.

[Togakure]

My rock and roll roots were established in the 70s. I have fond memories of the 80s because I was on the road and having a whole lotta fun at the time, but if I was stranded for the rest of my life on a deserted island and could only listen to one decade of music, it would definitely be the 70s.

[Byzantine Prince]

I like the 90's scene the most but that's just because I grew up in the 90's.

[Steppe Merc]

My favorite period for music was the late sixties/early seventies. However, if I have to pick one decade, it has to be the sixties. There's just too much good stuff-The Beatles, The Stones, Early Pink Floyd, Hendrix, The Who, and so on.

I really wish I'd been born in 1950.

I agree 100%... except with the Who. They have some good stuff, but are too angry. Give me the Grateful Dead any day over the Who!

Hopefully we're due for another fantastic decade of music sometime soon.

Let us all hope so... a hippie rock revival! YAY!

[Gawain of Orkeny]

I still think it's incredibly unfair that I was too un-alive to see the Floyd in concert, though.

He He Not only did I see floyd but I worked as a stage hand on the wall tour

I agree 100%... except with the Who. They have some good stuff, but are too angry. Give me the Grateful Dead any day over the Who!

Are you kidding? The who invented hard rock the greatful dead invented................... well deadheads. I went to a concert of theirs back n the day with a girlfriend of mine. I was doing three hits of acid and still fell asleep. Boring.

You want real cool 60s and 70s stuff listen to the most prolific and in my opinion one of the greatest musicans both writting and playing guitar. Im talkin bot the one and only Frank Zappa. Just look at the members in his band. People like Steve Vai , the turtles(mothers of invention, flo and eddy) Terry Bosio and George Duke to name a few. A little Dinah Moe Hum any one?

Look at this body of work

Link

[Kaiser of Arabia]

72'-78, Skynyrd.
So it's gotta be the seventees ending in 1980 with Back in Black.
Plus there is floyd, early queen, Early AC/DC, Zepllin, and I think Black Sabbath.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

I was doing three hits of acid and still fell asleep. Boring.

hehehe acid...
I once told someone that I had a dream where it was snowing cocaine and he asked me if I was on acid.
Dont do acid though
Anyway, the greatful dead SUCK MONKEY [Censored=BRAINS]!

[Papewaio]

10,000 BC when the Ice retreated and rock was available to bang on...

[CaeroxVII]

Gotta be the 70s Led zep, lynard skynard and bob dyaln

[Beirut]

Almost impossible to say '60s or '70s.

If you take the '60s, you miss out on tons of heavy stuff, Led Zep, Deep Purple, lots of Floyd, etc.

But if you take the '70s, where's the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Simon & Garfunkle.

I'll say '66 to '76 or there abouts.

Hmmmm, there's always the '80s though?

NOT!

Ahhhhhh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha........... "As if."

[Somebody Else]

But the 90s! Think of all the greats! The Spice Girls, Boyzone, Britney Spears!





















Okay. So that was a joke.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Yes indeed, the eighties and Ninties seem to have beens, with a few exceptions, the decades that rock forgot...

[lancelot]

He He Not only did I see floyd but I worked as a stage hand on the wall tour

I worked at the '94 gigs in London....14 nights.

BTW for anyone lamenting the state of modern rock, Im punting Young Heart Attack. Check them out, excellent Texas rock!

[BDC]

I think we're due for a few more years of this crappy generic soft rock stuff, then maybe something decent. If not... *cracks fingers and looks at guitar hanging on wall*

[Gawain of Orkeny]

I'll say '66 to '76 or there abouts.

If your going to call a decade 10 years then I think you hit the nail on the head.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Quote:
I'll say '66 to '76 or there abouts.


If your going to call a decade 10 years then I think you hit the nail on the head.

Yep. Those ten years are the holy grail of rock.

[Orda Khan]

Not just rock but music in general

....Orda

[Kaiser of Arabia]

72 to 82 is a good choice.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

72 to 82 is a good choice.

Its ok but hardly compares to 66 to 76

I worked at the '94 gigs in London....14 nights.

Was Rodger Waters still with them then . I dont think so? Its unbelevable how much equipment these dudes have isnt it. I remember unloading 20 tractor trailers. By the way I still do stnge hand work for concerts . Last one I did was Foreigner at Jones Beach last year. My first was the Byrds and the Youngbloods in 1966.

[lancelot]

No, Waters was well out by then. The session bass player was good though. You can get the gig on DVD I think. The light show/effects were amazing. I highly recommend it

[Beirut]

(Excellent, this is turning into a Floyd thread. )

I've been looking for the Pulse DVD but haven't been able to find it. But when I do, I'm buying it, and I'm not watching it until I get my new TV next summer. Probably a 42" Sony Grand Wega or the 40" Sony XBR. Then we kick the women and children out of the house and blast the speakers.

I have the director's cut of Live at Pompeii. That one I've seen on my very nice but far too small 27" Sony Wega. Used to have the Delicate Sound of Thunder video, got destroyed though. Used to watch that on my old 36" Sony projection screen tv. That was sweet.

Nothing like sitting back and watching great old concerts on big TVs. A couple o'beers, spark a Dirty Sanchez, and a huge bag of chocolate cookies. Going to buy the Wall, the Song Remains the Same, a Jethro Tull compilation DVD, Woodstock, the Isle of Wight concert, and a few others.

Gawain, you roadied for Floyd?

I bow in your general direction.

[English assassin]

I'd go with the consensus of the 70's, esp if I am allowed the last few years of the 60s.

Being a teenager in the 80's was pants, music from about 82-88 was appalling. And have you noticed that everyone who was around in the 80s now looks a lot better looking and better dressed than they did then, despite being 20 years older?

Oh yeah and there was waking up every day wondering if the world was going to end in a nuclear holocaust (though that did at least keep every other sort of worry in some kind of perspective). Kids today eh...

[Axeknight]

If I'm allowed to redefine the word 'decade' a little, then '72 til about '82. Sure, I miss out on Hendrix, but if I were to be brutal, I'd have to pick Zep and Sabbath over him anyway. Though Hendrix is, for me, easily the greatest guitarist who ever lived, I prefer Zep purely stylistically. I say til '82 cause '80-'82 were Iron Maiden's formative years during the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and Sabbath and Maiden are my two favourite metal bands ever. You also get Aerosmith's best years, some of the Rolling Stones best work (although I'd just miss out on (Can't Get No) Satisfaction), Deep Purple, and Alice Cooper's best work as well. But if I had 15 years, it'd be '67 - '82, without a doubt. Then I'd get Sabbath and Zep's first two albums each, plus Hendrix at Woodstock.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

72 freebird to 82 I think Hammer to fall came out in this year.

[Frederick]

75 - 82

6 Albums
21 Hits
4 Number 1s
The Jam

Enough Said.

(Shame I wasn't alive through it really)