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Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on April 18, 2008, 05:09 PM:

The recent music posts I and my fellow forum members have been listing has reminded me of my intense love of 70's music and bands.

I have done 17 albums of my own work, from love songs to hard rock, (never did get a bloody label but I'm an artist, love the craft, hate the business aspect of it! But I'll never have to say "what if?") and loved every minute of it, so I think I can say a few things with at least a little authority.

A remember a lot of people ripping on the 1970's as a wasted decade and writing off 70's music, (mostly because of the advent of disco, which I can't really blame them much for) ...

But my Gawd!! There was such a rich cornucopia of music back then! The 60's feel pretty much stayed in music through the early 70's (I STILL rock to "Mississippi Queen" by "Mountian")
and I truly feel that, while the 60's were full of great experimentation, I believe that in the 70's, EVERY musical format reached thier "maturity", (not including formats that started in the 70's but ripened in the 80's and beyond). Hard Rock reached it's maturity, heavy Metal reached it's maturity, country reached ect. ect.

The writing I think was at it's best as well, especially when you look at the variety of everything from America and Gordon Lightfoot, (lets not forget Croce) to Black Sabbath and KISS,
(damn! what a rock group!). There was still that subgroup of poetic folk style, (from the 70's) to bubble gum rock, ("Love Grows Where My Rosemary Grows" Edison Lighthouse, "Smile a Little Smile For Me, Rose Marie" The Flying Machines).

The melodys are great, chord progressions are great, musical craftsmenship was masterful!

... and I've had to see bastards taking the complete instrumental to "Every Breath You take (by the Police) and just adding a damned Rap to it and mkaing Millions!!! "What the ****
is up with that?!!

My favorite all time artists (bands) of the 70's

America
Bread
Carpenters (yeah, a guilty pleasure with a few of thier songs)

Electric Light Orchestra (Still de best!)
Styx
KISS (Hard Luck Woman, Christine 16! Aww, I gotta get that 45 out!!) Ironically, I love thier earlier stuff best!
Foreigner

Aw heck, I could go on allnight!

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on April 18, 2008, 06:25 PM:

The other side of Osi. Reading that list of Rock Bands took me right back to my young days. Dont forget Deep Purple..I loved them.
At the same time these groups were up against the likes of The Osmonds, The Casidy's and the Jackson's...Oh how the TV shows put them in the spotlight with the mums and kids (Girls) managing to knock the rock groups from the number one position in the music charts.

Great Days.

I still have all my singles from the later 80's from the days of being a Hospital Radio DJ and running a disco [Eek!]

Yes those were the days and yes I was just getting well into movies too [Smile]

Blimey Osi this thread is making me feel old...I think as moderator I should delete it [Big Grin]

"JOKE"

Kev.

Posted by Dan Lail (Member # 18) on April 18, 2008, 07:10 PM:

Osi!

Gag me with a spoon! [Big Grin]

Kev, when you were hospital jock did you ever start your show screaming "good morning I-C-U" or. [Big Grin]

Osi, where can we buy your albums? [Smile]

If I ever hear Aqua Lung, Magaritaville, Leroy Brown, Brown Eyed Girl, or In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida again just to mention a few, I'll scream! [Eek!]

I will admit I'm stuck on 33-1/3 but ocassionally get it up to 78rpms. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on April 19, 2008, 02:24 AM:

Why do LPs sound better than CDs?

It sounds a silly question but there seems to be more "body" irrespective of any tone control settings.

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on April 19, 2008, 06:32 AM:

Maurice, Its all to do with compression and sampling rates. I have to agree that analogue still seems to knock spots off digital. Its seems far more open and detailed.

This is exactly the same as DVD and is why in my opinion a Good quality film will win hands down against the very best DVD set up.

Its the same as when you Scan an image into your computer. If you save the scan as a tiff image and then save as a Jpeg with high compression you will lose quality and see artifacts in the Jpeg but not in the tiff.

When you squeeze info onto those small siver discs (CD or DVD) there has to be a loss somewhere.

Kev.

Posted by Mal Brake (Member # 14) on April 19, 2008, 07:41 AM:

I first heard The Moody Blues in 1967, been hooked ever since.

Seeing them in Cardiff 30th September, 35 years and one day from the first time I saw them live in 1973.
Mal

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on April 19, 2008, 02:04 PM:

I'm a huge Springsteen fan myself, and...yep, I share Osi's love of the Carpenters - what a voice Karen Carpenter had!!!

Also a big fan of Country Music - Steve Earle, but, also Hank Williams, Cash (just one or two numbers though), Kristofferson (who we saw in the Albert Hall a couple weeks ago), etc.

Also Opera - just listening to La Boheme as I type.
And yes, no doubt about it - vinyl beats the socks off CD - just that CD is more convenient these days .

Mike

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on April 19, 2008, 05:50 PM:

Dan ...

I have been thinkinf of late of making two or three collections of my stuff, "Best of Albums", one, love songs, one Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, and one of everything else in-between.

In all cases however, I always had an emphasis on orchestra
backing it up. I still have two unfinished albums I'd love to record someday! All 45 songs (instrumnetals) are ready and just require the mic and vocals. I think they contain my best
orchestral work. A number of songs are quite reminiscent of
"Eleanor Rigby" in style, almost nothing but "pop orchestra"
and harmonious vocals!

Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on April 19, 2008, 11:09 PM:

Osi,

It would be great if you could post a song or two on-line. As an amateur musician, I would love to hear your work.

Claus.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on April 20, 2008, 01:50 AM:

Claus,

Do you know how I could do that? It's easy enough to import a song file or two to the computer, but could I actually place the music file on this forum?

There's a question for the Douglas and Faulkner

Posted by Alessandro Machi (Member # 461) on April 20, 2008, 02:44 AM:

Check out the Flower Power release from Time Life. I guess it's 60's music but it's tremendous stuff. CD number one, I like each and every song, lol, even the order they selected is right on. (oops, did I say right on?)

Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on April 20, 2008, 10:56 AM:

Osi,

I think, much like with photos you can put on Photobucket, you could upload the songs to a free file site (in mp3 form or similar) and put a couple of links in a message here for us to click on.
We'd just have to hear from our mods if there are any board policy issues against such links.

Best,
Claus.

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