1971

Every decade has great music years. 

I love the 70's for the way things were recorded, produced and mastered. When there was a good enough budget that is, low budget stuff did not sound so good as it does now. The studio equipment back then, before the digital stuff came in, where the best. The best sounding stuff is generally from the 70's. 

1987 was a killer year in the 80's.
Prince Sign O' the Times
GnR's Appetite for Destruction,
The Cults Electric, 
U2's The Joshua Tree,
Depeche Mode's
The Cure's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me,
NXS Kick,
Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation,
Sisters Of Mercy's Floodland,
The Jesus & Mary Chains Darklands,
Mellencamp's The Lonesome Jubilee,
Michael Jackson's BAD,
Alexander O' Neil's Hearsay,
Whitney Houston's Whitney,
Public Enemy Yo' Bum Rush the Show,
LL Cool J Bigger and Deffer,
Red Hot Chilipeppers The Uplift Mofo party Plan
Terence Trent Dary's Introducing the hardline
and others....

1991 had:
Nirvana's Nevermind,
Pearl Jam's TEN,
Red Hot Chilipepper's Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic,
REM's Out of Time,
Metallica's Metallica,
My Bloody Valentine's Loveless,
GnR's Use Your Illusion I & II,
The Smashing Pumpkins Gish,
Massive Attack Blue Lines,
Seal's Seal,
Lenny Kravitz Mama said,
Aaron Neville's Warm your heart.
Prince Diamonds and Pearls,
Gang Starr's Step in the arena.
Del Da Fynky Homosapien's Wish my brother George was here, 
A Tribe called Quest's The Low end Theory,
and more...

 
I'm a lil partial to 1976 and 1987 myself. Two great years.

'71 was pretty dang Cool though. I remember a bunch of that happening. I was 10.

 
8 hours ago, crunchee said:

Nobody was overweight in 1971?  Really?   :rolleyes:

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Leslie West was three of the greatest rockers from that era.

 
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The article helps to validate my opinion/pronouncement that the years 1967-73 were the most diverse half-decade in the history of popular music. I state such when I give lectures at schools or civic clubs or churches about old guitars.

I would add that Mott the Hoople's Brain Capers was released that year. Arguably the definitive early '70s British hard rock album, and since hard rock and heavy metal were practically indistinguishable back then, I'd put it up against Master of Reality  or Fireball for that annum. Unsure which line I'd take away to make it fit; prolly one of the album releases I've never heard of or one that wasn't iconic like Message from the Country

 
The only valid point in that article:

[COLOR= rgb(0, 0, 0)]70) I was twenty-one in 1971.[/COLOR]

:D

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Austin

 
P.S. (instead of E.T.A.): #63 on the list is intriguing. Have never before heard or read that the Allmans had horns on the first night of their Fillmore East gig that resulted in the album Were this night's performances recorded (and maybe then junked)? One would think the "lost recordings" release would be historically-interesting, if sloppy. A personal caveat is that I haven't heard what were called the complete recordings, but those are allegedly from 12-13 MAR 71, and the official Allmans site lists 11 MAR at the Fillmore East included on the gig list as well.

The cow college I went to had the Allmans about a month before the Fillmore gig; it's not on the gig list but the "Big House" museum in Macon has it in their log/archives. There weren't any horns at that performance either.

 
Growing up in the Tulsa OK TV viewing area in 1971 (pre-cable), I spent many a late Saturday night as a kid, watching a local TV show called "The Uncanny Film Festival And Camp Meeting", which showed horror or sci-fi 'classic' movies, with little skits stuck in with the commercial breaks...this was LONG before Saturday Night Live began in 1975, and LONG before John Belushi or Chris Farley made it to national TV.  Anybody here also recognize these guys?  



 
gorch said:
Should I had been worried at the time? B)

1987 also had Whitesnake 1987.
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On a vaguely related note, I recently picked up a Line 6 75-watt 1x12 combo for my repair shop in my attempt to have test-drive amps that reflect what my clients actually use. The presets include banks by decades and then by specific song titles. It's actually pretty extensive and a helluva lot of variety that there's no way I'd figure out on my own without reading the novella they call the user's manual.

Anyway, within the 80s bank I found a preset called "Here I Go Again" and that's pretty much where the amp stays parked with no further tweaking. The purist in me detests admitting it, but it's a damn and I mean damn good sim of a pushed Coliseum series Mark III (I think that's what Sykes used) with the era-appropriate grease mixed in.

Some of you may recall I'm (somewhat regrettably) selling my actual Boogie (Mark V) to finance this shop amp diversification project. That one preset on the Line 6 kept me cool with where things are moving in the shop. Worth checking out if you want that sound without spending Boogie money.

 
On March 24, 2016 at 4:08 PM, crunchee said:

Growing up in the Tulsa OK TV viewing area in 1971 (pre-cable), I spent many a late Saturday night as a kid, watching a local TV show called "The Uncanny Film Festival And Camp Meeting", which showed horror or sci-fi 'classic' movies, with little skits stuck in with the commercial breaks...this was LONG before Saturday Night Live began in 1975, and LONG before John Belushi or Chris Farley made it to national TV.  Anybody here also recognize these guys?  

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Wow - a young Gary Busey in that second clip.  Pretty cool!

 
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