Hi Bill,
Great thread, very classy!
You said:
let's see 70's hmmmm. Gag me with a spoon. Disco 
I figured you hated or disliked Disco, I don't like the word "hate" either but I will use it in a sentence lol...
I never say "I dislike the fact that... It's just too proper for me lol...
I first off want to apologize to you and Mags and whoever even quietly may have been offended during my rant and that comment. I'm very very on edge lately and it has nothing to do with you guys or even music for that matter.
When I said that, I was thinking more in general than anybody specifically.
When Disco was HUGE Rock fans hated excuse me "disliked" it greatly, they came up with a slogan "Disco Sucks" I mean
"Disco Isn't Good" LOL... I'm just goofin with ya
But really, They despised Disco. I was a HUGE ROCK FAN,
But....... I was still a Music Lover and a Musician in body,mind and HEART!
So while my 2,000 Rock friends were cringing at the first note of
"Disco Inferno" I grabbed the bass, even though I played guitar at the time and in a ROCK band
I had to figure out that GREAT BASS line.
It was contagious and I had to love it...
I'm not proud to say this, but I kinda hid stuff like that from my friends, not my Band-mate friends but my on the corner ones.
Besides when I was young people gave me an image to kinda live up too. A rock n roll one!
We PACKED every place we played, we were little rock stars around here. I once found out from a close friend that a tough guy was gonna beat me up because he wanted my beautiful girlfriend at the time.
But decided against the attempt telling my friend, "He's just too popular and too many people like him. I'm sure I'd have a lot of people after me"
I never had the EGO though, because MUSIC humbles me every single day!!!
Listen by the time I hit that showcase for Arista Records at 19
I was gigging for seven years already and playing for eleven.
So back too the point
I'm actually WRONG in my comment
LOADS of Rock musician friends disliked Disco as well, and ALL OF THEM aren't playing anymore.....
Alot of people and totally understandably so pick up instruments because of a style/genre of music OR to be popular and meet members of the opposite sex.
When I was becoming a man in the 1980's there were POSER'S all around me, I mean all around me.
Music to me meant MORE than any style of it! Yes I had my insane Rock phase. I was as BIG a
Led Zeppelin Freak as you could find.
Especially from ages 9 - 16 My room was covered from wall to wall and ceiling with Zep Posters I had two scrapbooks. And of course not only knew EVERY song from every album but the times/song lengths as well... Jimmy Page was and still is the most influential and greatest songwriting guitarist I have ever seen or heard. And he's not a bad lead player or acoustic player as well
Ya know!
But as a LOVER of music while watching my favorite show of all time "The Odd Couple" I was maybe 9 years old,
Roy Clark appeared on the show, I was MESMERIZED!! Grabbed a cassette tape recorder and taped the TV set, then sat and tried to figure out any part I could of what he was playing, then ran right over to my Dad to show him. By the time I was 16 I had a denim jacket on at school with a Jimmy Page button on one side and a
Roy Clark button on the other NON of the other kids could understand.
So the point about Disco was this, lets say you and I or anybody were of age and playing music professionally in 1976, If you were not Rock Band,Country Band or whatever band, as a WORKING musician, you would LOVE the fact that there was loads of work in the Disco world.
30 piece bands HIRE a lot more MUSICIANS than a 4 piece rock bands.
Bill I had other professions as well in my life, and I believe a few them of them ruined my body, they were JUST jobs, but through all of them every conceivable hour was spent musically.
I would stay up all night and work in music as well...
The job paid for stuff, as making ORIGINAL music did not! for the unknown..
So you HATE rap huh? lol...
Well now 30 musicians do NOT get hired there so I have no comment. But I like quite a few rap/hip hop songs. I can tell the difference between quality and crap nonsense in that genre too.. But the PRODUCER me, thinks all about it, ya see? I think excuse me "feel" from EVERY angle!
But the BIG reason why I knew George Benson, and Jaco and all other kinds of music was because the 70's let it in my living room every night, You have to use the internet to have that today and that SUCKS! BUt it's better than nothing, to bad You Tube doesn't pay like the labels pay the Jonas Brothers.
The 70's Ruled for that reason alone, I already knew all about Earth Wind & Fire but then I tuned into the Midnight Special and Bang there they were... SMOKING! the daylights out of everybody!
Great music found ME!
Today you can LOVE
Carrie Underwood, but She is basically
Olivia Newton John of the 70's not quite as big yet, but you get the picture. FINE! They both live on the charts and your radio & TV. It's an even up trade, NOTHING"s changed..
But look back on the 70's and see ALL that's missing TODAY for the public... FORGET the internet please...... I don't want to MAYBE stumble on someone great on the computer.. The MUSIC BUSINESS found them for me and put them in my living room!!!
What a concept? for a business involving MUSIC to do. leaves me and many who CARE to believe, musically deprived people are running it.
All they feed us today BIG TIME is the Olivia's, etc.. Donnie Osmonds, Partrige Family, Tina Turner, of the past... Fine.
They have abandoned GREAT music that could and would be popular.
All I'm saying is it's around to the best degree it can be, it HAS all been done before but still...
They didn't exclude it in the 60's and especially the 70's
Glad I helped you Bill more than hurt,Some people are tough and I can't be too sweet to drive a point through lol..
Hit em then hug em
LOL
Peace Bro
Merry Christmas To All
