Sgt. Pepper vs Dark Side?

[donkey tugger]

13 minute flanger solo?

[vurt]

spend too long doing their hair and make up to have such long solos

[Bombadil]

To me, the Beatles were the best band in the 60's. They defined the decade. Floyd, imo, was the best band in the 70's. That is, of course, my opinion. I have a hard time coming up with a band in the 70's that were as creative and innovative.

[vurt]

If we can open up other categories, will disco still be too black & gay?

disco is a weird one, it did produce some awesome stuff, but sadly it was mostly the dross that reached the charts (over here) and it became a bit of a joke in and of itself about aunties dancing round handbags.

that said, it did also bring us "funk" which brought with it, funkadelic and maggot brain, so "plus points"

stuff like moroder/ross i feel love, great, stuff like disco duck not so great

[melomood]

Oh no no no no no Funkadelic nay have coexisted but 'brought us'
I may need to investmagate the particles of that mentalismism

[vurt]

I may need to investmagate the particles of that mentalismism

you won't be the first to fail that errand

[melomood]

But disco was 70's and funkadelic formed in 68

[vurt]

But disco was 70's and funkadelic formed in 68

i wasn't formed till much later, so i could easily be wrong

to my mind and how i came to the conclusion i did, funk seemed like a more relaxed version of disco, like they had heard disco and said "that's a bit rigid it don't groove man!" or some such.

obviously, it was more the other way.

"that's groovy man, but let's see a robot do it!" or some such.

either way, my real point was maggot brain is f**king awesome!

[melomood]

Well the last bit is fact

[vurt]

Well the last bit is fact

there really wasn't much racism in music here as such at least in my lifetime, the charts were filled with black artists and clubs had no restrictions on black artists or patrons
im sure there were some issues, but none like herbie hancock not being allowed in his own video on mtv or anything like that, that i know of?

as i said earlier, genre wise, rock despite being from blues, never really attracted a huge black audience or lots of black artists, but eg thin lizzy, no one cared so much phil was black.

i do however, remember one incident, when i was purchasing a living color album, and the salesmen asked "you do know they're a black band?"
being around 12 13 at the time, i wasn't very confident so probably replied "i just like the song on the radio " and ran off crying.

[melomood]

I once had a school mate try to warn me that I was listening to third world music if I liked the Talking Heads and Peter Gabriel
He was genuinely concerned and disturbed that I laughed at him for being genuinely concerned

[melomood]

To me, the Beatles were the best band in the 60's. They defined the decade. Floyd, imo, was the best band in the 70's. That is, of course, my opinion. I have a hard time coming up with a band in the 70's that were as creative and innovative.

That's because you don't have to be a band to be Brian Eno,or Todd Rundgren

[melomood]

Or even a Frank Zappa for that matter

[vurt]

can - saw delight

[kritikon]

As i said earlier, genre wise, rock despite being from blues, never really attracted a huge black audience or lots of black artists, but eg thin lizzy, no one cared so much phil was black.

In the UK, Bob was around so 'nuff said. The black influence there was absolutely Caribbean/Jamaican. For me Bob has to be up there in terms of top 70s influences alongside Bowie who did a lot of his best stuff firmly in the 70s before he went all bleached blond and commercial. Bowie tried a bit of funk and god bless him, even he couldn't make it sexy - nobody can. There was loads of prog shite, but that doesn't really count...wanking on a guitar isn't music, everyone knows that.