60's groups/singers

[colly]

Following the 'best Stones/ Beatles tracks' threads
I begun to play some old stuff from ages ago and wondered why there were so many really great bands, musicians and singers who all seemed to arrive in a rush.

Quite apart from bands like The Beatles and the Stones it was the time of such brilliant bands as Spencer Davis, The Animals, Small Faces, Kinks, Yardbirds, Traffic, Pink Floyd, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Manfred Mann, Fleetwood Mac etc etc

Also some were a class apart: Stevie Winwood, Eric Burden, Steve Marriott, Alan Price, Hendrix, Dylan, Cohen and so on and so on.

There are so many more as well.

Listening to some Spencer Davis songs with Winwood cracking it out makes the hair on the back of your neck stand on end. Fantastic voice.

Even more than that, all these big names could be seen live somewhere local.
Ok maybe not The Beatles or Stones once they hit the big time but I remember seeing the likes of Cream, The Herd, Fairport Convention, Fleetwood Mac, and even The Who at places so close I would walk there.
Having said that I did see The Stones live at Richmond Castle Ballroom before they made it really big. They were a support band and were so good the crowd kept calling for them to come back on.

The sad thing about it is at the time I didn't realise just how lucky I was to be there.

It was like ...........'Oh yeah who it is this week ? The Hollies............nah I'm off to so and so's house instead'.

Why so many arriving over such a short time?

 

[nigelnorris]

Pretty much everyone says that about whichever decade they lived their teens or twenties in.

Except the 1980s, which was mostly rubbish how ever old you were.

I would guess that the forum attention to the 1960s would hint that there are a disproportionate amount of people in their fifties posting here.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I think Colly has a point. If you compare the quality of the number 1 singles from 60s through the 70s, 80s, 90s and now, it's pretty much down hill. The 90s was better than the 80s IMO. A lot of the 70s was pretty poor too, though it picked up towards the end of the decade. Is it my imagination or is music 5h1t3 now? I was listening to Nillson and Badfinger on YouTube this afternoon. I'd never heard of them before (although I'd heard Nillson's singing), but they were good too. I wonder if there's a Peak Music like there is Peak Oil when it gets harder and harder to find good tunes.

 

[nigelnorris]

There's nothing new. Even in the 1960s organisations like Motown were churning out conveyor belt lowest-common-denominator tunes solely made for the purpose of getting onto jukeboxes and putting cash in the tills. Back then they paid buttons to get the songs written and performed as quickly as possible, I think it's ironic that today's groups get even more economy by just covering those songs and not paying any writers fees. It's all just one big circle.

 

[Wolf04]

Pretty much everyone says that about whichever decade they lived their teens or twenties in.

Except the 1980s, which was mostly rubbish how ever old you were.

I would guess that the forum attention to the 1960s would hint that there are a disproportionate amount of people in their fifties posting here.

Probably true but the sixties had so much more creativity and an innocence which allowed events such as the summer of love and flower power to happen. It all went pear shaped of course.
By the way I'm not disproportionate, just a bit wider around the middle these days.