No mention of Led Zeppelin? Beginning the year with Led Zeppelin II still at #1 and then another #1 later in the year with the release of Led Zeppelin III, plus headlining the Bath Festival in summer, influencing the foundation of the Glastonbury Festival, ie being a massive influence on British rock shows. Moreso than the Isle of Wight festival was.
The Isle of Wight festival in Aug 1970 is forgotten today for many reasons. Yet the crowd and sound was much bigger than Woodstock and the acts were just as impressive especially Jimi playing his last performance in England.
Yup - the metaphor was utterly lost on the clown that posted this. Or worse still - thought the all but in your face political commentary is STILL too radioactive to touch 50 plus years later.
Should an LP released in July 1970 that topped the Billboard charts for 7 weeks and had many hit singles on it, qualify for a mention? That's Cosmos Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival but maybe they are not cool enough but were certainly good enough.
I think it would have been worth mentioning the all four Beatles All put out solo albums in 1970 I don't know if you're implying that briefly but I felt like it was overlooked
@@johnwilliamson3981 The Hall of Fame is something without integrity. Paradoxically some artist still in the end after saying what I say let themselves be invited because for some reason many, esp. in USA then notice whats been ingnored for decades...... And maybe then finally they listen to it again or for the first time. Unfortunately they , the artists, then have to perform THE hit which is/was never representative of what they produced.
I am just glad that the guy who made this video did say at the end of it " 1970 from my prospective"-in other words-" in his opinion". However I am a guy who loves the music from the 70s SO MUCH that I know a lot about it. So I want to add some things and set the record straight on things that this video just got wrong. 1. Simon and Garfunkel's BOTW album- I am glad an important musician was mentioned - his name was Larry Knechtel. Without him, the album may have never happened. A keyboard player for the band Bread.This guy was so talented that even though he had only picked up a guitar twice in his life, he played the lead guitar on the song " Guitar Man" by Bread. Larry actually wrote the piano arrangement on the song Bridge over Troubled Water. Its another case of a person who should have got credit for helping writing the song - but he did not. CSNY Deja Vu- I disagree with the opinion that Neil Young did not contribute a lot to that album...In many people opinion - including mine and CSN themselves the bets song on the album was a Neil Young song- Country Girl. Regarding The Beatles "Let it be" album the maker of this video said " it was a strange album for sure" I could not disagree more....The Beatles gave themselves 14 days to write, record and play live around a dozen new songs....Not only did they do it, but some of those songs remain classics to this day. Jimi Hendrix- Jimi drowned in his own Vomit- and the fact is if the stupid ambulance drivers had sat him up or laid him on his stomach, the way they were suppose to do- he may still be alive today. Instead they laid him on his back - jumped in the front seat and forgot about him till they found him DOA. Agree that Leslie West was a great guitar player-check out the album by Mountain called Nantucket Sleigh-ride. I just can not believe with ALL of GREAT music from the 70's the author of this video talks about the Stooges and even Black Sabbath....ugggh. Actually there would not be enough time to talk about.... Led Zepplin / Lynyrd Skynyrd/ The Eagles/ The Doobie Brothers /The Rolling Stones/ Heart / Yes / Jethro Tull / The James Gang / The Steve Miller Band / Wings / Deep Purple / Elton John / The Band / Moody Blue's / ELO / Journey / The J-Geils Band /John Cougar / Brian Adams / Emerson, Lake and Palmer / David Bowie / Santana / Styx / The Little River Band.....any of these bands I would have gone a seen ( and I did) before I would the Stooges.....
Thanks for your comment! Yeah, all of my videos in this series are definitely my own opinion. But I also learn a lot when I do these. It's like an open school when it comes to 70s rock. BUT, if I didn't talk about your favorite band, check the next year and you might see them! Because I honestly don't like repeating a lot. 😀
And also, it could be argued that the Stooges set the stage for 70s punk. Which, to be honest, was HIGHLY influential for a LOT of 80s music. All the hair bands, the ONLY thing they were doing was blending punk rock with 70s glam... that whole decade was ruled by those dudes.
Although technically, In The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson came out in October 1969 and the group Jefferson Airplane, who were beginning to move to the concept of Jefferson Starship I believe are worth a mention here. Of course I was born in 1955 and grew up right in the area of all of this, and did my fair share of psychedelics, etc. Peace.
Born in 1955 on June 22 I turned 69. I grew up in Allentown Pennsylvania, but now I’m a retired licensed psychologist in Washington state. It was the perfect time for us to appreciate this music. Peace.
By 1970 we got together and had our own Woodstock with a cassette player playing Woodstock, Cosmos Factory, Abby Road and more. Passing a community joint around a beach campfire and also a big bottle of Span'ada (Span-ya-da)fruity wine.
Wow. Didn’t know it was that bad Jamel. I’ve resisted going over to Patreon but now I believe I will! As far as RU-vid goes, I’m sick to death of all the commercials….especially political ones on the left. Getting in my car and driving over to Patreon now. Thanks!
Keeping Spinal Tap out of it, it’s pretty obvious that Jimi Hendrix died from choaking in his own womit. The sheer thought of choaking in someone elses womit isn’t a nice image!
I will always feel blessed to have turned 16 in 1970. I figure that's when I really began growing up and grew up all through the 70s and early 80s. The best time to have grown up. Cars were hot and ladies were fast, music was amazing and loud, drugs were good and the time seemed right for it all, I learned a trade and made good money and also worked on a part time as needed basis for a production company called Factory Productions. I worked with allot of musicians, singers, and bands before they hit the big time. I know the 50s, and 60s were good times too, but I was a baby booming 70s wild child and enjoyed life to the fullest extent.
Very enjoyable video, thank you . I watched 71 first as i stumbled across it but am now up to date. The names and events that took place in the year are really legendary and bring back so many memories of that time . Keep it up, looking forward to 72 .
Make that 60s & 70s. The 80s were a terrible decade for popular culture in general, and music was no exception. There was some good music made, but you had to go underground to find most of it. Husker Du, DKs, X, for example - but I never, not even once, heard them on the radio except for college stations, which are one of the sources that I'm referring to as underground. And none of them were in the same league as dozens of acts from the 60s & 70s.
@@JamesThompson-zk1ht Completely disagree !!! The 1980s was a GREAT decade and GREAT music . The world saw a ten fold improvement in everyone's lives ! The USSR ended and socialism and communism and racism were all but forgotten stupid old ideas. And there was plenty of Great music being made ! And now classic acts being born ! Husker Du ? What about U2, The Police, The Cars, The Clash, Talking Heads and Rush never heard of them? All were college radio stars first and huge in the 80s ! How about Judas Preist and Iron Maiden? Or Madonna and Michael Jackson ? And no decade saw more obscure under the radar bands like Husker Du able to tour and have careers than the 1980s ! MTV and VH1 were college radio on steroids when it came to introducing new music to the world ! Having lived from the early 1960s I know the 1980s was a peak of Humanity ! The darkness and lack of optimism of the 1970s came back with a vengeance in the 1990s ! And has grown terminal here in the early 21st century .
69,70 . My first year in high school ... you could feel the vibrations in the air ...great year... Layla was written by Rita Coolidge..btw..😢the Domino's drummer lived downstairs from Coolidge...
@@jamesmack3314 Along with Hal Blaine and Jim Keltner - Gordon was among the most recorded session drummers of all time. IMHO, his relentless splashing cymbal work on 'Why Does Love Got To Be...' on Derek - In Concert remains one of the greatest live performances ever committed to tape.
@@chriscoughlin9289 yes Jim Gordon was fantastic on drums and I agree on his playing with Derek and the dominoes is great especially on the live stuff. He also played on things like Riki don’t lose that number of all things and you’re so vain. I’m looking forward to reading his book that just came out called drums and demons I think by Joel Selvin
@jamesmack3314 I’ll be sure to look for that release. Although - fair warning. I have 45 years worth of concert going under my belt in the Bay Area, and Mr Selvin has a well deserved reputation for phoning in his live reviews. I appreciated his bio on Ricky Nelson though - another somewhat overlooked figure in the history of what’s come to be called Americana/Roots music today.
@@chriscoughlin9289 well I’m not so sure about his live reviews. I don’t think he does that too much anymore but his writing is always very entertaining and he knows a lot about the whole San Francisco music scene especially the Haight Asbury late 60s thing.Dead,Airplane,Janis etc….
This was the year I was born, so I'm going to watch this video with keen interest. I am already aware that was the year we lost Jimi and Janis, but I didn't realise the Beatles disbanded in 1970, or at least Paul McCartney left the band, which I guess is basically the same thing.
@@aviewfromthestage Just a small error that I'll mention, then you can decide if its worth the trouble to fix. In this sentence: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0siTCNcAJFg.html, you have used the word "understated", whereas the word needed to emphasise the magnitude of Black Sabbath's contribution is "overstated".
@@1970Phoenix I agree with you wholeheartedly in the long term.. but on their first album, at the time, they were thought of as a novelty act. It wasn't until 1971.. and the Masters of Reality that they really staked their claim :) Do you agree?
@@aviewfromthestage I'm sorry, I wasn't clear enough in my reply to you. In your voice over, you are making the point that Black Sabbath did indeed make a huge contribution to the music industry, at least in the long term. But you misspoke and used the wrong word. The word you needed to use in your sentence to convey that meaning was the word "overstated". If something can't be overstated, that is because it is really large (in whatever quality is being described). e.g. Michael Jordan's ability to dominate a basketball game can't be overstated. It is actually extremely easy to understate someone's contribution if their contribution was very large. e.g. "Michael Jordan was an average basketball player" understates his ability. But to your actual question, because I was born in 1970, my knowledge of 1970s music is all second hand. It wasn't until the early-mid 1980s I started taking an active interest in bands. That is when I first started to develop my love of classic metal, especially NWOBHM (Maiden, Priest), but also Thrash (Slayer, Testament, Anthrax, Megadeth). I guess that's why I'm such a LOVEBITES fan - they play the classic 80s and 90s metal sound I love. So, I don't really have a great knowledge of Black Sabbath's catalogue. Last night, I listened to Black Sabbath's debut album, and to be honest, I didn't love it. It just sounds messy and confused to me, and I've never been a fan of Ozzy's singing. But I will make the effort to listen to some of their other albums to see if my opinion changes.
@1970Phoenix i was born in 79... so I get where you're coming from. Yeah... Master of Reality is GREAT if you like that sludge/doom rock kinda thing. If for no other reason than Sweet Leaf. Is it about weed? You bet. Is it a rad song? Definitely. Also probably their "heaviest" song is off of that album in Children of the Grave. An absolute thrasher with long term effects for the metal world at large.
Wow! What memories! And lapses of memories, due to the undeniable influence of marijuana, psychedelic drugs, speed, downers, and of course, the wickedest drug of all - that mean ol' alcohol. I was in the Air Force and spent the entire year in Vung Tao and Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. I turned 21 in Saigon without celebration, in a hospital recovering from dysentary and a kidney ailment. My time over there was probably less stressful than 90% of all the Americans there. I had a group of friends who drank and another group of friends who smoked weed and surfed. I actually managed to stand up on a board for a short ride. The "head" shop on the base sold everything you would need to get high except for the weed itself. I even bought a poster for the very first Earth Day. On my last day "in country", I heard the voice of a kid I had known in grade school call out my name, and we chatted for a few minutes before catching the bus to the airstrip for my flight back home. RIP to our fallen patriots, and thank you Lord, for keeping me safe. God Bless our American service men and women, and God Bless America.
First of all, thank you for your service. I hate that you folks (and pretty much EVERY Vietnam Vet) were treated like absolute garbage. You guys were just doing your duty. But second of all, I LOVE that you survived and you're STILL here to relive all of those memories. Take care dude!
There was only one CSN&Y album. It was not “their second album.” First you had Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Then Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Aren’t you supposed to know these things?
The album sells on Black Sabbaths first record were slow. The bands second album 'paranoid' title track was top ten billboard hit single. When record companies began taking notice (photos). They didn't like black Sabbath. They sent Security to venues black Sabbath was playing. Backstage in dressing room watching the band under surveillance. Drummer Bill Ward said felt like he couldn't get dressed, it was ridiculous. We knew because the people at record companies hated us.They wanted to bust us for drugs whatever they could find, trying to get rid of us. Black Sabbath from Birmingham England Industrial working area also had gangs. Toni iommie was into boxing and guitar. According to people controlling music business ,Black Sabbath didn't belong on billboard charts. When you look at pictures today it's no big deal. Back then people thought they were ugly didn't smile. But black Sabbath music is NOT happy
I don't know why but I never liked Janice Joplin at all. There was nothing about her that I cared for and even to this day. But that's just me. But I love primarily all of the music from the 60s and early 70s. That "psychedelic" era. But there was something about Janice Joplin that I merely could not stand. But one of my all time favorite female singers form the 60s/70s was Grace Slick. Great singer and a good looking woman back then.
I sickens me to hear the narrator parrot the story about Jimi Hendrix's death, which was obviously murder. His shirt was covered in red wine, his lungs - but not stomach, were full of wine. He vomited the sleeping pills from having wine poured down his throat while being held-down, he may have chocked on it, but it was the result of murder. Michael Jeffries, who produced Hendrix, knew he was about to be fired, and therefore would lose future royalties when Jimi was currently exploding in popularity. By having Hendrix murdered Jeffries not only kept his future royalties, but all the recorded music suddenly became much more valuable as it started selling-out as his death made him even more popular. The secrets services didn't like Hendrix being associated with black panthers, and especially his anti-war stance, so they had reasons for wanting him dead too. Michael Jeffries was associated with both the secret services and organized crime, so he had the means to get the murder accomplished. Unfortunately for him, Jeffries died in a plane crash within a year, and most of the parasites that clung to Hendrix also met untimely deaths within a year. It can never be proven, but clearly Jimi Hendrix was clearly murdered, the wine on his shirt, in his lungs, but not in his stomach or blood are all tells.
Love what you’re doing! But just like the French keep the best wines for themselves, we Canadians have done the same with our bands - are you familiar with our national band (who’s lead singer Gord Downie was our poet laureate) The Tragically Hip?
Yep... and from what I hear... it's not the bands themselves. It's greed. I mean, all of these songs are at least 50 years old!!! But, at the same time, I get it. If I was ancient like some of these people are (or worse)... I would want the payday too.
@@aviewfromthestage You're right, it's sheer greed. I just watched the latest podcast by Rick Beato, where he explains that 90% of songwriters earn less than $10,000 per year in royalties, only 10% earn more than $30,000. So it's the streaming platforms that pay only pennies per stream, plus the record corporations who will often pay lump sums to buy artist catalogues (admittedly in the millions for artists like The Beatles and Michael Jackson) which they then control all the rights to, and can then charge exorbitant licensing fees to people like yourself. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1AkzyrB0Seo.html
@@aviewfromthestage I really hope you'll do documentaries on 1972, 1973 and 1974, all incredible years for classic rock. If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend David Hepworth's book, "1971: Never a Dull Moment," which adds many other artists to the ones you covered; and Andrew Grant Jackson's "1973: Rock at the Crossroads," though I don't necessarily agree with his premise. For me when things started to slide downhill was around 1975-77 with disco and punk.
@@seanarthurjoyce7366 Oh, I am! Doing every year up until 2000. For me rock loses something at that point. Autotune ruined real rock and roll. It, to quote my favorite movie, "ceases to become 'dangerous' and becomes an industry of cool."
@@aviewfromthestage Great! Look forward to seeing new instalments. Big job ahead for you. Personally I'd be hard pressed to come up with much after about 1990. Grunge didn't impress me.
Remember 1970 as the year of the folk revival. The blown-out psychedelia of the 60s was replaced by mellower laid-back acoustic music as evidenced by CSNY being the thing everybody was copying.
The year rock came alive? Janis died, Jimi died..... 🤔Apart from that, this clip is missing a lot of music that became important for "rock"! And way earlier than 1970. ☹
The Guess Who. Canadians. Yeah, we do know our neighbour well. Also 1970 is the year LITTLE FEAT made their first record. No one mention of that on this pandering video.
Clicbait, just clickbait. Nativity in black a song from Black Sabbath???? From their first album????? Talking about Missisisipi Queen with another piece of background music that’s defenitely not Mississippi Aueen. Yikes!!!!!!
Kind of a lame review, no original music just canned rock music, the commentary off in several instances, Not knowing what "American Woman" was about, common on!
Nigel in Canada🇨🇦 the "commentator" is making up stuff I was there in 1970 half way through this video? I've heard enough "rewriting" history listen to WHAT THE MUSICIANS THEMSELVES SAY not this nonsense
@@St63420 - No joke, sorry. The Guess Who was one of the greatest rock bands of the greatest rock era. BTO was just silly. "Taking Care of Business" and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" are both lame to the nth degree. In my humble opinion.
@jerometaperman7102 Opinions vary. Everyone has one. BTO, the first album was Gold. After that they did more music to please the record companies. It's sad, but it happens to 95%. $$$, business...rule. 😊.
No Led Zeppelin?? The biggest band in the world in the 70s. & you mention Derek and the Domino's rubbish? Good grief. Yes were about then as well. When Rock comes alive - and you feature those that failed or died. Try another go.
dereck and the dominoes was a fantastic band and produced a fantastic album featuring 2 of the greatest guitarists in the world, eric clapton and duane allman.
You just need to listen to the first minute to see that this is not a serious video. The obnoxious narrator is just reading from a script prepared by commercially-indoctrinated people who have obtained all their information second- or even third-hand. Complete waste of time.
