For sure, missed the 60s but man 73-76 was out of control, what a ride. And by the mid 70s a lot of em were getting really good on guitar too.

I think the live music scene is really good right now. I hear about shows on a weekly basiis that I want to see. As for albums good albums are still being made you just need to be exposed to them.

I'm 41 and my 13 year old son told me over the weekend that music from my generation is way better than anything he has to listen to now.

Funny because I felt ( and still feel ) that the music from the late 60s early 70s that many of you got to experience was way better than what I had!

The grass is always greener?

Most of my CD collection must be from the 1966-1975 decade, or by artists who established themselves during that time.

There is a some good music out there these days but a lot of it is derivative from the above period.

The 1980s must be the worst decade for music, in my opinion. I shudder at some of the mediocre stuff I got into, just because it was the best of a bad lot.

If anyone watches "Criminal Minds" there is an early season Episode called the Piano Man Killer. Reed states that he knows how old the killer would be based on the music he played at the scene of the crimes, because the music that impacts us most is when we are hormonally insane teens.

So everyone feels that their time is the best. It's all about what you listened to with a flexible hormonal/brain developing

Doors and ABB for me

With a few modern exceptions, my musical world is also 65-75 a decade straddling decades. Why I get by fine in a mostly analog personal world. Partly it is a "my glory days era" thing, I suppose, since high school was 69-73.... but it was a musical conflux of many great things which won't happen again. Partly where the musicians aimed their arrows IMO..... And an almost cosmic gathering of talents unequalled.

There is tremendous music in every era, but 60s and 70s rockers didn't fair to well in the 80s, mostly. Loads of embarrassing examples in that era. (bands that were founded 1977 or later like REM & U2 made the best music of the 80s, IMO).

I read an interview with Warren before where he pinpointed 1967-1973 as the best 6-7 year run of music ever and I agree. I was born in 1969 so it was before my time, but the music of those specific years is the bedrock of American culture in many ways.

So many alltime classic albums by the Beatles (and their solo stuff), Van Morrison, Allman Bros, Stones, Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, great jazz stuff, Aretha, Hendrix, Elton John, The Band, CCR, Simon & Garfunkel, Clapton across multiple bands, Crosby Still Nash and Young, Temptations, Jackson 5, great Country music, Steely Dan, early Eagles, Jim Croce, early Chicago and an endless list of examples.

I want to add a follow up to my post. I was just thinking more about this subject. Maybe what made that time so special were the players and the bands they had. In the 60s guys were always moving around from one group to another or leaving to start another band. Also to me the players themselves were special. Back in the day, as they say, really good guitar players few and far between. But today really good guitar players are everywhere. They found their heroes and worked and worked until they as good as or better. So the ABB album you waited was because of Duane and Dickey or just Dickey. Or the ELP album because you were keyboard person and so on.
But the music had a lot to do with the times. It seemed that record companies were signing a lot of groups to see if they produced but today I they rather have a Taylor Swift and that is about it. The bands of today do their own thing but I think it is had for them to break out on the Internet. Ten fold in potential marketing but I wonder if it is not like the old record store that don't create the same buzz about someone new.

The era from approximately 65 to 75 was of course the sophomore era of R&R, the second wave after the original proponents of the genre and to me one of the reasons it was so interesting is because artists were starting to "fuse" various styles with one another, i.e. jazz/rock, latin/rock, blues/rock, country/rock, etc. etc. So much of the music still "swung" also....If you go back and listen to the original wave from the 50's, a lot of it had a very distinct swing influence as it directly followed the swing era, so the original rock-n-rollers knew how to make music swing like hell....Even the straight eight/four on the floor grooves had a bit of a dotted-eighth note swing feel. And the second generation picked up on that and was influenced by that feel as well. Progressive bands like the Allmans, early Chicago, BS&T, Zep, lots of soul and R&B and many others made music that "swung" and had a very organic sounding groove and feel. The best bands do. And a LOT of the players from that era were instantly recognizable because their "sound" was so unique and original. As the 70's turned into the 80's and became dominated by drum machines and very strict metronome-like tempos, to me a LOT of that natural, organic, swinging feel got lost and was no longer "cool" among the new generation so to speak. Even a lot of 60's/70's artists who made it into the 80's had to adopt that new approach because that's what sold records. Combine that with waaaay over-polished, over-processed production and compressed as hell audio quality, a lot of the 80's music totally lost that original soul and swing and became robotic and too perfect. And to me even today, most current music just is missing that natural, organic soul and swing that music of the 65-75 era had....I am not saying ALL, but to my ear most of it just doesn't "feel" as good as 65-75.
Again, just IMHO, so feel free to disagree but that's why I love that era so much, because it just feels so good and grooves like hell because it's more human and less processed. It's like listening to your own hearbeat as opposed to listening to a clock. It breathes, it's human.

[Edited on 7/20/2017 by MACONMUSIC]

[Edited on 7/20/2017 by MACONMUSIC]