Id posit that a lot of its success is because a lot of this most current generation hasnt even heard a 70s song. I remember listening to these and the early 80s songs every morning for years as i was driven to school in my mums VW Beetle... ;) Good music is good. But all this creative freedom was constrained by technology. The early 70s saw the transition from 4-track, through 8-track, and eventually up to 16-track recording, so artists could not overdub instruments indefinitely. Synthesisers could only play one note at a time. Digital sampling had not yet been invented, the earliest sequencers could play only a few notes, and drum machines were limited to preset rhythms. So almost every part of the arrangement was played live by humans in real time. This is important because it shows how different playing music in a band is to editing music on a screen. In a 1970s studio, if a musician made a mistake there were only two options – re-record the part, or leave it in. And studio time was expensive, so everyone had an incentive to get it right. These conditions drove strong musicianship, intensive rehearsal and (thanks to the large industry markup on retail vinyl) big rewards for those songwriters, vocalists, producers and instrumentalists who could produce great sounds within these constraints. theconversation/guardians-of-the-galaxy-why-1970s-pop-produces-awesome-mixtapes-30804
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:51:52 +0000
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