Comments on: The Seventies https://www.preservationsound.com/the-seventies/ information and ideas about audio history Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:01:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: rrusston https://www.preservationsound.com/the-seventies/#comment-19410 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:01:20 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=4693#comment-19410 Another facet of the Bob Heil story is that as Bob admits, he HATED rock and roll. He was a theater organ enthusiast and regarded rock as the work of the Devil. But he learned to love rock when the touring sound business made him a fortune.

]]> By: Bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/the-seventies/#comment-19234 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:46:07 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=4693#comment-19234 The seventies basically sucked, which was why “Happy Days”, “Grease”, and “American Graffiti” were so iconic. The early seventies had Vietnam, protests of Vietnam, and envirowhackos telling us we were all doomed. The economy sucked through most of the decade. In England it imploded totally, leadiong to howls of “NO FUTURE…AND WE MEAN IT MAN…” Later on you had Jiminy Carter, the hick pious girly-man, Disco, Disco Sucks, on and on and on. Everyone wanted the old America back, which made nostalgia for what was then the recent past a surefire winner. Reagan, despite his faults, won by a big, big landslide and there were those who were surprised, showing some people just don’t pay attention.

Now, we have Mad Men…..history has its recurring motifs.

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