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C O U R S E
History of Rock, 1970-Present
John Covach, University of Rochester
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C O U R S E L E C T U R E Continuity Bands in the 1970s Notes taken on October 6, 2015 by Edward Tanguay |
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bands from who continued what they were doing in the first half of 1970s also in the second half
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The Rolling Stones
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1976 Black and Blue
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"Fools Cry"
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1978 Some Girls
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"Beast of Burden"
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"Miss You"
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became a disco song
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1980 Emotional Rescue
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they outlasted disco and punk
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The Beatles' members
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Paul McCartney
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by far the most commercially successful
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Paul McCartney and Wings
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1974 Band on the Run
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1974 Jet
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1976 Wings at the Speed of Sound
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Silly Love Songs
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1978 London Town
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With a Little Luck
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Ringo Starr
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good first half of the 1970s
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George Harrison
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33 and a third
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John Lennon
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retired
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New York apartment
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raising his son and being a house husband
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1980 Double Fantasy
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murdered in December 1980
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"Just Like Starting Over"
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The Steve Miller Band
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San Francisco group
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like Greatful Dead
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Jefferson Airplane
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1973 The Joker
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1976 Fly Like an Eagle
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Rock 'n' Me
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Take the Money and Run
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The Doobie Brothers
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San Francisco
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two stages of career
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first half of 70s
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Tom Johnston
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1972: Listen to the Music
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1973: Long Train Running
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second half of 70s
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Michael McDonald
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a different sound
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not so much blues but more jazzy like Steely Dan
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1976: Taking it to the Streets
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1979: Minute by Minute
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big #1 album
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Michael McDonald goes onto solo career after that
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Boston
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Tom Scholz
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activist
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degree from MIT
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1976: Boston
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most astoundingly successful debut albums
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elements
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"More than a Feeling"
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mellow guitar
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symphonic, instrumental
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harmony guitars, as if drawn from Brian May of Queen
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big sounding number
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"Foreplay/Long Time"
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similar to Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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organ
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Foreigner
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comparable to Boston
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1977: "Feels like the First Time"
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high synthesizer
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"Cold as Ice"
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hard driving blues rock approach with progressive rock
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Journey
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San Francisco
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Gregg Rolie
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Neal Schon
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emphasis on instrumentals
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Steve Perry
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high voice
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becomes a different band with him
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1978: Infinity
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"Lights"
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"Feeling That Way"
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marketing of Journey and Foreigner was different
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Foreigner was marketed to guys
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Hot Blooded
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Check It and See
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Feels Like the First Time
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not a lot of sensitivity there
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Journey marketed to women
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Steve Perry's job was to emote a kind of sensitivity
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so you would never find Foreigner doing a song like lovin', touchin' squeezin'
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but from Steve Perry somehow it seemed entirely natural
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Cheap Trick
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Rockford, Illinois
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Rick Neilsen
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Robin Zander, nice voice
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first big album was a live album
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like Kiss and Peter Frampton
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1979: Cheap Trick at Budokan
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"I Want You to Want Me"
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went to #7
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went to work with George Martin from the Beatles
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Van Halen
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arises in this context in the end of the 1970s
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1978 Van Halen
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blues driven rock with David Lee Roth with a certain amount of charisma that you didn't find in a lot of other groups
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"Runnin' with the Devil"
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people tend to focus on the guitars
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but these were great pop tunes with a catchy voice, a pop sensibility
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a radio friendliness which enabled it to get played over and over