What were the 80s like?

[SlimTrae]

The 80's sucked in the rock area

Guns'n'Roses? Metallica? Van Halen? ACDC? Foreigner? Queen was still big in the 80's. The last big successes for The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Kinks came in the 1980's.


Oh well, different strokes

Foreigner ?

Waiting for a girl like you (not like U GB..that's the name of the song)
Urgent.
Head games.
Hot blooded.
Feels like the first time.


Oh yeah....I 3rd that Foreigner.

[El Kabong]

Great music in the 80s, but 70s gets my vote for the best decade ever.

See, I'm thinking the 1920's was where it was at...between World Wars, pre-Prohibition (of ALL kinds not just alcohol), some of the greatest artists were still alive (some in their pomp like Picasso), Jazz was at it's peak with BRILLIANT musicians Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, Count Bassie, Coleman Hawkins, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings. You had movies that were just starting to get big, Hollywood was up and coming, and The Great Man W.C. Fields was in his prime!

But then again you had to worry about things like Spanish Flu, Polio, no air conditioning, outhouses in much of the world as opposed to actual bathrooms, no washing machines, no microwaves, no tv, no computers, but some of that ain't all bad.

[ruthless rocco]

"Jazz was at it's peak..." -??

[El Kabong]

"Jazz was at it's peak..." -??

Yes, Louis Armstrong was playing it....absolutely none better than him.

[ruthless rocco]

Did it plateau or peak and drop off after the 20's?

[El Kabong]

Did it plateau or peak and drop off after the 20's?

Like rock'n'roll it just changed and became very different to what it started as...Django Reinhardt was also playing in the 20's and 30's, brilliant guitarist

[ruthless rocco]

When, like rock and roll, and feminism, did jazz begin to get worse?

[SlimTrae]

Great music in the 80s, but 70s gets my vote for the best decade ever.

See, I'm thinking the 1920's was where it was at...between World Wars, pre-Prohibition (of ALL kinds not just alcohol), some of the greatest artists were still alive (some in their pomp like Picasso), Jazz was at it's peak with BRILLIANT musicians Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, Count Bassie, Coleman Hawkins, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings. You had movies that were just starting to get big, Hollywood was up and coming, and The Great Man W.C. Fields was in his prime!

.

Uh...you took music class to another level, so I'd have to re-state my position!! In my life time the 70s was the era.

1920s....their rhythm, pulse: unmatched.their use of scales and modes....mastery.

[El Kabong]

When, like rock and roll, and feminism, did jazz begin to get worse?

There are still people who are good at it and they've had greats since the 20's but the best will always be Satchmo

[ruthless rocco]

So jazz had it's peak in one man over one decade..?
Who was the man of rock?
Who was the man of feminism?

[El Kabong]

So jazz had it's peak in one man over one decade..?
Who was the man of rock?
Who was the man of feminism?

Armstrong played for decades dude.
Elvis, duh.
Um Caitlyn Jenner?

[ruthless rocco]

So Elvis was rock and roll @El Kabong ?

[El Kabong]

So Elvis was rock and roll @El Kabong ?

Yes

[ruthless rocco]

So jazz had it's peak in one man over one decade..?
Who was the man of rock?
Who was the man of feminism?

Armstrong played for decades dude.
Elvis, duh.
Um Caitlyn Jenner?

So you've chosen a white guy who stole rock and roll from the blacks and turned it into a white commodity, Louis Armstrong who was considered by many blacks to have had pandered to the whites to further his career rather than speaking out against injustices, and a man why transitioned into a woman.

Brilliant!

[El Kabong]

So jazz had it's peak in one man over one decade..?
Who was the man of rock?
Who was the man of feminism?

Armstrong played for decades dude.
Elvis, duh.
Um Caitlyn Jenner?

So you've chosen a white guy who stole rock and roll from the blacks and turned it into a white commodity, Louis Armstrong who was considered by many blacks to have had pandered to the whites to further his career rather than speaking out against injustices, and a man why transitioned into a woman.

Brilliant!

Your idiotic opinion on Elvis is yours to have.....by yourself


Louis Armstrong is the greatest jazz musician to have ever set foot on God's green Earth and I don't give a good God damn what anyone else says about him.


Oh you took the "Caitlyn Jenner" mention seriously....maybe you ARE as dumb as I thought