This should be a great video as it was 53 years ago today 1971, that I was at a music festival featuring Black Sabbath, Three Dog Night, Yes, Joe Cocker, The Guess Who & a few others for the ticket price of $5.50 at the door (advanced tickets $4.00). What a time to be alive. I may be old but I have great memories of amazing music. Thanks for sharing this!
I'm 65. I'm SOOOO happy I grew up with all of this music. My kids like Classic Rock, but they don't understand the whole story. Just like I don't understand a lot of the new Artists or music. But, mine was better and I'm sticking with it.
Same here with my two kids, weened them on classic Rock. Being born in '61, my teenage years like yours spanned the 70s which was a great time to grow up, riding the cutting edge of a genre of music we now call classic rock that OUR parents couldn't turn us onto.
@markgigiel2722, will be 65 next spring. I’ve got a comfortable nest egg, but sure hate to lose my company insurance. I’m told I need to “crush it” with Medicare, whatever that means. 🤣 I gotta start researching. anyway, all off topic, so to the point, yes, we grew up with awesome tunes.
The GREATEST year in rock and roll deserves a lot more than 22 minutes...Sticky Fingers, The Yes Album, Aqualung, ELO and Nazareth's debuts, Meddle, to name but a few
Not to mention Pink Floyd's Meddle, Elton John's Madman Across the Water, Booker T's Melting Pot, ELP's Tarkus, Cat Steven's Teaser & the Firecat, Bill Withers Just as I Am, Genesis Nursery Cryme..1971 was a BANNER year for great music.
The first time I ever got high, I was 12 years old (1972), and listened to Zeppelin IV in my friend's basement. Life was never going to be the same! Great video, thanks!
Same here 12-18-59.same birthday as Kieth Richards. But I got high the first time that yr myself,seen led Zeppelin five yrs later "77" and your right life was Awesome in the 70s for sure☮️
I was 10 years old in 1971.. I can remember my father coming home and he always had the radio on hey put this station on w bcn.there. is it good tune playing.. and then I remember coming home and saying Jimi Hendrix is dead and Dwayne Allman Janice.. my father loved the music and my mother too.. God bless all these rock and rollers that passed and God bless my mom and dad amen
It is amazing how so many of the albums from 1971 are considered the best or the absolute best work by many of the best artists of the era. I have more albums from 1971 in my record collection than any other year. I don't think that's a coincidence. You really hardly touched the great albums from that year so, let me help. Carol King, Tapestry; Rod Stewart, Every Picture Tells a Story & A Nod Is As Good As A Wink (rod with The Faces; Stones, Sticky Fingers; Yes, The Yes Album & Fragile; Joni Mitchell, Blue; Jethro Tull, Aqualung; David Bowie, Hunky Dory; Elton John, Madman Across the Water; T-Rex, Electric Warrior; Chicago III; Mountain, Nantucket Sleighride; Nilsson, Nilsson Shmilsson; Paul & Linda McCartney, Ram; Moody Blues, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor; Hollies, Distant Light; J Geils Band, The Morning After; John Prine, John Prine; Sly & The Family Stone, There's A Riot Going On; Alice Cooper, Love It To Death & Killer; Traffic, Low Spark Of High Healed Boys; Badfinger, Straight Up...along with the albums mentioned in the video. I'm sure I missed a couple but the list of great albums is almost overwhelming
I turned 13 in September of 1971 and can say i am great full to the almighty that i have been alive to witness these times. If i could pick on my owe what era i would like to be born in it would definitely be the time i was born to see what music came from and what it has become now. Im 65 years old now and i can say from experience that music today SUX!!!!!
Not being a smartarse or a pedant but 'Machine Head' recording started in December '71 but was released on March 30th 1972 (in the UK, not sure about the States). Ian Gillan wrote the lyrics, Blackmore wrote the riff, which interestingly is remarkably similar to that of The Stooges 'Loose' off 'Funhouse' released in 1970......the plot thickens! As you Yanks would say 'Go Figure'.
I was working the gate for a Deep Purple show in Allentown Pennsylvania when the band pulled up in a Ford station wagon of all things and asked where they were supposed to go. I told him move over and I climbed in and got to ride with them to the backstage. it was pretty cool.
I loved 1971 but 72 had im 18 by Alice turned 18 had a great 18th birthday party with songs that still play today.life is short my friends enjoy every day of it I have as I turn 70 next Month.And thanks for this look back into my rock n roll life great show sir
There was so MUCH more great music from this seminal year in rock that you could easily do a second video, 1971 Redux. Such amazing music such as Carol King's Tapestry album, Don McLean’s “American Pie,” , Sly Stone’s “Family Affair,”, Joni Mitchell’s “Blue,” the Rolling Stone's album "Sticky Fingers", Elton John's "Madman Across the Water" album, Jethro Tull's "Aqualung", Cat Stevens' Teaser and the Firecat" album, The Yes Album" and many others.
My wife and I weren’t married then but we saw the Allman Brothers in Troy NY RPI field house. With J Giels band backing them up. It was in January of 1971. Duane was still alive then. The best concert ever. We have been married 49 years.
I’m a little disappointed that Jethro Tull, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, spirit, and 10 years after we’re not mentioned in this episode. They were all highly influential in 1971. Still the episode was entertaining. Peace.
Indeed, I saw Jethro Tull on the aqualung tour along with spirit at the Philadelphia spectrum in 1971 enhanced by red Lebanese, hashish and orange sunshine. Peace.
I was in 7th grade and my friend's dad was the program director at the local FM station. We were listening to the best hard rock music because his dad gave him all of the free promo records from the radio station that were too heavy for airplay! I can't help it if I'm lucky..
When I heard the guitar riff that starts the video, it was "Stonesy" to my ears. I was certain the Rolling stones "Sticky Fingers" would be discussed. I honestly was surprised when it wasn't. This is a monumental album from a monumental band. At about the time of the release of "Sticky Fingers" in 1971, the Stones exiled themselves to France to begin work on their seminal "Exile on Main Street" album released in 1972. Of course, the stories from Keith Richards' villa in France in 1971 are tales of legends. 1971 was the first full year without the Beatles, and of their 1960's contemporaries (those bands who spanned most of the Beatles years of existence but made it into the 1970's), you essentially had the Stones, the Who, the Moody Blues, the Kinks, some others I may be forgetting, but the Stones would go on to contribute enormously in defining 70's rock both in the studio and on tour as much as any other 70's band, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, etc... . Sticky Fingers is the beginning of the total 70's breakout of the Rolling Stones. Finally, you didn't mention this in your discussion of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water", but it has a connection to the Stones: The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, which the Stones themselves used at Keith's villa in France in 1971, was also used by Deep Purple for recording "Smoke on the Water" and the entire "Machine Head" album. Deep Purple thought enough of it to include it in the lyrics of "Smoke on the Water". The mobile studio was an incredible innovation at the time, and wound up being used by a number of top bands (The Who, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin). The story of this mobile studio deserves a video of its own. I truly appreciate what you've put together in your video, no disagreement with any of it, with lots of great facts, and yes, you'll never have a list that will satisfy everyone, but omitting the 1971 Stones like they didn't exist is a glaring oversight. I will say the following with respect, but very emphatically: No history-telling of rock music from this period, if it is to be taken seriously, can simply ignore the Rolling Stones. It's not possible.
I should have added in my discussion above: "Sticky Fingers" is the first Rolling Stones album to feature the famous tongue and lips logo which, I think we can acknowledge, is the most instantly recognizable, and enduring, rock logo on the planet, no lettering to identify it, but everyone knows it's the Stones. In 1971, the tongue logo was part of the Stones affirmation to taking control of their music and being in charge of the product they put out, simply setting up a new business structure for themselves. The logo is part of the greatness of "Sticky Fingers" (along with its music, of course) and since then has embedded itself in Rolling Stones lore.
Great info, very cool. I thought that The Stones would get a mention, too. I couldn't remember if it was Stucky Fingers or Let it Bleed for '71. Both albums kick ass though! Mick Taylor tears it up. And you're right about the logo. 👍
what a truly great video, it moved me, i was 13 at the time and inspires me to listen to All the records you list. There are many i know, but still ... thank you for te passion with which you prrsnted this year
Good stuff. I was 10. I remember it from a kids perspective. I saw Chicago with my parents that year. It seems like it was a very transformative year for music.
Man, you missed a whack of great music from '71...Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story, Bowie's Hunky Dory, TRex's Electric Warrior, Stones Sticky Fingers, Traffic's The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, The Yes Album, Carole King Tapestry, Joni Mitchell Blue, Alice Cooper Killer, Jethro Tull Aqualung, Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey, Nilson Schmillson, Faces A Nod is as good as a Wink to a Blind Horse...I was 17 in 1971 and all these albums were as important as the ones you mention in your video.
While every single one of those albums is huge in it's own right (Yes's Fragile being my favorite of the albums you listed) "I" personally don't think they have the same maximum longevity of MANY of the other albums I listed. That's not to say that they aren't BRILLIANT, I just feel like the albums I put on here are legendary records. Are they the best records out there? That could be argued. But their sticking power isn't anywhere close to the albums I listed. (I goofed up on not including the Rolling Stones... because even though I don't particularly care for them, there is NO denying that Sticky Fingers isn't an INCREDIBLY monumental album.)
I left a comment adding to the list as well I think the more we think about it the more we can expand the list and as far as staying power, I think that’s a matter of taste and personal opinion peace.
I also hope that this mentioned LA Wiman, Zep#4, and Who's Next because not mentioning Sticky Fingers and the tragedies of Duane Allman and Misadventures of the LA Poet Cowboy James Douglas Morrison both had different paths to their own mortality in 1971. Singer songwriter movement takes off with solo artists like Cat Stevens James Taylor Jackson Brown Carol King, and the mellow LA sounds coming from the Troubadour is those new kids in town, The Eagles
You're in luck... because I mentioned almost ALL of those things in this video! Only thing I DIDNT include was Sticky Fingers. I probably should pay more attention to the Rolling Stones...
This really resonates with me. I was born in august 1956. So I was soaking up musical influences like a sponge. Just lucked out that it was probably the most fertile era for classic rock and roll.
I turned 12 in june that year and talk about starting to come alive into almost a teenagers years was a fantastic feeling along w/ discovering music beyond the radio and The Beatles was "electrifying!" I hit the jackpot for teenage years music and sports-wise that decade. By the time I was 15 I'd seen Zep, Floyd, Skynyrd, BOC and Johnny Winter,etc., multiple times in NYC. Took the train/Subway to the Garden/Academy of Music, BEACON Theatre w/my Girlfriend in the midst of SON of SAM's Reign of terror.... whew. NITE ALL.
@@aviewfromthestage ya know the wildest thing - in the midst of the worst crime ever in NYC, I took the Subway hundreds of times/even w/ my GF and NEVER had a single problem... except one night Got off wrong Stop/Harlem and the COP told me to get outta town ASAP! true. Met Lou Reed and The Ramones outside Max's Kansas City on same night,,, same thing w/ Blue Oyster Cult/outside a bar on a friday night in the Bronx getting pizza..yes, WILD and FUN to say the least.
@bishlap I had a similar experience in Compton.. in the 90s... where a cop stopped me and the girl I was with and said, you guys are in the WRONG section... lol.
@@aviewfromthestage LoL Wasn't a big deal to me/us at the time, but looking back now/and when I tell people this they get all excited -I took it for granted. OH, BTW, Max's drinks were watered down liquor - drink 10 shots and not get bent!! PEACE MY MAN!
71 was a very good year for music. It wasn’t confined to one genre. You might hear a country song followed by a folk song followed by a rock song on the radio. The only criteria was it had to be a good song. This resulted in everyone being aware of the same songs at the same time.
1971 is easily my favorite rock year. Lots of great albums covered, but here's some more great 1971 albums not in the video : Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Jethro Tull - Aqualung Deep Purple - Fireball Pink Floyd - Meddle Yes - The Yes Album Yes - Fragile Elton John - Madman Across The Water Uriah Heep - Salisbury Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus Genesis - Nursery Cryme Mountain - Flowers Of Evil Alice Cooper - Love It To Death Alice Cooper - Killer David Bowie - Hunky Dory
You can not not include Aqualung by Jethro Tull, come on! But it's not just rock's best year, Joni Mitchell: Blue, Carole King: Tapestry and Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces Of A Man also came out this year.
I saw Jethro told do the aqualung tour with the group spirit opening for them at the Philadelphia spectrum in 1971 and I was flying on orange sunshine. Peace.
Great Video on a Great Year In Rock 🎸......BUT! You started this video with a photo of George Harrison performing at The Concert for Bangladesh. Harrison and Ravi Shankar put together two shows at MSG in NYC on the same night. This turned out to be the very first Benefit Concert in Rock. And what a concert(I was there for the second show) What a concert indeed!!! Besides Harrison and Shankar an All-Star Who's Who's so to speak of musicians at the time. Clapton, Ringo, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Jessie Ed Davis, Klaus Voormann, Badfinger and the return of Bob Dylan. You started out with a tribute to Joplin who died 16 days after Hendrix in 1970. A mention of the Concert for Bangladesh was in order, given you used Harrison's concert photo to start this great video. 🎸✌️🙏
“Meddle” by Pink Floyd was never mentioned. It was the band’s second top ten album after having “Atom Heart Mother”become the first number one album that they had in any country…Come on!”One of These Days?””Fearless?””Echoes?”How can you go wrong?Simply one of the precursors to “Dark Side of the Moon!!!”
Absolutely loved that album and traveled 100 miles to see them perform their new record 2 weeks after its release. They opened with Echoes & CWTAE and a few other classics..took a break , then played DSOTM in its entirety. "WOW!" Encore- "One of these Days". Other worldly concert
... i was recently taking a break from recording "old hippies anonymous" tracks at the hyde street studios complex in san francisco -- fka wally heider's -- when i noted the cover of croz's "remember my name" album on the wall ... "laughing" had always been my favorite cut from that disc ... to discover he'd recorded that album (and "deja vu") there brought me full circle ... a satori moment indeed ...
As other commenters have mentioned, you missed a lot from '71 (my favorite being Yes) but had all worthy artists been included, this video would have been over an hour rather than 22 minutes. Still, some great photos and footage.
In a perfect world ! It would be. Awesome thing if they could have turned the Fillmore east into still a live place for bands / but also a museum ! ⚡️space ace Ron⚡️
The culmination of a Renaissance, '71 and '72, the year I graduated high school...a tremendous period when the counter-culture was an anaesthetic pyramid of major rock and roll's musicianship and poetry of maturity.
True story my arse, Roger Glover was the inspiration and originator of Smoke on the Water, Gillan supported the writing of, to my best of knowledge. Master of Reality was the album that opened the door to a young teenager, I did not know that such a sound existed. In Rock was just a tad too sophisticated for me at the time... but that did not last long !! :)
Well, upon further review as great as Fillmore East is I’m partial to the live album that came out a few years later- wipe the windows check the oil dollar gas, which is an incredible recording of their 1973 tour. I dare say the version of Elizabeth Reed on that is better than Fillmore plus it got killer versions of can’t lose what you never had, come and go blues and probably the best version of Ramblin man
1971 was my favorite for music. My three favorite songs all came from that year: Mercy Mercy Me (Marvin Gaye), Layla (Derek & the Dominos) and If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot). Unfortunately, Gaye and Lightfoot are both dead but Clapton lives on!
Dang man... I know my dad was 14 in '71.. but he was a music JUNKIE! And still continues to be to this day. But absolutely LOVE both the Beatles, and The Doors!!
I know... I think out of ALL of the comments, THAT one is the most egregious that I didn't include him. He is the backbone of the songs. Well... Lesson learned!
I didn't know the Fillmore East was enclosed-I thought it was open air, like the Cotton Bowl or something-like open to the air. Band of Gypsys is one of my favorite Hendrix albums (live at Fillmore east)
You missed the Stones Sticky Fingers, Alice Cooper’s Killer and Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells a Story and Aqualung by Jethro Tull. You also failed to mention that Duane Allman and Berry Oakley both died on motorcycles. You just called them “accidents.” The song Imagine is Yoko Ono’s love letter to the Communist Manifesto, which is one but not the main reason why rock music fans hate her.
Duane and Barry's death is kind of a touchy subject... so I wanted to approach it delicately. Dang.. yeah I missed Alice Cooper. Love him. As far as Yoko goes... I mean? Maybe? But it's all about interpretation for me.
Graduated high school in 1971. Got a 003 in the draft lottery. Went to Florida and got busted for BS. Wound up with a 4-F draft statues, undesirable... (just like Alice's Restaurant). 1971 Went up to DC and got busted for blocking White House drive way. Spent Thanks Giving in DC Central Lock up. 1971. YEA!!!! 1971 Was a GREAT year
He didn't mention Jerry Sheff, Elvis' TCB Band's Bass player playing the bass on this album, that made the sound on this album that much more incredible because obviously The Doors didn't have a bass player persay 😊
17 in 1971…best years of like MDA was drug of choice.. rip Danny rip Steve rip Barbara rip Terry rip Don but most of all rip Big Mac thanks for teaching me to play guitar gave me a place to stay…best year of my life
By 71, 1971, that is, Rock 'n Roll was fully developed and several classics in the can. I was born in '48, and not saying they were all that, but the very first band I saw was Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, who ripped off Little Richard, whom I saw in Toronto in '69, along with Morrison and Lenon.
Masters of Reality is a great Sabbath album. My Top 4 Sabbath albums. #1 Black Sabbath #2 Vol 4 #3 Sabatage #4 Masters of Reality All 4 are awesome albums, yes i did not list Paranoid album in my top 4 Sabbath albums. Its a great album but i find myself listening to these other albums much more than Paranoid. ;-)
This should be a great video as it was 53 years ago today 1971, that I was at a music festival featuring Black Sabbath, Three Dog Night, Yes, Joe Cocker, The Guess Who & a few others for the ticket price of $5.50 at the door (advanced tickets $4.00). What a time to be alive. I may be old but I have great memories of amazing music.
Thanks for sharing this!
You are very welcome!!
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@@CharCanuck14 we are getting older now
Me too
Black Sabbath and Three Dog Night on the same bill. 😂
I'm 65. I'm SOOOO happy I grew up with all of this music. My kids like Classic Rock, but they don't understand the whole story. Just like I don't understand a lot of the new Artists or music. But, mine was better and I'm sticking with it.
Same here with my two kids, weened them on classic Rock.
Being born in '61, my teenage years like yours spanned the 70s which was a great time to grow up, riding the cutting edge of a genre of music we now call classic rock that OUR parents couldn't turn us onto.
@markgigiel2722, will be 65 next spring. I’ve got a comfortable nest egg, but sure hate to lose my company insurance. I’m told I need to “crush it” with Medicare, whatever that means. 🤣 I gotta start researching. anyway, all off topic, so to the point, yes, we grew up with awesome tunes.
Ten Years After, A Space In Time.
Yes, fantastic album. R.I.P. ALVIN. Cheers.
You better mention Grand Funk Railroad. They were a huge three piece band, can't ignore them!!!
Marvin Gaye was great but not rock n roll
Grand funk was a much better band than BS
Grand funk Railroad was legit, Grand funk was a joke, they went pop sold out and produced subpar rock,
The GREATEST year in rock and roll deserves a lot more than 22 minutes...Sticky Fingers, The Yes Album, Aqualung, ELO and Nazareth's debuts, Meddle, to name but a few
Ram came out in 71 also. I love that album.
Not to mention Pink Floyd's Meddle, Elton John's Madman Across the Water, Booker T's Melting Pot, ELP's Tarkus, Cat Steven's Teaser & the Firecat, Bill Withers Just as I Am, Genesis Nursery Cryme..1971 was a BANNER year for great music.
Not to mention 'Every Picture Tells a Story' - don't it
Look at Yourself and Nursery Cryme. The pinnacle of both.
Didn't The Stones do anything in '71. What about Let it Bleed. Perhaps that was '70.
Anywho, great freaking year for rock! 👍
I can’t believe you forgot American Pie, one of the greatest rock anthems of all time. Great video.
I knew there would be things I would miss! Thank you!
Traffic..The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys...I was born in 1954..1971 was one of the best years of my life...
YEAH. 17 in 71 was a sweet spot for me too. I heard LITTLE FEAT in 1970 and was hooked. Suffering FEAT itis to this very day.
The first time I ever got high, I was 12 years old (1972), and listened to Zeppelin IV in my friend's basement. Life was never going to be the same! Great video, thanks!
Ha ha I basically did the same thing with that album in 1974. I remember making out with a girl behind the albumcover that folded.
Stellar choice
@DanSan11, I turned 12 in the spring of ‘72 and first got high that summer, but I’m almost positive we were listening to Cream.
Same here 12-18-59.same birthday as Kieth Richards. But I got high the first time that yr myself,seen led Zeppelin five yrs later "77" and your right life was Awesome in the 70s for sure☮️
1979, 14yo, Pink Floyd's "Animals", which I had never heard before. I was stunned!
I was 10 years old in 1971.. I can remember my father coming home and he always had the radio on hey put this station on w bcn.there. is it good tune playing.. and then I remember coming home and saying Jimi Hendrix is dead and Dwayne Allman Janice.. my father loved the music and my mother too.. God bless all these rock and rollers that passed and God bless my mom and dad amen
I definitely would have mentioned Pink Floyd's Meddle album and the Yes Album as well
70s ROCK the best!
It is amazing how so many of the albums from 1971 are considered the best or the absolute best work by many of the best artists of the era. I have more albums from 1971 in my record collection than any other year. I don't think that's a coincidence. You really hardly touched the great albums from that year so, let me help. Carol King, Tapestry; Rod Stewart, Every Picture Tells a Story & A Nod Is As Good As A Wink (rod with The Faces; Stones, Sticky Fingers; Yes, The Yes Album & Fragile; Joni Mitchell, Blue; Jethro Tull, Aqualung; David Bowie, Hunky Dory; Elton John, Madman Across the Water; T-Rex, Electric Warrior; Chicago III; Mountain, Nantucket Sleighride; Nilsson, Nilsson Shmilsson; Paul & Linda McCartney, Ram; Moody Blues, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor; Hollies, Distant Light; J Geils Band, The Morning After; John Prine, John Prine; Sly & The Family Stone, There's A Riot Going On; Alice Cooper, Love It To Death & Killer; Traffic, Low Spark Of High Healed Boys; Badfinger, Straight Up...along with the albums mentioned in the video. I'm sure I missed a couple but the list of great albums is almost overwhelming
will never forget the first time i herd whos next, blew my mine, still love it.
I still think, "Behind Blue Eyes" is one of the best songs of all time. And one of my favs is "I'm in Tune."
I turned 13 in September of 1971 and can say i am great full to the almighty that i have been alive to witness these times. If i could pick on my owe what era i would like to be born in it would definitely be the time i was born to see what music came from and what it has become now. Im 65 years old now and i can say from experience that music today SUX!!!!!
I can’t help it. I need to add two more albums from 1971. Uriah Heep look at yourself and deep purple Machinehead. Peace.
No fuckin doubt! They got it wrong the great Ritchie Blackmore wrote SOTW!
Not being a smartarse or a pedant but 'Machine Head' recording started in December '71 but was released on March 30th 1972 (in the UK, not sure about the States). Ian Gillan wrote the lyrics, Blackmore wrote the riff, which interestingly is remarkably similar to that of The Stooges 'Loose' off 'Funhouse' released in 1970......the plot thickens! As you Yanks would say 'Go Figure'.
I was working the gate for a Deep Purple show in Allentown Pennsylvania when the band pulled up in a Ford station wagon of all things and asked where they were supposed to go. I told him move over and I climbed in and got to ride with them to the backstage. it was pretty cool.
Just added Heep's Look at Yourself. Sorry, I missed your earlier post. You get all the credit and cheers from this Heepster.
For me, Machine Head MUST be included
I loved 1971 but 72 had im 18 by Alice turned 18 had a great 18th birthday party with songs that still play today.life is short my friends enjoy every day of it I have as I turn 70 next Month.And thanks for this look back into my rock n roll life great show sir
Happy 70th my friend!!!
Some of are pretty lucky to be here today! I just turned 67 this mo.
So enjoy yourself.and have a wonderful day.🎂✌🏻
I saw Alice Cooper and Blue Oyster Cult in May of 1972. Amazing days back then.
Love It To Death came out in '71 not '72...that was the year for School's Out
@@johndavis7533Love It to Death was actually released in March 1971
There was so MUCH more great music from this seminal year in rock that you could easily do a second video, 1971 Redux. Such amazing music such as Carol King's Tapestry album, Don McLean’s “American Pie,” , Sly Stone’s “Family Affair,”, Joni Mitchell’s “Blue,” the Rolling Stone's album "Sticky Fingers", Elton John's "Madman Across the Water" album, Jethro Tull's "Aqualung", Cat Stevens' Teaser and the Firecat" album, The Yes Album" and many others.
...King Crimson, The White Album, Loggins and Mesina , Led Zepplin,.........................The early 70's wow and a great time to be a teenager!
O YEAH!!!✌🏻
Trilogy, Close to the Edge, Thick as a Brick, Captain Beyond, only to name a few
My wife and I weren’t married then but we saw the Allman Brothers in Troy NY RPI field house. With J Giels band backing them up. It was in January of 1971. Duane was still alive then. The best concert ever. We have been married 49 years.
Huzzah! Congrats on that, and hey next year is the big one!!
Saw the Allman Brothers at Lehigh University Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Dwayne was alive and kicking as was Barry Oakley. Peace.
I’m a little disappointed that Jethro Tull, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, spirit, and 10 years after we’re not mentioned in this episode. They were all highly influential in 1971. Still the episode was entertaining. Peace.
Yes seems this is a narrow take on 1971
Especially Jethro Tull. Aqualung was one of that year's truly great albums. There was also Electric Warrior by T. Rex and Fragile by Yes.
Indeed, I saw Jethro Tull on the aqualung tour along with spirit at the Philadelphia spectrum in 1971 enhanced by red Lebanese, hashish and orange sunshine. Peace.
Nice treatment.
Janis passing was very sad. She was a real sweet kid from what I've heard.
enjoyed your video. but i remember so many more .every picture tells a story, pretty good. aqualung many more great lps from 71
60 year old California boomer here: Great job with this video. I really enjoyed it. Liked and subscribed. Keep up the good work! 🎉💯👍
Awesome! Thank you for subbing. Means the world!
"American Pie" came out at the end of 1971. Grand Funk Railroad was big in 1971.
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I was in 7th grade and my friend's dad was the program director at the local FM station. We were listening to the best hard rock music because his dad gave him all of the free promo records from the radio station that were too heavy for airplay! I can't help it if I'm lucky..
You comment's ending sentence is a key line in Dylan's Idiot Wind.
What were these records?
George Harrison and the concert for Bangladesh.
I was 17 and had just graduated from high school. I went to one of those shows after dropping acid. All I remember is Ravi Shanker!
I expected a mention of it. The photo of George at the start of the video is from that concert.
I'm 68 and always thought '71 had the best hits for any year.
Snap
I'm the same age as you but I think 75 had more better albums than 71
When I heard the guitar riff that starts the video, it was "Stonesy" to my ears. I was certain the Rolling stones "Sticky Fingers" would be discussed. I honestly was surprised when it wasn't. This is a monumental album from a monumental band. At about the time of the release of "Sticky Fingers" in 1971, the Stones exiled themselves to France to begin work on their seminal "Exile on Main Street" album released in 1972. Of course, the stories from Keith Richards' villa in France in 1971 are tales of legends.
1971 was the first full year without the Beatles, and of their 1960's contemporaries (those bands who spanned most of the Beatles years of existence but made it into the 1970's), you essentially had the Stones, the Who, the Moody Blues, the Kinks, some others I may be forgetting, but the Stones would go on to contribute enormously in defining 70's rock both in the studio and on tour as much as any other 70's band, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, etc... . Sticky Fingers is the beginning of the total 70's breakout of the Rolling Stones.
Finally, you didn't mention this in your discussion of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water", but it has a connection to the Stones: The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, which the Stones themselves used at Keith's villa in France in 1971, was also used by Deep Purple for recording "Smoke on the Water" and the entire "Machine Head" album. Deep Purple thought enough of it to include it in the lyrics of "Smoke on the Water". The mobile studio was an incredible innovation at the time, and wound up being used by a number of top bands (The Who, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin). The story of this mobile studio deserves a video of its own.
I truly appreciate what you've put together in your video, no disagreement with any of it, with lots of great facts, and yes, you'll never have a list that will satisfy everyone, but omitting the 1971 Stones like they didn't exist is a glaring oversight. I will say the following with respect, but very emphatically: No history-telling of rock music from this period, if it is to be taken seriously, can simply ignore the Rolling Stones. It's not possible.
I should have added in my discussion above: "Sticky Fingers" is the first Rolling Stones album to feature the famous tongue and lips logo which, I think we can acknowledge, is the most instantly recognizable, and enduring, rock logo on the planet, no lettering to identify it, but everyone knows it's the Stones. In 1971, the tongue logo was part of the Stones affirmation to taking control of their music and being in charge of the product they put out, simply setting up a new business structure for themselves. The logo is part of the greatness of "Sticky Fingers" (along with its music, of course) and since then has embedded itself in Rolling Stones lore.
Great info, very cool. I thought that The Stones would get a mention, too. I couldn't remember if it was Stucky Fingers or Let it Bleed for '71. Both albums kick ass though! Mick Taylor tears it up. And you're right about the logo. 👍
Excellent! ❤
what a truly great video, it moved me, i was 13 at the time and inspires me to listen to All the records you list. There are many i know, but still ... thank you for te passion with which you prrsnted this year
Man. Thank you! It's just one humble guy's opinion... but honestly that means everything to me. Thank you for enjoying it!
Good stuff. I was 10. I remember it from a kids perspective. I saw Chicago with my parents that year.
It seems like it was a very transformative year for music.
Thank you!
Man, you missed a whack of great music from '71...Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story, Bowie's Hunky Dory, TRex's Electric Warrior, Stones Sticky Fingers, Traffic's The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, The Yes Album, Carole King Tapestry, Joni Mitchell Blue, Alice Cooper Killer, Jethro Tull Aqualung, Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey, Nilson Schmillson, Faces A Nod is as good as a Wink to a Blind Horse...I was 17 in 1971 and all these albums were as important as the ones you mention in your video.
While every single one of those albums is huge in it's own right (Yes's Fragile being my favorite of the albums you listed) "I" personally don't think they have the same maximum longevity of MANY of the other albums I listed. That's not to say that they aren't BRILLIANT, I just feel like the albums I put on here are legendary records. Are they the best records out there? That could be argued. But their sticking power isn't anywhere close to the albums I listed. (I goofed up on not including the Rolling Stones... because even though I don't particularly care for them, there is NO denying that Sticky Fingers isn't an INCREDIBLY monumental album.)
I'm glad SOMEONE mentioned Alice Cooper!!! Rock on!!!
@@kennymik1509THE ALICE COOPER BAND WAS AT THE TOP OF MY LIST🍻
I left a comment adding to the list as well I think the more we think about it the more we can expand the list and as far as staying power, I think that’s a matter of taste and personal opinion peace.
The Who, Who's Next really set the bar for album rock. And Live At Leeds 1970 set the standard for live albums.
I also hope that this mentioned LA Wiman, Zep#4, and Who's Next because not mentioning Sticky Fingers and the tragedies of Duane Allman and Misadventures of the LA Poet Cowboy James Douglas Morrison both had different paths to their own mortality in 1971. Singer songwriter movement takes off with solo artists like Cat Stevens James Taylor Jackson Brown Carol King, and the mellow LA sounds coming from the Troubadour is those new kids in town, The Eagles
You're in luck... because I mentioned almost ALL of those things in this video! Only thing I DIDNT include was Sticky Fingers. I probably should pay more attention to the Rolling Stones...
@@aviewfromthestage Nobody's perfect but YES!
I was 9 years old. AM Radio 📻 I remember had 3 Dog Night, J5, and way too much Osmonds!!! Much love, Robert Duggan ❤🎉
i saw the Who when it was the Village Theater, my very first rock show--just incredible!
My youth began at the beginning of the best decade
I was 13 in 1970
No Alice Cooper? No Ten Years After?
You missen Rock in the
FILLMORE DOUBLE LP
OF HUMBLE PIE
RECORED 28 AND 29 MAY 1971.
RELEASED OCTOBER 1971 ITS A MILESTONE IN ROCKS MUSIC !!!!!!!!!!!!
Kin' a brutha' get a amen!?!
A big miss from the Author of this 1971 history!
Proof: All the four May shows are now available ! On CDs and Vinyl!!!
I was a 10 year old twerp in '71 . Definitely came to appreciate these groups later into the '70s .
This really resonates with me. I was born in august 1956. So I was soaking up musical influences like a sponge. Just lucked out that it was probably the most fertile era for classic rock and roll.
Sabbath had little competition in the 70's until Priest came along.
Jethro Tull's Aqualung was 1971
I bought my first album, Alice Cooper's "Love It To Death," their breakthrough LP, featuring "I'm Eighteen" and "The Ballad of Dwight Fry."
Can you make these videos longer please 😁❤️🔥🎶
He’s making the next one much longer! 😋
I turned 12 in june that year and talk about starting to come alive into almost a teenagers years was a fantastic feeling along w/ discovering music beyond the radio and The Beatles was "electrifying!" I hit the jackpot for teenage years music and sports-wise that decade. By the time I was 15 I'd seen Zep, Floyd, Skynyrd, BOC and Johnny Winter,etc., multiple times in NYC. Took the train/Subway to the Garden/Academy of Music, BEACON Theatre w/my Girlfriend in the midst of SON of SAM's Reign of terror.... whew. NITE ALL.
Growing up in 70s NYC must have been WILD!! I lived there briefly in 2017-2020.
@@aviewfromthestage ya know the wildest thing - in the midst of the worst crime ever in NYC, I took the Subway hundreds of times/even w/ my GF and NEVER had a single problem... except one night Got off wrong Stop/Harlem and the COP told me to get outta town ASAP! true.
Met Lou Reed and The Ramones outside Max's Kansas City on same night,,, same thing w/ Blue Oyster Cult/outside a bar on a friday night in the Bronx getting pizza..yes, WILD and FUN to say the least.
@bishlap I had a similar experience in Compton.. in the 90s... where a cop stopped me and the girl I was with and said, you guys are in the WRONG section... lol.
@@bishlap and holy smokes... man.. I wish I was around for Max's
@@aviewfromthestage LoL Wasn't a big deal to me/us at the time, but looking back now/and when I tell people this they get all excited -I took it for granted. OH, BTW, Max's drinks were watered down liquor - drink 10 shots and not get bent!! PEACE MY MAN!
So many great classic albums came out that year
71 was a very good year for music. It wasn’t confined to one genre. You might hear a country song followed by a folk song followed by a rock song on the radio. The only criteria was it had to be a good song. This resulted in everyone being aware of the same songs at the same time.
Led Zeppelin IV had different genres on just one album. The Battle of Evermore sounds nothing like When The Levee Breaks. Not even like the same band.
1971 is easily my favorite rock year. Lots of great albums covered, but here's some more great 1971 albums not in the video :
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Deep Purple - Fireball
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Fragile
Elton John - Madman Across The Water
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Mountain - Flowers Of Evil
Alice Cooper - Love It To Death
Alice Cooper - Killer
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Fireball DOES get a mention!! :) But yeah.. it was an INSANE year for music. All different types too. Fantastic!
Who's Next
@@trajan6927 I didn't mention that one since it was in the video. My list was the great 71 albums not covered in the video.
@Skycladatdusk78 right on! Good job on the vid. All great albums. Great year. 👍
1971 was the pinnacle, the very best albums by many artists from various genres were made that year
ThE Who - Who's Next was the first album I ever bought...for me they are one of the most diverse sounding bands to ever exist.
You can not not include Aqualung by Jethro Tull, come on! But it's not just rock's best year, Joni Mitchell: Blue, Carole King: Tapestry and Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces Of A Man also came out this year.
Four pivotal albums most definitely
I saw Jethro told do the aqualung tour with the group spirit opening for them at the Philadelphia spectrum in 1971 and I was flying on orange sunshine. Peace.
Excellent plus job !!!
Great Video on a Great Year In Rock 🎸......BUT! You started this video with a photo of George Harrison performing at The Concert for Bangladesh. Harrison and Ravi Shankar put together two shows at MSG in NYC on the same night. This turned out to be the very first Benefit Concert in Rock. And what a concert(I was there for the second show) What a concert indeed!!! Besides Harrison and Shankar an All-Star Who's Who's so to speak of musicians at the time. Clapton, Ringo, Leon Russell, Billy Preston, Jessie Ed Davis, Klaus Voormann, Badfinger and the return of Bob Dylan. You started out with a tribute to Joplin who died 16 days after Hendrix in 1970. A mention of the Concert for Bangladesh was in order, given you used Harrison's concert photo to start this great video. 🎸✌️🙏
“Meddle” by Pink Floyd was never mentioned. It was the band’s second top ten album after having “Atom Heart Mother”become the first number one album that they had in any country…Come on!”One of These Days?””Fearless?””Echoes?”How can you go wrong?Simply one of the precursors to “Dark Side of the Moon!!!”
Yep! Super true... sorry bout that. And trust me.. when it comes time for Dark Side...in September.. That WILL be on there. :)
From Meddle up to and including Animals it was a completely amazing run for Floyd.
Absolutely loved that album and traveled 100 miles to see them perform their new record 2 weeks after its release. They opened with Echoes & CWTAE and a few other classics..took a break , then played DSOTM in its entirety. "WOW!" Encore- "One of these Days". Other worldly concert
As I reach for a Peach , slip the rind behind , a sofa in San Tropez.....
How about “several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave grooving with a pic“ :-) peace.
These documentaries are interesting but sadly leave huge voids
... i was recently taking a break from recording "old hippies anonymous" tracks at the hyde street studios complex in san francisco -- fka wally heider's -- when i noted the cover of croz's "remember my name" album on the wall ... "laughing" had always been my favorite cut from that disc ... to discover he'd recorded that album (and "deja vu") there brought me full circle ... a satori moment indeed ...
Wow. That IS a full circle moment for you. Man... I miss old Crosby. He would certainly have plenty to say in these days.
good narration....well done....
ZZ Top's first album was released January 1971
Thanks!
As other commenters have mentioned, you missed a lot from '71 (my favorite being Yes) but had all worthy artists been included, this video would have been over an hour rather than 22 minutes. Still, some great photos and footage.
My favorite too.
and.... Every Decade , Every Year Has its Great songs and Sounds. My fahter introduced me to Big Band ...
In a perfect world ! It would be. Awesome thing if they could have turned the Fillmore east into still a live place for bands / but also a museum ! ⚡️space ace Ron⚡️
Absolutely... man... what I wouldnt give...
The culmination of a Renaissance, '71 and '72, the year I graduated high school...a tremendous period when the counter-culture was an anaesthetic pyramid of major rock and roll's musicianship and poetry of maturity.
Eloquently put sir!!
True story my arse, Roger Glover was the inspiration and originator of Smoke on the Water, Gillan supported the writing of, to my best of knowledge.
Master of Reality was the album that opened the door to a young teenager, I did not know that such a sound existed. In Rock was just a tad too sophisticated for me at the time... but that did not last long !! :)
Yes but machine Head came out in 72 so it's not a part of that year
"Who's Next" the best album of all time, every son g is a classic!
Yep. Absolutely. However, Zep IV is right up there with it. Dang Brits writing ALL of the good music. Lol.
I was at Woodstock, rank 1971 at best 8th or 9th most influential year in rock.
Allman brothers,at Fillmore east 71'
This WAS a very heavy Allman year! Super sad at the end of the year, but man... there was so much rockin in the early part of the year!
ABB @ Fillmore East hands down the best live album EVER produced.period.
Well, upon further review as great as Fillmore East is I’m partial to the live album that came out a few years later- wipe the windows check the oil dollar gas, which is an incredible recording of their 1973 tour. I dare say the version of Elizabeth Reed on that is better than Fillmore plus it got killer versions of can’t lose what you never had, come and go blues and probably the best version of Ramblin man
I actually like the other Fillmore album from '71.... Humble Pie Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore
@@jimmickg I do too, God Bless bro.
I can’t resist contributing one more to the 1971 list. How about Frank Zappa and the mothers of invention “Fillmore East June 1971“ peace.
Wasn't Jimi's posthumous album ' Cry of love' released in early 1971?
1971 was my favorite for music. My three favorite songs all came from that year: Mercy Mercy Me (Marvin Gaye), Layla (Derek & the Dominos) and If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot). Unfortunately, Gaye and Lightfoot are both dead but Clapton lives on!
I was too young in 71,(12), TO seriously get into bands, although I loved the Beatles, liked the Doors People are Strange...
Dang man... I know my dad was 14 in '71.. but he was a music JUNKIE! And still continues to be to this day. But absolutely LOVE both the Beatles, and The Doors!!
lol, I was 11.
Free live released my fave album that year
You didn't mention jaimoe as a member of the Allman Brothers band
I know... I think out of ALL of the comments, THAT one is the most egregious that I didn't include him. He is the backbone of the songs. Well... Lesson learned!
In 1971 the Rolling Stones published "Sticky Fingers" that was the album of the year.
Jaimoe...the drummer..!! ❤
Anyone know what song is playing @ 12:10 ??? Gotta have it.
I didn't know the Fillmore East was enclosed-I thought it was open air, like the Cotton Bowl or something-like open to the air. Band of Gypsys is one of my favorite Hendrix albums (live at Fillmore east)
You forgot to mention the Concert for Bangladesh.
Very US oriented
Indeed.
You missed the Stones Sticky Fingers, Alice Cooper’s Killer and Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells a Story and Aqualung by Jethro Tull. You also failed to mention that Duane Allman and Berry Oakley both died on motorcycles. You just called them “accidents.” The song Imagine is Yoko Ono’s love letter to the Communist Manifesto, which is one but not the main reason why rock music fans hate her.
Duane and Barry's death is kind of a touchy subject... so I wanted to approach it delicately. Dang.. yeah I missed Alice Cooper. Love him. As far as Yoko goes... I mean? Maybe? But it's all about interpretation for me.
All those records you mentioned great!!! aqualung my favorite
Hey!!!! An Alice Cooper vote!!!!!
So much good music......Kinda hard for the dude to mention all of it.......
I think 1975 was a better year I can count at least 30 albums that came out in 1975 that were just fantastic
Mickey Hart left the Grateful Dead in February 1971 and Keith Godchaux was hired in September.
Graduated high school in 1971.
Got a 003 in the draft lottery. Went to Florida and got busted for BS. Wound up with a 4-F draft statues, undesirable... (just like Alice's Restaurant). 1971
Went up to DC and got busted for blocking White House drive way. Spent Thanks Giving in DC Central Lock up. 1971.
YEA!!!! 1971 Was a GREAT year
I was 15. Best year ever.
👀 ALL Bros w/ 🖤 🦶 🎩 10!
Was my first year out of High School
8:34 You couldn't find an accurate newspaper clipping of Morrisons death ? He was infamously a member of the '27 Club', not 25 years old.
10:31 ... I'm not sure where you're getting 25 from.. I said he was a member of the 27 club... that includes Janis, Jimi and of course Jim.
Allman Brothers "At Fillmore East" Say no more!
September 20, 1971: Uriah Heep releases the album, Look at Yourself.
Your voice sounds like the SpaceFlight Now guy.
LA women is an iconic 1971 record…sadly their last with Jim
Yep.. super sad.
He didn't mention Jerry Sheff, Elvis' TCB Band's Bass player playing the bass on this album, that made the sound on this album that much more incredible because obviously The Doors didn't have a bass player persay 😊
17 in 1971…best years of like MDA was drug of choice.. rip Danny rip Steve rip Barbara rip Terry rip Don but most of all rip Big Mac thanks for teaching me to play guitar gave me a place to stay…best year of my life
Man... I'm sorry. But you're still here! And that's a good thing! It's terrific to be on this side of the dirt.
I'm 71 and always thought'71 was the best year for rock. Festivals started going downhill dark in'71 though.
By 71, 1971, that is, Rock 'n Roll was fully developed and several classics in the can. I was born in '48, and not saying they were all that, but the very first band I saw was Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, who ripped off Little Richard, whom I saw in Toronto in '69, along with Morrison and Lenon.
and readin the comments of others: wonderful ... yes ! Meddle ! i always think of writing a book " everything i know i learned from Pop music "
The Rolling Stones’ landmark album Sticky Fingers in June, 1971.
Maggie May by Rod Stewart, Walk Away by the James Gang
I turned one that year so I had a great crib experience. You'll get to Elton John and Paul McCartney soon.
Sticky fingers 1971
Rolling stones
Absolutely right that tops everything mentioned here, in my opinion.
Masters of Reality is a great Sabbath album. My Top 4 Sabbath albums.
#1 Black Sabbath
#2 Vol 4
#3 Sabatage
#4 Masters of Reality
All 4 are awesome albums, yes i did not list Paranoid album in my top 4 Sabbath albums. Its a great album but i find myself listening to these other albums much more than Paranoid. ;-)