Best Decade of Rock

While rock and roll music has been very popular for about sixty years now, there was one decade that stood above the rest in terms of the quality of music and its popularity. The 1970's was home to some of the greatest rock bands of all time: Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith, and Pink Floyd just to name a few. All of these artists were around when the drug culture in the United States and England was at its greatest. The rock and roll of the 1970's did more for the genre than any other decade. It began what we now call "hard rock" by integrating faster guitar riffs, louder and more powerful drums, guitar solos, an up-beat tempo, and louder vocals. This hard rock form would become the basis for much of the rock and roll music that followed. Bands like Van Halen and Metallica produced music that was stemmed off of the artists of the 1970's. Bands of the 1970's were also much more pure in their production of music. They didn't use machines to change the sound of their music; it was all natural. My favorite artists of the 1970's had to be Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. The sound of their music was so individual that it will never be replicated. Hendrix' ability as both an onstage performer and musician were legendary. He was known for playing guitar solos behind his back, blindfolded, with his tongue, and even with his feet. These two artists exemplified the rock music of the 1970's.