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[jazzy_dave]

The '70s was a strange turbulent time bit it produced some great music and yet also loads of mainstream crap  -  jazz went fusion or free and/or political The Canterbury scene gave us some forward avant-garde music from the Soft Machine, Caravan, and such like. Reggae became more widely noticed and its variant dub style not forgetting the way out stuff from Captain Beefheart, Zappa and the music coming from Germany by bands such as Faust, Can, Amon Duul, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream.  But then rock had a backlash - the groups that formed the late sixties became rock behemoths or dinosaurs and punk gave a new edge when it hit late 1976.

Here is another documentary that surveys that period. Part of three docs it looks at the period just before punk. I do not agree with all the comments as I was not a great fan of pub rock and I did love some of the more progressive bands like Yes and King Crimson. during the seventies - as well as being into some of the prog rock bands I was a soul boy too.

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I also got into classical at a later period and the Wire magazine was still many years away in the future.