What's up with lousy bass on classic rock recordings?

@mapman Thanks this is really interesting.

You're tagging someone else though I'm macg19 and your tagging dmac67 

@macg19 thanks.

One correction. Piano is commonly used in some rock music. A good quality standard 88 key piano can pretty much do it all. The lowest notes can reach under 20hz and the highest range up to 16khz

On Tidal you might find my playlist

audiophile bass tracks 01

Just a small selection of nice songs with fine recorded bass.

I will build on this. Like up to a thousand songs. A little for everyone I hope.

Not much classical hard rock though of obvious reasons….

@gosta thanks I will check it out

I had the same reaction when I rebuilt my AR-LST speakers (which are pretty neutral)

Remember it was at this time that "hi fi" was at its zenith, cassette decks and eight tracks were how most people listened to music in cars

Most "hi fi" speakers of the day were pretty bass heavy, just about all amps/receivers had a "Loudness" button. and car stereos used those 6x9 speakers that had the Trunk to let the bass boom in the car.

When they did the mastering, they used a speaker that would emulate how their customers would listen to the music.

I am puzzled that with all the music of that era being remastered to take advantage of 30, 40, 50 year anniversaries opportunities to sell you the same music over and over why they don't fix that.   Maybe it's because everybody is listening on boomy Dr. Dre headphones these days?