Eddie Van Halen with Valerie Bertinelli circa 1980 Posted on 10/07/2020 5:26:19 AM PDT by NOBO2012
I’ve never been a big fan of Eddie Van Halen’s songs –
Eddie Van Halen with Valerie Bertinelli circa 1980
although I do recognize that he was a legendary, hard working, hyper-talented guitarist.
Nor was I a fan of Peter Fonda’s modest talents, although he did deliver an iconic movie.
Peter Fonda in Easy Rider circa 1969
But as both of them have now shuffled off this mortal coil it does give me pause to reflect on the passage of time.
The 60s and 70s were consumed with bad fashion, Vietnam, drugs, sex and rock and roll – not necessarily in that order. The Reagan decade was filled with hope and economic growth while simultaneously worrying that the Japanese (the Japanese!) were stealing our industrial lunch bucket as their cars began to overtake Detroit’s in both numbers and reliability. The 90s? The Go-Go-Go decade: tech stocks, IPOs, excess up the wazoo and the Y2K panic. The aughts brought us terrorists, TSA, homeland security, FISA, Amazon and social media. Followed by the teens which provided technology and platforms for people to weaponize all of the above.
So here we are: the first year of the next decade. A Chinese launched pandemic is being used to destroy America’s economy in hopes of undermining President Trump in order to replace him with another globalist toady. The Deep State is slowly being unveiled, most recently by the declassification of documents that reveal the chicanery involved in the last presidential election. The current election is being undermined by the Democrats demand for vote-by-mail, the FA (the operative term for the group formerly known as “ANTIFA”) continue to riot at will and the Media – the group theoretically responsible for keeping society in general and politicians in specific accountable – refuses to do any honest reporting of any of it.
Ah well, at least we’re finally in a decade with a real name – “the 20s” – instead of a wimpy non-decade sounding name like “the aughts” and “the teens.”
So I guess we just keep truckin’.
The Grateful Dead, indeed.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
So true about the 60’s and 70’s bad fashion. It has always made me a little sad that the photos from when we were young were so marred by ugly fashion. So many people of our generation continue to marinate in 1960’s music and nostalgia. It’s normal to be nostalgic about what was popular in one’s youth but that time was also one of naive revolution and manipulation. My family was suffering behind the Iron Curtain and crap like ‘power to the people’ just didn’t ring my chimes. I enjoyed a lot of the music at the time, but I don’t need a steady diet of it for the rest of my days. I guess being born into, but not part of, Boomer culture has contributed to making me a curmudgeon. In contrast, my parents lived their young years under wartime occupation by Nazi’s, with clearly drawn lines of good and evil. It was harsh, but they knew they were on the side of ‘the good guys’ in their resistance to tyranny.
If I wanted to hear pop rock I'd listen to Pat Benatar.
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I find it annoying when people refer to the year as "Two-thousand-something" instead of "Twenty-something". We didn't refer to years of the 20th century as "One thousand, nine-hundred-something". We are in the year Twenty-twenty now.
Olivia Newton John and John Denver for me : )
Pat is still killing it. I saw her in the spring and summer of ‘19. I never thought of her as pop...but she wasn’t as hard core as Chrissie. How Pat isn’t in the RRHOF is beyond me.
Pat is still killing it. I saw her in the spring and summer of ‘19. I never thought of her as pop...but she wasn’t as hard core as Chrissie. How Pat isn’t in the RRHOF is beyond me.
No Pat Benatar, but Snoop Doggy Doo is in there....
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