Posted on 12/27/2022 6:27:56 AM PST by DoodleBob
😁. Every once in a while at the jam sessions a spark pops and some magic happens from someone that signs up to perform. Sometimes originals that the performer gives us (core band) the basics and it can be awesome. Guess I’ll keep at it as long as I can. 👍🎸🔊
I would have said “Tattoo You” was their last good album. Which I think was just songs that had not made it onto “Some Girls” and other previous albums.
“Goats Head Soup” and “It’s Only Rock and Roll” also came out after “Exile on Maine Street”
I saw the Michael Jackson show at Mandalay Bay a few years back, it was very good.
“The bigger problem for these classic rock acts will be age, death and retirement among THEIR FANS.”
Not long ago I had a young teen girl explain to me the listening device she carried around. She show me the list of songs she had programmed — it was all 60s music.
“Still a great show.” [Rolling Stones.]
__________
Great?
Still a show, yeah.
But “great”?
Not sure One Guy can second that emotion.
I hate to say it, but I’ve gone almost solid Pandora with a scattering of Amazon Music.
I’ve got hundreds of albums in storage, almost as many CDs slotted in plastic towers in my office, quite a few downloads from the Interwebz. All of the CDs and downloads are on MicroSD (even converted some of the LPs to digital). The MicroSD resides in my Android. I’m the guy that used to cart his 50lb Panasonic quad amp, Dual 1229 turntable and 4 GONZO 100-amp speakers everywhere I lived in my younger days. I loved my music.
Then I started creating channels on Pandora...initially, all of the oldie-goldie stuff I used to listen to. I eventually left all of that behind...and now listen to easy-listening female and piano music...Agnes Obel, Emily Jane White, Lia Ices, Ludovico Einaudi. Still love the old rock’n roll, just don’t crank it up much anymore.
All of these great bands playing in the 60's and 70's were doing it at a "magical" and impressionable time in the teenagers lives who saw them. It's difficlut to explain to someone the excitement of watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, or seeing them at Shea Stadium. For me it was an Eric Clapner concert in the mid 70's singing Layla - You kind of knew you were watching something you'd always remember, at least the parts you remembered :) And those experiences were many, so watching the bands now brings back those memories, the songtrack of your life as they say.
They had some good songs on those albums but the other songs were substandard, with the exception of the Some Girls album.
Oh yeah Robert and Toyah’s videos are a hoot.
John Lennon, John Bonham, and John Entwistle.
What’s the point if none of the members are original? The Beatles, featuring Bob Nelson!
They’ll need them to be in the audience as well :)
Maybe then they will shut up about politics and just play music...
LOL...proxy fans.
"After 1980?" Loud applause.
After 1990?" Still loud applause.
"After 2000?" Still loud applause.
. Bands that renew themselves but stay true to their essence, will thrive and grow their audience.
But Jon Bon Jovi still lives. Life isn’t fair.
Bon Jovi. One of the most overrated bands ever.
Yeah but "Jon" does not have an "h" in his first name.
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