I think many people fixate on a time when they thought music was good and stick with it. We find new music we like all the time. I wouldn’t go to Steve Earle concert today - too many drugs, listen when he’s been cleaned up for recording. However, my husband and I saw the Gipsy Kings and the Steeldrivers this fall, and we have tickets for the Infamous Stringdusters next month.
There are plenty of good bands playing for affordable prices. The Gipsy Kings were a big pricey, $60-ish, but the Steeldrivers and a good opening act were only about $30, and the Stringdusters were $14 before all the fees tacked on to buy the tickets online. If we were young, we could get cheap tickets by showing up at the door.
You know, Steve Earle and John Fogerty are co-travelers in their subversive craft, and given the McCains and Grahams of the world I can see why.
I’d give my eyeteeth to see Steve do Copperhead Road, and molars for Fogerty, too, if they could just understand that DJT is here to reverse all the crap they base their anti-Clinton/Bush politics on.