Posted on 08/09/2023 8:18:29 PM PDT by algore
There was a lot of really greatness in music before the 90s and I just give this as an example, but could easily give you a hundred more.
but I just don't see it today, and I don't know why.
Am I just missing all of today's talent somehow or has something changed?
Have to admit in the late 50’s and early 60’s I was into surf music.
Primitive, maybe. Beatles made me want to puke it was soooo “cutesy”
Love that song! I first heard snippets of it in a Rick Beato interview with Polyphia’s founder.
Amen. I have 59.02GB of mp3s, about 60% classical, 35% classic rock & R&B (mostly pre-90s), some other stuff.
We went and saw Yacht Rock Revue before Covid, call it 4 years ago. They’re quite popular, and the show was well attended. This was at The Roxy at The Battery, the entertainment district surrounding the new Braves field.
While it was nice, when you’re old enough to have seen many of the original bands do those songs, as we are, it’s really just a glorified cover band. I’d just as soon see a cheaper cover band at a smaller venue. Which we did last Friday, seeing an Elton John cover band at a free First Friday concert at a small town downtown park. With lots of good food trucks set up nearby. And the band was quite good.
YRR is great for younger folks that missed the originals, and that seemed to be the main demographic at the show we went to. But we won’t be returning.
Great show as a kid. Got to see lots of band's performances.
The Midnight Special (a sampling)
So much great music and so many great performers.
BFL
And I love being able to easily cast YouTube vids to an AppleTV to play on a TV with sound bar, sub, and surround speakers. Something I really got into during Covid lockdowns, when we weren’t able to see much live music. I watched a lot of old concert vids.
Here, I’ll contribute to the thread with one of them:
Blind Faith in Hyde Park, 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ADa0l9k0A
Blind Faith’s first show, a free one in Hyde Park!
Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech.
And I’ll bring it back to the present to give thanks to Eric Clapton for playing a show in the Fall of 2021 that didn’t require masks. Great show, with Jimmy Vaughn as the warm up. First big show I saw after the beginning of Covid.
That was awesome!
They’re still active and touring. “Leonid & Friends” is their name.
My most succinct explanation to the 20-30 something year olds that I encounter while out perusing the live music scene is that the two things that killed music are MTV and midi.
If you don’t look good they won’t watch you and the computers took over.
In 2009 I got married and explored my husband’s music collection. He gave me quite a few lessons in music history as I discovered the importance of the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations”, the impact of “Rubber Soul”, and I found out that the band “Boston” made all of their music without computers. And more.
Now most of the music I like was made before I was born!
Unleash the Archers out of Canada is amazing! I’ve never been a metal fan but I have to say I listen to them often!
I wish someone had told that guitar player “Don’t forget about the round still in the chamber.”
I still listen to all the old rock bands and lots of blues.
A tragedy, no doubt. But anybody that points even an empty gun to their head and pulls the trigger has a death wish, whether it’s conscious or subconscious.
There is a young guitarist and rocker, from Romania, who I discovered years ago on YouTube. He is outstanding on the guitar, and has a couple of great bands. I first found him around 8 years ago performing Gary Moore’s “Still got the Blues” when he was 11 years old.
Check out Andrei Cerbu, and his bands The Iron Cross and The Voodoo Child.
I like Rush and no one can say Geddy Lee uses autotune!
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken (with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt) “Midnight Special” Live 1977. HQ Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-GwdaKrn8
“We’ve reached the point in rock music, where classical music has been for years.”
I make a distinction. Rock music is about the performers. Classical music is about the music.
Also rock and classical appeal to different emotions.
Classical, then 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, early 60’s. I still love the Big Band sounds and Bob Wills music.
In the mid 60’s most music became crap. Too many squeely voiced teen boys who thought they could sing or strum a guitar. Even country music became horrid. I haven’t listened to a radio since.
If I’m going to listen to music, I usually listen to music from the late 60s and 70s. Southern rock is the best! I also like jazz and blues from the 40s, 50s and 60s. That genre is where so much of the southern rock music originated. I sometimes listen to the older country music (Johnny Cash, etc) as well but what is called “country” nowadays is simply what I call “bubble-gum” music.
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