33+ years ago when I was still in Jr. High School me and my friends use to be Jimi Hendrix fanatics. The last time (and first time) I saw Hendrix was in 1969 I believe, at the Fillmore in NYC. Back then I actually had a friend named Olivier who was French and his mother brought us, although at the time I didn`t know or care who Hendrix was. I did after that concert.
For the next 3 years I saved up until I bought every last single one of his albums. Then Pink Floyd a year later at Eisenhower park in East meadow Long Island. To this day, nobody can remeber that, but I know I saw them playing in that park! That same year Zepplin hit the scene and our heads like a ton of bricks.. I remember trashing my friend Davids room to "Dazed and confused" when that awesome end part came up ..
Then 1975, the Ramones.. Walking down the street in the Village and someone walking up to me saying "F**kin` Ramooones", then the B-52`s then came DEVO. The last time I saw DEVO was in 1981 at the Roseland ballroom I believe, and it was incredible..
Then the holocaust came. The horror had happened. It was the same year the music died, TRULY died (hello Don McLean..Were is American pie part 2?) This was the year MTV hit the airwaves and we realized the music holocaust had begun, you could actually feel the shift, feel the destruction, feel the music actually being laid to waste exponetially and it was never the same since.
Originality had been sold out to corporate charts, bulls**t $$$ safety issues and utter pure pretention. 25 plus years later, that same music holocaust still continues and nobody ever says anything about it.
The kids today don`t know what it`s like to see pure genuis live, they really don`t. Since the 1930`s to see Charlie Parker, Sinatra, Elvis, Dylan, Hendrix, Zepplin live....Those very genuises today pushed to the back of a sleazy bar because tey don`t look like some model. Now it`s Brittany and Jay-Z. And they wonder why kids today are violent. What will these kids say when they get older? "Hey when I was 16 I saw Ashlee Simpson live... Well ummm sort of live!" Then they will ask "Well what did she sound like" Like 10,000 other cookie cutter musicians during the music holocaust. I`m still waiting for the other part of that tombstone, but all I`m seeing right now is "The music holocaust 1981 --"
When will it end? Can any Freepers answer that for me? Will we ever get the suprises and joy we use to get when something new would come out?
Crash Landing was and is my favorite Hendrix album.
Stations wouldn't play it.
We've been censored for decades.
DK
No kidding. I was born 20 years or so too late for the good stuff. I saw Floyd sans Waters a couple of times but its not the same.
I agree with just about everything you posted. You forgot to mention thuis whole "grunge" craze which started out ok (Soundgarden, STP, Alice in Chains) but has evolved (devolved) into pure crapola with everyone and their grandmother trying to sound like Curt Kobain.