[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

He missed out on something important: where the music came from in the first place.

After WWII, there was enormous growth in suburbia, especially around the new western cities. Very family friendly places, they were also intensely boring. The few recreations were things like drive-in movie theaters. But they had one big thing.

Instruments and music. All public schools had music programs, and at least a basic introduction to music for anyone who wanted it. Musical instruments were relatively cheap enough for most families to afford, and so the logical outgrowth were garage bands.

There wasn’t much of a local music scene, so young people had to go to the coasts if they were to have a chance at success. And the competition was fierce. Successful groups had to practice all day and perform for much of the night, in any venue they could get, to make a name for themselves.

And if you weren’t practicing or performing, they were listening to other groups.

95% of them never went anywhere, and 3-4% of the rest were one hit wonders, with only 1-2% getting any degree of mid-term success.

There is an Internet free streaming audio website that plays a lot of the “also-rans” of the time, as well as some of the commercials aired back them, and it is fun to listen to.

http://www.beyondthebeatgeneration.com/

[ifinnegan]

Good analysis.

Then the drugs came and these kids became degenerate.

[dfwgator]

Then the young hipsters became the record execs and music went downhill.

Zappa was right when he said they were better off with the old guys with cigars going, “Who knows what it is? Let’s give it a shot and see if it sells.”

[PrairieLady2]

Most of us forget, as we walk down the 60’s memory lane, that the music was produced by liberals and against the decency of conservatism. It’s what led to today’s mentality of disgust, which many of us post about today.

One fine example is John Lennon’s song. “Imagine”.
Some of the lyrics say things like:

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

So, Lennon wants us to think that without religion, we can have decency and morality? Well, since everybody now has ‘’their own’’ morality, then stealing is OK, adultry is OK, blocking the god given right of people to exercise judeo/christianity is OK. He doesn’t want any consequences to be thought of in advance..it doesn’t matter what you do. Trust is gone, integrity is gone.

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace

There goes national soverignity, opening the door to a one world tyranny over all nations. Nothing to kill or die for also means that freedom is meaningless and not worth dying for. If there’s nothing to die for, then what is there to live for? This isn’t a life of peace, this is a life of apathy. Destruction of passion is followed by the dark ages of lack of creativity, and innovation.

If no doesn’t mean no, then what does your ‘yes’ mean?

So even though we enjoy the memory lane of music to a time when we were young and actually rather innocent, it was a time of ‘’ free love’’ and now we have AIDS.

Yes, our musicians appealed to a liberal perspective at the time, and the consequences are now here, and we find we don’t like them. It’s killing us. You can’t even go to the doctor on your own dollar anymore. That’s Peace??? six feet under maybe but that’s not life.

[1Old Pro]

And the competition was fierce. Successful groups had to practice all day and perform for much of the night, in any venue they could get, to make a name for themselves. And if you weren’t practicing or performing, they were listening to other groups.

Exactly, it was a BIG industry.