The day the music died.

[2LaneCruzer]

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And there's The Greatest Hits of Roger Whittaker....

 

[sld]

My Dad played guitar pretty well. I grew up listening to him play Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Marty Robins, etc...Still like that music.

That was the evening entertainment instead of tv or computer. Great times.

 

[jerrybob]

I grew up in the LA area. Had a friend who wrote music reviews for Rolling Stone Magazine and the LA Times. We hung out at the Troubadour.....knew Doug Westin well. Every Monday night was hootenanny night.....now they would call it open mike night. We used to hear some great music. We were in the bar the night David Geffen signed the Eagles to their first contract. Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon, Randy Miesner and Don Henley were the original members. They performed that night.......we sat next to Joni Mitchell and a few tables over was Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and J.D. Souther. The Troubadour was the place for music in those days.......nothing better. Neil Young, Crosby, Nash, Stills, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Tom Waits, Carly Simon, the Byrds and many others.....they all played there regularly hoping to be discovered. Great times and even greater music!

 

[flusher]

I have fond memories of an Eagles outdoor concert that I attended in the late 1970s in Illinois and another outdoor in the mid 1990s in Southern CA. Lotsa pot smoke in the air. Glenn Fry and Don Henley's music put country rock on the map in the mid-1970s. An they were honest about it, saying that their aim was to create hits, and were not purists doing it just for the sake of "art". And they certainly built a hit-making machine (150 million albums sold worldwide).

RIP Glenn.

 

[dan ny escarpment]

One of the great things about music is all generations and genres have many known and many less known gems to discover, "One of these Nights" by the eagles was my first LP in mid 70's, little did I know that as an adult that profound enjoyment could be found from Robert Johnson, Django Rhinehart, Louis Armstrong, Glen Miller, to all the ususal suspects like Bob, Jimmy, and Johnny, Eagles,and many others of "our generation". I would have loved to see the original broadcast of Loiue Armstrong on Johnny Cash's TV show...bridging generations, genre and time that one would not otherwise expect. The one universal thing I notice is that the next generation is always seen as unworthy, whether terrible or not, my oldfartedness showing....

 

[flusher]

I have fond memories of an Eagles outdoor concert that I attended in the late 1970s in Illinois and another outdoor in the mid 1990s in Southern CA. Lotsa pot smoke in the air. Glenn Fry and Don Henley's music put country rock on the map in the mid-1970s. An they were honest about it, saying that their aim was to create hits, and were not purists doing it just for the sake of "art". And they certainly built a hit-making machine (150 million albums sold worldwide).

RIP Glenn.

Favorite Eagles hit: Take It to the Limit--the 1977 live performance at the Capital Center in Washington, D.C. with bassist Randy Meisner singing lead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WmixcxzjvA

Written by Glenn Fry, Don Henley, and Randy Meisner. It was Meisner's signature song. After he left the band in Sep 1977, Glenn Fry took the lead, but he didn't have Meisner's pipes for the powerful ending. Both Fry and Meisner sorta dreaded singing the song at live concerts, since being able to hit those falsetto licks at the end was not guaranteed at every performance.

 

[dmccarty]

One of the great things about music is all generations and genres have many known and many less known gems to discover, "One of these Nights" by the eagles was my first LP in mid 70's, little did I know that as an adult that profound enjoyment could be found from Robert Johnson, Django Rhinehart, Louis Armstrong, Glen Miller, to all the ususal suspects like Bob, Jimmy, and Johnny, Eagles,and many others of "our generation". I would have loved to see the original broadcast of Loiue Armstrong on Johnny Cash's TV show...bridging generations, genre and time that one would not otherwise expect. The one universal thing I notice is that the next generation is always seen as unworthy, whether terrible or not, my oldfartedness showing....

I mostly agree with you. :thumbsup: But I do think there is a difference with the music in the last few years. Every generation's music is "better" than the last and the adults usually think their music is better than what their kids listen too. I never really thought that with the exception having to listen to Box Car Wiley and similar "music." I grew up listening to the teen music from the 50's and early 60's and I liked the songs. But listening to Slim.... Torture that was... :laughing::laughing::laughing:

No way did my parents appreciate The Who or Zeppelin though I think my dad might like The Avett Brothers. :thumbsup: What is SOOOOOO sad is that My Generation is now a theme song for a TV show! Pete, do you REALLY need the money that much? :frown: At least it might expose kids to a band that COULD write good music and lyrics compared to the violent trash **** that passes for "music" today. It is really shocking to hear the lyrics that are played on radio stations today...

The problem with the main stream music in the last couple of decades is that so much of it just stinks. The "artists" do not have musical skills, often cannot even sing but are auto tuned, and the lyrics are banal at best, but hey, they have a big butt that does not lie, or they are a dope smoking thug with a Cult of Personality that can sell. Even my kids recognize this to some extent.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

I just went back and listened to some Who songs I have not listened too in decades. Wow. Showed some of the lyrics to the wifey and asked her if the words hit a chord with her based on some things we have going on in the family. She laughed and said yes. Lyrics from *** 43 *** years ago are still true today. I really don't think the "music" I hear my kids listening too will have any impact next year, much less in four decades.

Later,
Dan

 

[om21braz]

I just went back and listened to some Who songs I have not listened too in decades. Wow. Showed some of the lyrics to the wifey and asked her if the words hit a chord with her based on some things we have going on in the family. She laughed and said yes. Lyrics from *** 43 *** years ago are still true today. I really don't think the "music" I hear my kids listening too will have any impact next year, much less in four decades.

Later,
Dan

+1 If these new lyrics are still around in 40 years, it obviously won't take much to impress folks then.

 

[DFB]

One of the great things about music is all generations and genres have many known and many less known gems to discover

I was shocked when I heard PINK (an artist I would have never listened to) do a cover of Kris Kristofferson's/Fred Foster's Me and Bobby Magee...its was just awesome and all could think of was Janis Joplin's version of it. I have never heard Roger Miller do it.

Or that show CMT Cross Roads where they would match up more modern artists with some great talent from a prior generation
Martina Mcbride/Pat Benetar was one a good one and Alison Krauss/Robert Plant mix of Zepplin's Black Dog just excellent!

Halleluiah by Leonard Cohen has been covered by various artists like over 300 times. He is amazing 81 years old now and was still performing and producing music last I knew. My College Prof friend she still gets all dreamy still over his Suzanne that she first heard as teenager. Yup that's her name.