The day the music died.

[om21braz]

What is your guys favorite decade of music? I still love the 80's when I was a teenager to early 20's. Big hair, metal bands and ballads. It was awesome!

Has not been equaled since.

The more I listen, the older I get in musical terms. Here's some that 's down my alley

Baby Please Don't Go - Mance Lipscomb (Live) - YouTube

Doc and Merle Watson - Summertime - YouTube

Well, not all old?

Paco De Lucia & Al Di Meola The Reunion "Mediterranean Sundance" - YouTube

 

[QRTRHRS]

What is your guys favorite decade of music? I still love the 80's when I was a teenager to early 20's. Big hair, metal bands and ballads. It was awesome!

Has not been equaled since.

IMHO, the overwelming aspect about the 60's and 70's music scene was that there was just so much great music from so many good if not great people and groups. Not just rock either. All types of music, folk, country, blues, bluegrass, rock, you name it, it was out there. The British invasion, the San Francisco scene, southern rock, there was just so much going on.

 

[sld]

After watching the movie Walk The Line about Johnny Cash I gained a new perspective about the music scene even back into the 50's. Great music.

My Dad used to play Johnny Cash songs on his guitar and, as a kid, I just thought he was some old guy. He was a real rock star in his day!

 

[MossRoad]

Monday night my wife and I went to see a limited showing of The Rolling Stones - Ole Ole Ole a Trip Across Latin America in a 48 seat theater with jumbo recliners... it was pretty entertaining! :laughing:

Its a documentary about their South American tour and what it took to get into Cuba to do a free show. Worth a view if anyone gets the chance.

http://www.rollingstones.com/film/the-rolling-stones-ole-ole-ole-a-trip-across-latin-america/

 

[dmccarty]

... The British invasion, ..

When a show on PBS ends, they have 10-15 minutes of time to fill to the top of the hour. One of the fillers is about the Beatles return to the UK from the US. The film shows Heathrow, the plane landing and the huge crowd of women and teenage girls trying to mob the Beatles. The film shows the Beatles being hustled through the crowd that over ran the barricades and then being interviewed by the press. Unlike some singers today, the Beatles were actually articulate and understandable. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Our youngest teenager walked into the room while this film snippit was being shown. The kid was asking WHY these girls and women were screaming, freaking out, and pushing over/through the barricades? :laughing::laughing::laughing: We tried to explain but the teenager just could not understand what the excitement was all about. Then the interview came on and the kid was even more amazed at why there was this reaction.

To be honest, I never understood the excitement either and having to try to explain it sounded pretty lame to me too. :laughing::laughing::laughing: I like the Beatles music but Beatle Mania never made sense to me but it was before my time.

Later,
Dan

 

[PJSprog]

I was born in the mid-'60s as well, and was a teenager learning to play in the early '80s. However, I've always liked the rock music from the '70s best. Bands like Rush, Yes, Kansas, ELP, ... all completely original in sound and style. Seems like these days everyone sounds the same. That started happening in the '80s, too. I liked some of those metal bands (Loudness, Queensryche, Stryper), but was mostly into the progressive rock bands. Until I discovered the internet and the world (literally) of music it offers, I thought that there was no good music being made anymore. I couldn't have been more wrong. No matter what style you like, there are bands and solo artists all over the world playing just like you like it. You just have to look for it.

 

[dickfoster]

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!

My wife is also a native Angeleno. She went to highschool with Mike Love, older than my wife so a couple years ahead but his sister was one of her best friends. They all hung out at the Wich Stand including the rest of the Beach Boys.

My wife doesn't enjoy music nearly as much as I do. Some of the later day rock is OK just no rap crap or heavy metal please. 60's & 70's are generally my favorites. Do wah is OK too, I also enjoy good jazz, not the esoteric far out junk, cool jazz or the stuff you can listen to. I have a lot of later country, country rock I guess you'd call it. Even most of the classical stuff is good but mostly the baroque stuff. My test is if you can't hum it then it's no dayum good whatever they want to call it. Even big band is good for the most part. I'm so easy to please I'll even listen to New Age.

 

[dickfoster]

Monday night my wife and I went to see a limited showing of The Rolling Stones - Ole Ole Ole a Trip Across Latin America in a 48 seat theater with jumbo recliners... it was pretty entertaining! :laughing:

Its a documentary about their South American tour and what it took to get into Cuba to do a free show. Worth a view if anyone gets the chance.

The Rolling Stones – !Ole, Ole, Ole! A Trip Across Latin America | The Rolling Stones

I don't understand how all of those old codgers can still go on like that. After all those years of sex, drugs and rock and roll, how do they do it? I'd be dead or at least prostrate on the floor half way through the gig. Sex, drugs and rock and roll must not be that bad for you after all.

 

[murphy1244]

Alvin Lee the pride of Woodstock using the new sound of HOT pickups."I'm going home" Woodstock - Ten Years After - I'm Going Home(Live) - YouTube

 

[PJSprog]

I don't understand how all of those old codgers can still go on like that. After all those years of sex, drugs and rock and roll, how do they do it? I'd be dead or at least prostrate on the floor half way through the gig. Sex, drugs and rock and roll must not be that bad for you after all.