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For my Grandfather, my Uncles, My Dad, and my hero son, you are all Patriots and the defenders of our Freedom and Liberty.
God save our Constitution, our liberty, our freedom, and the nation where individual rights can be defended.
IMHO, another Marine who deserves recognition for his contributions to Music and Freedom is my ol bud, Toy...even Augie always said " he was a good Marine" re: T.T.Caldwell jr.
So, on this Veterans Day... may we PLEASE, HONOR those who served our great nation... thanks
"LOVE & THOUGHTS to those Under the Weather and Over the Rainbow "
I too am grateful for the moderators. This site had regained a good bit of the old feel, sans those good folks who'd moved on, the past few weeks.
:birthday: #238, USMC......(Nov. 10, 1775)
Semper Fi.........RD
Last year At Gabbfest... with our dearly departed EAL
http://youtu.be/ZMAZD2fsn4w
Duane's Goldtop & Berry's TRACTOR
spent the day with the Michael Allman Band...
I always feel LIZZIE's presence when they do Whipping Post...
she has that everlasting mojo that finds me when i need it most
GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN
LOVE TO ALL Y'all
Thanks, Capn.
38 years ago this day
http://youtu.be/hgI8bta-7aw
Father of the Year? really?
Ignoring Prine has become easy, for the mods will take care of it.
Pinto, thanks for the reply. Subtle takes on music are cool and if I had to say any one thing, haha the last real rocker I have heard in years come out of the gate was Lenny Kravtiz. HE has the type style and groove to make it all work, mixing Zep with James Brown...that man has the passion.
I think we would all pretty much agree that whereas we had new acts of ass-kicking music coming out to tour literally year after year, nowdays that does not appear to be the case.
This week I celebrated two anniversaries; the passing of my Mother in 1975, and a very special anniversary that marks another chapter in my life unfolding now. In both cases, I am a blessed Man to know the lessons of life from long ago help shape who I am today, and how that works so well.
When I do a self gut check, I am filled with such warmth and love that for example, the posts of a truly mentally insane person posting here simply has no weight or bearing. The mods will delete the nonsense, and we normal people move forward.
Coffe in hand, I appreciate friends here, the mods here, the little disagreements here, and the music. Its all good.
Happy Sunday.
Rick
"Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When you belittle, you be little
when you be grateful, you be great
~ me
Rick, I agree with you that we grew up in the best era of rock and roll, but my kids or their friends would never agree with that. To them the music of the 90's is king. I went to a Reliant K/Switchfoot concert with my daughter one time and that was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I've also seen some punk rock bands in Columbia who were excellent. A member of one of those bands called Stretch Armstrong was my son's 23 year old high school US History teacher. Trust me, those guys worked just as hard, and were as highly motivated and creative as the artists of our day. I think they want their own sound and their own identity and sometimes we old farts just don't want to give them their due.
The guy I play guitar with takes lessons from the best guitarist in Columbia, SC, and they have recitals which I always attend and there are an abundance of great new young musicians on the rise today - 14 and 15 year old kids who can blow Mike and me out of the water with their playing. I am amazed at the creativity of those kids, but they usually gravitate toward and emulate the popular artists of today so all that energy and creativity is syphoned off in a different direction than you or I would like but it's undeniably out there. Kids are born rebellious. They want to be unique and different from their parents. Rock is supposed to be anti-establishment and we and our music is now the establishment. Like ol' Pete Townsend says, "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss." The youth are where it's at! They are the ones writing the rule books of today and I don't think they could screw it up any worse than our generation has. They have a lot to be angry about.
Hey y'all ! when the ABB got on Stage they were quite far from Rock n Roll in the ears of traditonal listeners and so the story goes on. My parents complained about the boom boom stuff coming out my room. Now its the same with me listening to maistream radio. Just sorry for the young folks...
Though,now and then there are artists like Kid Rock just to name one who keep the spirit alive and popular,just my two cents.
Backbeat stays,cant lose it...
Pinto says Rock and Roll has always been about youth. Such a benchmark is actually not correct Pinto.
I dont know about your old man, but rock was created in my generation, or slightly before. And the foundation of rock was embedded in youth, but it was never about youth. It was about creativity, and passion, and social issues of the day, and grits and groceries, and Melissa if you get the point.
My point is that music today has gravitated into something that does not resemble...at all....the passions and the World of yesterday, that was my point actually. If one reads my post, they will read that you cannot go back with a young person of today, and make those old songs sond the same. Or at least it is rare...that was the point.
If you think rock of today is cool, then cool for you. I don't, and those like me are the ones shelling out the big bucks to see the old men and women of rock over the kids of rock.
Rick, you kind of sound like my old man. I remember my parents hated the Stones, the Beatles, the Allman Brothers, etc. Big effing deal to me if they didn't like it - it made me like it that much more.
Rock and roll has always been and will always be about youth. It was for teenagers growing up in the 50's on up to today. That crap we listen to is 40 years old. It's our music but it ain't the music of today's youth and to that I say good for them. Our generation has screwed up the entire future for them so they at the very least should be entitled to create their own music born of all the passions of their youthful generation.
I watch the Palladia channel quite a bit and see all kinds of super talented young musicians cranking out some very explosive rhythmic stuff. Watch Jules Holland or check out some of the concerts they televise over there. It's not crap - it's the music of the new generation. We are getting old, resistant to change, and the world is leaving us behind. What we cling to is the same old stuff we've clung to for forty years. We've become our grandparents, except for the most part, not nearly as good.
Pretty cool...enjoy
http://music.yahoo.com/video/playlist/ram-country/ricky-skaggs-bruce-hornsby-way-172445522.html
Good Morning and Happy Saturday to the regulars here.
I had a few minutes to watch the boob tube, and watched an episode of the X Factor. Let me ask, is that representative of music today? Holy crap...
If it is, then mainstream rock is a pile of crap. Where is the lead guitar player anymore? Where is excellence in songwriting? I watched a group of kids singing classics, and NONE of them felt real or genuine....did they understand even the message in the song? Wow...
I get it that the world has changed, and the passions of music in the 60's and early 70's cannot be replicated in the World today. Its a totally different place. So to hear a young person today sing a Marvin Gaye tune, well, its likely to be rough..
Oh, well. Im getting old. My music is not a fit perhaps in the World of today, and I am cool with it. All things change and all I can say is my generation truly had the best of music, so I lived in the best of times as it relates to music. No going back, and apparently from what I can tell, the current genre of music is pretty bad to these old ears.
Time for coffee. Enjoy the day!!
Rick
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