The day the music died.

[DieselnHooters]

Hey...I really don't care for commercial music either...(and not trying to play "six degrees...") but since you mentioned 'Freebird"... One of Lynyrd Skynyrd's other hits was 'Call Me the Breeze'...written by J.J. Cale...!

Lynyrd Skynyrd's cover is good but it doesn't come anywhere close to the original by the man himself IMO

 

[HillStreet]

That was of course the day that Buddy Holley died. Lately though, we are losing some of what I would term "our generations" greats. David Bowie, Glenn Fry and a number of actors.

With a leap of faith, I get the feeling that many of the members are more or less my vintage (65)? If so, going back to the crazy days of the late sixties and early seventies, no matter what, we had some great music. Certainly much better than what IMHO is being made today. It seems like rock songs try to hard to cover to many themes, country is for those that cannot make it in the rock world, etc, etc.

Anyway, we are barely into the new year and everyday we hear of someone that once was (or perhaps still is) relavent passing on. RIP

I'm 63. Not only did we have great music, growing up in the 50s, 60s, and 70s was the absolute best time to grow up, in my opinion. Life was pretty simple with family activities, everybody had steady work, you could trust people, you could earn and save, college was affordable. Oh the good old days. And I'm not saying that people today can't be trusted, but in the general sense that society as a whole has declined to where you have to double check stuff before trusting like we used to.

 

[MossRoad]

Pretty much every generation, with the possible exception of the depression (the real depression, not 2008), will tell you their youth was the best time to grow up.

 

[Tomtint]

Can you imagine the conversation in 60 or so years when Beeber and Kanye die ( assuming they live a full life ) ... Everyone talking about how great their music was . .....eeeek.

 

[MossRoad]

Can you imagine the conversation is 60 or so years when Beeber and Kanye die ( assuming they live a full life ) ... Everyone talking about how great their music was . .....eeeek.

No. No I can't.

 

[DFB]

Can you imagine the conversation is 60 or so years when Beeber and Kanye die ( assuming they live a full life ) ... Everyone talking about how great their music was . .....eeeek.

Who?

 

[DuckSlayer1017]

Ok, I'm not old,37, but I'm not real sure many will care when Kanye and Bieber die. They will probably be forgotten in a few more years anyway. My 13 year old can't stand either one of them and my ten year old is with everyone else that thinks Bieber should be deported back to Canada. There are some good rock bands playing "today's music," but nothing compares to the stuff in the 60's and 70's IMO.

 

[Tomtint]

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Ok, I'm not old,37, but I'm not real sure many will care when Kanye and Bieber die. They will probably be forgotten in a few more years anyway. My 13 year old can't stand either one of them and my ten year old is with everyone else that thinks Bieber should be deported back to Canada. There are some good rock bands playing "today's music," but nothing compares to the stuff in the 60's and 70's IMO.

I grew up with 80s Rock and some earlier rock bands as well. Was never a Elvis fan but went to Graceland last year and did the tour. After that I started listening to him on Pandora. He really was a talented man.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Pretty much every generation, with the possible exception of the depression (the real depression, not 2008), will tell you their youth was the best time to grow up.

And many of those generations had some good music but I would argue that the music "heated up" as the sixties progressed like never before. We could argue about who was better than who or who did not get the credit that they deserved. Not much different than today?

Anyway, some good comments here. Familiar names we might not have thoght about lately. True, we lost many good musicians along the way due to various reasons. Here at the beginning of the year though, we do not seem to be off to a good start. It hits home when you know that these people are gone due to cancer or other maladies those of our vintage face.

 

[/pine]

Lynyrd Skynyrd's cover is good but it doesn't come anywhere close to the original by the man himself IMO

I wore both an 8-track and a cassette out of the album 'Naturally' until they were clear and would play no more...I think this is my favorite (self recorded) title though:

 

[DuckSlayer1017]

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I grew up with 80s Rock and some earlier rock bands as well. Was never a Elvis fan but went to Graceland last year and did the tour. After that I started listening to him on Pandora. He really was a talented man.

The mid-80's is about the earliest I can remember listening to music but I was never a huge fan of a lot of the rock of that era. The 90's had a lot more stuff I liked but now I find myself listening to a lot of the stuff from the 60's and 70's mixed with some modern alternative. I took The History of Rock as an elective in college and found that to be one of the most interesting classes I took in school. The best part was that we discussed how artists like Elvis were influenced by some of the old time country and blues artists. Rock really got its roots in country music and blues.

 

[Pixguy]

Speaking of "The day the music died"
Don McClean was recently arrested for domestic violence.

He is 70.
'American Pie' singer Don McLean arrested for domestic violence | Fox News

McLean's original manuscript and notes to "American Pie" sold at auction for $1.2 million in April. The 1971 hit was about the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959 — The Day the Music Died.

 

[CobyRupert]

Speaking of "The day the music died" Don McClean was recently arrested for domestic violence. He is 70. 'American Pie' singer Don McLean arrested for domestic violence | Fox News

Interesting, but why did the story have to bring up a 2013 speeding ticket he got driving his Chevy to the levy?
...ok, technically it was a Chrysler through a school zone, but still...

 

[Wagtail]

Thanks for posting Wag. A few thoughts/observations...

I was wondering what the heck the fire extinguisher was for... my first thought was that it was a lame prop for the song choice... but it soon became quite evident!

Second, what an interesting way to anneal your brass

Lastly, is that lipstick on the wall? :confused3:

:laughing: The brass isn't what gets a chuckle out of me, it's the expression on the bass players face! And no, that's not lipstick but markings from a living room couch. PMJ started out (and still does) recording these videos in his living room. Heh, he was eventually evicted from this New York apartment due to the live music. He's now based in L.A. and touring the world with this band of very talented musicians.

Getting back to 'todays music'... When Guns'n'Roses first came out, their hit song 'Sweet Child Of Mine' was played so much that it ruined it for me. So much so that whenever I would hear the first strain of guitar I would punch the radio off... then wait ten minutes before I'd turn it back on, just in case I hadn't waited long enough for that bloody song to have ended.

Then one day I was introduced to a New Orleans jazz singer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ3BAF_15yQ

I've been hooked ever since... and there's hope for 'todays music', as long as they play it like yesterday.

 

[sld]

The 80's rock and were the best. Ok, the 60's and 70's were pretty good too. (born in 1965)

 

[dmccarty]

I no longer listen to the radio, when one of my kids uses any of my vehicles as soon as I get in, my ears are assailed by what sounds like a sack of cats going through a chipper and that's if I'm lucky and it's not on a rap station.:banghead:

I bet your dad said they same thing. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

I know my dad did and I say the same about our kid's choice of "music." Well, some of it is not too bad... :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[kenmac]

Almost feels like the death of an old friend. Netflix has an excellent documentary "The History of the Eagles"... One of the best things I've watched in ages!

That's what their last tour was about.. The history of the Eagles...IMO, The best group of my era

 

[TripleR]

I bet your dad said they same thing. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

I know my dad did and I say the same about our kid's choice of "music." Well, some of it is not too bad... :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

Well if dad ever found out I had driven anything of "his", the music would be the very least of my worries, but you make a valid point. My dad's idea of good music was restricted to Flat and Skruggs, Little Jimmy Dickens etc. and I could not escape it.

I spare my kids as I never even turn my radio on.

 

[mark02tj]

Well if dad ever found out I had driven anything of "his", the music would be the very least of my worries, but you make a valid point. My dad's idea of good music was restricted to Flat and Skruggs, Little Jimmy Dickens etc. and I could not escape it.

I spare my kids as I never even turn my radio on.

Your dad is obviously a man of impeccable musical tastes. :thumbsup: Here's my normal radio station.

 

[TripleR]

Your dad is obviously a man of impeccable musical tastes. :thumbsup: Here's my normal radio station.

:laughing::laughing: Well there is country music and "country music", some I like, some is like finger nails on a chalk board. I liked Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings etc., but cannot handle the twangy, nasal sounding ones. Today's country music is often hard to categorize and separate from the other stuff and much easier to listen to than most rock music.

I'm pretty old, so I've long since accepted my tastes are way out of the mainstream.