Music of My Youth….Feeling Old.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I'm 38 and I don't consider myself 'old' quite just yet BUT I do consider myself too old to appreciate dubstep for instance

That said I'm not really bothered that I can't appreciate dubstep

Did you laugh at fart noises when you were 3/4 years old? Same thing!

never didn't laugh at fart noises

I just have to share, the eight year old in me thinks that this is funny as hell. Enjoy.

[jacqueslacouth]

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[Turello]

Dear Jacques, I'm 33 old and I've grown with King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd etc etc... And listening the "music" of today I think We are really Lucky!!!

A month ago my two sisters call me to make me his next big thing... This...



I make them listen this...

They remains shocked!

[jacqueslacouth]

Gone

[Hink]

I think the truly lucky part of being my age is that I have been able to see so many great bands without paying through the nose for the privilige of subscribing to the myth of celebrity. When playing support for better known bands we would sit down for a beer or 10 after the gig, no farking egos, a fraternity of musos. It was a good time, no incessant bitching about which synth fart was made by which synth and which has the snappiest filter…..Nope…the talk was about that night's set, songs we were working on and most importantly "did you see that hotty in the second row and whose shout is it"…..Ahhh, those were the days!

concerts +1 billion, damn I saw a lot of great shows and stopped when prices hit 28 bux ...but honestly, the best thing about our generation or at least my age really is the fact that technology when it comes to music seems to have grown along side of my own growth as an artist. I always feel privileged that I was able to grow as a musician in the age I did...truly I can say I have been fortunate to ride that wave

[fluffy_little_something]

I feel old as well in terms of music, my key years were the late 70s and early 80s, the analog times. Since someone mentioned him, I still remember the news on the radio that Marvin Gaye was killed, it feels like yesterday, but it was 30 years ago. My memory is still pretty good so I am often astounded how long ago this or that event was. And the speed with which times seems to fly is a bit scary. Another 30 years and I will long be gone.

The funny thing is that I look much younger than I am, people always assume I am a generation younger than I actually am And except for music and gadgets I don't feel nearly as old as I am, either. Sure, vision doesn't get any better, time to finally get glasses I suppose My hearing is still pretty good, glad I never went to concerts or night clubs etc. Sometimes girls in their 20s look and smile at me as if they liked me, and it feels strange and wrong somehow

But as long as I have my old music on my computer and backup pen drives, I don't care what modern music sounds like. Occasionally I do hear new songs that I like (for instance FKA Twigs), but I don't look for it, I stumble upon it accidentally on the radio. But I think good music requires memories of special events or good times in order to become great music, favorites for decades to come. Else it is just good music, intellectually or whatever, and loses its charm within weeks or months. Strangely, I feel closer to Lena Horne or Frank Sinatra than to FKA Twigs, for instance. FKA Twigs sounds more impressive sound-wise, but Lena Horne's and Frank Sinatra's music touches me somehow.

[jacqueslacouth]

gone

[beltrom]

Regarding age, I feel like I've been old since my early twenties, maybe earlier, it's part of my personality. At the same time like most others I'm a kid at heart.

I'm quite stuck with the music I got into when i was younger (late 60's to mid 80's), but I try to stay open. And it's not necessarily the artists, more type of music, perceived view of music or even my impression of attitude of the artist. I've "picked up" a lot of bands and artists after '85 but if I'm honest there's always something about them that strikes some nostalgic chord. Both my kids (son and daughter in their mid twenties) really likes a lot of "my" music and always have. They mix them in with contemporary stuff without even thinking about it. They've even promoted some "ancient" artists to their own age group that way.

We send each other any nice finds so I get exposed to new "younger" stuff (they think i would like) that way as well and I've even introduced them to some new (young) artists they didn't know of over the years.

Latest thing my daughter mailed me was ethnic (in style, I know the hang is recent). It was a video of a girl playing a hang, she said "you have to get a drum like that" and I replied - "I already kind of have, in Kontakt."

[damoog]

I'm 38 and I don't consider myself 'old' quite just yet BUT I do consider myself too old to appreciate dubstep for instance

That said I'm not really bothered that I can't appreciate dubstep

Did you laugh at fart noises when you were 3/4 years old? Same thing!

I still laughed at fart noises right up to my teens....SHIT I still do!

[Bombadil]

Deleted for excess sentimentality.

[beltrom]

Deleted for excess sentimentality.

Nice title for a song or an album...

[kingtubby]

...I often get a little sad when I see the catfights that break out here, especially when it gets so personal. The world has more than enough anger and sadness, we are musicians, we are the blessed and we have a common passion to give joy through our music…passionate but always in union…friends, because god knows, the world needs this.

[rcat]

I was 2 years out of high school, driving over to the Fillmore in S.F., attending concerts that included acts like Hendrix and Cream on the same bill, and receiving free LSD at the door. All this for $3.95 for the concert and a few gallons of gas at 25 cents per gallon. The last concert I attended was Peter Gabriel at Oakland a few years ago, and it cost the wife and I over $400.00 for tickets. We don't attend concerts anymore.

[Sparky77]

..Jeez, I thought The Beatles were ancient in '78…

Feeling VERY old

Kids today listen to the Beatles and love it.

They will never get too old.

[Numanoid]

the music world dominated by Glenn Miller, The Andrews Sisters, Tommy Dorcy, Frank Sinatra and so on…..

Shostakovich wrote his best stuff during that time.

His tenth symphony is among my favourite pieces of music