Baz
Junior Member
I was asked in a forum once why I was STUCK in the 60's and 70's........actually, it is often said that the golden age of music, rock and folk/rock, was from Kennedy's assassination thru the arrival of disco.
Be that as it may, that area is indeed the most fertile for me, and my question back was why would I have to 'explain' my infatuation with that period of music, esp. when the question asked of me was why I was so closed to today's music. Very simply, it is true I find very little good music from today's younger performers.....But here's the essence: music is like food....what you like is not for me to judge....I don't ask people to explain their tastes....but moreover, do we ask an aficionado of classical why they spend so much time listening to the Baroque Period, or to the Romantics; do we ask fans of Jazz, often portrayed as the ultimeate in 'cool', why they are 'stuck' in the period that featured Bird, early Miles, Brubeck, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Mingus and on and on......Are they closed to modern music???....Of course not, but they are devotees of an extraordinarily rich time in jazz.
So for me, it is Beatles to Stones, Moodies to Steely, Doobies to Paxton, Traffic to Cream, Dylan to Donovan......and on and on and on.......Looking forward to talking about all music with you folks.
Be that as it may, that area is indeed the most fertile for me, and my question back was why would I have to 'explain' my infatuation with that period of music, esp. when the question asked of me was why I was so closed to today's music. Very simply, it is true I find very little good music from today's younger performers.....But here's the essence: music is like food....what you like is not for me to judge....I don't ask people to explain their tastes....but moreover, do we ask an aficionado of classical why they spend so much time listening to the Baroque Period, or to the Romantics; do we ask fans of Jazz, often portrayed as the ultimeate in 'cool', why they are 'stuck' in the period that featured Bird, early Miles, Brubeck, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Mingus and on and on......Are they closed to modern music???....Of course not, but they are devotees of an extraordinarily rich time in jazz.
So for me, it is Beatles to Stones, Moodies to Steely, Doobies to Paxton, Traffic to Cream, Dylan to Donovan......and on and on and on.......Looking forward to talking about all music with you folks.