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I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s.

I feel sad for GenX'ers and millennials that missed out on two of the greatest decades for music. The 60s and 70s. 

Our generation had Aretha Franklin, Etta James, James Brown, Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Donna Summer, Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, The Kinks, The Stones, The Doors, Elton John, Velvet Underground and loads more

We saw these legends live during their peak, concert tickets were cheaper, music was the everything to youth culture, we actually brought album on a vinyl format (none of that crappy CDs or whatever the kids call it).

60s-70s were the greatest time to be a music fan.
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recluse
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I totally agree with MS59. My wife and I say that to each other all the time.

However, although we never saw these bands live, we did enjoy discovering them on the am radio night and day :-)

The 80s are mixed bag, 90s few and far between, and 2000s on, end game.

No Thanks to Napster.
recluse
268 posts
 
I recently saw Janis Ian live on the first SNL ever. I highly recommend it.I was blown away at how powerful it was.

Where has that kind of songwriting and performing been for the last 50 years?

Poetry has been reduced to text messages.
recluse
268 posts
 
I did enjoy the music of the 60s and 70s growing up, on the radio, just as the OP did most likely. There are local radio stations and sirius tunein etc that have the same format as we did, today.

I did go to concerts albeit of a later generation and experience that, fwiw.

I came to the realization that concerts are in reality less about the music, and especially large venues are overrated and really not all that.

So, what am I missing? Is your post in reality pulling from the universal nostalgia of youth? Many of us can sympathize.


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