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

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.

There is a book out on Steve Goodman called "Facing the Music". Does anyone have it? There is a CD in the back with twenty some rare Goodman tracks. I did the CD for the author Clay Eals. He was in town a couple of years ago. He was invited to give a talk to a college class at Muhlenburg College. The professor is a friend of mine so I was invited to sit in on the talk. Now these two men are the epitome of the sixties. Intelligent, articulate and likeable. BUT, tried as they did to convey how good Steve Goodmans music is and why younger people need to hear it was LOST on the entire class. (Maybe 30 students). Some asked questions and tried to understand and appreciate what was said but there were no converts that day. It was an interesting hour however. Joe

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.

I’m listening now to a stream of the Temptations’ "My Girl". It was "new music" when I first heard it in 1965, I was 13 years old. It meant little more to me then than a good dance/party tune. Cool tune, but, eh, no big deal. That is definitely NOT my experience with that song, or any of that music, today...steaming in 2021 from Tidal off my macbook to an iFi hip dac to my Grado Hemps (not my main setup..just working at the desk). Good God...I almost missed it then, and I was living in it. It just washed over me. But today, old salty dog that I am now, I can appreciate it’s art and it’s genius. I was too inexperienced back then to fully recognize it. And I certainly didn’t have the tech then I have now. I listened to that record on 45 rpm, spinning on my mom’s Sears/Roebuck turntable, embedded in a hulking piece of furniture. I’m not so sure if youngster’ have missed out, but I realize today I didn’t always know what gold I had in my hands back then either. Ah..the paradox of finally figuring it out, but nearer the end of everything. Thank God for these recordings...in whatever decent format they can be found. I use them all, but prefer vinyl, though I’m not hung-up on which format is best. Just listening to all that wonderful genius again, appreciating it. Bliss.

I'm 70 years old and as far as I'm concerned, there's been plenty of wonderful music that I love and plenty of rubbish in any decade you care to mention. If I start going on about how 'today's music is no good', please remind me not to be my parents.