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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I know a fellow and he seems pretty believable, says he went to a friend's house and low behold Jimi Hendrix showed up and they  smoked a joint together. Yes I smoked a joint with Hendrix is what he says. I want to say somewhere in New York? I'm assuming this is before he got famous?  I never got anymore details and never asked again but I'm thinking I will.  Or maybe a lot guys lay claim to this? I'm sure Jimi smoked with thousands of folks. Lot of us missed out. 

As long as there are those who do not recognize the difference between objective and subjective, this thread will go on and on and on. . . with people continuing to talk past one-another.  

 

go backwards towards the source-Classical and everything in between, there is ENDLESS discovery to be heard.

A friend of mine recently asked me why I didn’t expand my musical horizons by embracing new music. I told him I could discover "new" music without listening to anything recorded after 1995. Just yesterday, on this forum, I was made aware of a Tower of Power album from the 1970s that I had never heard. I agree with the OP. For contemporary music, the 60s and 70s were the golden age.

As long as we have ears, the human race will listen to music; right now my left ear is playing back Gimme Shelter by the RS and the right ear is playing back Schubert's  String Quintet .....not sure which will win out.......oh wait the Rolling Stones are being shoved out by Band-Maid's Obsession......fickle brain......

Brings to mind that wonderful line from Keenan Thompon on SNL, mocking grumbling Boomers and their whiny Millenial children: "I’m Gen X.  I just sit on the sidelines and watch the world burn.”