God I wish I had time to answer all these..
I think you're 100% right Mr Gambrell. I pop those footballs nowadays.
I'm not resistant to change, I just don't..
"Somebody's Trailer is empty tonite". GREAT title for a waltz....
I work Days, and couldn't play an Emmins if my life Depend'ed on it. I count my sucess by the number of cigarette burns on stage at the places I play. WHen people ask me if I've ever played on one side or the other, I show them the equal amount of them on each side. and a bunch in the middle. In one place, about 15 years of them after they moved the bandstand..
Scott H. I think you've expressed my thoughts about "the young" in general probably better and more concise than I.
I know or knew several old people that revelled in new things, and were exited no end with the exuberance of young people. One lady named Violet that was a family friend and a retired english teacher used to button hole me at boring family functions and talk about the newest and wildest things for hours. Young people provided the spark for her. She was in her 80s at the time. We talked about Las Vegas, Surfing, New Music, and all kinds of things. She's now deceased, and I miss her at those boring family things..
Nope. The Young are our Destiny. Our Future.
Don't like the Deraillers, Green Day, Shania Twain, Cheryl Crow, David Lee Roth, Eminem, R R, loud noise, lewd and lascivious lyrics and gyrations? Then why do you have a porn collection and drool over young women in the supermarket?
Incidentally I was 12 yrs old when Hank Jr put out his first album, and I thought it topped his old man. Music wise. "Why do the Best Looking girls have real ugly friends" was one of my later faves. Too bad about the fall off the mountain I guess..
As far as the leeches, lawyers, music companies, and schemes for domination. I'll just say this.
A lot of the "Old guys" are about to have to jump out of windows, because not only is their precious Vinyl Monopoly in the toilet, but they're finding out that some of the BEST NEW ARTISTS don't even care if someone downloads their music, burns CDs of it and sells them on a bandstand. Let alone the state of all the mattress tag police, who will have to lock up their own Moms and kids if anybody ever gets serious about it.. Maybe they'll have to get jobs.
In a while I'll bring up the real roots of irreverent chord bashing, amp distortion, decadadent morals, shameless exhibitionism, and in general, all the things old people actually younger than these "musical miscreants" rail against so shrilly.
Some of these flagrant devils in disguise are 70. Some of them are 80. Some of them, if alive would be a hundred. Some a hell of a lot older than that.
As directed to "Music" in general, from the times of beating rocks and blowing on antler whistles,it's THE OLD that come the closest to "ruining music", however,in God's plan, as I see it, the world is usually shut of them before they wreak their havoc.
If I remember the written accounts, the Old People thought JS Bach whored around and played too may disturbing notes, and lust inciting chords.
Adolph Hitler castigated Jazz as the most vile spew of "lesser creatures" and tried his best to replace it with Wagner.
In short, music wise as well as otherwise The Young represent The Future. It's like a long train.
Get on it, or get under it.
As far as Country Music, I have a few hours sleep, and a 14 hour day to do paving before I put any more down.
Lots of stuff to think about here.
Thanks.
EJL
