You know you're getting old when half (most?) of the artists on your "favourites" playlist have died

I remember when the Dead Sea was only sick

 

I misread that as music that you and your own band made. That gave me a small chuckle.

 

ok. I’m not that old I guess. But that exact line was stated in the movie I mentioned.

 

Paul is not dead. Francisco Franco still is

 

Thank goodness. Only one of my knees hurts. I'm only half way to old age.

 

When you tell ppl that you post and actively engage in messageboards

 

If, after the age of 50, you get up in the morning and nothing hurts...... you're already dead!

 

...when the movie you saw in the theatre has had 2 crappy "reboots"

 

What was the question again?

 

Spain exhumes late dictator Francisco Franco to move his remains

 

In 1990, when I was 20, I listened to a fair amount of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. I was familiar with artists like Earl Hines, Sidney Bechet, Count Basie, King Oliver, Glenn Miller, Fletcher Henderson, Bix Beiderbecke, etc.

I listened to a lot of ‘50s and ‘60s jazz and rock. The “Oldies” station was my favorite channel in high school.

I don’t expect every kid to be like me, but I’ve never bought the idea that of course kids would have no idea about old music and arts, or history, if it happened “before their time.” That’s not really an excuse for being totally ignorant of the past.

 

You know that "Jethro Tull" is a group, but you're not sure if "K-Pop" is . . . .

 

Twice as old!

 

When you think of SHF as this great new thing you've found, and they send you a 4th year trophy...

 

Half of my favourites are dead, too.

Bach, Bartok, Henry Cowell, Morton Feldman, Schoenberg, Harry Partch, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Steffan Wolpe, Gyorgi Ligeti.

But somehow I think it's to do with the fact that they were born before me, rather than my own age.

 

Jack Bruce, Chris Squire, Greg Lake, John Entwhistle, John Wetton .... all are dead and gone

 

Honestly, I never make Keith Richards jokes. It may be a way for some people to deal with the fact that he is mortal (the latter the better) but it makes me uneasy to do it now.

 

This intrigues me greatly. It's felt by almost everyone!

 

Ahem.

Animal is alive and well. Got together with him and the rest of The Electric Mayhem a few weeks ago for some beers, after I MC’d a gig of theirs. We stuck to beer... We don’t do the hard stuff anymore.

Also, as a long time Sesame Street cast member, Animal was never on Sesame Street. Contractual obligations.

 

More people need to learn from him!

 

I’d rather not.

 

Charlie’s Angels?

 

Exactly! When I discovered The Who in 1993 it seemed to me like they had broken up ages ago. But now Endless Wire is further back than The Who's break up was when I discovered them. Still amazes me. Predator, Lethal Weapon and Robocop are older now than Bridge on the River Kwai was when those movies were new.

 

To be fair, around that time in the early 90s there was a HUGE PR push celebrating rock's past... including The Who's Thirty Years of Maximum R&B that was released in 1994 and Woodstock '94 celebrating 25yrs since the original Woodstock to the Beatles Anthology series coming out with the tagline "It was 30 Years Ago Today"... all those kinds of PR moves will make things seem really old, especially to the young people being marketed to who weren't even born when these things current and culturally relevant.

I think media's fast evolution skews this as well... given that early footage of band like The Who and The Beatles are all in black & white only only after a few years do we see color video.

Of course with recent HD and 4K we'rer still going through a media evolution, but it doesn't seem/feel as drastic comparing video from say 1994 to 2019 as it does comparing video from 1969 to 1994 (both 25yr gaps).

 

Two of them died in traffic accidents.
The deaths of Hendrix, Janis Joplin and John Bonham were self-inflicted.
How does that make you feel getting old?