Old, old, old

[Ricky D.]

They can still play pretty well. They still like to play. People still pay to see them. Nobody has to participate that doesn't want to. It's all good.

[jumpnblues]

Just do what I did and switch to bluegrass. I fit right in with the decor...gray hair, big bellies, wrinkles, etc. But I can still flat pick the heck outta' my guitar and mandolin.


Tom

[mal paso]

My initial reaction is, what do you care?


So you don't like it. They're not doing it for you. Shouldn't they be allowed to do whatever they want to do as long as faculties allow?


Surely they've earned that right?




Doing what you love to do for as long as possible seems pretty awesome to me

[fuzzbender]

Had Jimi lived

or is it all in the art of stopping

[cosmiccowboy]

Originally Posted by colorado

Damn straight. Old people smell funny.

Originally Posted by imsilly

Old people are old.

Ooo that smell
Can't ya smell that smell
Ooo that smell
The smell that surrounds you

[drb1346]

Originally Posted by 51Nocast

You play for yourself and those people who enjoy what you are doing. If or when no one else enjoys what you do, you will play for yourself.

Just as we all have different tastes in music we have opinions on what is acceptable to us.

What is the point of degrading other people ?

We all do it whether it's telling someone their guitar is ugly or telling someone they are too old to play in public.

I guess your thread really illustrates the folly in it. So you have accomplished something positive in spite of your comments.

Good one.

+1 My thoughts exactly!

[fuzzbender]

so,

like,

we know when to stop?

[fuzzbender]

If GB, et al, didn't exist

we'd have to invent thim

[Jack S]

I will play whatever I want until I die. I don't need permission from "Colorado" or anyone else. Music isn't about age, including rock and roll. If you don't like old guys playing it don't listen to them, but would you tell Chuck Berry he was too old to play his music?

[fuzzbender]

i'm probably wrong, but i'm reading this as more about the audience than the artist

[Thorby Bislam]

I saw a news clip the other day of a 70 year old body-building granny. (I'm sure someone will be along to post it soon, if they haven't already) It was quite the dilemma. Here was this 70 year old woman who instead of settling for playing bingo or vegetating in front of the tv, was out competing in body-building contests.
She was quite lithe and limber too, more so than some women half her age. And form the neck down she was hot. Gave me a funny feeling. Quite the dilemma.

[Maxwell Street]

OP...Just curious, whos young current and good that you like...? Who would you pay to see play...?

[Flemtone]

All music has had it's performers that played into old age - classical, jazz, blues, crooners, etc.. Now it's Rock n Roll's turn.
Watch the Stones' "Shine A Light" - While some people may find their swaggering and strutting silly or pathetic, I just see it as the always defiant Stones flippin' the bird to aging. And they bring it! The music is wonderful, and that's the whole point.

[stevehyphen]

I presume if I ask us all to define "rock and roll," age is not be mentioned. To me, a four year old scraping a chalkboard to annoy is just as "rock and roll" as an experienced player of age 95 being buried with his instrument. We can't just throw around an example saying the Rolling Stones used to be great, but now they're old and washed up. If we subscribe to thinking like that, then our opinions, at best, will just end as comparisons of musical taste. A pointless debate.

[Joe Baggadonitz]

I rarely chime in twice but whether the aforementioned aging rockstars should quit because they are too old, is irrelevant. They do whatever they want, why? because they can. They set the bar higher than anyone before them and anyone after them. Still pertinent? There are many who would ask, were they ever? Can they still sell tickets? Can they still fill halls, arenas and stadiums? Yes! and good for them.
If your too old to dig it, warm up a glass of milk, turn on L.Welk and maintain you 7:30 pm bedtime. We won't think any less of you, we'll just simply say you're old.

[Toto'sDad]

Well Robert Plant (Colorado) this is just taking things too far with your vendetta against Jagger. Since you give no personal info on your public profile, I'm pretty sure you must be Plant. You're probably posting from an old folks home. I'm 127 years old, I'm trying to make 127 and a quarter, we'll see how it goes from there. Do you even own a guitar? Wait a minute, Justin is that you?

[Throttleneck]

The music biz is just like the others. It is supply and demand brother.

If people want to pay to see/hear them, they will be playin. If you don't like it, don't listen.

Any which way, the one thing I am sure of is that they are smiling all the way to the bank. :)

[raito]

I'm not so sure the age of the performer is going to matter any more, but I've got a weird take on it all.

Music went from something you played, to something you saw performed, to something you heard from a recording. With the technology these days, nothing really gets lost. And with the file sharing (regardless of pro/con) and iTunes, et al., it's all available. And with radio becomgin very fragmented and the impending demise of the record publisher as it existed in the 20th century (my own opinion is that they'll becomes service bureaus to survive, or die), a musician is no longer competing against contemporaries, but against all the music ever recorded.

And in recorded music, the age of the performer doesn't matter.

Heck, I can easily see a future where a teenager decides he really likes ragtime, and that is what he imprints on, because the whole Top 40 thing becomes irrelevant.

[HiggyDude]

Colorado - not sure how old you are or your musical interests but...(yes I am a huge fan)..go to a Springsteen show and watch the whole band rock for 3 hours straight; then go to their next show 48 hours later and watch them rock for 3 hours straight. BTW - Bruce is 63 and others in the band are equally as old.....

[StratBluesRock]

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