Tricone
Friend of Leo's
I agree. I think there will always be a love and interest. I don't think the musical family tree will stop growing.
Will today's and future generations know the difference between "British Invasion" and classic American rock bands? Will they think it matters?
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sixstringbastard
Friend of Leo's
It doesn't really matter. Time moves on.
I suppose by the 19th Century it appealed to the aspirations of the emerging Bourgeoisie too.
gimmeatele
Friend of Leo's
The ones who want to know will, they are out there
I’m an X. I try to absorb as much music as I can. I know generations can’t be completely generalized regarding music taste. But I do know a lot of the rappers I listen to have very deep knowledge of popular music going all the way back to bebop, through Invasion to current EDM. A lot of those kids are really deep in theory too.
Obviously there’s no best music, we all like what we like. But whether or not a 20 year old likes or knows Herman’s Hermits is one thing. But understanding that what they steam today was influenced by 60s and 20s and 90s, etc. is to be assumed. There are a lot of really talented and curious kids out there.
I see all these clickbait links with text like "things only Boomers think are cool"
loopfinding
Poster Extraordinaire
it goes both ways.
40 years on and despite the fact that technically boomers created them, most boomers have little idea just how impactful hardcore punk or post punk were (the two genres that responded to punk).
pretty much every modern rock genre was influenced by hardcore or post punk. but to those who checked out of music by then, it just looks like modern rock is this impenetrable mystery that came out of nowhere after the punk "fad" died.
40 years on and despite the fact that technically boomers created them, most boomers have little idea just how impactful hardcore punk or post punk were (the two genres that responded to punk).
pretty much every modern rock genre was influenced by hardcore or post punk. but to those who checked out of music by then, it just looks like modern rock is this impenetrable mystery that came out of nowhere after the punk "fad" died.
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Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
Jazzophiliacs can paint a wide line between the old New Orleans and Dixieland styles and rattle off gods and angels of each.
Moral: Music nerds keep track. Normal people don't.
Moral: Music nerds keep track. Normal people don't.
buster poser
Poster Extraordinaire
I mean I'm an outlier too, but I don't think anything is lost in not arguing about various shades/eras of popular guitar rock music. It's an incredibly narrow frame that gets outsized exposure on guitar forums imo. In my own generation (X) there's majority ignorance about genre histories that we were alive for; punk, hip-hop, post-disco house/techno.
That may be the generational shift. Post-Internet music-interested young people are better equipped to learn recent musical history and it seems like many do, more than in my generation for sure.
They don't seem as slavish to conventions of genre or "radio," probably because some suit at Capitol or Clear Channel isn't gatekeeping any of us as creators or consumers to any real extent anymore, and that's a fairly recent development. Far fewer people are giving kids a predefined image or sound have to emulate if they want to "make it." They can listen to anything they want at any time, don't even have to pay for it in the main. If they're inspired to record something they can do it in their bedroom, share it with all their friends as soon as its done. I had a guitar, the radio, and whatever albums my family and friends owned. Whatever else that all means, I think it translates to greater exposure to more music and more creative freedom for all of us.
If one outcome is that this is the first generation of kids to mature beyond "who started punk" or "Cream vs Zeppelin" arguments, seems like an acceptable trade.
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
Top of the list: young people who don't call us boomers.
bottlenecker
Poster Extraordinaire
I may not know the answers to any other questions in this thread, but I know the answer to this one:
Yes.
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
'Zackly! It astonishes me when I run into seemingly normal young folks who actually love the Dead or the Doors or Tony Bennett or Aretha. I always want to know why they aren't more into current sounds.
On the other hand, I like listening to a lot of folks who were old or dead when I was born. So I get it. And I do appreciate the differences between, say, Delta and Piedmont or swing and jump.
Just another nerd, I guess. (See post 28.)
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Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
Ow ow ow. My high school music teacher couldn't pronounce Jimi Hendrix.
We didn't have the heart to correct him.
buster poser
Poster Extraordinaire
Next one down: Baby boomers who don't call every person under 45 "millennial."
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
I'm becoming acutely knowledgeable about those and other geriatric conditions.
Uh — what was the question?
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
No problem there. Too many syllables.
bottlenecker
Poster Extraordinaire
High school doesn't have a good track record with the rest of american history. It's the only subject that college professors hit reset on and start over. I hope they at least learned it was invented by thomas edison and pat boone.
Charlie Bernstein
Doctor of Teleocity
Have you read Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow? An intimate memoir of another world. A paper-and-ink time machine. Funny, inspiring, eye-opening, cautionary. Never a dull moment.
teletail
Friend of Leo's
Like every other question, some will care, some won't, some will grow to care. When I was a youngster, I listened to Led Zeppelin and didn't give a rat's posterior about Muddy Waters and all those old flatulants. Then I turned on to Eric Clapton and started to work my way back.
Does it matter is absolutely a legitimate answer. It matters to some, not to others.
Does it matter is absolutely a legitimate answer. It matters to some, not to others.
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