Tricone
Friend of Leo's
Mr.Lou Tencodpees. Sir. Those aren't eggs.
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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Tricone
Friend of Leo's
I think it will be in good hands. Maybe not as many, maybe more. But good hands all the same.
Most of the guys I still see from High School (I quit, in 1973) are still listening to their teenaged playlists. I feel like a stranger, as soon as the subject of music comes up.
I talk to lots of young players, at gigs and in rehearsal places. Plenty want to talk about gear and technique- hardly any, about '60s and '70s music. Spotify and YouTube changed everything: they can see and listen to most anything, without some biased old guy, curating it and adding his opinions. If they want recommendations, I always point them to artists from a time before Blues-Rock evolved.
So no....I doubt anyone under 50, apart from musicologists, gives a monkey's about these distinctions and their importance will continue to decline, as my demographic loses it's faculties.
I talk to lots of young players, at gigs and in rehearsal places. Plenty want to talk about gear and technique- hardly any, about '60s and '70s music. Spotify and YouTube changed everything: they can see and listen to most anything, without some biased old guy, curating it and adding his opinions. If they want recommendations, I always point them to artists from a time before Blues-Rock evolved.
So no....I doubt anyone under 50, apart from musicologists, gives a monkey's about these distinctions and their importance will continue to decline, as my demographic loses it's faculties.
Only matters if someone is going to put it in a textbook and it somehow becomes part of a history curriculum in a required course somewhere 
Otherwise, who cares about labels? Just be grateful if they even listen to it
Otherwise, who cares about labels? Just be grateful if they even listen to it 
what matters is what's jumpin' of the band
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Are you Quotienting Oppenheimer?Only matters if someone is going to put it in a textbook and it somehow becomes part of a history curriculum in a required course somewhere
Quotienting? Or, did you mean questioning?
If you meant questioning, I don't think Oppenheimer would care if future generations know the difference between "British Invasion" and classic American rock bands either
metalicaster
Friend of Leo's
Boomers tend to think they’re older than they are. Maybe they’re trying to avoid the blame for disco by going for earlier stuff.
sax4blues
Poster Extraordinaire
I barely knew what my dad listened to and had no idea/care what my grandpa listened to. Why should any other generation care about what I listened to?
No they won't know.
They will be concerned with putting foot on the table.
They will be concerned with putting foot on the table.
Boomers may refer to older historic stuff for two reasons.
(Not related to how old we think we are)
1) As a kid I saw The Platters play live, and they werw a still active band credited with the formulation of Rock n Roll.
They and many others, during the boomers youth, created or forged new styles very quickly, so quickly that several generations of music styles all existed at thw same time.
2) Boomers wanting to learn to be musicians (not just learn to operate a musical insteument) had the Mel Bay type source and vinyl records with album notes. These records in used shops mixed decades of music styles growing all in the same bins.
We bought them, listened over and over, read liner notes, learned who each player was influenced by or even played with as a junior, and basically studied decades of music history to be able to play some riffs on a Silvertone from the 5&10. Or a $100 Strat.
Part of our old timey boomer learnin' included stuff like Dads in the garage teaching us to fix lawn mowers and dirt bikes, build radio shack and heathkit electronics, maybe make gas powered model airplanes or go karts etc.
And we in my experience knew old timers in the neighborhood who had older mechanical stuff and knowledge, codgers who would teach us hands on fixing cars etc, maybe lend us tool to build treehouses.
Doing stuff was hands on and learning stuff was going to older people from the past who could teach us.
A kid in the 1960s was connected to history by old people in the community as well as by a system of learning that was really not a system, we had to dig around and hunt.
Now tots get earbuds plugged into ipads and start learning really quite differently.
Dads seldom touch oily engines or help kids build go karts.
Kids have little reason to be curious about old timers who remember history.
And if learning guitar in 1966 or 76 or 86 included listening to Robert Johnson records from 1936, that looks like a natural connection to history.
Not a delusion.
Rockinvet
Friend of Leo's
No I don't think it will matter to them at all. Rap is their music.
well I don't know what I think about what they think but then
I don't even know who they are.
I don't even know who they are.
Doesn’t the answer hinge to a degree on the definition of the British Invasion and what bands were a part of that, and what time period? Same for the American classic rock band side of things. British Invasion and American Classic Rock Bands can be a very wide collection of groups. I have heard a number of one hit wonder bands played on Classic Rock stations for years. Most were American, some from the sixties, many later. British Invasion- Dave Clark Five, Jerry and the Pacemakers, Herman’s Hermits, early Stones, early Beatles, maybe even very early Yardbirds, Eric Burdon and the Animals, early Who. Do you include in the American side stuff that coms after the British Invasion. Isn’t this more or less an academic exercise? Like differentiating folk blues from delta blues from Chicago Blues?
It is an interesting question, and in the future some will take the time to sort it out, some won’t care. And for those that won’t care, that’s a piece of music history they won’t have an an opportunity to appreciate. Personally, I find the history of what came before all very interesting. For others, it just is not the effort expended. And so it goes…
It is an interesting question, and in the future some will take the time to sort it out, some won’t care. And for those that won’t care, that’s a piece of music history they won’t have an an opportunity to appreciate. Personally, I find the history of what came before all very interesting. For others, it just is not the effort expended. And so it goes…
Boomer here and I already don't care
I have NEVER had the urge to categorize and sort the music I listen to.
Whenever someone asks me what kind of music I listen to, I always answer "a little bit of everything."
I have NEVER had the urge to categorize and sort the music I listen to.
Whenever someone asks me what kind of music I listen to, I always answer "a little bit of everything."
Brit invasion songs were often recorded with WEM or VOX amps in Brit studios, using Brit power tubes and transformers. (May have got this idea from VG mag or Gerald Weber.)
Therefore you can tell bands like Animals, early Beatles, Stones, or Kinks from the first notes of the record.
Therefore you can tell bands like Animals, early Beatles, Stones, or Kinks from the first notes of the record.
Millennial reporting in:
I know which bands are British and which bands are American, but I don't know the term British Invasion as a genre compared to classic rock.
I also have a much more compressed view of the 50s, 60s, and 70s - I'm vaguely aware that music didn't start getting cool until the mid 60s. I like Rubber Soul and Let it Bleed as much as I do Morrison Hotel, which is to say... a lot.
Frankly, I don't listen to classic rock as much now as I did as a teen riding shotgun with my dad and listening to classic rock radio. At the time that label covered everything from the Stones to Stone Temple Pilots.
I know which bands are British and which bands are American, but I don't know the term British Invasion as a genre compared to classic rock.
I also have a much more compressed view of the 50s, 60s, and 70s - I'm vaguely aware that music didn't start getting cool until the mid 60s. I like Rubber Soul and Let it Bleed as much as I do Morrison Hotel, which is to say... a lot.
Frankly, I don't listen to classic rock as much now as I did as a teen riding shotgun with my dad and listening to classic rock radio. At the time that label covered everything from the Stones to Stone Temple Pilots.
sax4blues
Poster Extraordinaire
Funny, 60's is when my dad says music went in the toilet.
It donut matter.
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