Zoomer Country Bands sing along to Boy Bands in the travel van

[telequacktastic]

When I was coming up playing road gigs I used to play with guys who were older than me. Lately I've been really missing those days. We'd have a 4 hour drive to soundcheck and there'd be time to listen to full albums. That's where I first heard and was exposed to a lot of great tunes that I wouldn't have heard had I not been around the older players.

This past weekend I went on a run with a band with a bunch of zoomers who listen to Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and Britney Spears and sing along at the top of their lungs. Then we get back Sunday morning and they want to call band practice on Tuesday....

Anyone want a gig? I'm out

Ask Me Anything...

 

[Fiesta Red]

There’s two kinds of music:

Good and Bad.

I’ve been playing (off and on) with a lot of folks younger than me—17 to 35–and the music they find “nostalgic” is kinda appalling on occasion…but they also will pull out some good jams that are new-to-me.

They’re also open to listening to my stuff—either songs I love or songs I wrote—so it’s a symbiotic thing.

Make a compromise—ask them to listen to yours on the way there and you listen to theirs on the way back.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

There’s two kinds of music:

Good and Bad.

I’ve been playing (off and on) with a lot of folks younger than me—17 to 35–and the music they find “nostalgic” is kinda appalling on occasion…but they also will pull out some good jams that are new-to-me.

They’re also open to listening to my stuff—either songs I love or songs I wrote—so it’s a symbiotic thing.

Make a compromise—ask them to listen to yours on the way there and you listen to theirs on the way back.

My dos centavos: You're right, there are some golden needles in the haystrack. But Britney Spears is BS, and that's a Brit too far. Any compromise at this point is a lose-lose. I mean, what would you pay to not hear that voice?

There was terrible popular music when I was young, too. (Think Gary Puckett. Think Wayne Newton.*) But I had enough ears to know it! Wouldn't have subjected anyone else to it, much less myself!

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*Tried, but couldn't think of any sixties women singers as bad as most of the current crop.

 

[telequacktastic]

My dos centavos: You're right, there are some golden needles in the haystrack. But Britney Spears is BS, and that's a Brit too far. Any compromise at this point is a lose-lose. I mean, what would you pay to not hear that voice?

There was terrible popular music when I was young, too. (Think Gary Puckett. Think Wayne Newton.*) But I had enough ears to know it! Wouldn't have subjected anyone else to it, much less myself!

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*Tried, but couldn't think of any sixties women singers as bad as most of the current crop.

You get me. Apparently I have family in Maine.