10-01-2011, 06:39
but like most people, I'm influenced by the era I grew up in. My older sisters listened to crooners like Johnny Ray and Perry Como, and I still like to hear that kind of music occasionally. I even got in on some late big band and early guitar pioneers like Les Paul (How High the Moon is still a favorite.)
But if you're a child of the 60s, it's always going to be the music of the 60s. There was so much experimentation and ferment going on then musically, from folk to folk rock to acid rock to the Beatles and many others. Despite the social unrest and turmoil of that time, one silver lining was the freshness and inventiveness of the music. I loved We Five and The Left Banke and Mary Hopkin, the Doors, Cream, the Who, the Animals, and the Youngbloods to name a few. Get Together was as popular in Vietnam when I was there as it was in the USA.
Sad to say, I find very little inventive or worthwhile in pop music in the US today, and most of my listening is to foreign groups.
But if you're a child of the 60s, it's always going to be the music of the 60s. There was so much experimentation and ferment going on then musically, from folk to folk rock to acid rock to the Beatles and many others. Despite the social unrest and turmoil of that time, one silver lining was the freshness and inventiveness of the music. I loved We Five and The Left Banke and Mary Hopkin, the Doors, Cream, the Who, the Animals, and the Youngbloods to name a few. Get Together was as popular in Vietnam when I was there as it was in the USA.
Sad to say, I find very little inventive or worthwhile in pop music in the US today, and most of my listening is to foreign groups.