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Nigel w wrote: So it can be quite fascinating hearing the best writers - Young and Dylan and James Taylor and Cohen etc - sing about mortality and your kids leaving home and the stuff that's happening in our own post-50 lives rather than what we were doing 30 or 40 years ago.
..I know that if I go there I'll see myself reflected in the faces of all the old crones wandering around from stage to stage browsing the attractions as distractedly as they might in a shopping mall or at a car boot sale, not entirely sure why they are there.
will vine wrote:here's a film of the Cropredy Festival of, I think, 2012....the 45th anniversary of Fairport Convention. One look at the physical state of the band and the crowd and I just can't help thinking, Dear God, Let it go! The audience, now pasty-faced, fat, bald, and grey are rooted to picnic chairs, fretful as to whether they've set the tv to record Countryfile while they're away paying homage. They wear funny hats and sing along when bidden. For all the world it looks like a care home entertainment. .
Adam Blake wrote: I still loved then what I always loved and still love now: basically the whole rock'n'roll THING from 1955 to about 1980, but I wanted to hear music that came from the heart and that was made by people who knew what they were doing. The stupid experimentalism of cack handed amateurs armed with some half-baked "post-rock" manifesto they had picked up from Ian Penman or Paul Morley's pontifications in NME seemed so pathetic compared to Muddy Waters or Duke Ellington.
AndyM wrote:In defence of the early 80s (oh why do I even try!?!), the stuff you berate here was by no means the whole story.
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