I miss back when. . .

[cannon_fodder]

Can't argue with you there AMP.  There are some very good artists today (Dfest much?) - but most Top40 stuff is total crap.  Most popular songs totally meaningless.

Even rappers, who started off as "meaning" inspired, quickly turned to crap (bling bling look at my car and hos).

Jim, Janis, Jimi.  Many good artists are from the 60's.  I give you that one hands down.

[FOTD]

Oh martyrdom.....Fodder for the dead musicians thread.

KELI and KAKC ruled.

The line for pitchforks forms on the left...torches on the right!
TulsaNow's Itinerant Exorcism Servicer

[rwarn17588]

quote:Originally posted by AMP

While some audio buffs will argue the quality of digital recording is better than analog, and the storage is much eaiser for mobile use, however, if you were around in the 60's most will agree that the content, meaning and talent of the artists of the music being recorded on reel to reel tape then far outweighs that of today.

Which seems to ignore that there was plenty of crap in the 1960s, too. Lord knows I waded through literally hundreds of LPs from that era of self-indulgent, bloated and ultimately awful songs, searching for a diamond or two good, concise songwriting and hooks.

Give me 2- to 3-minute songs any day. And please keep the guitar solos (which are strictly optional) short. Seems like the only band from that era that understood was CCR.

I love my iPod, and I'm never going back to the foolishness of music collections that take up half the living room and a behemoth stereo system that takes up the other half. I got it all with me, in a space of a cigarette pack.

The good old days are now.

[Hometown]

AMP, I've liked you since the first post of yours that I read.  I know we've disagreed but I can't remember what it was about.  And I love these memories.  Thank you so much.

Waterboy is right.  The good old days ended in 1980 when we started celebrating greed.

I think each generation has their good old days.  Their sense of simplicity at the beginning.  Their sense of impossible odds by the time they are 50.  Each generation is destined to become the old regime.  Radical me has become the status quo.  My imperfect English has become textbook.  (Watch it Pmcalk.  I'm sensitive.)

Tulsa was probably never as good as we thought it was.  But it was plenty fine.  The girls were so beautiful and smart.  The boys so brave and strong and handsome.

Think of all the people that have died.  Think of the 18 year olds that died in Vietnam.  Or the AIDs patients that died in the 1980s.  The '21 Riot Survivors that died without knowing that we would know what happened.

There's a song.  All the people that died.  Was that Brian Ferry?  I can't remember but it doesn't matter.

[cannon_fodder]

quote:The girls were so beautiful and smart. The boys so brave and strong and handsome.

See, this is where I get confused.  Are you arguing that the girls are now ugly and stupid and the boys cowardly, weak and hideous?

[Hometown]

Oh my goodness no.  I can't imagine anyone more fetching that the ladies today or the dashing Okie men with their little devil beards.

But I did lose my virginity on a hill in South Tulsa.  If you find it let me know because there's nothing like being young and in love for the first time.  Some day we can talk about poetry and cities and the first blush of spring in beautiful Tulsa.

[danno]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

In the good old days, before catalytic converters,  when gas had real lead in it (as did the paint), and aerosol was real chlorofluorocarbon.   Asbestos was used for everything.  Smoking was encouraged.  Waste treatment meant waste dumping.  Mercury was both a planet and something to play with when you smashed a thermometer.  

Good old days...I love it. Now we have people starting threads asking how they can have smokers ticketed because they can't stand the smell. I think you baby boomers are the biggest hypocrites.

[waterboy]

Thanks. We like you guys too.[] Overpaid slackers are so like, real, dude.

[Double A]

quote:Originally posted by danno
I think you baby boomers are the biggest hypocrites.

+1

[AMP]

I never liked cigarettes or their oder from day one.  Always thought they should be illegal from the start, tobacco and alcohol.

Bottom of the barrel drugs. Yuck!

I have not changed my position on those two substances ever.

[Hometown]

quote:Originally posted by danno

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

In the good old days, before catalytic converters,  when gas had real lead in it (as did the paint), and aerosol was real chlorofluorocarbon.   Asbestos was used for everything.  Smoking was encouraged.  Waste treatment meant waste dumping.  Mercury was both a planet and something to play with when you smashed a thermometer.  

Good old days...I love it. Now we have people starting threads asking how they can have smokers ticketed because they can't stand the smell. I think you baby boomers are the biggest hypocrites.

It must be tough spending your life living in the shadow of the Boom.  

Try inventing something new for a change.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

Oh my goodness no.  I can't imagine anyone more fetching that the ladies today or the dashing Okie men with their little devil beards.

But I did lose my virginity on a hill in South Tulsa.  If you find it let me know because there's nothing like being young and in love for the first time.  Some day we can talk about poetry and cities and the first blush of spring in beautiful Tulsa.

Turkey Mountain?  [:O]

[Hometown]

South of 81st off of Sheridan and up a hill.  Look for the little candle burning by the roadside and say a prayer for Hometown.

[Oklahomalady]

Well all this talk brings back some good memories. My dad owned a Deep Rock Service Station back in the 60's. It was located in a small town of 600 people. The local Coop Station, the Champion station and my dad would all have gas wars. I can remember it going as low as .8 cents a gallon.
Daddy had a bay where he washed cars and also worked on cars. He gave everyone full service. He washed their wind shields, checked the oil, and checked tires. He was all the time giving little things such as ice scrapers away. He always had his name on whatever he gave out.
He also sold Tom's peanuts and candies. .5 cents each! Ice cold pop was sold for .10 cents a bottle.
Over to the side of the station is where all the guys in town would end up drooling over the beauties my dad had bought and fixed up to sale. The boys would go away on wheat harvest in the summer and come back to some pretty neat cars that daddy would sell them. One summer he had 3 sharp 57 Chevy's he sold for $600 each. They didn't last long. Until they sold he would let me pick one out and drive it. That was always fun. Boy did we have some good times in those old cars!

[danno]

quote:Originally posted by Hometown

quote:Originally posted by danno

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

In the good old days, before catalytic converters,  when gas had real lead in it (as did the paint), and aerosol was real chlorofluorocarbon.   Asbestos was used for everything.  Smoking was encouraged.  Waste treatment meant waste dumping.  Mercury was both a planet and something to play with when you smashed a thermometer.  

Good old days...I love it. Now we have people starting threads asking how they can have smokers ticketed because they can't stand the smell. I think you baby boomers are the biggest hypocrites.

It must be tough spending your life living in the shadow of the Boom.  

Try inventing something new for a change.

It's hard for us to invent something new, because your generation has depleted all of the resources.