Your first concert: Who, Where, When. - Bilge

D donhonyc Tiki Socialite The Quiet EAST Village Joined: Jan 13, 2003 Posts: 1197	D donhonyc Posted posted on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 5:17 PM The early 80s was damn good too though! I hear you on all points, except I would say that alot of those social changes were galvanized by the youth of the 60s. Not so sure they were given attention by the government simply because they were starting to crack down and worry. I don't think the oldergeneration had really seen anything like thaq before. Why didn't that happen with Eisenhower when Kerouac & company were getting popular. In retrospect, the early 80s (pre-MTV..which was really 78-80) were cool. I'm glad to have been old enough to see that. As far as the 60s I would have like to have been a young person for all of it in all places. L.A., San Fran, London, New York, Detroit and wherever it was happening. Once again I have to come to the defense of Woodstock and say that unfortunately that event has been widely over-simplified, nostalgized, genericized,and generally de-valuated. True, it was the point when investors were like 'Hey...look at this..why hasn't this happened before..this is a friggin goldmine' and killed the honesty of things like that that followed. But if one thing can be said about Woodstock in retrospect is that it was definitely content over style with NO corporate involvment. Yeah two of the guys that made the initial investment were rich kids, but essentially the whole thing was an 'organic' (no pun intnended) event. Without getting to lofty here, there was a sort of 'religious' aspect to it, the likes of which will never be seen again. I mean...think about how the word got out for that. It was a huge contingent of like minded people hanging out for the same reasons. So I submit..."what's so funny (or stupid or wimpy or whatever) about Peace, Love, and Understanding?" People have tried over the years to try to emulate that spirit but it just ain't gonna happen again. There are alot of cheesey elements to hippie culture. The New-Age stuff is where I particularly get a little creeped out, but by-and-large people of that era were taking chances ARTISTICALLY and were successful at it. People these days,especially in the music biz, love to refer to themselves as 'artists' but the real stuff, like the sutff in the 60s rarely happens anymore. [ Edited by: donhonyc 2005-07-23 14:42 ]

The early 80s was damn good too though!

I hear you on all points, except I would say that alot of those social changes were galvanized by the youth of the 60s. Not so sure they were given attention by the government simply because they were starting to crack down and worry. I don't think the oldergeneration had really seen anything like thaq before. Why didn't that happen with Eisenhower when Kerouac & company were getting popular.

In retrospect, the early 80s (pre-MTV..which was really 78-80) were cool. I'm glad to have been old enough to see that. As far as the 60s I would have like to have been a young person for all of it in all places. L.A., San Fran, London, New York, Detroit and wherever it was happening. Once again I have to come to the defense of Woodstock and say that unfortunately that event has been widely over-simplified, nostalgized, genericized,and generally de-valuated. True, it was the point when investors were like 'Hey...look at this..why hasn't this happened before..this is a friggin goldmine' and killed the honesty of things like that that followed. But if one thing can be said about Woodstock in retrospect is that it was definitely content over style with NO corporate involvment. Yeah two of the guys that made the initial investment were rich kids, but essentially the whole thing was an 'organic' (no pun intnended) event. Without getting to lofty here, there was a sort of 'religious' aspect to it, the likes of which will never be seen again. I mean...think about how the word got out for that. It was a huge contingent of like minded people hanging out for the same reasons. So I submit..."what's so funny (or stupid or wimpy or whatever) about Peace, Love, and Understanding?"

People have tried over the years to try to emulate that spirit but it just ain't gonna happen again. There are alot of cheesey elements to hippie culture. The New-Age stuff is where I particularly get a little creeped out, but by-and-large people of that era were taking chances ARTISTICALLY and were successful at it. People these days,especially in the music biz, love to refer to themselves as 'artists' but the real stuff, like the sutff in the 60s rarely happens anymore.

[ Edited by: donhonyc 2005-07-23 14:42 ]

Post #174078 by donhonyc on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 5:17 PM