I was taken back to realize as of tomorrow it will be five years since David Bowie died, seems like yesterday.
Despite his iconic status, I wonder if the younger generation has been able to connect with his music as the older generation did.
I still remember peeling the wrapper off his Ziggy Stardust LP, we were snot-nosed kids in 1972 everyone I knew had a turntable and Bowie was some kind of magic music wizard from another planet, a music superhero.
As the giants of the British invasion slowly slip away, I realize I don't ( as an older gent ) really feel connected to today's music and I have to wonder if I have become my parents, they were listening to Conway Twitty and Englebert Humperdink and they would scoff at the sound of Zeppelins You Shook Me.
I think the British invasion by todays culture is tremendously under-appreciated, it was a musical cultural phenomenon never to be repeated. The music back then was analog, tactile, it gave you goosebumps, derived by dragging a needle across vinyl peaks and valleys instead of a laser scanning sequences of ones and zeros. The sheer delight of opening Houses of the Holy and marvelling at the artwork with your friends, dropping the needle down onto the record there would be a few clicks as the needle tracked down the outer ridge of the vinyl, then total silence as the needle headed for the first peak or valley, then? magic, as we all picked up our air guitars and started jamming with the band, good times.
I sincerely believe that the older generation has developed a hugely diversified taste in music because we are all looking for something, searching for that old familiar musical feeling or vibe, perhaps that feeling or vibe, just like Bowie, is just not there anymore.
LJ
Despite his iconic status, I wonder if the younger generation has been able to connect with his music as the older generation did.
I still remember peeling the wrapper off his Ziggy Stardust LP, we were snot-nosed kids in 1972 everyone I knew had a turntable and Bowie was some kind of magic music wizard from another planet, a music superhero.
As the giants of the British invasion slowly slip away, I realize I don't ( as an older gent ) really feel connected to today's music and I have to wonder if I have become my parents, they were listening to Conway Twitty and Englebert Humperdink and they would scoff at the sound of Zeppelins You Shook Me.
I think the British invasion by todays culture is tremendously under-appreciated, it was a musical cultural phenomenon never to be repeated. The music back then was analog, tactile, it gave you goosebumps, derived by dragging a needle across vinyl peaks and valleys instead of a laser scanning sequences of ones and zeros. The sheer delight of opening Houses of the Holy and marvelling at the artwork with your friends, dropping the needle down onto the record there would be a few clicks as the needle tracked down the outer ridge of the vinyl, then total silence as the needle headed for the first peak or valley, then? magic, as we all picked up our air guitars and started jamming with the band, good times.
I sincerely believe that the older generation has developed a hugely diversified taste in music because we are all looking for something, searching for that old familiar musical feeling or vibe, perhaps that feeling or vibe, just like Bowie, is just not there anymore.
LJ
