@tgraph52 @InUnfunky @John_Downey I too am appreciative for the music (recorded and live) I grew up with. My tastes run older than I am though. My parents were not musicians, but they had a great mix of contemporary and older albums playing at home and Top 40 AM radio on in the car.

@CanisPundit @tgraph52 @InUnfunky we'll never see another decade have the same impact I don't think. The technology, the economics, the appetite and the access all hit at the right moment. That's what gave it the added spin.
Townshend was right, the genre celebrated itself too quickly; but it was a pretty novel occurence in culture

@John_Downey @CanisPundit @InUnfunky

I'm not sure people understand the damage that MTV wrought.

@tgraph52 @John_Downey @InUnfunky MTV and the communications act Clinton signed that consolidated (made shiterific) the radio stations and the music industry followed what a handful of program directors wanted.

@CanisPundit @John_Downey @InUnfunky

Sometime in the late 60s I found a radio station fiddling with the dial in the car, playing really good music. 1440AM. Their power grew over the years and they went to FM steros. One day the DJ said, Hey this new LP came in. It's good. And he played all 4 sides of the White Album with limited commercials... As the years went by, their playlist shrank from whatever the DJ wanted to about 200 songs... and added a shit loud mouth morning drive time show

@tgraph52 @CanisPundit @InUnfunky
the I Heart Radio-ing of America🙄
I have UMass Radio now all the time
heavy folk tbs
but
they play stuff from the '60s, stuff from multiple genres, stuff others won't play
local folks
they are what radio was
and where can you hear "take it away, Leon" on a Saturday night?😂

@John_Downey @CanisPundit @InUnfunky

I've been a supporter of community stations, here and back in MN.. because they do what they want, as much as possible.

http://stream.gmcr.org:8000/gmcr

@tgraph52 @CanisPundit @InUnfunky
this is cool thank you!! I caught a tune glad the sun is out!

@CanisPundit @tgraph52 @InUnfunky
exactly
nothing to do with art or with true "market forces (listeners)" driving profits
it was, again, supply side economics screwing us
Petty was dead on with The Last DJ

@John_Downey @tgraph52 @InUnfunky “product”.

@CanisPundit @John_Downey @InUnfunky

MTV told the industry - if you can't make an MTV video, you can't be a successful musician... as if the 2 were somehow related.

@tgraph52 @CanisPundit @InUnfunky
The best thing MTV ever did was the Goodman interview with Bowie
that should have shut the thing down right now
can't be successful, huh?
I wonder is MTV playing Kim Gordon's Psychodelic Orgasm now? Does MTV still exist? I stopped watching TV during the baseball strike

@John_Downey @CanisPundit @InUnfunky

I don't have cable.. but the last time I was in a motel I saw MTV was playing a lot of reality TV bullshit. No more videos... at least the little I looked.

@tgraph52 @CanisPundit @InUnfunky
that I remember, the switch to personal drama trainwreck content
never watched an episode, the trailer was offputting enough

@CanisPundit @InUnfunky @John_Downey

My folks weren't musicians either, but my dad loved music. Their first piece of furniture after they were married was a Magnovox console deal with a turntable and radio which I inherited at some point. My dad bought a very nice stereo outfit in the very early 60s and liked it loud. With his encouragement all of us kids pursued music, with varying degrees of success 🎶.

He could whistle like Bing Crosby though and played his ukelele after a few beers.