I'm often amused
when someone a half
or a quarter of my age
assumes I've learned
absolutely nothing
@ceorl I'm a septuagenarian. I spoke to a twenty something who was listening to techno. She said, "you like this music?!?!?". I laughed and explained it wasn't new: Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, The Flying Lizards, the Chemical brothers...
I responded, "Well, it's not new, if that's what you think. "
She had to look to her friend, who nodded at what I said: he was 24. Children
First recording to use an electronically produced sound was Del Shannon's Runaway. The middle eight.
@Violetvelvet I don't mean it in a mean way,
sincerely just amused,
and ready to help.
I remember being a young idiot myself once too.
@ceorl I'm 72 with AML Leukemia. I don't know what you're referring to...
I just meant that I remember being young and knowing so little but thinking I knew it all.
Not understanding that older people might just have learned a few things along the way.
As a result I did and said many foolish things, and had very limited tastes in music and art as well.
I like Brian Eno too now, as well as a wide range of other artists and styles.
Sorry if I was unclear and you took that any other way.
@ceorl MOMA, Guggenheim. Broadway. I feel so grateful to have experienced everything I have, including 2 master's degrees. Lived in 3 states.
Couldn't go to Woodstock cuz I was preggers. They would take me... I was 18.
I'm Italian so dad taught me opera and classics and Sinatra. Have a great day!
Here's that special issue of LIFE about Woodstock in case you don't still have your copy :)