Aging and thinking about music....
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location: Landscape Challenged Illinois
listening to: 16 Horsepower, black music from the 70's & and still going broke from Paste Magazine
registered: 2002.08.26
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A long time ago, I wrote about how, to me, music can be like bookmarks in one's life. Being the last one alive from my own nuclear family, lately, I've been having some trouble remembering a proper chronology of life events that have been important, partially because no one is around to either confirm or dispute when things happened.To help with this, music has became really helpful. For example, I had this one kid, now passed away, who from time to time would lift bottles of booze from his dad's bar and sell them to certain others. One time, he sold me a bottle of Seagram's whiskey and that was the first time I ever became drunk on whiskey (oh, it was terrible). Now, this was during the late summer of 1980 and I know this because it was near the time when this same kid told me he had to play this great song from this new LP. The song was Back in Black from AC/DC. I was fifteen years old. Another time, when driving my mother's 1968 cherry red Ford Mustang after a day at high school, I was with a buddy in the car and goofing off in a snow covered parking lot when I backed into a telephone pole, denting the rear bumper of my mother's beloved car. I know when this was because I'd just picked up the LP Shake It Up by The Cars.Things like this really make me feel sad with kids of today with music and how it used to be. I mean, instead of anticipating a new release of an album, rushing to a store to buy it and then holding that new music in one's hand while looking at the LP or unfolding the cassette insert or looking at the cd booklet, kids now days get a digital download. On top of this, in the days of LPs, there was the anticipation of getting back home to throw it on the turntable. Sigh...
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A long time ago, I wrote about how, to me, music can be like bookmarks in one's life. Being the last one alive from my own nuclear family, lately, I've been having some trouble remembering a proper chronology of life events that have been important, partially because no one is around to either confirm or dispute when things happened.To help with this, music has became really helpful. For example, I had this one kid, now passed away, who from time to time would lift bottles of booze from his dad's bar and sell them to certain others. One time, he sold me a bottle of Seagram's whiskey and that was the first time I ever became drunk on whiskey (oh, it was terrible). Now, this was during the late summer of 1980 and I know this because it was near the time when this same kid told me he had to play this great song from this new LP. The song was Back in Black from AC/DC. I was fifteen years old. Another time, when driving my mother's 1968 cherry red Ford Mustang after a day at high school, I was with a buddy in the car and goofing off in a snow covered parking lot when I backed into a telephone pole, denting the rear bumper of my mother's beloved car. I know when this was because I'd just picked up the LP Shake It Up by The Cars.Things like this really make me feel sad with kids of today with music and how it used to be. I mean, instead of anticipating a new release of an album, rushing to a store to buy it and then holding that new music in one's hand while looking at the LP or unfolding the cassette insert or looking at the cd booklet, kids now days get a digital download. On top of this, in the days of LPs, there was the anticipation of getting back home to throw it on the turntable. Sigh...
