Re: Digest for 1960s@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

[Mike Marinaro]

Interesting topic. I have been playing the guitar since I was 13 years old and played in several bands, performed on the radio and all over Ct. and NY state. However, I too went through a period of not being interested in music. It was a time of my life when things were changing: jobs, divorce, moving, etc.

 

I didn't even pick up my guitar for several years and seldom listened to the radio and didn't attend any concerts. 

 

Then one day things changed again, and I rediscovered music. Someone at church found out that I played the guitar and asked me to do a song at service one Sunday with him. We decided on "Amazing Grace" but since we were both old hippies we played it to the tune of "The House of the Rising Sun". 

 

The congregation loved it and we were asked to start a Praise Band. So we talked our wives into singing with us and rounded up another guitar player and now we play just about every week at church! I also learned to play the mountain dulcimer and chromatic harmonica and I am back into music again with a passion!

 

I am playing Christian music instead of Rock n Roll but it's great to be back. The music never really leaves you...it's always there just waiting to come out again!

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• Do You Know What You Like, And Like What You Know? [1 Update]

 Topic: Do You Know What You Like, And Like What You Know?

marcus <marc...@yahoo.com> May 26 08:44PM -0700 ^

 
Pertaining to music:
 
Do you know what you like, and like what you know?
 
Up until approx 1985, I was an avid concert goer, record collector,
and radio listener of Rock music. I wrote album and concert reviews
for a local alternative weekly paper specializing in local bands where
I lived, and occasionally appeared as a guest on local radio
programming. I loved the music of the Sixties and Seventies best, but
I was into the newer artists of the early 80s (e.g. Pretenders, U2,
Police). That predilection dwindled dramatically in 1986. The
reason? I became a father for the first time. The responsibilities
of parenthood, combined with job commitments, changing jobs, loss of
income, and dealing with the problems of aging parents led me to have
less interest in keeping up with new music. These factors continued,
shifting in different directions, but still with the same result, I no
longer had the large amount of "free time" to indulge in musical
preoccupation.
 
I am sure that I am not alone in that situation. There is a normal
tendency as we get older, and life takes its toll, and tugs us in many
directions, to not have the same "passion" as we once did for things
when our lives were not bogged down with the responsibilities of
adulthood. The exception being those individuals who are still
performing musicians, or who have jobs in the music industry, or who
write about music etc. But, the vast majority of us are not in that
group.
 
I still don't have the time, inclination, or passion to involve myself
in "newer" music, but that doesn't take away from me enjoying music
stretching all the way from the late 1950s to the early 1980s anymore
than someone who loves classical music, but has no interest in new
artists of 2010.
 
I just don't have the time, or the wherewithal to keep myself
constantly informed of every new musical avenue that pops up every few
years...and ya know what, it doesn't bother me in the least...cause I
know what I like, and I like what I know, and I don't think there is
anything wrong with that.
 
Do you?


 

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