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Bruce Boyd



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Saturday, April 12, 2008 

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At the beginning of the 1960s rock and roll was firmly established alongside the slick "manufactured" pop idols of the day. Most popular music was still generated in the USA. But this was all about to change.
The Beatles, like many English bands of that era, started life covering the rock and roll songs that were flooding into Great Britain. Whether they initiated a revolution or just happened to be in the right place at the right time, they soon became the leaders of that revolution. The baby boomers were now teenagers and keen to assert their independence - and the Beatles soon came to typify that rebellion.
At first they wrote and recorded fairly staid little love songs but with their inventiveness, and the freedom they were given, they were soon forging a brand new sound. Alongside this, other British bands such as the Rolling Stones, the Kinks and the Animals - to name but three - were adapting the exciting primal sounds of the blues into a new format. For the first time the USA "suits" had lost control of the recording industry.
Artists in the USA started to follow this British lead and under the impetus of the Hippie movement of the later 60s, performers like the Doors, Janis Joplin, CSNY and Bob Dylan came to the fore. Against a social climate of upheaval caused by the Vietnam war this movement culminated at Woodstock.
But almost as quickly as it had arisen, the momentum petered out. By the end of the decade the Beatles had broken up; Joplin, Morrison and Hendrix were dead and the peaceful festival had died at Altamont.
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Susan O'Shea

 
Drugs, bloody drugs!
These people had the whole world at their feet, and just threw it away!
Which is the diffference between Baby Boomers and the generations that came after.

I experienced Gen X, and had to put up with(and still do, to some extent!) spoiled old farts.

If we could have the advantages these people had then! Think about it! These people didn't even have to finish school to just walk into a choice radio career, so long as they could talk!
The Sixties folks have either overdosed, or else they are bloody sellouts drinking red wine, going to wine tastings, having bought up land that makes today's average family's Own House an impossible dream! The Burn the Bra movement is also responsible for Double Incomes - just to be able to afford to feed and educate the kids, let alone spend time with them (and bugger the roof _ Half a million dollars for a 2 bedroom?)
I used to have respect, but since I've grown up and am working ten times as these people ever had to to get my goals realised, no respect!
 
Posted by Susan O'Shea on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 10:19 PM
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Bruce Boyd

 
To some extent Susan that is where this blog is leading. In the 60s we (yep I'm one of those spoiled old farts) had a time and an opportunity like no others before or since. And yet many of the teenagers of that time are now the captains of industry, real estate moguls etc etc.
And most importantly from the point of view of this blog, the music "industry" regained control of mainstream popular music - and fashioned it into the bland "product" it is today.
But to say that all the apples in the barrel smell bad just because the rotten ones stink is a bit harsh.
 
Posted by Bruce Boyd on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 7:30 AM
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