There's a hint of bragging, like you think this is really cool, but by gloating I mean you relay a real love and longing for the heyday of those days.. gloating.. look it up in the dictionary I mean it exactly for what the word describes..

whereas no, not I, sorry. I mean, if you look up some of these bands and people on the internet.. they look slimy and creepy... exactly who and what they are.. a slimy creepy bunch of potheads. I have to disagree about their talent too.. with a few exceptions.. it's the late 60's-early 70's sound and few of them are really unique. You have to check the date too, this is 1970's music.. the 60's have just happened, Woodstock just happened.. Kent state had just happened.. the morals of America were crushed almost overnight and there was this huge void leftover... in 1975 I would have been 15 years old... no one knew what was right or wrong anymore and drugs were everywhere... it really all in all was not a good time to be a teenager. People were driving those painted VW buses still.. so many of my young friends never made it to school past HS,, they wandered around for several years trying to 'find themselves'. Tell me how you find yourself when you are stoned all day.

I really do have to agree with Pwcca on this one. It's about money. The few musicians that made money did ok but the general masses, so many of them, their lives were destroyed by that pop music drug culture. some recovered but many simply became casualities. Think about it really.. who or what was leading our generation.. after Woodstock.. after Vietnam.. no one we were terribly lost... we looked mainly to these groups of stoned musicians with absolutely zero of our best interests at heart. that's who we looked to because they expressed some of our teenage fears and desires on the radio. .. a huge mistake. and the drugs.. the drugs trapped people there in that moment.

I have never watched MTV except for a moment or two here and there skipping channels I may have bumped into it a few times. I don't know, if you worry about your kids emulating what's on TV then maybe they need a parent in the house.

don't fear the reaper.. that one will really make me upchuck. all that music is about drugs and sex and running cluelessly wild until you bump into something hard enough to knock you out for a while. I'm sorry. It's all so shallow.

ugh.

Celtic music is very nice btw, I would agree with that. It's wierd I must admit, once I left the suburbs and got to college, no one listened to the mainstream stuff anymore. No one. In college, mainstream music was not cool. It was considered a relic of the 60's. history. dinosaurs. So that page in my life pretty much closed right there and that was a good thing. I guess that's why i still associate it with a high school mentality. At least I didnt have to wander from coast to coast begging to figure that much out.

these friends of mine from high school would show up at my door in NYC from time to time.. dressed like hippies.. smoking pot.. looking for a place to stay it was so weird... being almost 1980 by now... very wierd.. a very weird bunch... ugh.