Russ,
There's nothing generational about it. I listen to the Beatles (who doesn't)
but I also follow a whole suite of modern music. John Peel was one of my idols
(I got a read out on his show once, when I was in Melbourne) and he passed away
still supporting up and coming music in his 60s. As a consequence of him, my
collection contains various roots music, even some country influences...though
I do draw the line somewhere. Some of my friends who I go to gigs with are 15
years my senior and still finding new music for me to listen to. Music is music
and always will be ... some is to ones taste, some is not. It's a very personal
thing. I just think it's nice to hear a band honestly influenced by the
environment when you consider that, in centuries past, it was almost always
this way. Our modern world is so urban in its thinking these days that art has
become detached, like life, from what is around us.
Regards,
Simon.
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] The Countryside is Rock Music
> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 17:50:04 +1000
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> Simon,
> So they're better than the Beach Boys then??
> (A slight generational difference, I suspect, in our tastes).
>
> Russ Lamb (in a wet, and getting wetter, Maleny)
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