Only six days later, and he's back! All right! Or is it seven? Who's counting? Me, apparently.
Right now, I'm listening to the deluxe soundtrack of "Almost Famous," recently released. What a joy for this ol' man. My favorite "rock n roll" movie ever, and this soundtrack has every (I think?) song from the movie in full (rather than just the movie snippets), with dialog pieces thrown in for fun. Fantastic! The kind of thing that almost makes me tear up these days.
I came of age during an odd time in music history. The early to mid 70s was a period where pop/rock music was just beginning to contain more production value, but it was still before the "punk rock" onslaught caused people to abandon many of the artists that are in my musical DNA. I never bought into most of the "punk rock mythos" (I'm one of those who believes it was a marketing tool more than anything). If I had discovered pop/rock music just a little later, maybe I'd feel differently. I know of a few people older than me who thought punk rock was fantastic and exciting, but I think they were also people who'd already had a steady diet of a lot of the (admittedly) pablum that was out there. As of 1973, pop/rock music was new and exciting to me. It mostly stayed that way. And yet, there is plenty of stuff from the punk rock world I enjoyed.
I've run into this issue my entire drumming career. I've ended up in bands with the best of intentions, but ultimately I'll feel musically communal with almost nobody in any of the bands. Usually, I'm playing with people who are significantly younger than I am, and that definitely makes a difference...with this time period involved. It's not that I'm not sympathetic to music stylings of other band members, but you do want to feel yourself reflected in what you're creating, too. I tend to lose interest quickly, if I don't feel that. (Jeez, what did I eat for breakfast?)
I guess what I'm saying is by now, I'll probably never find the perfect band. Or perfect to me, anyway. But I've had a lot of fun playing with the people I have played with. I guess it'll continue a little while longer. Hope all's great in your day.
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