[Dixielandjazz] Hard To Believe

[David M Richoux]

Sorry Bob,  and this may be kind of OT for a lot of you,


As one of the "younger" members of this list I have to disagree with  
your comments.  I grew up in the Rock and Roll generation and was  
exposed to Elvis, The Beatles, The Coasters, The Beach Boys, James  
Brown, and hundreds of other major and minor "Rock" artists from the  
mid 1950s to the early 1970s.  I also knew about Swing, Jazz and  
popular music from earlier decades, but "Rock and Roll" is what I  
heard most of the time on the radio.

I thought the halftime show was somewhat interesting because the  
lyrics of "The Who" songs were so anti-corporate and anti-big  
government that they never should have been "approved" for such an  
event. Maybe we have somehow all  forgotten the power of music to make  
changes in society, maybe we have been overwhelmed by the  
corporations, but I always have hope for the musicians who keep on  
playing (even if they seem to be bought out by the Superbowl Masters,  
as it were.)

maybe I am just falling back to those Hippy-Trippy days of the 1960s   
when "the kids where all right," but for me, that band was still  
saying a lot - even in the belly of the beast. Yes, I am sure they  
made a lot of money doing this, but that is the way it is. Now.

So, what does this have to do with OKOM? I am not quite sure.  Rock  
music has direct roots to early jazz and blues, most of the UK bands  
of the 1960s were certainly inspired by the Trad Revival of the 1950s  
- so where is the line drawn? What is Jazz, What is Rock? When a band  
that has been popular for almost 50 years plays for the Superbowl,  
what is "Traditional Music?"

I don't  really need a lot of answers to these vague questions - but  
it probably has something to do with how what is now considered  "Old- 
Time Music" is understood by most of the younger generations...

Dave Richoux

On Feb 8, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Robert Ringwald wrote:

> I was listening to the game on the radio.  At half time, the  
> announcer kept bragging about what a great show the Who was putting  
> on.  They were so loud, you could hardly hear him.
>
> Things have really sunk to a new low...
>
> --Bob Ringwald
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