Knowing that groups like The Who, Jethro Tull, Robert Plant , Roger Waters and many others tells me a few things.
1) There’s no new replacement to these great artists and bands. There may be a few flash in the pan acts , but there’s no new big fish in the water.
2) These artist have nothing else to live for and will literally die on stage. For Christ's sake, they bring Phil Collins out on stage in crutches and he sits there and sings in a chair. The stones are replacing members as they die!! Judas Priest wheels out their original guitar player (glen tipton) with Parkinson’s Disease to play whatever songs he can remember.
Their voices are shot. Their skills have somewhat diminished. But as long as their no one new to take the reigns, they’re gonna ride off into the sunset and die on their tour buses………
I agree with you with respect to that generation of talent being unmatched, unrivaled except for the great masters like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Richard Wagner, and the like.
Many of the great 60’s rockers like Rick Wakeman, Billy Preston, Keith Emerson, and so many others bowed to those giants, and also to the black musicians of the early to mid 1900’s.
That era of history, 60’s, 70’s, unleashed an amazing surge of creative musical creativity in song writing and musicians.
Nowadays, there is not much for me to enjoy in the realm of the digital repetitious garble being spewed out of massive technology.
And, my generational musicians are quite old now and lack much of their robustness. But, they have left a catalogue of music for posterity that we can still enjoy in their original format.
But, don’t be deceived, because there are a lot of really talented young musicians these days, who spend their days emulating the greats from the 60’s and 70’s. When the best of these youngsters go on stage, they can really put on a show because they love our heroes as much as, if not more than we do.
“The Kids Are Alright.”
