les24preludes
pfm Member
As a musician I have to say that artists and bands can do whatever they bloody well like - carry on to 90 if they're able to. It's their job, duh.....
As said many times - you don't have to follow or like them, but you have no right to tell them to stop. Ridiculous idea.
But I agree completely that rock and pop (but not jazz) musicians often fade out. Songwriting is particularly difficult to sustain, since there's probably very little happening to old geezers in their daily lives that would interest young people. Steely Dan said it pretty well....
I don't mind the quiet
Or the lonely nights
I don't miss the funky attitudes
And I don't miss the fights
I lie on the couch 'til suppertime
And hunker down and read the Post
And that's when I remember the things I miss the most:
The talk, the sex, somebody to trust
The Audi TT, the house on the Vineyard
The house on the Gulf Coast
These are the things I miss the most
I kinda like frying up my sad cuisine
Getting in bed and curling up with a girlie magazine
The days really don't last forever
But it's getting pretty damn close
And that's when I remember the things I miss the most
As said many times - you don't have to follow or like them, but you have no right to tell them to stop. Ridiculous idea.
But I agree completely that rock and pop (but not jazz) musicians often fade out. Songwriting is particularly difficult to sustain, since there's probably very little happening to old geezers in their daily lives that would interest young people. Steely Dan said it pretty well....
I don't mind the quiet
Or the lonely nights
I don't miss the funky attitudes
And I don't miss the fights
I lie on the couch 'til suppertime
And hunker down and read the Post
And that's when I remember the things I miss the most:
The talk, the sex, somebody to trust
The Audi TT, the house on the Vineyard
The house on the Gulf Coast
These are the things I miss the most
I kinda like frying up my sad cuisine
Getting in bed and curling up with a girlie magazine
The days really don't last forever
But it's getting pretty damn close
And that's when I remember the things I miss the most