Posted on 03/18/2014 3:08:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
I well understand where you're coming from, but one can make just as good a case that the "cultural rot" began with Ken Kesey and Alan Ginsberg, or with Fatty Arbuckle and proto-Hollywood.
Or with the intersecting axes of Jack Parsons and Alister Crowley and the "society" they set up in Southern California in the 1940s.
Or with the heroin-fueled "beat" jazz scene.
Or with television and mass media in general, which made it possible to separate image from reality on an industrial scale.
It was also the first decade I can recall in any detail and I seem to remember the gaudy, comic opera nature of it. Everything was so over the top, all the time. It was like living in a Marx brother movie. So, perhaps it’s a function of my particular perspective. It was a hell of a decade to grow up in, that’s for sure. I retract my earlier comment about the AMC Pacer. But my judgement stands on disco.
CC
Not a fan of the New York Dolls, Sparks, or Roxy Music?
Actually no. My roots are in blues and blues rock, but I did enjoy some of the 70’s glam musically, but not a lot.
Before he became a “star” Springsteen made some pretty good music. Born to Run was his last good LP as far as my taste goes. I saw the him and the E street band at the Jai Alai Fronton (Fern Park / Orlando) FL in 76 (or early 77). Powerhouse show. Nothing of his stuff after that appealed to me.
Early 70s we still had Humble Pie, Savoy Brown, Deep Purple. All great live bands. Surprisingly, Uriah Heep did a good live show. The Moody Blues were very impressive. Long John Baldry. Saw all of them. By the mid 70s pop music had evolved (devolved?) in a direction that was for the most part not very appealing to me.
Well, the eighties were the best decade I ever lived in. I will look forward to them again.
To anyone who lived through them, the comparisons of present-day conditions to the 70’s are painfully obvious.
The differences I would point out are, Carter was a goofball incompetent, but I don’t think he was an avowed traitor to the US. 0bama is different; this is truly a vandal, a saboteur in our midst, not only determined to bring the US down to a common level, but to implant permanent structures to ensure the US continues on a glide-slope of decline, at whatever rate. To fix this is going to require not just the kind of course-change that Reagan started and got going, but a wholesale deracination of what 0bama has imposed. Stuff is going to have to be not just reversed, but torn out by the roots.
As one who lived through the 80’s I hope I have enough life energy and lifespan left to see and enjoy what occurred after Carter was deposed from office. The 80’s were great.
My wife and I will be in Nashville Friday to see King George. It sadly will be the last.
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