It's a sad thing when we, as seniors, begin to feel like "old fogies" when it comes to music and the "hip" things going on in popular culture. It's also easy to forget that the rock music and a lot of other genres of modern music got their launch long ago during the days when seniors were the young people changing society and it was our music that changed the globe.
So it's good for baby boomers to recollect such things about their heritage and the things they passed on to the music and entertainment culture today. Inside the song "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger, the singer reviews the changes baby boomers have gone through since they go from youth to middle age and handle pressures of work, family, child rearing and changes in health due to aging. Nevertheless the end result remains the same that the hub of every baby boomer is a rock and roller that is just as capable as ever of experiencing and enjoying the music that was the foundation of their culture.
One of the things that disheartened the infant boomer generation growing up was seeing the rock and roll life style take its toll on many of the icons of youth culture and music including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Freddie Mercury. But the unfortunate demise of these music heroes won't diminish the great contribution to music also to culture down through the years. In order much as we grieve the loss of great talent, we can always celebrate what they gave to us and continue to give to us down to present times as music continues to reference those great figures of 60s music as icons and inspirations.
However for every rock and roller who did not survive that turbulent period in our culture, we can look to great performers who did survive, overcame their addictions and proceeded to continue to give great music around the world decade after decade. Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones and David Bowie are instances of wonderful and talented music heroes that revealed that age and a few wrinkles don't mean something. They continue to rock and roll today as hard sufficient reason for as much heart as they did after they were in their twenties.
In a way "to rock and roll" is really a metaphor for living life to its fullest and for staying true to your values and living life inside a genuine way that never surrenders on what's important in life. This is why baby boomers have always had the maximum contempt for anyone who sells out or abandons their core principles which they espoused in youth. To sell out is always to say that none of the great history of the youth revolution meant anything and that we are willing to turn out backs about it. But to "rock and roll" means always going back to your roots and not giving up, even when age, and busy lives and bad health say that you should slow down and never try to live with as much earnestness as you did when you were young.
Seniors, even at this dignified and "mature" stage in everyday life, should feel liberated to be able to go ahead and "rock and roll" in a real a sense the word. The Bob Seger song was obviously a hit because it gives us permission to reconnect with this roots and express that youthful enthusiasm again. You don't need to go to a nostalgia show to do that either. There are dozens of great stone acts that are giving towards the children of baby boomers (and their grandchildren) that same excitement we got from The Beatles and The Stones.
"Discovering" rock and roll all over again can be great fun for any baby boomer especially when you find a new act containing that power and capability to perform that reminds us with the acts of our youth. These are out there so just just go and uncover this great natural resource of talent within the music and culture of today's youth revolution.
So it's good for baby boomers to recollect such things about their heritage and the things they passed on to the music and entertainment culture today. Inside the song "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger, the singer reviews the changes baby boomers have gone through since they go from youth to middle age and handle pressures of work, family, child rearing and changes in health due to aging. Nevertheless the end result remains the same that the hub of every baby boomer is a rock and roller that is just as capable as ever of experiencing and enjoying the music that was the foundation of their culture.
One of the things that disheartened the infant boomer generation growing up was seeing the rock and roll life style take its toll on many of the icons of youth culture and music including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Freddie Mercury. But the unfortunate demise of these music heroes won't diminish the great contribution to music also to culture down through the years. In order much as we grieve the loss of great talent, we can always celebrate what they gave to us and continue to give to us down to present times as music continues to reference those great figures of 60s music as icons and inspirations.
However for every rock and roller who did not survive that turbulent period in our culture, we can look to great performers who did survive, overcame their addictions and proceeded to continue to give great music around the world decade after decade. Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones and David Bowie are instances of wonderful and talented music heroes that revealed that age and a few wrinkles don't mean something. They continue to rock and roll today as hard sufficient reason for as much heart as they did after they were in their twenties.
In a way "to rock and roll" is really a metaphor for living life to its fullest and for staying true to your values and living life inside a genuine way that never surrenders on what's important in life. This is why baby boomers have always had the maximum contempt for anyone who sells out or abandons their core principles which they espoused in youth. To sell out is always to say that none of the great history of the youth revolution meant anything and that we are willing to turn out backs about it. But to "rock and roll" means always going back to your roots and not giving up, even when age, and busy lives and bad health say that you should slow down and never try to live with as much earnestness as you did when you were young.
Seniors, even at this dignified and "mature" stage in everyday life, should feel liberated to be able to go ahead and "rock and roll" in a real a sense the word. The Bob Seger song was obviously a hit because it gives us permission to reconnect with this roots and express that youthful enthusiasm again. You don't need to go to a nostalgia show to do that either. There are dozens of great stone acts that are giving towards the children of baby boomers (and their grandchildren) that same excitement we got from The Beatles and The Stones.
"Discovering" rock and roll all over again can be great fun for any baby boomer especially when you find a new act containing that power and capability to perform that reminds us with the acts of our youth. These are out there so just just go and uncover this great natural resource of talent within the music and culture of today's youth revolution.
