It's actually a sad thing when we, as seniors, begin to feel like "old fogies" when it comes to music as well as the "hip" things going on in popular culture. Additionally it is easy to forget that the rock music and many other genres of modern music got their launch long ago during the days when seniors were the young people changing society also it was our music that changed the entire world.
So it's good for baby boomers to consider such things about their heritage and whatever they passed on to the music and entertainment culture today. Inside song "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger, the singer looks at the changes baby boomers have gone through because they go from youth to middle age and deal with pressures of work, family, child rearing and adjustments to health due to aging. But 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 enjoying the music that was the foundation of the culture.
One of the things that disheartened the baby boomer generation growing up was seeing the rock 'n roll life style take its toll on many of the icons of youth culture and music including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Freddie Mercury. Nevertheless the unfortunate demise of these music heroes will not diminish the great contribution to music and also to culture down through the years. As a way much as we grieve the loss of great talent, we are able to always celebrate what they gave to us and attempt to give to us down to modern times as music continues to reference those great figures of 60s music as icons and inspirations.
But for every rock and roller who failed to survive that turbulent amount of time 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 samples of wonderful and talented music heroes that demonstrated that age and a few wrinkles don't mean one thing. They continue to rock and roll today as hard sufficient reason for as much heart as they did whenever 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 in keeping with your values and living life in a very genuine way that never surrenders on what's important in life. For this reason baby boomers have always had the maximum contempt for anyone who sells out or abandons their core principles that they can espoused in youth. To sell out would be to say that none of the great good reputation for the youth revolution meant anything and we are willing to turn out backs into it. But to "rock and roll" means always going back to your roots and not giving up, even when age, and busy lives and illness say that you should slow down instead of try to live with as much earnestness because you did when you were young.
Seniors, even at this dignified and "mature" stage in everyday life, should feel liberated to be capable of go ahead and "rock and roll" in a real feeling of the word. The Bob Seger song would be a hit because it gives us permission to reconnect with our roots and express that youthful enthusiasm again. You won't need to go to a nostalgia show for doing 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 have from The Beatles and The Stones.
"Discovering" rock 'n roll all over again can be great fun for a baby boomer especially when you find a new act which includes that power and power to perform that reminds us with the acts of our youth. They're out there so just just go 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 consider such things about their heritage and whatever they passed on to the music and entertainment culture today. Inside song "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger, the singer looks at the changes baby boomers have gone through because they go from youth to middle age and deal with pressures of work, family, child rearing and adjustments to health due to aging. But 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 enjoying the music that was the foundation of the culture.
One of the things that disheartened the baby boomer generation growing up was seeing the rock 'n roll life style take its toll on many of the icons of youth culture and music including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Freddie Mercury. Nevertheless the unfortunate demise of these music heroes will not diminish the great contribution to music and also to culture down through the years. As a way much as we grieve the loss of great talent, we are able to always celebrate what they gave to us and attempt to give to us down to modern times as music continues to reference those great figures of 60s music as icons and inspirations.
But for every rock and roller who failed to survive that turbulent amount of time 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 samples of wonderful and talented music heroes that demonstrated that age and a few wrinkles don't mean one thing. They continue to rock and roll today as hard sufficient reason for as much heart as they did whenever 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 in keeping with your values and living life in a very genuine way that never surrenders on what's important in life. For this reason baby boomers have always had the maximum contempt for anyone who sells out or abandons their core principles that they can espoused in youth. To sell out would be to say that none of the great good reputation for the youth revolution meant anything and we are willing to turn out backs into it. But to "rock and roll" means always going back to your roots and not giving up, even when age, and busy lives and illness say that you should slow down instead of try to live with as much earnestness because you did when you were young.
Seniors, even at this dignified and "mature" stage in everyday life, should feel liberated to be capable of go ahead and "rock and roll" in a real feeling of the word. The Bob Seger song would be a hit because it gives us permission to reconnect with our roots and express that youthful enthusiasm again. You won't need to go to a nostalgia show for doing 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 have from The Beatles and The Stones.
"Discovering" rock 'n roll all over again can be great fun for a baby boomer especially when you find a new act which includes that power and power to perform that reminds us with the acts of our youth. They're out there so just just go uncover this great natural resource of talent within the music and culture of today's youth revolution.
