12-05-2012, 18:41
This is like my generation as teenagers being fascinated with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, Joe "King" Oliver, James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, Frankie Trumbauer, Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke, and Bing Crosby. As I remember, it didn't happen -- if you were teens or twenties and even knew who they were in the 60's and 70's you were dreadfully unhip for the rest of your life, even if you were an audio engineer.
I much prefer it the other way around, surprising those 20 years younger than me who ask me what's in my portable and I show them radio shows from the previous week in all sorts of dance genres. They tend to freak and I gain hip points. They normally say "damn I wish you were my dad." It's nice to be able to say "yes I saw them live" and tell them stories, but I'm very quick to tell them that all of that was a really long time ago and being there while it was happening is quite enough.
I much prefer it the other way around, surprising those 20 years younger than me who ask me what's in my portable and I show them radio shows from the previous week in all sorts of dance genres. They tend to freak and I gain hip points. They normally say "damn I wish you were my dad." It's nice to be able to say "yes I saw them live" and tell them stories, but I'm very quick to tell them that all of that was a really long time ago and being there while it was happening is quite enough.
