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RE: Two things ...

Old farts are lucky. I was born in 1960 and when I was young, I mean under 30 I used to say I would give up all the rest of the years of my life to have been born like 10 or 11 years earlier. I like 1950s music, I like Buddy Holly and all that. In the late 1960s was when they got their shit together on how to design a car. I drove a 1950 Chevy and I tellya, it was like work. But I would have been a baby then.

I probably would have been an innovator, I probably would have a patent on variable valve timing because I experimented with it. If I had the electronic expertise I might have a few more patents.

But that's not how it works. I think I was born about 11 years too late, but then there was the draft and I could have been sent to Nam, or actually would have moved to Canada or whatever. When someone attacks this country I will fight to the death for my countrymen, but I WILL NOT go to another country that has not attacked us and attack them. The founders of this country were against shit like that and so am I, to this day, and yes that means the middle east because those enemies there were not born, the US government created them.

But to live through those times would have been something. People hopping up cars, rebuilding engines in the garage, and the music pretty much suits me rather than this garbage the media moguls promote. I can't stand radio or TV anymore. Even the country station, Rascal Flats is NOT COUNTRY. And TV, Star Trek was great. It was just about a weekly event. Kids, shutup, go in the closet or go outside, or else. There were no VCRs. Down in Cleveland, listen to CKLW, which was a really good rock station in Canada that we could pick up. So my life wasn't all that bad, but if I was born ten years earlier it would have been better. As long as I wasn't drafted of course.

People bitch about the fact that Ted Nugent shit his pants to avoid the draft, but look at the scumbag politicians who start this shit and their sons do not go to get killed. Fukum.

But anyway, the music you listened to as a teenager was made by people likely ten years older than you. Look at what's her name doing Stairway To Heaven with the remaining members of Led Zepplin in the audience. Lead singer from Heart or something. And she did it well. but the camera did focus on the members of Led Zepplin and they got gray hair and whatever. But what did we expect ? Really, we never expected this. We thought them to be immortal and while they might be in some ways, their bodies are not.

This last few years have not been good for rock stars etc. From what I hear an unprecedented number of them have died. Alex Harvey died young, but I didn't consider it young back then. Older than both of my Parents. When I found out how old he was I was was in shock that he could rock. Now I see he died pretty young being ten years older than he when he died. What a trip.

Time is a MF. If things could stay like they were in like 1975 it would be great. I finally got a good job, illegally without a work permit, I had a car, no license just threw a spare set of plate on it and drove. Always had money. You didn't need insurance back then because of two reasons, there were less assholes on the road and we rented. When you bought a house was when you got car insurance. But then people did seem to know how to drive and the car actually was protection rather than the cause of your injuries. They had real metal in them.

I don't watch TV but if I do I want to see people smoking cigarettes and not wearing seat belts. I remember a guy in California committed suicide over the helmet law. Who are they to tell me to wear a helmet ? If I am on a motorcycle doing 80 MPH and get in a wreck I want to be dead, not in a wheelchair and Depends for another forty years. That makes them money though. When you die, their money stops. Think about it. They want you sick and hurting and injured, and to boast about how they saved you, when you did not want to be saved.

If I was born when I would rather be born I would be like 67 now.

I work at a place that deals in Karaoke equipment and some band and DJ stuff. I have been exposed to the newer music situationally. I cannot stand it. I can't stand the new TV shows that look like they gave the camera to a ten year old. The music is made on a computers or whatever, almost everything on my PC/server was at one time in public domain so fukum.

Alot of these musicians grew up in times I wish I would have. It is not anyone's fault, it is just the way time goes. From what I see, there are very few really good ones today. Luckily some people do restore and whatever those old recordings. You listen to a good copy of music from the 1950s you might be surprised at the sound quality. I was. I was like "Damn, the 45 didn't sound like this".

And realize, all that Cindy Lauper was recorded on analog, and on equipment that was not all that much better than what they had in the 1960s. It simply was not that bad.


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