On 01/07/2013 18:01, Lawrence13 wrote:
On Saturday, 29 June 2013 08:06:32 UTC+1, Dawlish wrote:

What I find so very interesting is the 'yut' seem to listen in their younger years to a far wider range of music then we did in my day. For example as a working class teen in the sixties I would never dare to like Bing, Louis Frank , Nat or even Englebert and Tom, as they represent 'that' older generation but as the rapid pace of pop/folk/rock music moved on then your heroes were then shunned by the next lot of oiks growing up.

I can clearly remember the late sixties as the Beatles were increasingly seen as light -weight as Clapton and Hendrix took the centre stage and then a whole raft of super groups. I knew the change had come when spotty fifth formers started bring in 'Albums' as opposed to LP's . A show suddenly became a 'Gig'. . Yes those were the days my friend.

However as I grew older I love all the popular stuff my parents and grandparents loved, I always liked classical and the song book of the world for the last several hundred years is just incredible. The only music I've never really gone for is Jazz though I do like Miles Davis and say Cannonball Aderly. However back to my point: Yes the younger generations today as shown by Glastonbury do tend to have a much wider taste with no hang ups as to whether the mum and dad liked it. I suppose music once was a way of stating who you were but that doesn't seem to be the case nowadays. Maybe two main factors has been the internet and the music nowadays just isn't as good.

It's surprising though how people adopt different taste and usually so one can look 'right on'. Take Garvey for example in his spare time (lots of it as he doesn't get a lot of work) he likes to don his baseball cap take his vinyl to the local 'yut' clubs in Dawlish and spin the vinyl keeping it real. if ya get me bro. He really is the 'Snoop Dog of Dawlish' more though of a 'Droop Dog according to his wife. But respecttttt.......to him as doesn't like to boast about it but if you could see him with his gold chains, his cap turned to the side , his book on correct use of apostrophe's in one hand and a couple of 'Ho's' in the other your perception of him would change forever. Yeah Bitch Slapping Droop Dawg Dawlish is in da house, you know what I'm sayin' , bro?



Good post. Classical and jazz music to feature later in life for many,
as they are more complex in their understanding, especially jazz.