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slaveluci -> RE: The Who (2/8/2010 4:25:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
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We talk about respecting age and experience in our culture, but we're full of shit. We want young and new.
I wonder if folks here will consider themselves old and washed up at the end of their careers.
The trouble with a gig like this is although people say they like new things, they are also full of shit. They want the old hits.
So we have a band more or less forced to recreate something 40 years old, and crushed into a time limit. I'd have liked to see them on a concert stage instead, mixing the expected hits with new approaches and the artistry that 40 years of mastery brings.
It bothered me to see them summarily dismissed. It's not an easy gig, and few people can do what they do and can do.
And people age. It's part of all our lives. Not the end, as many seem to believe it should be.
Amen to everything you said here! What's saddest of all is to see them summarily dismissed - not by young, know-nothing whippersnappers - but by folks pretty old themselves who should have enough respect to know better. You don't like it, fine, but don't dismiss them because they aged for god's sake........luci
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