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Originally Posted by elphenor
Vega was already in his 30s
Bowie was still Bowie in his 30s
Mark E Smith
etc...the point you're making has a grain of truth to it, but only if you're really tied to a particular type of RocknRoll where it's essentially expected that everyone be young, dumb, and full of ***
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Tom Waits and Scott Walker only got better with age... but honestly, there's something to it. Of the punk generation, MES was a freak of nature but Kate Bush and Robert Smith, for example, who were always all about song craft rather than explosive energy, had their levels of creativity drop off very palpably around or just after 30.