TheBig3

Yeah but the music now, and especially the way we can translate the music through technology to people now, is phenomenal. I think the music coming out today is a lot better than we had in the 60's.

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jimboslice423

Very true. I don't know what I would do without my Ipod. Although, I still don't think you can beat the sound of and old record.

Hank The Drifter

I feel like sometimes I would have fit better into other generations, but then I'm happy I was born in this generation. Being born when I was gives me the ability to listen to ALL the music out there. Even those obscure 50s, 60s, and 70s band that only a couple thousand people have heard of. So I am thankful for being born when I was because technology allows me to find bands I might not have known about even if I had been born back then.

I hope this makes sense.

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s_k

It does.
Still I like those festivals where the air breathes 'sixties' .
But that's just an idealised image created by very smart people in the 21th century.

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jimboslice423

Im not sure where your from, but I go to a concert with a ton of older band in July called Rock N Resort Music Festival. Its a weekend long and they book mostly older bands and tribute bands. Its awesome because I get to hear the music I love without being bore years in advanced...lol

Hank The Drifter

^Certainly, that 'hands on experience' if you will would have been amazing. I know the world wasn't exactly a friendly place back then, but I honestly feel sometimes like the 30/40s was when I should have been born so that I would have grown up in the 50s. That life style just suits me well. Oh well, I'm happy with when I was born, nonetheless.

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s_k

Ghehe, I wouldn't want to be born in the 30's because of the second world war that has raged here in de fourties.
According to my father, who is from 1947, the fifties and early sixties were a pretty good time. There was plenty for everyone and rebuilding a country together apparently creates a huge amount of solidarity.

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TheBig3

Country probably does matter, but the 60's are highly overrated to me. I mean its this highly aspired to decade and I just can't imagine why. You've got so many more permutations of music today than you ever had then. If you didn't like what Big Music was selling you, you either made it yourself or you ****ed off.

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s_k

I collect old 8 and 16mm home films.
They can give a really good image of the time and there's usually only one of them, which makes them really unique.
I've got quite some now, still having to look at a lot of them.
It appears to me that the 60's and 70's were a pretty friendly period in this Area (the Netherlands, including nearby countries Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, France).

I recently uploaded some fragments of one of these movies to youtube.
Quality sucks, used a photocamera to do this, as it was only to show someone the old french cars that are on it .

I'm the guy talking pretty fast most of the time by the way ;D.

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s_k

I'm afraid I won't be joining you as I'm from the Netherlands.
That would be an expensive trip

We have here the 'pinkpop classic' festival, which is meant for older bands. But I think it's a bit too mainstream for me. They are thinking of creating a new festival at the location where the Lowlands festival (to which I go every year) is held. The idea is to make it like Lowlands, so with a lot of atmosphere and culture next to the music, but mainly focused on older bands. Could be very interesting, but there's not much information available on that festival yet...

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