The Age of Legends Will Never Return

Alan Brookes · From: Brummy living in Southern California

We remember events just after they've happened, but each time we recall an event our mind creates a memory of that memory. Over the years we reach the stage when we don't remember much of the event at all, only the memory of the memory of the event. It's like listening to a recording of a recording of a recording... ...etc.

In the past this has worked well. Grandpa can sit on the back porch and recall things better than they ever were. Unfortunately, along has come recording. I have memories of what my schooldays were like in the 50s: if someone were to produce a sound movie of the events I'm sure they wouldn't be as I remember them.

Feel sorry for the future grandpa, who is sitting rocking on his front porch, telling his kids, "Back in 2015 I went to school with the great Country Bill Grunch. He was the greatest fiddler I ever played with. We had the greatest group ever. There's nothing to touch us nowadays," to which comes the reply, "...but Grandpa, we've got a video here of you and your group playing at your prom. and you were bloody awful..." Whoa!

Tommy Gibbons · Posted 4 Dec 2009 6:46 pm **Good Post Alan!!!**

Good post Alan...Music is memories...it reminds me of hard times, hard work, and being home-sick. Listening to "our country music" is like watching a family member slowly die. It's sad that we can't stop it; just enjoy it while we can.

This post sounds like a country song.

Tommy
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Ray Minich · From: Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra

Hearing a tune I like takes me on a brief memory flashback to where I was when I first heard it, and what I may have been doing at the time (like where my head was at that year/).

At the most recent Chicago concert I attended, I think I went through about 30 years of flashbacks.

The music we love may not be mainstream, but it's as genuine as Mozart or Beethoven.

Don't fret so much. It'll all be back when the bottom drops out.

Ray Montee · From: Portland, Oregon (deceased)

When that anticipated bottom drops out........

who is it that you envision will be here to bring it all back?

Leslie Ehrlich · From: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Joe Casey · From: Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)

Leslie, I don't believe anyone forces you to listen to it over and over again. Winking

Robert Harper · From: Alabama, USA

Maybe the less than spectatular economic time will bring back the old heartaches and longing that brought us some of the music. Innovation and mofification of the old styles will work there way through the system. However, I am not sure me or some otheres will be here to witness the re-birth. Then again pretty soon we will not be here to miss what was. I was telling a friend the other day as I was going down the highway listening to 40 year old music, that as a youngster I wouldn't listen to 40 year old music. I could not identify with 1920 and 1930 music when I was a teen. Now I can't identify with the newer stuff an housewives of Atlanta and reality TV and the list just gets longer, as I sit here watching John Wayne and Clint Eastwood
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Roual Ranes · From: Atlanta, Texas, USA

In 1995 I found an old tape of something our "trio" had done around 20 years earlier. I made two copies and sent one to the Bass player and Drummer. I entitled the tape "Three Drunks At An Elk Lodge". They threatened me with bodily harm. I said at the time they didn't hear what they thought they heard and I sure didn't play what I thought I did.

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