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Topic: Something for us oldies |
Joe Smith
From:
Charlotte, NC, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2002 7:19 am |
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You know, not only have we been left out when it comes to music, it's the same thing on TV.
What happened to shows for us older folks.
Not only do I not buy CDs anymore, I hardly watch TV. Everything is geared for the younger people. Us older folks have money to spend too. I just don't get it. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 24 Dec 2002 7:36 am
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Not watching TV can't do ya' no Harm Joe !
get some Spencer Tracy or James Cagney movies.
Bowling for Columbine is a good flick !
Merry Christmas 
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Joe Smith
From:
Charlotte, NC, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2002 7:53 am
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You are right CrowBear.
Well, I am practiceing more.
Merry Christmas to you too.
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kyle reid
From:
Butte,Mt.usa
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Posted 24 Dec 2002 8:59 am
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| When you mix too many people & not enough brains, you get todays music |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2002 11:23 am
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| I haven't had a tv since 1972, although I used to watch the Lakers, before this season, at the market. Tv is great if you are too bored and unmotivated to do anything else, I do know people who watch to "unwind", so it's probably better than drugs and booze. |
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R. L. Jones
From:
Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2002 8:24 pm
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Its the best remedy I`ve found for getting agood nap on the couch. Every afternoon I turn that thing on ,stretch out on the couch, wake up in time to put on a fresh pot of afternoon coffee. The wife asks was that a good program , sure one of the best .
R. L. |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 25 Dec 2002 3:12 am
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Hey Joe..( sounds like a song ) You're supposed to turn the knob to ON when you sit in front of the tube. We had a very senior member of our family forget to do that on many occassions. You could always sit and watch Andy Griffith and Lucy reruns, but are you thinking older than that ? The test patterns were tuned off probably 20 years ago so I don't think you can watch those anymore...
uhmmm..come to think of it, our great grandfather who sat in front of the TV with it off, maybe he knew something we didn't know back then...
Merry Christimas
tp
see ya saturday |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 25 Dec 2002 7:41 am
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| When we were young was everything geared for us and not for older people? I can't remember but I do remember less people complaining about everything. You know we can do so many different things now a days to make us happy and have fun at any age, there is something for everyone . Merry Christmas. Joe |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Dec 2002 9:04 am
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| Can't comment. Don't know any old folks. |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 25 Dec 2002 9:23 am
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Old folks are not alone. I'm not so old, and I don't like all of the junk CDs and junk TV programs either. Even the commercials on TV are twice as bad as when I was a teen-ager. No one can produce a TV commercial anymore without having someone beating the "holy crap" out of a set of drums,___at fifty decibels louder than the program they sponser.
It's really disgusting. People need to send a strong message to the producers of this "crap";___HEY! THE WHOLE WORLD IS NOT ON DRUGS.
Rick [This message was edited by Rick Collins on 25 December 2002 at 09:25 AM.] |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 25 Dec 2002 12:43 pm
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| Rick- We are all in the same boat. But have so much more to choose from than years ago. We where lucky to get 2or 3 channels ,today over 100 plus channels in addition to VCR and DVD tapes. I believe television has helped to promote steel guitar. Years ago you would be lucky to ever see one unless a band was touring in your area or someone local played one. Today we see them on TV and one day in Central Park millions saw one thanks to Garth Brooks. Just because steel guitar is not used as much in country music as we would like, it also is being used by pop artists. Maybe that is good. We have always thought we were stereotyped as being just for country. This is a good chance to branch out and still keep country real with the steel. Joe |
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 25 Dec 2002 6:25 pm
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You guys might be able to cheer up soon. According to a recent article in USA Today, advertisers and marketing analyst are rethinking the targeted age group for products. They said that this year one third of Americans will be over 50 years old and that they have 70% of the nations money.
When I heard that I thought of course they have 70% of the money. Because no one is offering them anything they want to buy. The Record industry, Movies,TV , radio, and just about everything else is still trying to get money from twenty year olds(witch are at the lowest percentage of they population then ever) that have less then 5% of the economies spendable income.
Hopefully someone will figure this out start to offer things that the fifty+ population wants to spend their hard earned money on, sense they have more of it than anyone else. |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 25 Dec 2002 7:20 pm
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| Alven, And older people don't want to spend it. It's save,save,save. Youger people like to spend,spend,spend . The money people know this. Most older people grew up in harder times and are more careful with there money. Joe |
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Joe Smith
From:
Charlotte, NC, USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2002 5:03 am
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| Joe Miraglia, I disagree, I'm 65 and my wife and I love to shop. At our age we got to get all the toys we want now before it's too late. |
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 26 Dec 2002 6:09 am
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| Joe Smith good for you. my wife and me are the same. If it's not for the steel it,s for the train layout.And oh yes the grand kids. I 'm 63. I must been thinking of my 83 year old father in law -he is one that counts every nickel. Joe |
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R. L. Jones
From:
Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2002 7:09 pm
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Joe , I know what youre talking about, back when I was working for a living, I`d come in the house, hear a voice back there somewhere say, It`s just him. Didnt amount to much, now that i`ve retired , I`ve just dissappeared. No one says anything. I walk through the house, no one knows I`m there, I sit down , a votce says bring me a glass of water, the water appears, dead silence.
I think we all disappear, no one sees us any more.
R. l. |
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Paul Graupp
From:
Macon Ga USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2002 5:42 am
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R.L. I can recognise your early years since they were essentially the same for me. But the last 8 and a half months are like a new life for me.
I've been keeping three disfunctional family members alive and warm but one of them had a baby and the smile on that little boy's face when he sees me almost drives me to tears.
I hated the thought of it before he was born but since then he has made me a new man. I spent over three thousand dollars for Christmas. Not just for him but for all the children and grandchildren and I had a ball.
It's as if that little baby has turned my world around and don't you know I love him for doing that. I'm a person again and not just a fixture to pay the rent and bills....
Regards, Paul  |
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Joe Smith
From:
Charlotte, NC, USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2002 8:20 am
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Yeah Paul, I know exactly what you are talking about. I have 5 grand kids. They range in age from 2 years old to 21 years old. My greatest joy is when the two older grandsons come over to jam with grandpa. They both play guitar.
The youngest grandson is 6 and is taking piano lessons. My 21 year old grand daughter plays the piano and sings.
Now if only there was something on that dang TV worth watching.
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Rich Paton
From:
Santa Maria, CA.,
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Posted 27 Dec 2002 1:16 pm
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Right on, Joe! "The families that play together stay together". Seems to me that there are very few people who do not enjoy music, at least at some level. And even fewer do not enjoy a rousing, intimate jam session they may happen to encounter. I think as a common ground for family members to connect and share, making music is a much better idea than having a kid in soccer and similar pursuits where the experience is divided down the middle...the parents are spectators and kids are performers. Not that sports lack many valuable lessons & values.
Any musical get-together with family, friends, & newcomers has to yield plenty of priceless connections, not to mention the creative elements and sense of accomplishment gained from the delivering of a musical performance.
It's awesome to partake of such a miracle as watching & listening to an eight year old violin student (for example) getting his/her first campground jam in, and with a motley gaggle of players ranging from cats their own age to the usual gang of musically grizzled geezers. The absence of barriers, instant camradarie, and the across-the-board respect evident at these encounters are quite inspiring just in their own right.
There is a great "musical snapshot" of this on CD, the tune "Company's Coming" on POCO's "Rose Of Cimmaron" album, depicting a big family hootenany (and lots o' fun for all.
Throw the TV out the window, and dust off that pre-war D28 that's been languishing in the closet since TV remotes began controlling more than just the hardware, LOL! |
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 27 Dec 2002 1:53 pm
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Oops! Just met an old person. (Looked in a mirror)
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