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Originally Posted by CDSmith
As to "perspective" and "when you grew up", I don't agree with that. I grew up in the 70's, but I can fully or at least somewhat appreciate the iconic hugeness of 50's rock stars, Elvis, the Beatles, Dion, Fabien, Buddy Holly, etc. You don't have to have lived through an era to appreciate that level of greatness and fame.
Too bad so many kids today who grew up in the 80's and 90's have little or no concept of giving the "gods" their due.Calling Jagger, Plant, Daltry, Morrisson, etc "old farts" just smacks of someone who knows shit about rock history and having no sense of respect for the music. How can you say you love rock yet not know enough to give a nod to the gods who led the way?
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I don't know if you're referring to me personally or just younger people in general, but I already stated I am majorly influenced by most of those bands, even though they aren't of my generation. Jim Morrison was always a total god to me. I love Led Zeppelin - Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands of all time. Out of that list, though, honestly I always hated Roger Daltry and the Who and I still do, heh, I think they are completely and utterly overrated. But that's just my personal 2 cents.
I think this is generational more then you would admit - there's tons of people who were into Zeppelin in the 70s and thought Elvis was music for their parents. Then the Sex Pistols and punk rock came along - kids went punk rock & called bands like Led Zeppelin "dinosaur rock" - and so on and so on. There's kids coming up today who already think Trent Reznor is too old and that Bright Eyes or My Chemical Romance or god knows what other emo crap bands are rock gods - rock music has always been a generational thing. The people who have an appreciation for the entire history of rock music are few & far between...