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Hi Mags

Yes I found your whole post to be humorous.

No actually you said it was mostly rubbish, that being the 60's 70's and early 80's.
I think you couldn't be more off base flat out wrong in your perception.

But my comments back were not all directed straight at you, at your notions but not you. It was Bill who thought Disco was all the music there was in 1970's

I don't know very much in this world and I'm full of useless
info but that information is ALL about Pop Culture, mainly music,film and sports, especially Boxing.

Just like in one of our other threads I mentioned something about feeding yourself with music and pitching songs and you replied honestly saying "Well I don't do that I have a full time job/career not with music"

In this one you talk about popular music, then reveal here that you don't know much about the 60's 70's period.
I know ALL about the periods. To such a degree it borders on fanatical.

In other words If I was to ever get on some game show and it starts popping off questions about popular music I get RICH that day!

I am a jukebox!

For example I don't know some Genesis songs, I have every album they ever made and there not my favorite band. Along with many many many many other groups I love, absorb and collect music.
Besides being a music freak and listening to the radio constantly. My brother in law and sister owned a record store when I was about six years old. I would stay there all day when my sister was watching me. The neighborhood was 80% African American so they carried loads of R&B Soul Music. besides my sister loved that style of music. She had 14 years on me, now my brother who had 12 years on me was a rock nut, would go see Cream & Hendrix and come home and tell me about it. even brought home Ginger Bakers foot pedal The the closest person in age to me was a cousin who had six years on me.
So he was playing me all kinds of newer stuff that the others weren't. The first of that newer stuff was Black Sabbath.

Did I have a Black Sabbath album or two? NO I had ALL of then named my cover band after one of there songs.

COVER BAND! Oh boy on top of having my sister bring home every hit 45 that came out from Terry Jacks "Season In The Sun" to Billy Preston's "SPace RAce" I'm starting a band.

Do you know HOW much music and how many times you have to listen to it to learn a song by ear off a record player??

When I was seven to 10 years old it wasn't The BEatles (The Best)
making me practice my guitar for six hours a day. It was Sabbath and those riffs, that made me realize I have a lot of work to do

Anyway when I talk about the 40's 50's I KNOW loads and loads of songs from those decades, same goes for the 80's 90's an early part of 2000's I can't even bare through listening to it from 05 - 09. I know all of it not just "what I like" but what i don't listen to as well..

But I know EVERY damn popular song and any album worth a spit from those two decades especially. And I keep getting into conversations with those who don't.

The non musician thing was not directed to you but a general comment.
But I will say this, I have been a music fanatic my entire life.

I know more about say Fusion Bands or Metal alone than most do about all of pop music combined. And those aren't my specialties.

It basically comes down to this...
I am not a hobbyist or someone who thinks of music as an after thought, for fun, I've been glued to it since my ears opened lol and I've been playing it for 40 years now seriously..

I didn't listen to my parents music, I absorbed it and know 10X more about it then my parents ever did.


Now go grab a guitar and put on these cheezy 70's RADIO pop songs Reelin In The Years - Still The One - and Twenty Five Or Six To Four- Ramblin Man

And figure out how to play them even half way, come back and discuss popular music with me lol And totally change your mind!

Love you guys and I won't rest till I enlighten you!!
Your so lucky to have so much stuff to hear for the first time...
Lucky!