Re: Never too late?
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:44 pm
You are never too old to do what you enjoy, and it ain't up to anyone else to tell you otherwise.
Interesting case in point: new record by a band I have been listening to for twenty years. Great album--much confidence and an appropriate amount of swagger. Twenty years ago, they were sloppy, and full of angst. Today, they are definitely better players, and a more ferocious band; but the angst is gone. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it is appealing to those of us who have, perhaps, lost a lot of our angst as we have become more settled and...comfortable with our place in this world, or whatever.
This begs the question: does punk have to be angry? Is it necessarily protest music? Or is passion, or sincerity, enough? Just about other things.
I guess I can be angry about young so-called punks saying I am too old to like/play punk...
Interesting case in point: new record by a band I have been listening to for twenty years. Great album--much confidence and an appropriate amount of swagger. Twenty years ago, they were sloppy, and full of angst. Today, they are definitely better players, and a more ferocious band; but the angst is gone. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it is appealing to those of us who have, perhaps, lost a lot of our angst as we have become more settled and...comfortable with our place in this world, or whatever.
This begs the question: does punk have to be angry? Is it necessarily protest music? Or is passion, or sincerity, enough? Just about other things.
I guess I can be angry about young so-called punks saying I am too old to like/play punk...