The 60-70's rock age phenomen

[Admin]

This post by Voyeur lead me on to the following thoughts.

How old were the guys at the time they created all their hits which are still so popular? Around 25 years.

How many bands (with members of the same age) that have a comparable number of hits which people will still remember and sing 40 years later could we count today?

Will the time when we see so many great bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones or CCR ever repeat?

[nerdistmonk]

Originally Posted by Admin

This post by Voyeur lead me on to the following thoughts.

How old were the guys at the time they created all their hits which are still so popular? Around 25 years.

How many bands (with members of the same age) that have a comparable number of hits which people will still remember and sing 40 years later could we count today?

Will the time when we see so many great bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones or CCR ever repeat?

No we wont ever see anything like it again, the 60's were just another page in the book, a book of transformation, going from prude, polite kids of the 40's to teenagers in the 50's to the fairly loose and free kids of the 60's, everything changed in the 60's, the music, the politics, the ways of life, the technology. (you can close the book now, since from 1977 on up nothing has changed, dishonest politics, fights for fuel, wars....and the 4 spectacular kids that made up CCR, John, Tom, Stu and the Doug will never repeat again, the conditions were right and what struck was CCR....and then just like a thunderstorm they were gone.

[Poor Boy]

It has been 4 decades since their heydey. The musical magic that was Creedence Clearwater Revival will not likely be again. Like the Beatles, it was a moment in time that we now relive through our memories of the day and the music that continues to live on for us all.

[nerdistmonk]

Originally Posted by Poor Boy

It has been 4 decades since their heydey. The musical magic that was Creedence Clearwater Revival will not likely be again. Like the Beatles, it was a moment in time that we now relive through our memories of the day and the music that continues to live on for us all.

CCR falls into history......A strange combination of all the right conditions, CCR has NOTHING to do with their time, if all 4 of them guys would have born in 1979 instead we would have still had the most amazing band in history, he (john) had and still does have a facination with the bayou, thus his inspiration for almost all his music, it wouldnt have changed.

List of people who were a side effect of all the conditions being just right:

Steve Jobs (A late 70's hippy who saw the meaning of the universe in a circuit board)

Steve "The Woz" Wozniak (became the most famous nerd-bomber in computer history because of job's marketing skills)

Bill Gates (Just happened to run into jobs and sold him basic to power his apple II, he also licensed dos to ibm which started his fortunes...)

CCR

The Audio CD (If they would have been delayed just one extra year, the
laserdisc would currently be the format of choice for audio)

Nintendo (They almost sold themselves to atari.......this would have drastically changed the face of video gaming)

Atari (would have still been #1 if they would have bought nintendo when they offered)