We're getting old...

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:49 pm

I felt old the first time I heard Hendrix as background music for a tv commercial. That was just wrong.

Actually, I may feel old on occasion, but I refuse to act old, ever. Innapropriate on occasion, ridiculous perhaps, old? Never!

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:53 am

I felt old when I first heard an instrumental version of a Beatles song as elevator music. (I'll be 52 next Wednesday.)

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:47 am

who were the mamas and the papas?

*still under 30*

dwinterfield · Post by **dwinterfield** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 6:59 am

I'm less than 10 yrs younger than Doherty and I sometimes feel old, but I also sometimes feel juvenile, more the later than the former.

The Mamas and the Papas were a short-lived rock pop group in the mid 1960s. While most of their contemporaries relied on guitars to drive their songs, the mamas and papas (2 men, 2 women, complicated relationships) relied on soaring vocals and harmony. They were hugely successful for a time and some of their songs are now hard wired in the brains of those of us who began our endless adolesence at the time.

They were a lot of fun.

missy · Post by **missy** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:35 am

cowtime wrote:I felt old the first time I heard Hendrix as background music for a tv commercial. That was just wrong.
!

for me, it was Led Zepplin........

Some of the "short lived" (as far as hits go) groups from that era (even if individual members went on to further success) - Mama's and Papa's, Paul Revere with Mark Lindsey, Yardbirds, Cream, were seen as "fluff" back then, but as time goes on one begins to realize some of the novel things they were attempting to do with their music.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:47 am

cowtime wrote:Actually, I may feel old on occasion, but I refuse to act old, ever. Innapropriate on occasion, ridiculous perhaps, old? Never!

Amen to that!

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:48 am

emmline wrote:
cowtime wrote:Actually, I may feel old on occasion, but I refuse to act old, ever. Innapropriate on occasion, ridiculous perhaps, old? Never!
Amen to that!

I think that I've made it abundantly clear, on several occasions, that I also subscribe to this view

chas · Post by **chas** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:52 am

That makes Michelle the last one left.

Chrisoff, if you can find it, check out the movie Monterey Pop. That was the first big rock festival in the US, organized by John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas. They were in it, as were Hendrix, Otis Redding, and a host of others whom I can't recall at the moment.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:07 am

I remember riding the bus to high school and they had music playing---I think it was to pacify us. I remember looking out the windows of the bus and hearing The Mamas and the Papas singing "All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray....." and it just seemed to describe perfectly how dismal everything in life felt at that time. True, I did live quite near LA

, but it was darn dismal in the middle of Orange County. I really did like them a lot. The years have passed quickly.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:32 am

I spent one summer of my life doing field geology in southern Indiana. I rented a room in a small town, and I ate all of my meals in the few places on the town square that served food. There was one place called "Jock's Lunch" that I frequented when I wasn't feeling too particular.

As I go back to that time in my mind, it is a hot, humid day and it feels good to sit down in a booth and order lunch from the menu on the wall. After I order I get up and put a coin in the jukebox. The "Momas and the Papas" start to sing one of their popular songs.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:23 am

Cowsills have been dropping like flies, too.

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:44 am

cowtime wrote:... Now where did I put my glasses.......

Same place mine are.....

Caj · Post by **Caj** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:03 pm

Charlene wrote:I felt old when I first heard an instrumental version of a Beatles song as elevator music. (I'll be 52 next Wednesday.)

I have a CD by the Evolution Control Committee, and one of the tracks is Vincent Price's voice remixed over the Wabash Cannonball. It's sort of random, but it's an entertaining juxtaposition to hear his characteristic sneery voice on top of this bouncy music---and his voice is so unique that you instantly know, "hey, that's Vincent Price."

Unless you are one of my friends. I played it for a friend of mine who asked, "who's Vincent Price?" That made me feel old.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:55 am

emmline wrote:
cowtime wrote:Actually, I may feel old on occasion, but I refuse to act old, ever. Innapropriate on occasion, ridiculous perhaps, old? Never!
Amen to that!

I'm gonna die young no matter how old I get.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:01 am

Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death

Let me die a youngman’s death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

When I’m 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party

Or when I’m 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber’s chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides

Or when I’m 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a youngman’s death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
‘what a nice way to go’ death

Roger McGough