Off Topic Do we have any music fans on this board?

I posted a thread about Dion at 80 years old.

https://www.not606.com/threads/dion-dimucci-now-80-and-he-just-gets-better-and-better.384249/

It received 79 views (one like - thank you Rooch 3) but not one single comment.

Am I so out of touch that board members no longer have opinions on successful musicians/singers that have been around for the past 40+ years (positive or negative), or have I just misunderstood the ages of current board members?

I wasn't disappointed about the lack of 'likes' (I don't care about them) but was surprised at the zero comments about someone I think has been a major influence in the music industry (he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in '89).

 

Like runaround sue.

 

No problem mate I thought he was class we we had a music thread on here but I don’t know what happened to it

 

A few more than that over the years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_DiMucci_discography

 

No problem with you mate, I can only think that the rest of the board just stick their fingers in their ears whenever someone other than Taylor Swift (or another talent less [my definition being anyone who can't sing or play without computer assistance] idiot appears on the airwaves!

 

Well aware he didn't stop at one song.

 

I read your post but didn't comment as I don't like his music, never did like that bee bop kind of sound, don't like American rock/pop in general.
Didn't like Elvis or any of that kind of ****e, for me American music is Blues and Jazz.

 

Music is very subjective though. What I like others don’t. For example, my favourite band going back to when I was 14 in 1980 was and still is Rush. When the drummer died of cancer earlier this year I was genuinely upset, but if I put a link to his death on here, I seriously doubt that it would have got any likes or comments either.

 

Rock and Roll forever got my first taste of The Wanderer in 59 it was on the B side of Teenager in Love, a single I found in a jumble sale on Southwick Green, the record had come off a Juke Box in Smiths, never found out how, ours not to wonder why.

 

My mate is a huge fan, he's even gone over to Canada to see them play and buys anything connected, as you say subjective

 

Never heard of him. Not a fan of that styl

I love The Saw Doctors but hardly anyone else has heard of them.

 

I love music mate and listen to anything, Desert Island Discs is my favourite programme and I rarely miss it, today's helping was really special a bloke I had never heard of, an amazing guy and an inspiration, and great popular music, eclectic does not do it justice. No golden oldies though.

 

We used to have them at Rock City around Christmas Time, wonderful!!!

Great music, great stage presence and a cracking bunch of lads ...

... a washing line across the stage one year, no idea why it was so funny tbh.

 

I didn't see the thread or perhaps the title threw me out.

Dion sang The Wanderer on Jools Holland and my son, who's a musician but didn't know of him, played the clip about 30 times while we sang along.

We have a mutual Sunderland mate that we nicknamed 'The Slitherer' many years ago and adapted the words for him

 

Mu musical tastes vary from classic oldies to some (not many) new songs, but I'm officially stuck in the 90's with indie dands, nu metal etc.

Saying that as I have got older I have learnt to appreciate some classical music as well.

Jazz however is still music for the deaf

 

Love most music mate unless it's s hit don't like the Cleo Lane type of jazz though. Just listened to a lad called Laurence Jones playing Cradle Rock thought it was brilliant but needs to be loud.

 

It scares me that the oldies now are the 90's bands I still think are decent

 

I find it amazing Jimi has been dead 48 years now and it's Rory's 25 anniversary this week jesus where's it gone.

 

Nowt wrong with The Saw Doctors. Out of that genre I prefer Hothouse Flowers though Their version of I Can See Clearly Now was excellent. It was also what I was listening to when I heard my grandad had died in 1991.
As for Rush, they are described as the Marmite of rock music. The drummer, Neil Peart was the primary lyricist and some of the stuff he wrote was just sublime. Very poignant when he died that one of his lyrics was widely shared

Suddenly you were gone
From all the lives you left your mark upon

 

Being a young 45, I never got to see Jimi but his music is amazing and on my play list.

I have a CD in the car of my favourite music and it jumps around through all sorts.

System of a down
Stone roses
Bluetones
Derek and the dominos
Simon and garfunkel
Diana ross
Prodigy
Slipknot
Miley cyrus
Etc etc