But you can have only been a toddler then ?!
Nope, I'm actually 58. Yes I had my little boy when I was 50. (Actually my wife gave birth, I just sat around smiling).
1958 to 1973...plus the short new wave period of 1978-1982.
Absolutely, but believe it or not my favorites are John Philip Sousa, Scott Joplin and anything Classical. Comes from my early days, starting at 5, playing cornet. But I really just like music, you know REAL music with people playing instruments and SINGING. I have a hard time with RAP although I can respect the genre. But that's neither here nor there. We all know about opinions and body parts. We all have them. But yes I was VERY fortunate to be around during a lot of history, not just music. But the music made the times enjoyable. 50's blues and early rockand the birth of the cold war. The experimental 60's with Vietnam. The disco 70's with Nixon and the begginings of TRUE political awareness. The musical landscape was painted with whole new ideas and techniques thanks to Vietnam. HUH????? Vietnam was the proving grounds for early electronics and why the American people got calculators. And of course from electronics were born all the new types of musical instruments and methods of expression.
Roberta Flack....now that was a great singer.
Ah yes, what a voice. Edgar Winter and Roberta had the 2 of the best (IMNSHO) voices I ever heard and great range. I believe Edgar was 4-5 octaves and Roberta was close. She had the best natural pitch of any singer I ever worked with. 30 minutes before each show a piano tuner had to tune her piano and then again during the intermission because she had a tendancy to get very cranky if everything was perfectly in tune. I was not on the tour thru Japan but I heard from one of the sound guys that she came off stage and threw a mike stand at him before an encore because she didn't like his monitor levels. He wound up carrying a sheet of Lexan around that he would setup in front of him to protect him from flying metal objects. Kind of strange considering he did the monitors for Robert Plant (Led Zepplin and another great voice) and was considered one of the best.
As far as heavy metal there were HUGE talents there as well. Robert Halford (Judas Priest) actually studied opera and had the voice to go with it, but just couldn't get an opera job so he wound up in a heavy metal band. Same with Freddy Mercury (Queen), another awesome voice now gone.
I could talk for hours about the music giants I had a chance to either hear live or actually work with but those are for wine on the terrace or Friday nights at the pub conversations.
Joe B
(every week they are hunting another maniac) ???