40 years ago - Alright Now- Free
80 years ago - Swanee - Al Jolson
has the world of music in the past 40 yrs changed that much as the seemingly huge leap in the previous 40yrs, apart from synth, not that much has changed, guitar , bass, drums & singer...... interested

Well theres singers cheating and using autotuning.

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Rated "M" for meaty.

Thinking that if I'd heard Al Jolson 40yrs ago it would sound old fashioned, would the same be said for Free by any of the younger forum members today.....just curious

Imagine one of us younger ones hearing al jolson

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Rated "M" for meaty.

Yeah white man pretending to be coloured to boot

When I was a kid Elvis was making his famous come-back. We thought: what a dinosaur! Why doesn't he go and retire with dignity?

He was 33 - for f-f-f-flip's sake!!!

Cheers - C

-----You're killing me Ceri.....cheezuz....lol- -N

From this opinion, the biggest change has been the hyper-over-production of recorded music.

For Heaven's sake, the Beatles and Sones recorded some stuff on Monural. Now, 64 or more tracks, 1200 active graphic equalizers, pedalboards like half sheets of plywood and and racks as big as refigerators and syths every-frigging-where.

What would they sound like, on stage with only, repeat, only, repeat, only...

...a guitar, amp, cord and mic?

Glad he didn't listen, unless I'm wrong some of what we'd have missed

A little less conversation
In the ghetto
Suspicious minds
American Trilogy
Always on my mind
Way Down

loads more probably

Oh most definitely as Elvis came back with a vengeance, and that show is still a classic.

My point exactly.

Our ideas about how young you have to be to do rock and roll have changed over the decades...

Cheers - C

I wish Elvis would make another comeback.
We had him musicaly from 56-58 then from 68- 77ish. Thats 11 years. The aliens have had him long enough, humanity needs the return of the king.

I'm still firmly in favour of world Elvis day.

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I get an odd feeling when I see some of the older videos. When I was a kid and saw the film Woodstock for the first time. Everything was still new and "hip". It was rated "R", so my dad had to take me... and I'm sure he loved that!

Anyway, whenever I see it now, it just seems... well... old. And it reminds me that I'm old now too.

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"...The final truth is, there is no truth..." - (from "Nice n' Neat" by the Boomtown Rats)

Nikkininja wrote - I'm still firmly in favour of world Elvis day.

Uh Hu Hu... A Hu... yeah yeah, havn't seen him down the chip shop recently. last I heard he had a window cleaning round

Along with everything electronic these days, probably just me, but, could you tell out of today's guitarists who was playing if you heard them, do you think the micro chip has taken away some players personality, Clapton, Blackmore, Hendrix, Gilmour & Marvin to mention a few, all recognizable within seconds