{"id":1986,"date":"2013-03-24T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/03\/sex-drugs-and-geritol.html"},"modified":"2013-03-24T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T09:51:00","slug":"sex-drugs-and-geritol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/03\/sex-drugs-and-geritol.html","title":{"rendered":"Sex, drugs and Geritol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So a reader sent over a link to this article from The American Spectator<\/a>. \u00a0Before I go on, let me say like Joan Jett, I love Rock n\u2019 Roll. It was the soundtrack of my youth. \u00a0I have always had a rather\u00a0eclectic\u00a0taste in music. \u00a0From Rock to Classical to Big Band to Easy Listening to Jazz to everything but Country (and depending on the song, sometimes that), I enjoy music. \u00a0I might have had talent enough to pursue music, but I was too stupid and thick headed as a child to get the fact that I had something going for me when my piano teachers and music teachers said I had something going for me. \u00a0A lesson I try\u00a0desperately\u00a0to teach my boys.<\/p>\n

Anyway, music. \u00a0I enjoy rock. \u00a0In my day, MTV had just hit the airwaves when I was a freshman in high school. \u00a0Van Halen was my favorite contemporary group at the time, and I always liked the Beatles. \u00a0But I liked it all: from Beethoven to Barry Manilow, from Andy Williams to\u00a0Wolfgang\u00a0Amadeus Mozart, I took in all that was out there. \u00a0Because of this, I was never blind to the sever limitations of rock music. \u00a0Comparing Mozart\u2019s Symphony no 40\u00a0or Bach\u2019s\u00a0Brandenburg\u00a0Concertos to the best that rock music had produced, such as the Who\u2019s Tommy<\/i>, or Stairway to Heaven<\/i>, or Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/i>, showed that there were extreme limits. <\/p>\n

Those limits were already in place before rock. \u00a0The popular music that predated rock, that the rock generation would unwittingly make fun of, was the basic framework upon which rock music was founded. \u00a0The music of Jo Stafford, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby was the same format: short, simple, to the point. \u00a0Though the lyrics, at times, hinted at a more realistic appraisal of life\u2019s up and downs and struggles than rock\u2019s usual \u2018if I can just get the girl and get laid, the universe if A-OK.\u2019 \u00a0If anything can be appreciated, it\u2019s the observation that the best contributors to the rock genre tended to avoid the simplistic, silly, and superficial values and wax\u00a0whimsical\u00a0or at least attempt to say something about life outside the bedroom.<\/p>\n

Still, most of rock is just that: ridiculously shallow, hedonistic values with no meaning, purpose, or resolution\u00a0that\u00a0bear resemblance to\u00a0the\u00a0real world experience of humanity any more than Indiana Jones\u2019 exploits bear a resemblance to a day in the life of real\u00a0archaeologists\u00a0 Now, those authors of ludicrous values are penning their autobiographies and telling us all what it was really all about. The takeaway quote from the article:<\/p>\n

\u201cA bunch of people who got rich paying lip service to a set of disingenuous values are now getting even richer writing about how they were indeed mostly just paying lip service to those values, all the while earning adulatory reviews from our increasingly obsequious Baby Boomer media.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love it. \u00a0I loved the music, but it wasn\u2019t until I was older that I realized the utter hypocrisy and lie that was behind the rock\u00a0culture\u00a0 \u00a0It wasn\u2019t until then I realized that, due to insurance constraints, that giant bottle of Jack Daniels really had ice tea. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t until I was older that it dawned on me that these rebels running about flipping the bird to societal norms were guided by guys in suits sitting in a board room. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t until much later that I realized those guys on stage were willing parts of the giant hypocrisy, laughing all the way to the bank with their limos, mansions, bank accounts and accountants.<\/p>\n

I remember back in the late 1980s when Paul McCartney had his tour supporting the album Flowers in the Attic<\/i>. \u00a0During an interview, McCartney said that he and Lennon were basically in it for the money. \u00a0GASP! \u00a0Oh, the shock. \u00a0On\u00a0entertainment\u00a0shows and publications everywhere, the shock, the\u00a0disappointment,\u00a0 the indignation! \u00a0Imagine no possessions! \u00a0Well, McCartney was just being what most of the rock generation has\u00a0been\u00a0anything but: Honest. \u00a0The wave of aging, gray haired rockers penning their bios will begin to show the careful reader just how much of a lie, and a ludicrous one at that, it all really was. \u00a0Then we can begin running the numbers and seeing just how many millions of lives were ruined as young people sadly believed the lie was true and attempted to live the lie. \u00a0If Satan is indeed the father of lies, perhaps those old fundamentalists screaming about rock music being of the devil were actually on to something.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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