The Wobblies.
When labor unions were cool.
Dean Martin had a teevee show.
Oooooo, this one’s even better. Guests are the recently deceased Buck Henry, plus Orson Welles doing a scene from The Merchant of Venice. Also Joey Heatherton with no pants on.
Even the kitschiest tv back then had great shit on it.
The crew cut was considered a shocking, anti-establishment haircut when it started to spread outside the crewing world. While Moe Howard’s almost-early-Beatle bowl cut was a common cut. Yet in the 60s people got angry over the Beatles’ haircut and suggested they all should be given crew cuts.
Before unions, a “vacation” was the period between employment, and “healthcare” was Witch Hazel applied to cuts - while 9% of railway employees suffered amputations annually, and 1% died. Did your great-grandparents have all their fingers? Miracle!
One generation always has to have to complain about the younger generation, even if they did it themselves.
It did?
- My Little Pony* was not the first show “for girls” that was popular among adult males.
….what was then?
Actually the new Batman movie arc coming up with Robert Pattinson as Batman is based upon the Detective comics.
And no cartoons on Saturday mornings!!! That bothers me. Not that I’d watch them now, but a Saturday morning without cartoons isn’t a Saturday morning!
“Rock music is dead” is a manifestly ludicrous claim, when bands like White Denim, the Drive By Truckers, Tedeschi/Trucks, Cage The Elephant, Queens of the Stone Age, are currently touring their asses off and drawing gigantic crowds. White Denim alone is proof that rock music is still firing 12 cylinders. I saw them live last year and I honestly felt about like I’d imagine someone seeing Led Zeppelin or the Grateful Dead at the pinnacle of their careers - absolute monster band.
Yeah, right. No band is doing any form, shape, or subgenre of rock music today.
I have to tell people the 1960’s saw the formation of a new style of music that will last forever.
Rock is classic, rock is still around, and rock will be played a century from now.
In addition to the A-list and B-list acts, local bands that nobody has ever heard of outside their cities are gigging their ass off and packing venues and house shows. COVER BANDS that do nothing but play covers of Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead, are drawing huge crowds. Guys in their 20s are forming rock bands influenced, not by classic rock, but by Cage The Elephant and LCD Soundsystem. The continuum of new generations both being influenced by classic music and contemporary music, is still in full operation.
Okay, a little history lesson: The original rock music was a combination of the folk, country & western music mixed with jazz, soul, and rhythm and blues. Somehow, this produced a form of music that can be combined with any another form of music. And people are still doing it today.
To say that nobody is producing any new songs in the sub genres of rock is ignorance supreme.
I get a real charge out of telling the really religious people who think that rock is “the devil’s music” that is was a combination of white and “colored” music, which of course they find objectionable.
It’s hard to define “popular” but I’d go with Sailor Moon.
I remember the Wobblies, and all their great songs (many were Protestant camp-meeting hymns turned into critiques both of Christian beliefs and capitalism --and they were funny!)
They were indeed cool.
I remember seeing an sf magazine’s preview of Blade Runner before it came out and scoffed at the idea of people dressing like punk rockers in 2019. “yeah, that’ll seem pretty anachronistic when the punk fad dies out.” so, sort of right and sort of wrong.
Ohhhhhh… ok… I don’t think they are near the same level, but definitely a case could be made.
Preach it.
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night…