Old School Day

Hello Friends!
It has been quite some time since my last blog. I have decided that today would be old school music day...in fact I am currently listening to Weezer's "Buddy Holly" and cooking turkey burgers for my family. I can remember when I first saw this video ever, I was seven maybe eight years old. So old right?! Haha. I hear some of the music today and to be quite blunt...most of it sucks. Not all of it. But a good chunk does. I can remember when I was a kid, hearing people say, " I don't like your kid's music today...it's horrible." And I couldn't understand why they thought that...but you know the older  I get the more I appreciate what they say.  Currently my playlist went to John Cash and June Carter Cash "Jackson". Now there's a CLASSIC. Or as you new hip youngesters call it, "Vintage".  It just seems so funny to me now, how people consider U2, Oasis, Nirvana, Pearl Jam (<--just to name a few) "Classic Rock". Oh Dear! That was my childhood and shit I grew up on. I honestly don't think the record labels are what they use to be. Back in the hay day of record labels and when people actually bought 45's, 33's, 78's (for those of you who don't know, those are records or vinyl. and if you don't know what that is...go look it up.) people really had a care for music and so did the musicans. Sure you had your share of musicans who did what the record label wanted them to do...but you also had what I like to call "originals"; Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Hendrix, The Band, etc. But a lot of artists kind of started in the 50's and onward to not write their own music. I hate to say this, but I don't call them musicians or true artists. I consider them a singer and that is all. Don't get me wrong, their are some singers  or artists that have some good songs that someone wrote for them, but I much prefer a band or singer that actually wrote the song and took the time to make it a great song. To me that is a true artist, and to be frank here it's not even the fact that their being true...it's that they took the time to make that song special for they're own sake and for the fans of their music. That's what a true artist is. 
    I know that I seem to be rambling here, but I have always had a strong opinion on this. I have always felt such a strong connection to music. I'm sure I'm not the only who feels that way. I can't play any instruments, or carry a tune to save my life. But I guess I feel just like everybody else in this world a strong connection to music. On that note, words of wisdom for today; "If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band."- Nikki Sixx