15th August 2007 Wednesday - As I hit 50 some months ago and was fed up with watching those 'grumpy old men and women' on TV, I thought I would start this blog to represent all of use who are 50+ and who aren't moany old gits (although I don't particularly like rap music - except old school rap like the Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Flash). Let's be fair, there are a lot of things around now that are great - I think mobile phones are very useful and it's much easier to access porn now we have the internet! (not that I do.... well, occasionally).
Talking of the internet, everyone says 'how great it is, you get people putting music on Myspace and then next week they've sold 25,000 downloads and are number one'. Let me say I think that's crap because
a) When I was a teenager if you sold 25,000 singles you were playing some local working mens club up north, or Jenkinsons bar in Brighton (fellow Brightonians will recognise this reference). You needed 100,000 sales to get in the top 30!
b) By advertising the music on the internet these singers/bands have not spent a number of years slogging round perfecting the art of performing, so while they may make great music they have no stagecraft and therefore are poor to watch.
Sorry about that, starting to sound like a 50 year old...but it's true!
When i was a kid, certainly up until the early 70s at least, all adults would always be smartly dressed, did you notice your dad putting on 'just a casual suit to go and repair something in the shed?' OK, I may be exaggerating a bit there but being 50 is definitely the new 20. I rarely wear a tie now which I think is great - whoever thought it was smart to wear a piece of coloured cloth around your neck?
Anyway, will sign off for now, need to do some guitar practice. Yes, I know I don;t really need to but Clapton didn't get as good as his is without putting in the hours.
Lee