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Old 08-11-2018, 06:52 PM
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Default Faith in music restored

Went out for a slice of pizza tonite. Its in a strip mall in my town. When I walked out to go home, about three stores down I saw a kid busking under the awning. I guess he was about 17, playing an inexpensive acoustic, and nailing every Beatles song he sang. I dropped a few bills in his case and told him he did some good covers. What impressed me was that even though his vocals were not the best ( neither are mine ), he knew all the words to the songs that were played by a band that called it quits about thirty years before he was even on the planet!!! I must have taken him a long time to learn them. I guess not every kid spends all day on his iphone. Well done young man, there is hope yet!!!
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Old 08-11-2018, 07:13 PM
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Very cool.

A friend is a music teacher and one of his guitar students a middle school girl who loves the Beatles. She really impressed me at one of the school's recitals. It really was heartening to hear and see.
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Old 08-11-2018, 08:13 PM
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I read this post today oh boy.
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Old 08-12-2018, 06:57 AM
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Thanks for sharing...I'm not quite so pessimistic about our musical future for the moment...
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Old 08-12-2018, 03:39 PM
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People have been underestimating the younger generations for a long time. It's as old as rock 'n' roll itself.
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Old 08-12-2018, 04:16 PM
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That's nothing. When I was in school, the band was doing numbers hundreds of years old! You and your loud rock and roll....

Now get off my lawn!

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