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    Hope I Die Before I Get OLD!

    Found this interesting link, courtesy of some of my other old fart musician friends on another forum. Not exactly all rock stars, but that's another topic.

    http://www.ihopeidiebeforeigetold.co...rock-stars.php
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    Thanks, that was a nice counter to all the RIP threads. Although I hadn't heard of a good many on this list....

    Did anyone mention R.I.P. Nat Hentoff?

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    Glad to see Sonny Burgess is still with us at 85. His 60-year-old rockabilly number "Red Headed Woman" has got to be one of the most kick-ass RnR tunes out there.
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    I have actually met some of the list members...what I remember.

    1. John Mayall
    2. Ronnie Hawkins
    3. Frankie Valli
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    I just saw an 80 year old Buddy Guy kick my ass last Friday night. The man is still amazing.

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    On the list, I've met:

    Tony Bennett, when he was about 65 & did a signing at a local record store. When I told him that I grew up about a mile from where he did, I managed to piss off all the people in line behind me as he started to chat with me about Astoria & took up a couple of minutes instead of just a handshake and a quick autograph.

    Willie Winfield, the lead singer of the legendary doowop group The Harptones. Shook his hand at an Alan Freed festival when I was 12.

    Ian Tyson, half of folkies Ian & Sylvia & countrymen of adap2it. Actually sat down at dinner with Ian, Sylvia & others & ate spaghetti that Sylvia Fricker (who wrote "You Were On My Mind") prepared in a coffeehouse kitchen during the summer of 1964, when I was 19.
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    Quote Originally Posted by progeezer View Post
    On the list, I've met:

    Tony Bennett, when he was about 65 & did a signing at a local record store. When I told him that I grew up about a mile from where he did, I managed to piss off all the people in line behind me as he started to chat with me about Astoria & took up a couple of minutes instead of just a handshake and a quick autograph.

    Willie Winfield, the lead singer of the legendary doowop group The Harptones. Shook his hand at an Alan Freed festival when I was 12.

    Ian Tyson, half of folkies Ian & Sylvia & countrymen of adap2it. Actually sat down at dinner with Ian, Sylvia & others & ate spaghetti that Sylvia Fricker (who wrote "You Were On My Mind") prepared in a coffeehouse kitchen during the summer of 1964, when I was 19.
    You know that Tony Bennett is still touring and is playing in Jacksonville FL in Feb, only an hour from where i'm staying right now. 90 years old and still touring???
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveSly View Post
    I just saw an 80 year old Buddy Guy kick my ass last Friday night. The man is still amazing.
    Hi Steve, thats known as talent eh? I saw him in the 70's...
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    Quote Originally Posted by adap2it View Post
    You know that Tony Bennett is still touring and is playing in Jacksonville FL in Feb, only an hour from where i'm staying right now. 90 years old and still touring???
    I'll bet he inspires those kids in The Rolling Stones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    I'll bet he inspires those kids in The Rolling Stones.
    Mick Jagger and Keith Richards already look older than Tony Bennett..
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    I won't mind growing old, I just don't want to become senile.

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    Hope I get (somewhat) old before I die, though
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trane View Post
    Hope I get (somewhat) old before I die, though
    I'm OLD...I believe the oldest on PE. I will be 77 this year and after 12 months of retirement, can say with authority that if you manage to stay healthy, it's not a lot different from your middle age years. I still listen to weird music daily, drink booze most days and get high occasionally.
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    I'm adap2it's bastard child and I'm only 72.

    Just change the "12 months" to "7 years" and eliminate the word occasionally from his post and I could have written it.
    "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"

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    Quote Originally Posted by progeezer View Post
    I'm adap2it's bastard child and I'm only 72.

    Just change the "12 months" to "7 years" and eliminate the word occasionally from his post and I could have written it.
    Stereotypes? Old people write the same things eh? Well actually, I STILL get high! In old age, you don't have to compete with GOOGLE KNOWLEDGE!
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    You gentlemen are my mentors!

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    H'mmm. That list pushes the boundaries for "rock stars." Vera Lynn? Doris Day? Really?
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    I get high with a little help from my friends. At any age!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    H'mmm. That list pushes the boundaries for "rock stars." Vera Lynn? Doris Day? Really?
    As I wrote in my initial post. Not exactly rock stars. They must be using the same criteria as the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Koreabruce View Post
    You gentlemen are my mentors!
    I credit my longevity, at least in a youthful sense, to my musical tastes throughout the years. Keeping in touch with what's going on in the world of music has done a lot for me in terms of not allowing a divide to take over my life. I still maintain an open mind musically that I feel is a big advantage over the typical age related views of modern music. OTOH...Rap is the exception.
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    Quote Originally Posted by adap2it View Post
    OTOH...Rap is the exception.
    Nah, you're safe. Rap isn't music.

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    Quote Originally Posted by progeezer View Post
    Ian Tyson, half of folkies Ian & Sylvia & countrymen of adap2it. Actually sat down at dinner with Ian, Sylvia & others & ate spaghetti that Sylvia Fricker (who wrote "You Were On My Mind") prepared in a coffeehouse kitchen during the summer of 1964, when I was 19.
    I suspect that Ian & Sylvia was also the inspiration for the characters played by Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy in A Mighty Wind.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Nah, you're safe. Rap isn't music.
    My youngest grandson, who is 17, is a big fan of Twenty One Pilots. I find them almost bearable...
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