[RS-Fen] [The Richter Scales: Men Who Blog] Kids These Days

[People Who Love Men Who Sing.]

The Richter Scales span a pretty wide age range; I think the current
spread is 15 years. Doesn't it just warm the cockles of your heart to
know that music can bring together such a diverse group of men? Well,
it should. WARM THOSE COCKLES DAMMITAnyway. I, myself, am one of the
older Scales, and this was made very clear to me by a couple of
incidents in the past month:First, while driving home from rehearsal
one night--Wiley, Loren, David, and I had carpooled up from the
peninsula--Wiley's mp3 player shuffled up The Who's "Baba O'Riley,"
which has a very distinctive introduction."What is this?" David
asked.He had never heard the song before, much less known the name of
the band. Loren, who's closer to my age, listened for a little while,
and then said, "Are these the guys who do the CSI theme song?"You'll be
glad to know that I didn't actually smack him upside the head. He was
too far away in the backseat.Last week, at our retreat, I was relaxing
and spinning some Squeeze tunes before dinner on Saturday
night. "Hourglass" came on, and a few seconds in, Jason said, "Hey,
don't we sing this song?" He'd never heard the original, despite having
performed our arrangement of it at several gigs.Conversely, both David
and Jason have introduced me to new music that I might not have
discovered otherwise. David has engaged in protracted discourse on Fall
Out Boy's irresistible badness, and the group is currently learning
Jason's arrangement of "Beautiful High" by Sister Hazel.How do I feel?
Young. I feel young.

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Posted By CKL to The Richter Scales: Men Who Blog at 4/06/2007 03:54:00
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