For those of us over 60..


What band's output would you say best describes you/your life as you see it?

For me, Allman Brothers
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Leonard Cohen, Ry Cooder, Leonard Cohen, Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin and Leonard Cohen. 
Give me the Grateful Dead & Jimi Hendrix and a remote island, I'll be happy.

Van Morrison, James Taylor, and the Allman Bros. would be nice additions to take to the island. 

What roped me in was Donovan and Lovin' Spoonful. Hearing much of their early stuff (thinking summer of '66) triggers a mental snapshot of my life, then to now as if to function as a containment boom with new sections continually added on. Just a different version of where you've been/where are you going analysis. 

Mike Bloomfield and whatever groups and combos he was playing with from Paul Butterfield, Bob Dylan, The Electric Flag. Al Kooper, and many more. Probably the premier American blues/rock guitarist, who burned himself and his talent out.

Personally I can’t relate to his substance abuse, but instead to his talent as an American blues artist, whose artistry is now gone with the wind, no matter how well he played in his heyday. It’s like all our hippie dreams that went up in smoke. Current politics makes me feel like we’re reliving the fifties, and instead of our hopes and dreams being realized, they went the way of Mike Bloomfield, great then, gone now. I do still hope for the future though, because there’s not another available option. Like Elvis Costello sang, "What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?" Hope it happens pretty soon, "Before I get old" though, because I’m 66 now.

That any closer to what you were looking for, slaw?

Mike