Aging Musicians

[TheBar]

I hate threads that remind me how old I am

 

[Mountain high]

Gordon Lightfoot 84

 

[Mountain high]

Besides Brian Wilson there's Mike Love 81, Al Jardin 80, Bruce Johnston 80, David Marks 74

 

[SeilerBird]

I hate threads that remind me how old I am

I don't need these threads to remind me of how old I am. All I have to do is try and stand up getting out of my chair.

 

[Arch Hoagland]

You're only old once...enjoy it while you can.

 

[Reinigm]

Martin: Comedian, actor then musician.
Aykroid: Comedian, actor some musicality

Neither destined to be enshrined in any music hall of fame.

Steve Martin - Blue Grass Hall of Fame. Might already be in it.

 

[SeilerBird]

Martin: Comedian, actor then musician.
Aykroid: Comedian, actor some musicality

Neither destined to be enshrined in any music hall of fame.

Very few musicians have the skill on their instrument that Steve does.

 

[Ray-IN]

I fins it interesting that the number one artist on the list, Willie Nelson is still going strong and he has been smoking pot his entire life. There are five other pot smokers in the top ten.

When I was in high school I took guitar lessons from Bobby Helms. A few years later he was traveling and playing full-time. He once told " you can't play in front of an audience sober".

 

[Contributor]

There ought to be a list here for the "non aging musicians" - the ones that burned out like Jimmy Hendrix, Mama Cass, Jim Morrison ........

 

[Arch Hoagland]

Mama Cass....The best female vocalist ever in my humble opinion.

 

[Knobs]

Steve Martin - Blue Grass Hall of Fame. Might already be in it.

Not in the IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Assoc) hall of fame, but he has received from the IBMA:

• Collaborative Recording of the Year (2007)
• Distinguished Achievement Award (2015)
• Entertainer of the Year (2011)

I'd say he qualifies easily as a musician.

 

[Knobs]

There ought to be a list here for the "non aging musicians" - the ones that burned out like Jimmy Hendrix, Mama Cass, Jim Morrison ........

Janis Joplin

 

[jymbee]

Very few musicians have the skill on their instrument that Steve does.

Well there 'ya go. Yet another reason why I have not been named to any nominating committee tasked with deciding who belongs on any list of musical greats-- young or old.

I would like to thank those here who have contributed to my appreciation of musicianship as it pertains to the abilities of Mr. Martin and would also like to publicly apologize to Steve if in any way my comments may have been interpreted to diminish his considerable talents.

Now get that damned arrow off you head Steve and play us another song!

 

[SeilerBird]

I think less than half the musicians in the R&R HOF don't belong there.

• LaVern Baker
• John Lee Hooker
• The Impressions
• Wilson Pickett
• Jimmy Reed

To name a few.

 

[Left Here]

And we just lost David Crosby last week, too. Bummer!

 

[Mountain high]

Now get that damned arrow off you head Steve and play us another song!

Steve Martin - D23

In the late 1970s, as the nation watched the skyrocketing success of a “wild and crazy” young comic named Steve Martin.

d23.com

"The arrow-through-the-head was a thing we used to sell at Disneyland,” Martin recalled. “It was just so silly. It was like anti-comedy.”