Believe Me

 I was looking at a website and a list of new album releases coming up and thinking to myself: "I've never heard of any of these people."

A website that just a few years ago would still list a few familiar names.

But apparently something has changed and the old names have vanished.

I started thinking, I wonder if my parents had the same experience, let's say maybe 1972 .... Hmmmm Neil Young, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, Steely Dan, The Who, Little Feat ..... "Who are these people? What happened to the music of my youth?"

And now the music of my youth, which seemingly still had the tiniest of toeholds just two or three years ago .... enough to make an occasional appearance on a new releases list ..... seems to be totally gone and forgotten.

And I was reading about John Lodge from the Moody Blues passing away which I what led me in this direction.

There was a time that I remember when all these names were young and their new music was highly anticipated and exciting and you'd hear it on the radio and people would talk about their favorite radio stations ......

        ...... and everything feels so much different now.

And I lived through those years which still felt at least acknowledged and remembered not that long go. But suddenly feels in the online world, more like a lost time and was it really all that significant?

         ..... and believe me, it was!!!