How boomers ruined the blues...

[BluesRunTheGame]

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[jmbar2]

1. I fucking hate boomer bashing!

it is an invitation to divide people by age that wouldn't be accepted if it were race, gender, nationality or religion. It crops up all over social media ahead of key elections, and in times of polarization. I do not think that is an accident. Malign entities would like to split Americans against each other.

I hope you will reconsider posting this type of content.

[BluesRunTheGame]

4. I'm a boomer.

I think this is hilarious. It’s humor, not “boomer bashing”.

[Shellback Squid]

2. oooh shit, civil rights, Vietnam war, Kent state, integration? fuck this guy

[gab13by13]

3. Meh,

I am a boomer and I played the blues back in the 60's, played it in red neck bars.

[Iggo]

5. Gatekeepers ruin music.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. That's a lot of ignorance to pack into two minutes and fifty-two seconds. NT

[lapfog_1]

7. Please rethink posting this sort of crap

This asshole is not a boomer. I am. Nothing he talks about is relevant to my lived experience.

It is dismissive and ignorant, full of stereotypes.

My parents couldn't afford McDonalds. My generation ( actually a little older than me ) literally died in the streets protesting a little thing called the Vietnam war. And if we were not being shot in the protest, we were being drafted to die in a rice paddy a million miles from home. Ask my dead brother.

So please remove this crap.

[gab13by13]

8. Yeah, I worked hard for everything I got,

Yeah college was cheaper but I worked when still in high school then worked on the highway for a subcontractor who worked the hell out of me. I stayed in a room above a bar and my last night I had no money left and one can of pears I brought from home to tide me over until I got paid.

I think I was allowed to play the blues. Our band played in this red neck bar and the bartender told us that no one will dance until they get some booze in them. We played a Temptations 6 pack (6 Temptations tunes) so we decided to open up with a Temptation's tune "Since I Lost My Baby," it was a tricky tune to dance to. The bar was all white people except for 1 black couple. We started playing and the black couple got up and danced fast to the tune and the white people got up and danced slow.

I loved playing in a band in the 60's.

[lapfog_1]

9. I did field labor as a 12 year old, every summer until 18

bailed hay, cut weeds out of soybean fields with a hand machete, picked fruit ( cherries ) in an orchard.

This was in addition to daily chores on our own farm...

Waking up at 5am in January, hiking about .5 miles to our pond to break the ice ( usually about a foot thick ) in the pond so our horses could keep it open and drink all day ( sub zero weather, wind, and stars like diamonds in the sky ). Feeding the horses, plowing our 2 acre garden by hand in the spring, mucking out the barn, mowing the pasture... etc.

[msongs]

10. to the video dude - youre welcome. hope u dont die of withdrawals when u lose yer phone lol nt

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. And, now for my new one hour special...

"How every generation since the boomers blames them for everything, even as these same generations are quite capable of doing something about their complaints."

[Ptah]

12. Stevie Ray Vaughan: a boomer

[justaprogressive]

13. If it wasn't for us

You would never have heard them!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. 🔧❗️

[VGNonly]

15. Boo

[ProfessorGAC]

16. I Watch This Guy's Videos

But, sometimes he goes wildly off base.
The resurgence of the blues in the mid 60s in England & late 60s in the US was promulgated by guys that were from the Silent Generation. Clapton, Mayall, Beck, Allman, Gallagher, and others were not Boomers.
So, he's really got this wrong at the start.
And, full disclosure, I hated having guys come to jam nights we hosted who wanted to do blues. Most of them were Boomers or Gen X, and they didn't ruin the blues, they just made them boring.

[BluesRunTheGame]

17. I don't think his intention is to be 'on base'.

He’s trying to get a reaction. It appeals to his fusion fan base and triggers boomer blues fans.

Full disclosure: I’m 67 years old and my record collection is heavy on pre-war blues. I probably own less than 10 jazz records.

Have you seen his video on classical guitarists.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. You're Totally Correct

Not all his videos are like this, but there's a fair share, especially his shorts, where he's just enflaming to enflame.
Yeah, I saw that bit on nylon string guitar. Just yesterday or the day before.
I did feel bad for them losing the beastie though.