Rockin’ on Geritol

While my musical tastes have broadened over the years, at the core I’m a 70s rocker. That’s the music I began listening to in my formative, high school years. Do you ever outgrow your musical “first love”? Well, actually, the first album I ever bought was the Carpenters’ “Close to You.” I don’t listen recreationally to Carpenters music anymore…and yet, I perk up when I happen to hear a song from that album.

But at the core, I love “Old Time Rock & Roll,” “Jet Airliner,” “Joy to the World,” “Shambala,” and any of the great Stones classics. That’s been “my” music for 40 years. I can’t imagine out-growing it.

Now let’s extrapolate. When I’m 80 years old…will I still be grooving to “Brown Sugar” and “Proud Mary”? Or will I, at some point, graduate to Hank Sr. classics or showtunes? Can you imagine an 80-year-old, sitting in his wheelchair, wearing earphones attached to an iPod and listening silently to Boston?

And yet…why would that NOT be the case?

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