I feel like my millennial version of that is more like "I need to get off social media and go back to playing video games with my friends". But really the point is absolutely valid.
Not everyone has a cell phone. I don't have a cell phone, so calling long distance does cost me a lot. So I avoid it as much as possible. If someone from out of town emails that they would like to talk, I ask them to call me in a given timeframe so I won't have to pay long distance. And I'm talking single calls costing $30 to $40 and more.
Of course you write letters in cursive. Businesses type boring waste of time letters. Handwriting means you actually care about the person. If you type a letter, they might figure you just sent them a mail merge letter that also went to others.
From 1996 on, sure, with the available music. Pre-1996, though, there was a lot of variety, local stations would be involved in the local music scene, and DJs would get to play whatever they felt like, or people wanted, during non-prime hours, and even mix up the regular playlists a bit. Deregulation brought it back to the old Payola system, just slightly more complicated.
I grew up back in the time when a DJ would actually bring an armful of records from his own collection to play on the air. There was no such thing as country stations or pop stations. Every station was like TV in that they had different shows at different times throughout the broadcast day. They would have farm news in the morning. In the evening, they might play an hour of country music or a couple of hours of pop like Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, and then end the day with relaxing easy listening music to help you sleep. There were even some of the old time radio shows still on the air until I was in 1st or 2nd grade, such as "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar." Look that one up on Archive for a fun detective show.
On the other hand, because that type of radio is gone, I have my 1,000,000+ MP3 files of every kind of music, old time radio shows, talk shows, and more that I can play any time. My desktop computer is connected to my good stereo with huge speakers. It's great.
Actually, almost anyone could make records, and they showed up in record stores. There's no telling how many albums my father brought home of odd things that the record store couldn't sell until cut to 3 or 4 for $1. I have thousands of records by artists that never made any kind of chart or radio station list. They were never played on the radio at all.
As far as the big record labels, when I was growing up, they signed anyone with talent that might sell records. They didn't just want the next Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley. They knew there was a very diverse market out there. Most of the record companies sold black records when it was a very minor market. They did the same for all the other ethnic minorities in the country, such as Jewish, Hungarian, and dozens more.
You might want to try Sirius-XM in your car, and in a home player or the computer. They don't have commercials, and they have channels for almost anything you can think of. Willie Nelson started a channel, "Willie's Roadhouse," where they play nothing but classic country. On Sunday mornings at 9:00 AM, Riders in the Sky has a show where they play western records and movie soundtrack recordings from the 1930s on. Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Sons of the Pioneers, etc. They have an easy listening channel that's good to listen to in the car when driving as it helps keep you from going into road rage because of all the stupidity out there. There's jazz, big bands, comedy, old time radio shows, the variety is endless.
If you don't want to pay for a service, there is a lot you can get on the computer for free. For example, Archive has tens of thousands of old time radio shows that you can listen to or download. There are Usenet newsgroups on the internet that you can access with a newsreader software, such as NewsRover. There are millions of files there, old movies back to silent days, old TV shows, radio shows, and all types of music. I have over a million MP3 files I've downloaded. I can set up a playlist of any type I can imagine and have my own person radio show. I have my computer hooked up to my nice stereo system and some huge speakers.
I love the classic rock but I think what he is saying is... it is all paid for by people that want to change our society. That timeline from what we thought was good to gangster music of today. Kind of like Disney movies.
I have wrestled with my “knowing” and my “enjoying”.
I have finally reconciled that if the music makes me happy and raises my vibration (especially if I sing along), and I spread that vibration with people I meet, I can’t be mad about that.
Call it discernment or circular logic, but I’ll be damned if the fuckers take that away from me too.
Oh, and my husband is a working musician whose current audience is senior citizens. They are thrilled with live music.
On Monday night in a park we saw a world class orchestra playing patriotic American classics, themes from all the military services, John Phillip Souza, etc. It was wonderful and uplifting. People were waving flags, cheering and clapping to the music.
I still have hundreds of them, as well as a restored like new Pioneer 8-track player/recorder. Yes, I've been able to record my own 8-tracks since the mid 1970s.
Why would we relinquish the ability to communicate worldwide in realtime? How about we just take them away from globohomo and get rid of all their tyrannical algorithms. Taxpayers paid for them to become so big anyway, through black money DARPA etc.
Last Saturday after dinner me, the boys and my grandkids got our stuff together, went down to the river, set up the chairs, built a nice little fire on the bank, and did some catfishing while watching the moonrise and drinking lemonade.
Things might always be changing for some in this world, but for others who pay no mind to all that, some things will never change.
I feel like my millennial version of that is more like "I need to get off social media and go back to playing video games with my friends". But really the point is absolutely valid.
How about writing letters?
Not everyone has a cell phone. I don't have a cell phone, so calling long distance does cost me a lot. So I avoid it as much as possible. If someone from out of town emails that they would like to talk, I ask them to call me in a given timeframe so I won't have to pay long distance. And I'm talking single calls costing $30 to $40 and more.
Of course you write letters in cursive. Businesses type boring waste of time letters. Handwriting means you actually care about the person. If you type a letter, they might figure you just sent them a mail merge letter that also went to others.
Cursive or print; I learned the Palmer Method as a boy although I mostly print now, too many years keeping logs and dailies.
There are honest-to-goodness fountain pens on my desk.
They tore down my school to build the old school…
I still write in cursive, as it's faster. If it's something I want in the computer, I'll scan the images and I'll also type the information.
They have to be of the same mindset.
This is another mental construct the Cabal has set up with the entertainment industry.
Nothing you are saying is technically incorrect, but you should really do a deeper dive on this industry instead of blindly defending "muh radio".
From 1996 on, sure, with the available music. Pre-1996, though, there was a lot of variety, local stations would be involved in the local music scene, and DJs would get to play whatever they felt like, or people wanted, during non-prime hours, and even mix up the regular playlists a bit. Deregulation brought it back to the old Payola system, just slightly more complicated.
I grew up back in the time when a DJ would actually bring an armful of records from his own collection to play on the air. There was no such thing as country stations or pop stations. Every station was like TV in that they had different shows at different times throughout the broadcast day. They would have farm news in the morning. In the evening, they might play an hour of country music or a couple of hours of pop like Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, and then end the day with relaxing easy listening music to help you sleep. There were even some of the old time radio shows still on the air until I was in 1st or 2nd grade, such as "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar." Look that one up on Archive for a fun detective show.
On the other hand, because that type of radio is gone, I have my 1,000,000+ MP3 files of every kind of music, old time radio shows, talk shows, and more that I can play any time. My desktop computer is connected to my good stereo with huge speakers. It's great.
Actually, almost anyone could make records, and they showed up in record stores. There's no telling how many albums my father brought home of odd things that the record store couldn't sell until cut to 3 or 4 for $1. I have thousands of records by artists that never made any kind of chart or radio station list. They were never played on the radio at all.
As far as the big record labels, when I was growing up, they signed anyone with talent that might sell records. They didn't just want the next Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley. They knew there was a very diverse market out there. Most of the record companies sold black records when it was a very minor market. They did the same for all the other ethnic minorities in the country, such as Jewish, Hungarian, and dozens more.
You might want to try Sirius-XM in your car, and in a home player or the computer. They don't have commercials, and they have channels for almost anything you can think of. Willie Nelson started a channel, "Willie's Roadhouse," where they play nothing but classic country. On Sunday mornings at 9:00 AM, Riders in the Sky has a show where they play western records and movie soundtrack recordings from the 1930s on. Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Sons of the Pioneers, etc. They have an easy listening channel that's good to listen to in the car when driving as it helps keep you from going into road rage because of all the stupidity out there. There's jazz, big bands, comedy, old time radio shows, the variety is endless.
If you don't want to pay for a service, there is a lot you can get on the computer for free. For example, Archive has tens of thousands of old time radio shows that you can listen to or download. There are Usenet newsgroups on the internet that you can access with a newsreader software, such as NewsRover. There are millions of files there, old movies back to silent days, old TV shows, radio shows, and all types of music. I have over a million MP3 files I've downloaded. I can set up a playlist of any type I can imagine and have my own person radio show. I have my computer hooked up to my nice stereo system and some huge speakers.
Don't give up.
I love the classic rock but I think what he is saying is... it is all paid for by people that want to change our society. That timeline from what we thought was good to gangster music of today. Kind of like Disney movies.
I have wrestled with my “knowing” and my “enjoying”.
I have finally reconciled that if the music makes me happy and raises my vibration (especially if I sing along), and I spread that vibration with people I meet, I can’t be mad about that.
Call it discernment or circular logic, but I’ll be damned if the fuckers take that away from me too.
Oh, and my husband is a working musician whose current audience is senior citizens. They are thrilled with live music.
On Monday night in a park we saw a world class orchestra playing patriotic American classics, themes from all the military services, John Phillip Souza, etc. It was wonderful and uplifting. People were waving flags, cheering and clapping to the music.
8 Tracks, ah yes remember them well. Good times with friends for sure.
I still have hundreds of them, as well as a restored like new Pioneer 8-track player/recorder. Yes, I've been able to record my own 8-tracks since the mid 1970s.
Been doing this all along.
...and MySpace? /sarc
They still exist, but they deleted the old accounts when they changed their business model.
We'll be going further back than that i'm afraid.
Why would we relinquish the ability to communicate worldwide in realtime? How about we just take them away from globohomo and get rid of all their tyrannical algorithms. Taxpayers paid for them to become so big anyway, through black money DARPA etc.
Yea, balance must be kept by each person, that's what we all need to do regarding every technology
What do you mean by saying "go back to"? Never left, hun.
It's what we do 'round these parts, always have and always will.
Last Saturday after dinner me, the boys and my grandkids got our stuff together, went down to the river, set up the chairs, built a nice little fire on the bank, and did some catfishing while watching the moonrise and drinking lemonade.
Things might always be changing for some in this world, but for others who pay no mind to all that, some things will never change.
And we like it that way.