Attention Fellow Seniors

[TwoTankAmin]

A new study from the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry suggests that listening to music regularly can decrease the risk of dementia. The inquiry was formally published in early October and is based on a decade’s worth of data from more than 10,000 healthy individuals aged 70 or older living in Australia. Findings suggest that those who listen to music most days lower their risk of dementia by 39% as compared to those who don’t.
https://relix.com/news/detail/new-s...-study-suggests-music-decreases-dementia-risk

You are welcome to use This weekend's musical treat

 

[fishorama]

Well, I'm not 70 yet or Australian , but we're having good old music while I cook. Although some tv ads are directed to my age group, I hope they stay fun before I OD on them...or get dementia.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

@fishorama

Here is some real old cooking music. Plus its got a good beat and you can dance to it.....
(Play in 80p and turn up the volume!!!)

 

[GaryE]

When I walk into the fishroom, I turn the music on. I think we need to go beyond just listening to music though. We have to expose ourselves to new (to us at least) music. I keep meaning to listen to @TwoTankAmin 's beloved Little Feat, as it's a sixties/early seventies band I really don't know. I tend not to like that period, but there are gems undiscovered.
I think we need to trash genres and listen to music recorded yesterday as well as the stuff from our youth. Some of my favourite bands haven't recorded yet, and they aren't AI pop. Listen to music styles from other cultures. Listen to music you hate on first listen to figure out why people go for it.
But read books, especially banned ones. Watch movies. Play. Read scientific research to keep your mind boggled. Travel if you can afford it. Keep fishtanks.
I'm kind of lazy, and have both aged and injured out from playing sports. I'm not a natural athletic type. But since I retired, I have begrudgingly taken on a new job - staying alive. It's work. I make a point of walking as many km a day as I can manage, even though walking without a destination isn't natural to me. Studies also show physical activity combined with mental activity staves off dementia and death for many people. I should go to a gym, but I don't. I don't know if the oldies here have noticed, but those snappy elastic muscles we had turn into pizza cheese. You aren't only as old as you feel, or I would be 25.
I try to find mental and physical activities because I don't fear someday feeling 95. What I don't want is to feel 5 years old, or 5 months old again. So listen to music. Dance. Even if you suck at it now, you probably danced badly when you were 22, so you have nothing to lose and a lot to gain. Get out there and creak your hips.

 

[gimme30]

It helps with just being plain old demented too. I'm much less likely to murder someone after listening to Air Supply.
Or Barry Manilow.

@GaryE How can you have been around so long and never heard Little Feat? Hate to Lose Your Lovin' was a radio staple!!
I'm just teasing of course. I'm an old fart too and there's plenty I've missed. I try to stay current and thankfully never developed the attitude that today's music is just noise.

 

[GaryE]

It helps with just being plain old demented too. I'm much less likely to murder someone after listening to Air Supply.
Or Barry Manilow.

@GaryE How can you have been around so long and never heard Little Feat? Hate to Lose Your Lovin' was a radio staple!!
I'm just teasing of course. I'm an old fart too and there's plenty I've missed. I try to stay current and thankfully never developed the attitude that today's music is just noise.

I think it's regional. It could be I didn't like it and it just passed on by, but Little Feat got very little air play here. There is a whole world of British bands that never made it to Canada, American bands who weren't big here, and Canadian bands that weren't big there.
I had to make an effort to listen to the Grateful Dead (not a fan) and a few others. People elsewhere talked about them, but no one I knew listened to them, and even the alternative radio (such as it was) had no interest. Probably, if I had grown up in western Canada, I'd know more American countryish bands, but I didn't. Plus I'm a few years too young for the Sixties. I learned about the Beatles with their Saturday morning cartoon show.

Barry Manilow and Air Supply would make me want to run over wildlife, and that's not how I am!

 

[Magnum Man]

I listen to music much more than I watch TV... If I was single, the TV would not run all day, like the Mrs. does... not judging though, I suppose it keeps her company, while I'm gone all day...

 

[TwoTankAmin]

@ GaryE
Maybe GaryE was a shut-in?

I am assuming in 1970 you were alive and able to listen to great music? I assume you were also alive in the 1980s

Festival Express is a 2003 British documentary film about the 1970 train tour of the same name across Canada taken by some of North America's most popular rock bands, including Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, Flying Burrito Bros, Ian & Sylvia's Great Speckled Bird, Mountain and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. The film combines footage of the 1970 concerts and on the train, interspersed with contemporary recollections of the tour by its participants.


Festivals were another important part of the 1980s Canadian music scene, drawing large crowds and featuring international and local acts.

• Heatwave Festival (1980): Hosted in Bowmanville, Ontario, this festival featured New Wave and punk bands like The Talking Heads, The Pretenders, and Elvis Costello. The event was billed as the "New Wave Woodstock" and drew an estimated 85,000 attendees.
• MusicFest Canada: This annual event has featured various Canadian cities throughout its history, with stops in the 1980s in Ottawa (1980), Edmonton (1981), Hamilton (1982), Calgary (1983), and Quebec City (1985).

During the 1980s, Canadian concert stages hosted major international acts as well as a thriving scene of local bands and music festivals
. Toronto's Exhibition Stadium and Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum were particularly active venues.


International artists in Canada

Many international rock and pop bands made stops in Canada while on tour during the 1980s:

• The Who: Played Exhibition Stadium in Toronto for a record-breaking 75,000 fans on July 16, 1980.
• AC/DC: Toured Canada on their Back in Black tour, with dates in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and Winnipeg in July 1980. They also played Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on July 28, 1980.
• Van Halen: The World Invasion tour in 1980 included Canadian dates in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg.

Little Feat has a history of playing in Canada, with notable shows in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal in 2005 and 2006. The band also performed at the Vancouver Island MusicFest in Courtenay, British Columbia, in 2010. They have played across the country in various cities over the years.

• Recent History: In 2010, the band played at the Vancouver Island MusicFest in Courtenay, BC, which was drummer Richie Hayward's last show with the band, reports this Facebook post.
• 2005 Tour: In 2005, they played in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, according to setlist.fm.
• Earlier Performances: Little Feat has a long history of performing in Canada, including a 1991 show at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
• Other Locations: Other past Canadian performances have been in cities such as Vancouver and Vaughan, as detailed on Featbase.

 

[anewbie]

I HATE music and will go memoryless before i listen to that crap. Well there is one song that is borderline acceptable as it is closer to being a ballad and that is the yellow rose of texas

 

[GaryE]

I'm aware of what shows were here, but Little Feat didn't make the cut for radio play. There were a few bands you'd see on the "Columbia Record Company" ad type deals (remember those?) that never made radio here.I'd look at the covers of the lps, but left it there. I thought Little Feat were in the Eagles type scene, which I wasn't in love with. It's not my fault - different countries even if the same continent.
At that time, we had a plague of prog rock - British art bands like Genesis, Gentle Giant, Shawn Philips (US), King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer and later Toronto's Rush were enormous here, and pushed the American mainstream off to the side in many cases. I was very grateful for punk giving us something other than overblown art rock. That was rock radio here.
I was 13 in 1972, and the big bands were T Rex, Neil Young, The Stones, The Who, Zeppelin, etc. By the mid seventies, I was into roots reggae, dub, Bruce Springsteen, the punk scene and some weird US stuff. The 80s were post punk, dub, and a drift into African music like Fela Kuti, along with the usual pop stuff. I saw UB40 and Billy Bragg every tour, as well as several Richard Thompson, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, Springsteen and local Haitian reggae acts. There was also a french language scene - Richard Seguin, Paul Piche, etc. Fun stuff.
I lost the thread in the 90s when the kids were little and I was broke, but picked it up at the end of the decade.
I used to sometimes see 3 bands a week before then. My best friend was a record reviewer. He always got 2 tickets to whoever came through.
The most recent shows I saw were Toots and the Maytals, before Covid killed that wonderful singer,and the Mountain Goats, who were good live. Where I am now, all we get is tribute bands. I don't go to those.
I saw some very bad shows, and a lot of forgettable openings. But I also saw great shows from the Clash, Springsteen, the Ruts, The Replacements, The Pogues, Fela, the Gang of Four, Three O'Clock Train, The New Model Army, The Tragically Hp and more than a few others. I was never one for the big festivals. I liked smaller clubs.
The bands I didn't see I would like to have were the Stones in the early seventies, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Tom Waits, Rancid and a lot of the blues guys who were timing out before I was educated enough to know who they were.
Recently, I've stumbled across a bunch of Irish and English bands that are good.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Big name acts almost never play smaller clubs once the band makes it. And you could have seen the stones in the 70s;

Yes, the Rolling Stones played in Canada in the 1970s, with notable concerts including the Tour of the Americas in 1975 and two surprise shows at Toronto's El Mocambo tavern in 1977. They also performed in Vancouver and other Canadian cities in 1972 during the Stones Touring Party.

The El Mocambo was one such exception as it holds 650 people.

I saw the Dead a few times, Feat also. I saw the Stone in Baltimore in 69. In NYC the Filmore East was a great venue I saw a few shows there as well. My first ever concert was a 1966 Jimi Hendrix concert in the Wolman skating rink in Central Park in NYC. Tickets cost $1 and Jerry Lee Lewis was the opening act. I was 18 at the time.

Little Feat is an American rock band from Los Angeles formed by lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George, bassist Roy Estrada (both formerly of the Mothers of Invention), keyboardist Bill Payne, and drummer Richie Hayward in 1969. The band's classic line-up, in place by late 1972, consisted of George, Payne, Hayward, bassist Kenny Gradney, guitarist and vocalist Paul Barrere, and percussionist Sam Clayton. George disbanded the group because of creative differences shortly before his death in 1979. Surviving members re-formed Little Feat in 1987 and the band continues to perform

Try this Gary/ Lowell made this album shortly before he was lost to us forever......

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Big name acts almost never play smaller clubs once the band makes it. And you could have seen the stones in the 70s;

Yes, the Rolling Stones played in Canada in the 1970s, with notable concerts including the Tour of the Americas in 1975 and two surprise shows at Toronto's El Mocambo tavern in 1977. They also performed in Vancouver and other Canadian cities in 1972 during the Stones Touring Party.

The El Mocambo was one such exception as it holds 650 people.

I saw the Dead a few times, Feat also. I saw the Stone in Baltimore in 69. In NYC the Filmore East was a great venue I saw a few shows there as well. My first ever concert was a 1966 Jimi Hendrix concert in the Wolman skating rink in Central Park in NYC. Tickets cost $1 and Jerry Lee Lewis was the opening act. I was 18 at the time.

Little Feat is an American rock band from Los Angeles formed by lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George, bassist Roy Estrada (both formerly of the Mothers of Invention), keyboardist Bill Payne, and drummer Richie Hayward in 1969. The band's classic line-up, in place by late 1972, consisted of George, Payne, Hayward, bassist Kenny Gradney, guitarist and vocalist Paul Barrere, and percussionist Sam Clayton. George disbanded the group because of creative differences shortly before his death in 1979. Surviving members re-formed Little Feat in 1987 and the band continues to perform

Try this Gary/ Lowell made this album shortly before he was lost to us forever......


and

 

[GaryE]

I couldn't have seen the Stones in 1972 - it was $6.50 for a ticket up in the gods, and I couldn't raise the money in time at 13. I tried! After that, they had a wee problem with the mafia blowing up a sound truck in a dispute with the promoter, and avoided my city. By the El Mocambo shows, they were a spent force. They haven't done a solid album since Goat's Head Soup, and even then, they weren't at their peak. The last great one was Exile on Main Street.
They played a festival around here 10 years ago, but they were already a tribute band to themselves by then. That well is dry.

There are a lot of bands who hang on past their time and lose the "why", though they do well financially. I avoid going to those bands - nostalgia ain't what it used to be. I'd rather see a young band starting out, and the big arena shows usually have bad sound and artists who look like ants.

I can check wikipedia for bands - I did when you first mentioned Little Feat. Like I say, to me, they were an American band that didn't cross the border well. I find most countries have bands or stars they don't share. My Brit friends are shocked when no one here knows Robbie Williams, for example. That's stardom for you.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Feat performed in Europe-

Little Feat - Rock and Roll Doctor (Live In Holland 1976)​

Little Feat At Rainbow Theatre London 1977

 

[GaryE]

I'll fire up the Spotify and give Little Feat a listen if I can today. I have weak wifi out in the fishroom, but I may be around the house a bit later. Which lp do I start with?