[gmku]

Nah, there are still cultural contexts to music. It's way different going to, say, a club here in Columbia that features a beach band and caters to over-50 boomers than one where some punk band is playing to a crowd of college kids. Similar split in the 70s only it was among kids of the same generation.

Which makes me think--I see the SAME split in people my age today. I know a lot of professional people who go for that lame bar scene where it's all oldies and beach music, and I know what I think of as "hipper" people who are for lack of a better description more "bohemian" than these professionals and who listen to jazz or alternative rock music or are really into blues and stay away from those places. It's like that split in my generation in the disco days only now we're grown up. I just realized this. I bet these same fuckers who go to these lame-ass oldies bars and try to dance are the same losers who went to discos in the 70s. It must be why I feel so weird when people drag me to those godawful beach band venues around here.