MatthewB said:
Laserdisc will live had me cracking up. I still have a Pioneer Laserdisc hooked up just so when I want to watch Star Wars I can watch the original and not see the crappy altered versions. It's kinda funny but a few days I was talking with a 21 year old girl who works in our admitting department and she had a Star Wars lunchbox (strange for a girl her age) but turns out she is a huge SW fan. I was telling her all about seeing the original in the theater as a kid and how Lucas screwed up the movie with all his alterations and told her how in the original version "Greedo" never even shoots at all at the cantina he is just shot and dies. This blew her mind as she knew there was always controversy about who shot first and I told her in the original only Solo shoots. She was pleading with me to come to my house to watch the original but I told her that might not be a good idea and don't think my GF would want me bringing home a pretty 21 year old girl. I explained all the changes that Lucas made in the first three movies and how it ruined a great trilogy for someone like me who remembers seeing the originals in the theaters.
I am one who thinks music and sound fidelity is lacking and that's because today's younger generation was raised on compressed music and short attention spans. They want everything instantly on their tiny phones and they are happy and since Music studios and movie production company cater to what sells this is the state of things. I haven't bought a CD in almost ten years as music today sucks and I just listen to what I call Good Music on my CD player. Granted I have most of my music stored as 320K on my digital player but prefer CD's.
I've bought two video processors to sharpen up my TV's but I am in the minority as most buyers today are happy with new 1080p LED TV but I prefer my 12 year old Pioneer RPTV as it gives me more of a film like quality and inky blacks with no pixcellation issues. So while others want the latest and greatest I still love my old TV just for far better PQ and not having my movies look like cartoons.
I talk with younger people daily and am amazed they have no clue who The Beatles or Stones are, never heard of Boston or Supertramp and think One Direction who use voice enhances must be far better than The Beatles. I just shake my head. Guess that's why I like older movies so much because the movie was all about the acting and the story and not special effects.
We are a dying breed and much like the cartoon Kazaam posted we are the guardians of a dying technology that today's youth has no interest in learning about.
I don't know Matt....I used to think like you, but lately, my viewpoint has changed. At work, my lab technician listens to "popular" music on BBC, and it reminds me very much of the "pop" music of the 80's...very synthesized and with a purpose....to dance. Not to sit and listen as you would with a true "band". But she listens every day and enjoys it through the computer speakers in the lab (she's 23 years old).
For me, I always loved music. What started it for me was listening to Saturday Night Fever on my record player when I was a kid. Obviously, the little speaker in the record player sucked...but I still liked it. Move on to 6th grade and my English teacher played Beach Boys every afternoon if the class performed will on a test. When I was 12, my brother and I had a paper route and I listened on my Sony Walkman every day when delivering papers (cassette tape walkman). Once I gathered enough money, I bought the best speakers I could....Kenwoods along with a Sony receiver and a JVC CD player...this was around 1983 or so. I was happy.
Move on to when I was 17 and went to a friends' father's house. He had built his speakers. They were the size of his wall. No joke...huge. His equipment rack was made of marble, and he had more electronics than I had ever seen before. The Rolling Stones were playing a concert, and he turned it up and I nearly shit my pants. I had never heard sound like that before.....big, spacious, beautiful.
Later, he played Prince's "when doves cry" and, I almost cried. Holy crap!!
He didn't know it, but that moment changed my life. I still listened to music on my Kenwood speakers, but my goal was, when I got enough money, to have a system like that one day. He opened my eyes....my love for music was there...he gave me love of "sound".
Perhaps the "younger people" you meet are alot like me. They love the music of their generation, but haven't been exposed to music of your generation. They also haven't been exposed to music being reproduced correctly. Perhaps, if they were....their lives would change as well.
I wonder too if the guys behind Regular Show are Rush fans.
