Is it too late for you...musically that is?

This is my first attempt at blogging. I'm 54 years old and as I write this I wonder who is going to be reading this and what good will it serve? Well, being that I am for the most part disabled due to some major back issues and other health problems, I have nothing better to do than share some thoughts with the cyberspace planet. My blog has to do with music...specifically, the state of the music business today and the people listening. I can recall an incident in my life that changed me forever. I was in my bedroom in Yonkers, NY, that I shared with my baby sister. She was probably 1 at the time and I was 7 or 8. My father walked into my room and he put down a victrola. These are turntables with built-in speakers. He took out of a brown paper bag and album. I remember he looked at me and said, this group is going to be the hottest thing out there. He took out the album, put it on the victrola and handed me the album cover. From the first sounds, my eyes opened wide and I my soul was sold to the devil right there, no hesitation. The album was Meet The Beatles, and from that point on, my life would take a very storied path...I'll get to all that later on...but the most important thing I want to note for my first blog is this: The musical explosion back then had to do with one thing and one thing only...great songs. We didn't have MTV or VH1 or iPod or any medium to show us these bands and their songs. We had a radio and occassional tv show that had the band on every now and then. The music survived based on its merits. You turned on the radio, listened to the song, and if you liked it, you kept listening. If you didn't, you turned it off and went on to the next station. If you were cool, you went to 102.7 fm in NY, which played really cool stuff, and not just hits...more like the album tracks you never got to hear, but all in all, very special stuff. I'm not here to change anyone's position, nor do I give a shit what anyone thinks about what I have to say. I will only say this: Many of the younger generation for years, in fact, decades, has lost their musical compass. This is not necessarily your fault. You are spoon fed crap via MTV and the like, and you convince yourself that the music you listen to and want to buy is great. Wake up!!! Lady Ga Ga? Have we lost our fucking minds? I truly tried to listen to her the other day and all I could think of was, wow, this truly sucks! And when I saw her recently on tv, not only is she all "bells and whistles", but she has no soul, no rhythm, no nothing...So, I have to do this in spurts because I cannot sit for very long, but I'll be back in much more detail as we move through life. I will also recommend albums from my life, past and current, that have musical merit. Again, I don't care if you like them or not. I know what's good for you musically...the problem is, many of you have no idea...but you will learn...sooner or later, this one man crusade is going to make some waves...and in the end, if I convert a few along the way, then cool...I'm going to go through rock, jazz, folk, and other art forms and hopefully, your musical life can be measured in good taste, instead of bad taste...Later...Ken Friedson