What kind of music do the "old" hippies listen to now?

These days, I find myself wanting to listen to instrumentals only. This is a strange phenomenon because in my youth, I searched for meaningful lyrics, was drawn toward music with a message. Now, I don't really hear anything with much content, and find it hard to listen to radio with commercial advertising. So, I have been listening to Ravi Shankar, and his daughter Anoushka Shankar; no words, just sitars and tablas. Also a contemporary flamenco jazz fusion artist named Jesse Cook. Often I find lyrics just spoil it for me. What happened , has anyone else from the over 50's crowd experienced this.??????? What groups are still putting lyrics first.??? Hey , I just listened to Joni Mitchell, and I like her headspace, and the simplicity of her guitar playing, and her voice is so versatile and full of emotion.

 

is the song "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" about masteurbation?

 

If you want lyrics look up Josh Ritter. There is no one better right now.. Josh would have had Dylan opening for him had he been around in the 60s. Jon Baez did one of his songs, Wings, on her last album.

Tea Leaf Green is a band with fantastic lyrics but more of a focus on the music. They're an amazingly talented rock and roll jam band.

-Mike

 

if you want instrumental, check out Mulatu Astatke....ethiopian jazz.....i guarantee that you will like it

 

I saw Bob Dylan this past sat. and it brought on a new love for his music.....I've got a long way to go if I plan to listen to all of his stuff lol

 

Some music for real old hippies.. old buggers never die:leaving:

check out Chuck Berry..Little Richard etc..
http://www.bobforrest.com/JukeBox.htm
crazy Tiger

 

Pearl jam, candlebox, matchbox twenty, rusted root, enigma, micky hart, andreas vollenweider, the recipie, a more local musician - mike morningstar (he's GREAT, Google him...), and my own musical experiment - prophets thumb. Just to name a few.

 

i have been on a total Widespread Panic kick as of late; i've found some of their live shows and have fallen in love all over again. Tea Leaf Green is definitely worth checking out so is Umphrey's mcGee and Gov't Mule -Warren Haynes is the MAN!!!

 

AH hahaha no. Projecting some, are you? That's OK, being a Perv is a GOOD thing!

Anyways, it means (to me, anyways) that one can adopt "love" as the under-riding theme in one's life, and that, seperated from your "soul mate' though you (one, impersonal second-person pronoun) might be, there is always someone (friends, family, what have you) to focus your attentions on, and try to make THEIR lives a bit better. Agape as opposed to Eros, ya dig?

And, OK, there's the sexual meaning, too. Honey wanders off at a Dead Concert to find some cool liquid to put the fire in her mind out (or at least damp those flames) and groovy hippie guy notices this cutie who JUST SO HAPPENS to be sitting next to him. She passes him a joint, it's hormones at first sight, and the next thing that comes, Honey gets back and bums, 'cause Honey's been tripping on the White Picket Fence FANTASY. (That's not TOO cynical for y'all, is it? 'Cause that happens every day.)

Lots of ways one can see that phrase, "love the one you're with", aren't there? I've observed most of them, I think.

 

Couldn't NOT comment here. It is SO COOL that you have found the genius of Joni Mitchell's art.

And, yes, I have not only gotten into music sans words (I have a favorite New Music ensemble, Thamyris, that I go see occasionally, wherein there might be a piece for, say, percussion and 6 toy pianos, or cello with reverb all over the auditorium.) But I also have been known to listen to pure voice (Trio Mediaeval (IIRC) comes to mind).

I seem to always go back to the music that I heard while in a particularly good altered state.