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Time, like an ever-rolling stream...
Posted by Con Coleman on 7 July 2010 - 10:41pm.
Mention of the alarming nature of time passing in the Ringo thread made me realise something.
I first heard Green Onions by Booker T & the MGs in 1986 and it changed my life. It was a recording from another age, another time. That was twenty-four years ago.
In 1986, it was twenty-four years since Green Onions' release. Those two periods of time are not the same. One is history. The other is my life.
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Steve Cropper
One of my favourite guitar players ever.
I was thinking something similar the other day. Do you know what, in 1986 Steve Cropper (with all that history behind him) was younger then than Paul Weller is now. In fact so were most of the classic musicians of the 60s.
And yet, in 1986 didn't the 60s seem so much further behind us than the 80s do now?
Exactly
I find it difficult to get me head around the fact that my impression in 1986 of how long ago 1962 was, may be the same as a young person in 2010 considering 1986.
It is the same amount of time, but it is possible that perceptions of time have changed, particularly in the way that the past is represented through tv and magazines. Do young folks in 2010 think of 1986 as being a different era in the same way as I thought of 1962 in 1986? Somehow, the representation of the mid-80s seems to me to be more connected with now than was the representation of the early 60s in the mid-80s.
Time for a lie down.