Baby Boomer Music Died In 1973?

Did it die of natural causes?

A new book explains how it happened.

It wasn’t the plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper in Iowa.

Lynyrd Skynyrd members also crashed without killing music.

It wasn’t Bob Dylan plugging a Fender Strat in at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Bruce Springsteen didn’t kill anything when he hung his Telly up for an acoustic tour behind his Nebraska album

And it wasn’t Don McClean’s history lesson when he sang American Pie.

So what was it?

Music died a little bit when the Beatles filled up ball parks and played through sound systems drowned out by screaming fans.

It died a little more when they stopped playing live. They couldn’t make their studio sounds from the stage.

Lucky for us Pink Floyd got it figured out.

The Rolling Stones caved to censors and sang “let’s spend some time together” instead of “Let’s spend the night together” on Ed Sullivan.

No bloodshed there.

Michael Walker points to 1973 and three bands, The Who, Alice Cooper, and Led Zeppelin as the culprits behind the crime.

One came from the Mods in the Second British Invasion. They had to change or face the same future as Freddie and the Dreamers.

One was a stage act performed by a pretty good golfer named Vincent Damon Furnier in make-up. No way that career spans decades.

The last one is a band who played the blues so loud and fast  they’ll never go away.

Should they be convicted of killing the 60’s music vibe? If so, then it’s time for an amnesty.

The Who played last year’s 12-12-12 concert. Roger Daltrey still takes his shirt off. Didn’t look dead.

Alice Cooper might be gone, but for awhile Marilyn Manson resurrected him looking decidedly un-dead.

Led Zep singer Robert Plant played at the Portland Waterfront Blues Festival in early July.

NPR interviewed Mr. Walker to clear things up.

Before you trance out on your lava lamp, know the Sixties music vibe is alive and well in groups like Mumford and Sons, Of Monsters and Men, and their traditional instruments.

Baby Boomers, and boomer bloggers, may not find them in a Village coffee house, but they’ve got the right hook to land baby boomer music fans.

So who really killed the music? Big hair bands, says the old bald guy.

What You Want Is In The Limo turned into what you want is in the mini-van.