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Perhaps you have seen the bumper sticker that reads: I may be old, but at least I saw all the great bands.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am old. I have seen a lot of them. Their music is timeless. It holds up now and likely will do so … forever and ever!<\/p>\n

This afternoon, I visited a store to take care of some business. A young man, maybe about 23 years of age, helped me with my issue. To get the issue resolved, I needed to set up an online billing account.<\/p>\n

The outlet asked me for the usual stuff: user name, password, email address … etc.<\/p>\n

Then it presented a list of “security questions” to ensure that only I could access this account. One of them was this: What was your first concert?<\/p>\n

I looked the young man in the eye and said, “Now, watch me type this. You’ll be amazed.” I typed “The Beatles.”<\/em><\/p>\n

He was<\/em> amazed. Then it dawned on me. He likely was born more than a quarter of a century after The Beatles broke up<\/em>. But, boy howdy, he knew of their music.<\/p>\n

“That must have been a great concert,” he said. “Well, it was … but then again it was quite short,” I said of the August 1965 show. They played for about 30 minutes; blasted through 10 songs. No encore. Then they were gone. The screaming crowd was spent. I told the youngster my wife and I attended a Paul McCartney concert in 1993 at the Houston Astrodome; Sir Paul lit the place up for three hours. “Now that<\/em> was a great concert,” I said.<\/p>\n

I went with my sister to that first concert. I was 15; she was 14. “My sister really loved George,” I told the young man. “How cool,” he said.<\/p>\n

Yes, it was. And it is. The music of our generation will play in people’s hearts and minds for as long as there are people around to appreciate it.<\/p>\n

It really is great being old.<\/p>\n\n

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Perhaps you have seen the bumper sticker that reads: I may be old, but at least I saw all the great bands. I am old. I have seen a lot of them. Their music is timeless. It holds up now and likely will do so … forever and ever! This afternoon, I visited a store … Continue reading Yes, I did see the greatest of the great bands<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7460,1891,3523,4749],"class_list":["post-29437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-astrodome","tag-george-harrison","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29440,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29437\/revisions\/29440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}