I bought one of her albums at the mall but I had to wear a fake mustache and glasses to feel comfortable doing so. Pat Benetar had some credibility in the rock and roll circles. Janis certainly was cool but other than “Mercedes Benz” you didn’t hear much of her on the radio, which was odd because you heard plenty of Hendrix and Doors from that same era on rock stations. And sadly, I don’t know if it was some sort of nascent sexism but as a young teenage boy you generally didn’t buy music by women artists.īy the 70s there were plenty of cool women artists out there. It was all about street “cred” back then. ![]() You didn’t want to appear “soft” or a worse fate, to be branded as an admitted pop music fan. Guys my age wouldn’t even admit to liking Elton John back then because he played piano. It was all about the power and majesty of the guitar solo. Anything outside of that was considered weak. When I was just beginning my rock and roll journey as a middle-teenager, maybe all of thirteen years old, it was sort of an unwritten rule that you didn’t buy music that didn’t “rock.” It was all Zeppelin, Sabbath, Rush and Van Halen back then. ![]() “I sing my songs, I hope someone sings along…” – Norah Jones, “I’m Alive”
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