It’s really a sad thing when we, as forty somethings and beyond, begin to feel like “old fogies” when it comes to music and the “hip” things going on in popular culture. It is also easy to forget that the rock music and lots of other genres of modern music got their launch long ago during the days when forty somethings and beyond were the young people changing society also it was our music that changed the globe.

So it’s good for baby boomers to recollect such things about their heritage and what you passed on to the music and entertainment culture today. In the song “Rock and Roll Never Forgets” by Bob Seger, the singer compares the changes baby boomers have gone through as they go from youth to middle age and deal with pressures of work, family, child rearing and modifications in health due to aging. But the end result remains the same that the hub of every baby boomer is a rock and roller that is just as capable as ever of experiencing the music that was the foundation with their culture.

One of the things that disheartened the baby boomer generation growing up was seeing the stone life style take its toll on many of the icons of youth culture and music including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Freddie Mercury. Though the unfortunate demise of these music heroes doesn’t diminish the great contribution to music also to culture down through the years. So as much as we grieve the loss of great talent, we could always celebrate what they gave to us and then give to us down to present times as music continues to reference those great figures of 60s music as icons and inspirations.

But for every rock and roller who did not survive that turbulent time in our culture, we can look to great performers who did survive, overcame their addictions and went on to continue to give great music around the world decade after decade. Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones and David Bowie are samples of wonderful and talented music heroes that established that age and a few wrinkles don’t mean anything. They continue to rock and roll today as hard and with as much heart as they did once they were in their twenties.

In a way “to rock and roll” is really a metaphor for living life to its fullest and for staying true to your values and living life in a genuine way that never gives up on what’s important in life. For this reason baby boomers have always had the maximum contempt for anyone who sells out or abandons their core principles that they espoused in youth. To sell out would be to say that none of the great history of the youth revolution meant anything and now we are willing to turn out backs onto it. But to “rock and roll” means always going back to your roots and not giving up, even when age, and busy lives and poor health say that you should slow down rather than try to live with as much earnestness because you did when you were young.

Seniors, even at this dignified and “mature” stage in life, should feel liberated to be capable of go ahead and “rock and roll” in a real a feeling of the word. The Bob Seger song was a hit because it gives us permission to reconnect with the roots and express that youthful enthusiasm again. You won’t need to go to a nostalgia show to achieve that either. There are dozens of great rock and roll acts that are giving for the children of baby boomers (and their grandchildren) that same excitement we have from The Beatles and The Stones.

“Discovering” stone all over again can be great fun to get a baby boomer especially when you find a new act which has that power and capacity to perform that reminds us with the acts of our youth. These are out there so just just go and uncover this great natural resource of talent inside the music and culture of today’s youth revolution.

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