I feel old ...

[neveronfriday]

I've been spending some time searching for mp3/flash loops for a website I'm doing. The more I look, the older I feel:

a) This was the description for a New Orleans tune: "Up tempo. This is a fantastic funky groove with retro instruments." What they meant were an upright bass, an acoustic guitar, a saxophone and a piano.

b) Whenever you hit their jazz listings, the only thing you get is some hip-hop junk. That's apparently the new jazz.

c) One site listed pages upon pages of smooth jazz shite as "traditional jazz".

d) I haven't done the math yet, but I would estimate that about 1 in 1000 tunes listed under "jazz" is actually jazz (well, sort of).

I think I'll make my own loops. Searching for any was a fu**ing waste of time.

[Alfred]

Whenever I talk to my younger brother-in-law (27) I feel stone old. And I'm 36....

[neveronfriday]

And I'm one generation above you, I think.

How does one count that actually?

At the speed I'm beginning to dislike new pop etc. music at, I think I'm 6 generations above you.

P.S.: I did find a jazz loop of some piano trio. It sounded like someone programmed it using a sledgehammer. It swung as much.

[king ubu]

Has anybody told you? You *are* old, definately! (Further proof: if you tell me I should spell it "definitely"...)