Re: floreat...
Robert Morris (winboog@gis.net)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:05:45 -0400
> From: Scottie Bowman <bowman@mail.indigo.ie>
>
> It can only ever be a very subjective judgement but it does seem
> to me that different kinds of artist have different optimal periods.
> Poets tend to fade early, novelists come to a peak around
> their fifties whilst many painters & musicians seem to go on
> developing forever.
>
> Examples ?
>
> Scottie B.
>
Hank Williams was twenty nine when he died. John Coltrane didn't have
his own group until he was almost thirty five. Bob Dylan retired to
Woodstock at twenty five. None of the Beatles had reached their thirtieth
birthday when they disbanded. Muddy Waters wasn't discovered by Alan Lomax
until he was almost forty six years old. Gram Parsons was dead at twenty
six. Woody Guthrie was finished as a performer at barely thirty years old.
I think what I'm trying to say is that I can find examples to support
both sides of the age thing. My mood determines which ones I employ.
Robert Morris
winboog@gis.net
now playing-Emmylou Harris, Wrecking Ball