re: Back in the 70s, we had high gas prices and inflation, too.

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20 years from now there will be GenZ people saying "Damn, music in the 2040s sucks! It's not great like back in the late 20teens early 2020's!"

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If you think about it, back in the 1990’s classic rock was considered rock from the 1970’s, now 30 years later classic rock is still considered rock from the 1970’s. The new crap from the 80’s, 90’s, and 2000’s seemingly never broke into that genre despite being just as old now.

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Might I recommend Cody Johnson.

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Lots of good young Texas acts out there that play more old school type country and not that pop country Luke Bryan crap.

Hayden Haddock
Josh Abbott Band
Randy Rogers
Parker McCollum
Wade Bowen

i remember the news showing a picture of a gas station in New York that showed 99.9c GL. And people freaked out.

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Yeah, but what was the interest rate in your savings account?

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Don’t recall. Lots higher than now for sure, but people these days seem to have less as a percentage of income in savings.

401k most have, which is less accessible for down payment/closing costs.

That's because wages were better. I looked at the gross median wage for the Beaumont metro area in 1970 ( closest to LA) and it was $9,600 for an accountant. In today's dollars that would be $69,000. The average accountant in America's median wages in 2022 is $50,112. I am sure they are far lower in Louisiana.

I used the Fraser area wage survey/economic data report for the 1970's.

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This is kind of off topic, but I was at my mom's house earlier this week.. And we were just having a conversation about what's going on in Ukraine and she said she remembers when she was in high school and everyone having to meet in the gym to learn about communism. This was the late 50s, but I never knew they were making kids in school aware of communism and why they should reject it, etc.

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We learned about different political systems in high school in the 70s, you didn't?

It wasn't an overt "Democratic Republic good, communism bad," kind of thing, but yeah we compared the two systems, along with monarchies.

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I remember the 70s enough to know it makes nowadays seem like a utopia.

Lead paint and gas, terrible fashion, nasty shag carpet and crappy furniture. Out of control inflation, unemployment and interest rates. Pollution, litter and cig. butts were everywhere. Nobody gave a damn and it seemed like every adult smoked… inside.

A nuclear war could start any minute, but news traveled slower then so we’d have never known before being vaporized.

Great Rock and Roll bands and much better country music was its only saving grace.

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Hate to burst your bubble bro, but we still have enemies now and those enemies still have nukes. You had TV and radio then and Civil Defense warnings. Everybody knew that it would take about 20 minutes for missiles from Russia to fly here, less if launched from a close by submarine. It really isn't any different, except now you have minor rogue states who hate us with nukes, more biological weapons, and cyber attacks, which could be crippling.

But there was shag carpeting, avocado fridges, leisure suits, and disco. We mostly wore jeans and t-shirts, that much we could control. And if you were smoking bad weed in the 70s, that was your fault.

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but no good music.

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Quit listening to garbage on the radio. if you use spotify, take advantage of their algorithms. Go to a band you like, go to that artist's radio, and you'll have a big list of songs from that band and similarly styled artists. I find new music I like almost every day.