Still rocking at 60+ (your favorite older artists, then and now - please add to this)

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Thu Aug 18, 2022, 09:19 PM - Edit history (1)

I'm posting this not just to celebrate older musicians and singers who are rocking on, but to encourage the older musicians and singers here at DU.

As a boomer, a lot of my favorite artists fall into this 60+ category. And YouTube, with lots of fan videos of more recent concerts, shows how great these artists still sound, at least a few decades after they started. Most of the time you can find both new and old performances of concert favorites.

I'd love to see videos of your favorite older artists, then and now.

As I said, there are a lot I could post, but I'll post just one band in this OP.

Two performances of "Candy's Going Bad," a song fron Golden Earring's classic 1973 album Moontan. The earliest performance video I saw was really poor quality video of a Don Kirshner show in 1973, so I'm posting a 1982 performance from Rockpalast, a German TV show (which got the song title wrong for the broadcast), along with fan video of a performance at the Ipswich Regent Theatre in March 2009, when bass player Rinus Gerritsen was 62, lead guitarist George Kooymans was 61, and lead singer Barry Hay and drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk were 60.

[hlthe2b]

1. Stevie Nicks, then and now.

Stevie Nicks then:


Red Rocks, 1986

Stevie Nicks now


Red Rocks, 2022

If you don't love Stevie, don't let me know.

[highplainsdem]

4. Love Stevie, and love both those songs and videos.

I'd posted two videos of the same song, for comparison, but posting two different songs is fine, too.

I really, REALLY love "Gold Dust Woman."

[ms liberty]

59. Saw her in Charlotte last weekend.

She was awesome as usual, and as usual her band and sound mix was first rate, always the best. When she twirled I exclaimed, no Stevie be careful...you're 74!

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. Got me digging through Setlist.FM

I saw them open for Rush in 83. Surprised to see they came back about a year later opening for 38 Special. Probably close to their last US Tour (if not the last).

[highplainsdem]

3. Their last US tour ended in June 1984.

http://www.casperroos.nl/tourdates.html

[GreenWave]

5. I hope to be a rock star some day

As soon as my audience has all lost their ability to hear.

[highplainsdem]

6. LOL! And welcome to DU!

[highplainsdem]

7. Ann Wilson of Heart - Dutch TV show TopPop1977, live at Hampton Beach 8/18/2021:

[Upthevibe]

24. highplainsdem..............

This is one of my favorite songs ever!

[highplainsdem]

28. One of mine, too!

[Coventina]

8. Madonna just turned 64

Her first single: Everybody

From her latest album:

[highplainsdem]

11. Brava!

[retread]

9. John Hiatt

[highplainsdem]

12. Still sounding great!

[maxrandb]

10. How about at 70+? Here's The Who 1969 and 2022

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[highplainsdem]

13. The "hope I die before I get old" guys keep showing us

how to keep rocking. Good for them!

[Thtwudbeme]

14. Bruuuuuuuuuccccce

and the entire E Street Band

[highplainsdem]

15. Love them! And I posted an OP Wednesday, here and

in Music Appreciation, with two videos that show them then and now (well, in 2013, and they were in their 60s then).

That OP is at https://democraticunderground.com/10181696713 - and since you didn't post any videos for them, I'll copy those videos here.

"Glory Days" - hope that's one of your favorites - the official video, and live in London in 2013:

[highplainsdem]

16. German rock band Die Toten Hosen (2 of them are 60 now), then and now:

"Hier Kommt Alex" ("Here Comes Alex," from a concept album based on A Clockwork Orange) was their first big hit, in 1988, and I think this video was made the same year:

And last night in Berlin, as they resumed their 40th anniversary tour after taking a break for a few weeks (the tour started in May, will end next month). During the tour lead singer Campino (Andreas Frege) and bass player Andi (Andreas Meurer) both turned 60. The other three band members are only a couple of years younger.

[Bayard]

17. Sting

Oct 2021

Jun 2009

[highplainsdem]

18. "If it's love, it has no season. If it's love, there is no cure..."

I love Sting.

And I love that 1981 video for "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic."

And as long as I'm posting about him, I'm going to link to that Music Appreciation thread with Rick Beato's Sting interview:

https://democraticunderground.com/103474627

[highplainsdem]

19. Just kicking, instead of posting about another artist, because

I'd love to hear about other people's favorite older artists.

[Brother Buzz]

20. Cosmo's Factory and Fogerty's Factory

[highplainsdem]

21. Wow! Great videos! Thank you!

I'm sitting here with a big smile on my face, as always after hearing "Centerfield." It's one of the songs I can always count on to make me feel better, as I mentioned in a thread about such songs, last winter in Music Appreciation: https://democraticunderground.com/103467938#post16 .

I just love that video of John Fogerty and his family on his 75th birthday! Again, thanks for posting that!

[Brother Buzz]

22. I like this song from the Centerfield album even though the video quality is terrible

Note: My Toot Toot was not written by Fogerty, but by the late great Rockin' Sidney, who taught John the song in Lake Charles, La.. Oh, that's Rockin' Sidney playing the accordion. Enjoy

On edit: My Toot Toot was included in the Centerfield 25th Anniversary Edition, not in the original release

[highplainsdem]

23. Thank you again! Love that video! Zydeco is fun, and

that video is especially fun to watch. And John had a great teacher there.

[Upthevibe]

25. highplainsdem.......Great post!

I'll add when I'm awake (just got home from work and sooooo tired)....

[highplainsdem]

29. Thanks! Looking forward to the videos you'll post!

[Sky Jewels]

26. The great Johnny Marr--brilliant guitarist, formerly of the Smiths

He's 58, but close enough.

This is my favorite song of all time. (Morrissey has better singing chops, but he turned out to be a prat.)

[highplainsdem]

30. Amazing video. He's such a great guitarist. Thanks for posting that!

[Brother Buzz]

27. Hugh Anthony Cregg III AKA Huey Lewis

Clover was our high school band; they played Friday afternoons at Tamalpais High school for a rehearsal before their City gig that weekend (Filmore, Winterland) Huey Lewis joined the band after I graduated, and after he perfected his harmonica skills busking in Europe.


Clover 1975

Huey Lewis Breaks Down His Albums, From Huey Lewis and the News to Weather, and is a damn good overview of his music. Well worth investing the time to listen to it.

2020 album, Weather

[highplainsdem]

31. Thanks, BB! Those are all really good videos! I admire Huey, and I hope he

can find a cure for his hearing loss. Meniere's is a disaster for a musician. It isn't as dangerous and debilitating as the ALS George Kooymans is battling -- https://democraticunderground.com/10181674319 -- but Huey's admitted how severely depressed he was the first months after the diagnosis. Kudos to him for the way he's been handling this.

Article on him you might enjoy: https://esquire.com/entertainment/music/a30783979/huey-lewis-weather-hearing-menieres-disease-interview/

[highplainsdem]

32. Kick

[Tikki]

33. The Sonics...1965 and 2019

A NorthWest band formed in 1960 out of Tacoma, WA.

The Covid may have stopped their touring recently..
The Sonics version of "Louie, Louie" (1965)

Tikki

[highplainsdem]

34. Great example! Very early punk/garage rock there!

I'm going to post some links, since they aren't as well known as other artists mentioned here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sonics

https://www.classicrockhistory.com/top-10-songs-by-the-sonics/

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-sonics-go-back-to-the-garage-after-49-years-124404/

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/03/22/sonics-skipped-decades-reuniting/99514590/

https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/the-sonics-rob-lind-on-why-they-reunited-this-is-the-most-fun-you-can-have-without-having-the-cops-called-9300481

[highplainsdem]

35. James Taylor, 1971 on the Johnny Cash show, and 8/20/2022

[Rhiannon12866]

45. James Taylor also recently did a week as guest musician on with Stephen Colbert:

"Mexico" - James Taylor with Louis Cato and The Late Show Band

James Taylor is joined by his wife Kim, his son Henry, Larry Goldings, and The Late Show Band for this once-in-a-lifetime rendition of his 1975 classic, "Mexico." Hear more from James Taylor on his latest album, "American Standard," available everywhere now.

[highplainsdem]

48. Thank you for posting that! Loved watching it.

[Rhiannon12866]

53. He was on the entire week, played solo and with the band, joined Colbert in a song and was interviewed

Obviously, Colbert is a fan and the audiences sure enjoyed his music.

[highplainsdem]

36. Chrissie Hynde, 1994 and 2022:

[Eliot Rosewater]

37. Oh my, where to start.

I am a drummer and trumpet player and dont play much anymore, real bad ear problems.

For about 5 years in the early to Mid 70's I saw many shows at Winterland and Day on the Green shows, Oakland.

Like Queen, and I will never forget standing on the sidewalk waiting to get in and hearing the sound check, I looked at my friends and said "Oh my god." I think "Bohemian" was the sound check.

We were right up by the stage, same for Paul and Wings Cow Palace, we got there and the line went blocks down the road and I turned to my friends and said " I did not wait all these years to see a Beatle to stand in back," and I grabbed them and we went right to the front of the line.

Was I there for the legendary Zeppelin show at Oakland Coliseum when they fought? Yes.

Was i there for "The Who Dead" show, I am in this picture





To our right of the guy with the camera, with glasses.

As to playing today, I wish Freddie was.

(40 yrs later saw Ringo and All Star Band)

[highplainsdem]

38. Wow, what great memories! And great video of that Queen concert.

I wish Freddie were still here, too. I imagine his voice would still be amazing.

Re that photo and where you are in it... There's more than one camera in that crowd. But the first one I noticed was the one held by a guy a few rows back, with a bearded guy wearing mirrored sunglasses to his right.

I'm sorry that you have hearing problems now and don't play drums or trumpet any more.

[Eliot Rosewater]

39. At the left of the end of the guitar, the headstock, I am to the right with glasses and curly hair

The camera guy I mean is to the left of the end or headstock of the guitar.

The guitar covers the lower left of my face, our left.

We are in front of the Who flag, my camera guy has long hair parted down the middle.

[highplainsdem]

40. Okay. I had the right camera guy, was looking in the wrong direction from him. Thanks for

explaining!

[edhopper]

41. Santana

Souls Sacrifice, Woodstock 1969.

Santana, Soul Sacrifice 2022

[highplainsdem]

42. Definitely belongs here! Amazing song, and two

fantastic videos! Thanks!

[highplainsdem]

43. I want to kick this thread again, but DON'T want to post another DUer's favorite older

artist to do so (I want to see other people's posts).

So I'm going to post videos from 1975 at Winterland, and 2015 in Amsterdam, from the same band I posted videos from in the OP, Golden Earring. Both great performances of "Vanilla Queen," one of the best tracks on Moontan. The Winterland video is especially watchable, at more than 11 minutes, with a wonderful guitar solo and outro.

Btw, the saxophonist in the cap in that 2015 video is Bertus Borgers, who also toured with them in the 1970s and was there at Winterland. The 1976 Dutch news story on Golden Earring below shows Borgers with them then, as well as a keyboardist, Robert Jan Stips (previously with Supersister), who was with them on some tours and for some albums. That's Stips at 1:10. I read an interview somewhere that had front man Barry Hay complaining that Stips, who'd worn huge glasses while in Supersister, had replaced the glasses with contact lenses since joining Golden Earring and was now the "most beautiful" guy in the band. But it's obvious from the closeups of George, Cesar and Rinus right after Stips that if Barry was feeling competitive that way, not wanting anyone in the band who was at least as good looking as he was, he was in the wrong band.

[AggressiveCanary]

44. David Gilmour and Nick Mason

And screw Roger Waters for calling Biden a "War Criminal" for supporting Ukraine.

[highplainsdem]

49. Loved what Gilmour and Mason did there. I was thrilled when I heard about it:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216571419


And I've been very unhappy with what Waters has been saying.

[mahina]

46. Gosh I haven't checked out the lounge in maybe 5 years. Great thread.

Thank you.

Oh- Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne.

[highplainsdem]

50. Thanks for the compliment on the thread! Really appreciate it. And the two favorite

artists you mention are also favorites of mine.

A couple of threads posted in Music Appreciation:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103480239

https://www.democraticunderground.com/103475267

[twodogsbarking]

47. Goo Goo Dolls best live show I have seen.

Harry Chapin was great too. Old enough?

[highplainsdem]

51. Harry Chapin died tragically young, only 38 in 1981. But John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls

is ALMOST 60...well, he'll be 57 in December.

And I did post about the German band Die Toten Hosen above, even though only two of the band's four members have reached 60, hitting that age during their 40th anniversary tour this past summer.

And Sky Jewels posted about Johnny Marr, who's 58, in reply 26.

So yes, the Goo Goo Dolls are old enough.

Besides, I really love "Iris."

Video here of Rzeznik with Daryl Hall on an episode of Live from Daryl's House in 2011:

https://democraticunderground.com/103469717

And live in Stanford CA a couple of weeks ago:

[twodogsbarking]

52. You win. Elton and Billy Joel together. That was good.

[Aristus]

54. Chris de Burgh, of "The Lady In Red" fame. 73 and still going.

He started out in the early 1970's as a kind of troubadour, a singing storyteller with a Renaissance Fair vibe.

In the 80's, he moved into a more straightforward rock sound, with the occasional message of social protest (in this case, against the violence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.) BTW, the whispered female vocal in this song is Tina Turner.

Nowadays, he sings mostly Dad-rock, along with his more well-known romantic hits like "The Lady In Red" and "Diamond in The Dark". Here's it is literally Dad-rock, as he sings to his daughter, former Miss Ireland and Miss World 2003, Rosanna Davison.

[highplainsdem]

55. His latest project was really ambitious. From Broadway World:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Chris-De-Burgh-Re-Imagines-The-Legend-Of-Robin-Hood-In-New-Album-20210920

The concept for the 27th studio album by Chris emerged from his involvement in 'Robin Hood', a stage musical about the infamous Sherwood Forest nobleman and his band of outlaws. Chris was invited to contribute storylines and melodies to the musical, which will be produced later in the year in Fulda, Germany, by Spotlight Productions, a theatrical company that has already mounted eight successful musicals.

"Since I was writing songs for this," he explains, "I thought 'Why not expand the story and put an album out, too?'"

-snip-

As has only very recently been suggested by a respected historian, Robin Hood is thought to have been a key target of King John, his son King Henry III, and their powerful justiciar (law-maker) Hubert de Burgh - who, almost incredibly, is an ancestor of Chris himself.

Given the inconsistencies concerning the dates in which Robin Hood is thought to have lived, Chris tells his version of the legend as if it were many years after Robin's death - and in the setting of a candle-lit tavern where a small audience has gathered to hear it conveyed by a StoryTeller and enacted by his musicians, actors, and singers.

-snip-

Article in The Independent about that ancestor of Chris's and the outlaw who may have inspired the legend of Robin Hood: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/robin-hood-beheaded-nottingham-robert-wetherby-b1763946.html

Btw, I found it particularly interesting that he did a concept album based on his involvement in a stage play. The same was true for the German band Die Toten Hosen -- see reply 16 above -- but in that case the concept album they did was fairly early in their career and that song became their first real hit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_kleines_bisschen_Horrorschau

[highplainsdem]

56. John Waite (70), in 1979 (Dutch TV) and just days ago, live on Dutch radio:

[highplainsdem]

57. Paul McCartney.

I was waiting for someone else to post about him, since I don't want to post too many of these older artists myself.

But I want to mention Paul after seeing this thread in the Lounge yesterday:

https://democraticunderground.com/10181718071

Macca, "Band On the Run," music video + live at Glastonbury, June 25, 2022 -when he was 80 years and one week old - with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters:

[highplainsdem]

58. Sammy Hagar. The Red Rocker keeps rocking, and he's 75.

Fronting Montrose in 1974 in an appearance on the UK's Old Grey Whistle Test:

Fronting Van Halen, during a period when all their studio albums hit #1, they had 17 singles in the top 12, and they won a Grammy:

A laid-back version in 2015 of his 1982 solo hit, on this occasion with Daryl Hall, with Live at Daryl's House on location at Sammy's nightclub, Cabo Wab, in Cabo San Lucas:

Still rocking in 2022 while hosting Rock & Roll Road Trip for AXS TV - and this includes Sammy singing "Jessie's Girl" with Rick Springfield:

[MotorCityBeard]

60. Please.... The GO GOS!!!!!!!

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, which was very well deserved. Been rocking out with these ladies since 1981....

[highplainsdem]

61. Thanks! Yes, they definitely belong in this thread!