Quote: it’s not you — if you combine ages of J and me we’d be old enough to marry Anna Nicole Smith.
Funny…but I get your point. Makes me wonder, though. Are we stuck in a time warp stubbornly refusing to give in to the direction of current trends or does great music have phases and eras that we’ll always revisit?

here’s how I rationalize it all:

- I’m not all that talented so I have to make choices. At those times I choose what I hope is ‘good’ over ‘modern’

- when I’m strictly making a piece that reflects me (as opposed to commercial interest) then I use the tools/method/feels/sounds I have available in my brain to express myself — if some of that overlaps with what is modern/popular/current cool, otherwise, I don’t care.

- when I’m asked to do something in a certain genre or with a certain sound, hopefully I can deliver. Doesn’t always work out but I hope my ears are open enough to absorb whatever sounds/feels are needed for the job — whether it’s music from 400 years ago or 4 minutes ago.

In school we used to call this ‘4 bars of anything’ — as in: the musicians at the top of their game could listen to literally 4 bars of anything, sit down at a piano and re-create it.

VS