@mashif: I too am grateful for having been born in 1950. But when I met and became acquainted with Billy Swan in the 1990’s (we both lived in Sherman Oaks, California, as did Johnny Ramone and Dave Edmunds), he told me about seeing Elvis, Scotty (Moore), and Bill (Black)---Elvis had not yet hired drummer D.J. Fontana---perform in Tennessee on the back of a flatbed truck in 1956, I wished it had been 1940 instead!
My first live show was The Beach Boys in the Summer of ’64, and by the time I saw The Beatles in ’65 I had already seen all the San Jose Garage bands that popped up in the wake the British Invasion (The Syndicate Of Sound, The Chocolate Watchband, People, Stained Glass, etc.). Younger guys I meet are envious at my having seen Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, The Jeff Beck Group, and The Dead and Airplane in ’67 and ’68, but The Band and like-minded groups and artists made them obsolete to me.
And in my opinion, there is music being made now that’s as good as any I have ever heard. It’s a great time to be alive. It will be even better in a coupla months. 