Message #17365

[mccoy]

I agree that R&R has many variations, some of which I do not dislike. Also, drugs have been used by jazz musicians as well and have also been fatal, as it is well known. Never the less, the popular rock music which developed in the 70s and became the most popular in the world tended to take on some characteristics of the contemporary hippie culture if I'm not wrong: drugs, free sex, and similar. Today it's of course more sophisticated although noise (high volume and distorted pitches) tends to prevail with respect to other musics. Let's say rock music in the majority of cases is not at all a spiritual music. Brother Anandamoy answered to the Young devotee who complained that he was not being successfull in calming his breath that he had to stop listening to rock music.