Is 70 the new 50 when it comes to rock n' roll?

Ted Nugent used to say: “If it’s too loud, you’re too old.”

So if, in fact, “rock n’ roll is a young man’s game” as many musicians have claimed, then why are there so many aging rockers still touring?

As Sammy Hagar, now 71, told a Toronto crowd in 2013: “What do you want me to do? Play golf?”

Or to Ringo Starr’s point at a 2013 press conference at Casino Rama about two hours north of Toronto: “It’s what I do. You know I’m not an electrician, I play drums.”
And isn’t it more than a little age-ist to say you have to pack it in as a rocker after a certain age if — big IF — you still have the energy and ability, songs that stand the test of time, and people are willing to pay money to see you in droves?

Source: Jane Stevenson/torontosun.com

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