His music always immediately takes me back to a better time.
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Allman Brothers Band “Whipping Post” (Live at Beacon Theatre, New York, NY, 3/26/2009) [Remastered 2021]
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Quincy Jones piece from a Charles Kuralt-hosted CBS Sunday Morning in 1982:
I might be an Ol Boomer but I feel sorry for you younger gents that never got a HS slow dance to this shit.
Come on Babie we can make this all work out…haha
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I’m always amused by what are generational opinions about music - especially from the musicians themselves. Having eclectic tastes myself, I listen to a lot of things. Definitely certain genres I like more than others, but still feel like I’m pretty open minded about giving new stuff a chance - in part from paying attention to what my children and nephews etc like. That said, auto tune is an abomination! 
Whenever I want to fire up my teens I just tell them " sampling" is just stealing someone elses music because you are a no talent that happens to fit in the Greg Bradys clothes to get paid. It brings up interesting observations from their side.
Hate Auto tune with an intense passion.
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One could argue Jimmy Page was an early “proponent” of sampling, with Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” being a prime example though certainly not the first and actually happening when he was in the Yardbirds. I’ve always been amazed that a US jury found Page and Robert Plant not guilty of plagiarizing on “Stairway” the Randy California-penned “Taurus” - recorded and performed by Zep contemporaries Spirit - a group that Zep not only toured with but for which Page also had as part of his extensive album collection!
I can’t stand auto tune because it allows talentless hacks to create lazy, copy paste generic music. It’s just content. There’s no creative genius there. No musicianship either. It’s the wal-mart-ification of music.
How much of what passes for music on the radio and big time replays on streaming services will hold up in 20 years? 10? Hell, even 5? Taylor Swift is a mid range talent with enough charisma / PR team to charm the masses, but she is one of the few people still actually writing songs.
In the clothing / fashion world, the trend is towards “disposable fashion”. Cheaply made trendy clothes mass marketed to the lowest common denominator. AThis stuff is currently flooding 3rd world countries and clogging up landfills.
Auto tune and current music are that same type of disposable trash, for the most part.
Every once in a long while you hear something good / inspired, but that interval is getting longer and longer.
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