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JrKASperov
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 13:46 |
I feel old at 73, or was it 72...
hmm...
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Epic.
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AngelRat
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Joined: July 14 2004
Location: Netherlands
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 13:43 |
Hearing commercial radio at work with all their boy/girl bands, r & b, hiphop and dance muzak, along with REALLY lame pop/rock sh*t makes me feel older than time itself.
Listening to my proggy lp's at home, lp's that were made even before me (I am 30) make me feel much younger again.
Prog rejuvenates me.
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Joren
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Joined: February 07 2004
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 13:33 |
I feel old at 18
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emdiar
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Joined: June 05 2004
Location: Netherlands
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 11:36 |
Some more:
6, I consider Marrillion/IQ/Pallas etc. to be "Johnnies come lately".
7, Whilst down the pub with an old die hard rocker mate, a young rock fan was inquiring as to our musical tastes (his interest arroused, I assume, by our long hair). When my mate told him he was "old school", the young lad nodded, knowingly. "Oh, like Metallica..." he said. My poor mate needed to sit down. "It's like Sabbath never happened....", he was heard to mumble for several hours after the event.
8, Baseballcaps.
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Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact.
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sigod
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Location: London
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 11:22 |
emdiar wrote:
5 reasons why I feel old at 38:
1, Yesterday I arranged a few VIP passes for a big
techno rave in the Dam (In Qontrol- de Rij). My 17 yr old daughter was
well impressed and overjoyed, untill she realised one of them was for
me! The look on her face and the stifled laughter of her friends made
me feel about a hundred and fifty. .
2, I got seriously "chatted up" by a remarkably hot 22yr
old girl recently and all I could think was "Your poor Dad, what
would he say if he could hear the filth you're coming out with!"
3, I rate Wales as a top holiday destination.
4, I can remember wearing darned socks at school! Who darns socks anymore?
5, Baseballcaps .
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    I still darn socks!  
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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emdiar
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Location: Netherlands
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 11:05 |
5 reasons why I feel old at 38:
1, Yesterday I arranged a few VIP passes for a big techno rave in the Dam (In Qontrol- de Rij). My 17 yr old daughter was well impressed and overjoyed, untill she realised one of them was for me! The look on her face and the stifled laughter of her friends made me feel about a hundred and fifty. .
2, I got seriously "chatted up" by a remarkably hot 22yr old girl recently and all I could think was "Your poor Dad, what would he say if he could hear the filth you're coming out with!"
3, I rate Wales as a top holiday destination.
4, I can remember wearing darned socks at school! Who darns socks anymore?
5, Baseballcaps .
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Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact.
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maani
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Joined: January 30 2004
Location: United States
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 10:11 |
What makes me feel a tad old?
-Paul McCartney is 62 -Sgt. Pepper was released 38 years ago -In the Court was released 36 years ago -All of the "seminal" prog bands (PF, MB, KC, GG, JT, ELP, VDGG, Genesis, Yes) released their debut albums over 33 years ago
And in only 25 short years, we have seen the advent of:
-the personal computer -the fax machine -the cordless phone -the cellphone -the Internet/e-mail -the PDA -the digital TV -dozens of other major technological inventions I am forgetting...
Old? Nah, I feel young!  
Peace.
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 08:14 |
I actually liked some punk (early Police, London Calling, Stranglers, Jam but most of what I liked was atypical of punk). I was 14 in 77 and lost two "friends" on overdose during their punk trip. Another one is almost a vegetable (Barrett). They would always need to slam us but we slammed them too .
And then there were the disco-crazed faggots . Both punks and us would get on their casses because they ended up with the chicks - which of course made them no faggots but we called them that and they would hate everybody . And some of those disco/funk groups (notably Chic) were excellent musicians but I only listened more closely to that when I had a black girlfriend in the early 90's.
Sheist - was that almost thirty years ago? Well I feel like a good Pauillac wine bottle - I age rather good.
F#*k Punk and Disco
Memories.......
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dude
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Location: Australia
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 07:33 |
OH GOOD GREIF!! I REMEMBER THE SEX PISTOLS AND THE WHOLE PUNK ROCK THING (WHICH SLID INTO NEW WAVE WITH BANDS LIKE JOY DIVISION ("LOVE WILL TEAR US APART")..
HERES ANOTHER BIT OF INFO TO MAKE YOU FEEL REALLY OLD
I HAVE ONLY JUST FOUND OUT THAT MICK TUCKER DRUMMER FOR "SWEET" DIED OF LEUKEMIA IN FEB 2002...HE WAS 54
BRIAN CONNELLY,LEAD SINGER OF "SWEET" DIED OF LIVER FAILURE IN 1997 AT 52
I REMEMBER WHEN THEY WERE ALL YOUNG GUYS LOVED BY ALL THE GIRLS AT SCHOOL AND IN MAGAZINES,.... THE BAND OF THE MOMENT....
"SET ME FREE" IS STILL IMHO ONE OF THE GREAT HARD ROCK SONGS.
PSALM 103
V15:"AS FOR MAN,HIS DAYS ARE AS GRASS,AS A FLOWER OF THE FIELD SO HE FLOURISHETH".
V:16 "FOR THE WIND PASSETH OVER IT AND IT IS GONE AND THE PLACE THEREOF SHALL KNOW IT NO MORE".......
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Reed Lover
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Joined: July 16 2004
Location: Sao Tome and Pr
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 05:00 |
Yeah,telling my daughter to turn Green Day down ( turn that bloody racket down!!!!!!!!!)
Ted Nugent:
"if it's too loud you're too old" "anyone who wants to get mellow can turn around and get the f**k out of here,alright."

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Jim Garten
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Joined: February 02 2004
Location: South England
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Posted: February 28 2005 at 03:39 |
Here's a little topic for all us old farts out there....
It occurred to me over the weekend that next year sees the 30th anniversary of 'never mind the b@@@@cks' by the execrable Sex Pistols.
Now, I may hate the band/album (5th rate pub heavy metal band imho), but there's no doubt it is a seminal '70s album.
I remember it all too well, being in the 5th year at senior school (Mount Grace Comp, Potters Bar), everyone loving it, singing it & abusing all of us who hated it....
But was it really nearly 30 years ago...????????
Hows about you other oldies? Anything make you feel a tad elderly?
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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