Don’t it make you feel old?!?

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."

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.......

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.

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.

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.

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.

38!!!??? You're still a teenager compred to some of us.

My epiphany occurred on the M11 last summer - found a radio station playing Led Zeppelin, pumped up the volume, wound down the window and discovered I was listening to Radio 2. I've since come to terms with this, and I freely admit to enjoying Terry Wogan as I drive into work of a morning.

Working in further education brings me into contact with young (ish) people on a regular basis. The last couple of parties where I was the oldest one present were also parties where I was the last man standing. Kids today? No bloody stamina - in my day we knew how to party!

Thanks guys, you really cheered me up!

The girl who played Blossom will turn 30 this year. That makes me feel old.