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."

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".......

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.......

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.

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.

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.

I still darn socks!

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!

Easy Livin wrote: Thanks guys, you really cheered me up!

Senior Gentleman are we Easy?

Only seen that one pic of you and it was obviously not taken recently!

Probably not as athletic looking now!

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

utah_man wrote:   "Birthdays tell how long you've been on the road, they don't tell how far you've travelled"

Isn't that the problem? ....

it would be ok if some of the people on this forum wouldve travelled far at least.... but i guess they've spent their time doing other things

What makes me feel old..

My 26 yr old son says that Nirvana's Teen Spirit came out when he was a little kid... seems just like a few years ago to me...

I gave Keith Emerson a birthday card for his 60th birthday last Nov. that said...'So what if you're getting old, atleast you're still immature'... "his 60th birthday!!!"

I have a closet filled with about 100 pairs of high heels... and I haven't worn any of them in over a year...

It makes me feel old to realise that I was a child in a time when:

Calculators and LED digital watches were the coolest electronic gadget in existence;

Personal computers were called 'personal' computers, as if the very idea of having a machine that wasn't the size of a three-bedroom house was revolutionary.

Top of the Pops was the height of musical cool;

Tommy Vance's Rock Show was the cutting edge (though you had to listen to it on crackly medium wave in Ireland)

Queen's Bo-Rap video had great special effects.

You could buy chocolate bars called Aztecs and Curly-Wurlys were the size of a plank.

Debbie Harry was incredibly hot.

Joanna Lumley in The New Avengers was even hotter.

The dialogue in Star Wars made sense.

The dialogue in 'Battlestar Galactica' made even more sense. Go figure.

The first time I heard Led Zep's 'In Through the Out Door' was on its release.

U2 were only a couple of years older than me and on the release of 'Boy' me and my 'band' mates were all excited about the possibility of 'if they can do it, why can't we'

All the sports stars I now interview are by and large almost two decades younger than me, when I used to look at tennis players/motor racing drivers/footballers as people who were way beyond my experience.

The first time I saw the Rolling Stones (in '82) I distinctly remember thinking: 'wow, these old guys can still rock'. Mick Jagger was 38 at the time.

I don't understand the sub-genres of dance music (what the f*** is 'intelligent drum n bass'?).

I question the use of the phrase R&B to describe the music Nelly.

I don't know what 'Crunk' is.

I feel that there's too much sex on television.

I tut-tut at pop videos full of semi-naked girls.

Everything is being re-made.

I huff and puff in indignation when I hear a sample of some good song appropriated by some feckless DJ.

I don't understand why someone who plays records in a disco can be a star.

My older brother's wife's six-year-old grandson came to my house and couldn't understand what a record was and called them 'big CDs'.

I've lived through more format wars than is comfortable - vinyl, eight-track, compact cassette, VHS, BETA, CD, DVDA, SACD, MP3 et al, Blue Ray blah blah blah.

I once covered (as a boy journalist) David Bowie playing Slane Castle on the 'Glass Spider' Tour (1987/88?) and distinctly remember a fellow hack having a mobile phone with him. It was the size of a WWII field radio!

And finally, and most scarily, my cassette copy of Led Zeppelin II is older than my girlfriend.

Jim Garten wrote: Arcer - I don't know how you actually got inside my head to read my thoughts, but I can relate to everything you say. BTW - our first video recorder had a remote control that was attached to the unit with 5 feet of co-axial cable!

Remote control. Sheer bloody luxury! Our first vcr didn't even have one. We had to walk from the couch all across the living room if we wanted to fast forward something! Now,you try telling the young people of today that,and they won't believe you.

I'm a half generation behind you Arcer but I know what you mean!

Yesterday I was driving home trying to tell my seven-year old son what didn't exist when I was 7 ... cable TV (we only had two channels in Malaysia in 1980 and many tvs were still black and white!), handphones, personal computers, Malaysian cars ... The other day I pointed to the globe and told him I lived in Moscow and visited Bonn, Cologne, Black Forest etc, except "back then" it was the Soviet Union and West Germany!

Nowadays I'm scared of even looking at Maria Sharapova, Michelle Wie or Hilary Duff ... because it makes me feel like a dirty old man ...

emdiar wrote: 5 reasons why I feel old at 38: 3, I rate Wales as a top holiday destination

Well it is not that bad, at least you don't rate Baden Baden spas as top rate holidays. You know , Page and Plant used to find Wales a good place to get inspired. I prefer Cornwall in those latitudes.

Ibiza with the crowd for holidays....In the early 70's maybe , but now..... Think I'll choose Baden Baden before heading out to Ibiza these days.

Too bad Katmandhu is closed for a few months.

Jim Garten wrote: Pixel Pirate wrote: Jim Garten wrote: Arcer - I don't know how you actually got inside my head to read my thoughts, but I can relate to everything you say. BTW - our first video recorder had a remote control that was attached to the unit with 5 feet of co-axial cable! Remote control. Sheer bloody luxury! Our first vcr didn't even have one. We had to walk from the couch all across the living room if we wanted to fast forward something! Now,you try telling the young people of today that,and they won't believe you. Want to guess how much this baby cost in 1977? Over £750!

God,they were ugly back then! Our first one at least looked slightly better than that hideous specimen but not by much,it still looked like something Rommel might have used in the battle of El Alamein.

Jim Garten wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Too bad Katmandhu is closed for a few months Why? - Is it being re-decorated?

Did you not hear that the king has done a coup against his own government , proclaimed Martial Law and restricts the press. He says it is for the country's sake. True there is a Maoist Guerilla controlling the major part of the provinces.

I don't know what to make of it but four years ago, he was the only royal family member to escape the massacre (he was out of the country on business) but people suspect.......... he did it and not the Maoists.

Bad News, Man!!! Better go smoke doobies in Afganistan. Probably safer!!!

threefates wrote: What makes me feel old... I have a closet filled with about 100 pairs of high heels... and I haven't worn any of them in over a year...

Yea, but look at the positive side of it...it's ONLY been about a year
I mean, at our age, what's a year ?

The-Bullet wrote: "Luxury.  We used to get up in the morning, at 10 o-clock at night, half an hour before we went to bed...."    Monty Python  four Yorkshiremen sketch

Don't think it was Monty Python (he said pedantically!). I think it was from a Secret policeman's ball. Wasn't Rowan Atkinson one of the four?

I remember when my hip choices for footwear consisted of Doc Martens, combat boots, or Chuck Taylors. That's exactly how old I am. The day U2 stopped being a new wave band and became "classic rock" was the day I found my first grey hair.

Three words: Buster Brown and Tige.  (And Keds.)

James Lee wrote: I remember when my hip choices for footwear consisted of Doc Martens, combat boots, or Chuck Taylors.

Are you one of them Male Lesbian thingymebobs?

Don't suppose you know this genius in the USA?

I think my fashion sense is a LITTLE better than that.

26 years ago when I was born (not still rather old ), Pink Floyd has released their THE WALL album!

Of course, I don't remember this, but I remember how Rummenige and Maradona kicked their goals in Mexico'86, how Peter Shilton excellently saved his gates being 41 (!) at Italy'90 and how all people were as crazy to disco, Michael and Phill Collins-solo at my childish 80s

Jim Garten wrote: Easy Livin wrote: The-Bullet wrote: "Luxury.  We used to get up in the morning, at 10 o-clock at night, half an hour before we went to bed...."    Monty Python  four Yorkshiremen sketch Don't think it was Monty Python (he said pedantically!). I think it was from a Secret policeman's ball. Wasn't Rowan Atkinson one of the four? Shame on you EL - unless you were being ironic - The Four Yorkshiremen is probably one of the most quoted Python sketches ever (just don't mention dead parrots ) - Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 1974 - Cleese, Palin, Jones & Chapman at their best. Christ! That was over 30 years ago..... I need a lie down.

Well if your going to mention some obscure show down a back alley..

OK, OK, I was wrong, the humiliation!

It did also appear in the Secret Policeman's Ball in '79, with Cleese, Jones, Palin and Atkinson but you're right, Mony Python did it first. Curiously, it was written before the Monty Python TV series were made, but not used until they appeared on stage. (Hope I got that right!).