You know you're getting old when ...

[keith_h]

You are listening to a hair and other 80's metal radio station that bills themselves as a Classic Rock station. I thought Classic Rock meant music from the 60's and 70's. Guess I need to find an oldies station.

[cozmik_cowboy]

The "Oldies" station in DeKalb bills their format as "The Best of The '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s" - as if that were one thing.

Peter

[jwright9]

You are listening to a hair and other 80's metal radio station that bills themselves as a Classic Rock station. I thought Classic Rock meant music from the 60's and 70's. Guess I need to find an oldies station.

I have heard Nirvana and Pearl Jam as well as many other 90's bands on our Classic rock station here. Probably 5 years ago was the first time I noticed actually.

[edwardofhuncote]

I hear ya' Keith... any radio, really. You might have a couple years on me, but I love radio. We have a pretty good iheartradio station up here that plays the 70's-80's-90's music I like. If it weren't for the obnoxious-voiced station ID... hey, you know what, I ain't complainin'.


Another clue is this; I don't stream or download - I still buy hard copies, which I'm told makes me a dinosaur... one that likes hard copies and liner notes. (so I can see who played what!) I do occasionally download music files of stuff people send me to learn, but that's about it.


I also realize looking around the workplace, at 50, I'm among the most senior of all the staff here. We got kids here 20 years old... and the Operator on duty with me today is 68, retired once, and came back part-time. (for insurance benefits) I was 18 when I got started in this field in 1989, and but for that little detour in the 90's when I tried playing bass for money, I've been at it ever since. Sometime in 2021, I'm going to find something else to do. Ideally, something not involving shift work.


Some days I feel older than others, but here's the one that really sucks rocks... I now have more doctor appointments in my calendar than gigs. 

[lbpesq]

My wife gave me a T-shirt that says: "I may be old, but I got to see all the cool bands".  How true.

Bill, tgo

[gtrguy]

I like this one:

[jacko]

I have the same T shirt Bill

Graeme

[bigredbass]

I knew I was old when the 'Classic Rock' stations began to use 80's and 90's stuff and Motown, the Beatles, and Zeppelin couldn't be heard.  Or when I had to explain that Paul was in a band before Wings . . . . . . and then of course, all the 'emulator' preamps, effectors, or amps feature presets and I REMEMBER what the originals sounded like, as I owned most of them.  It's a laugh though, to hit 'SVT' on a single-12 combo and hear what you get.

[keith_h]

I thought maybe you were going to say Paul played with a band called The Raiders.

[bigredbass]

Nope.  Paul was just in The Beatles.  THIS was the stuff:  Mosrite Double 12, Vox Tombstone Bass and Jaguar organ, pumpin' little riff, cool outfits and chicks on horseback in costume.  Hell, it had to take Sgt. Pepper's to beat THIS:

[peoplechipper]

I used to deliver newspapers to the bass player in Deep Cove B.C. in the early '80's, and he still owned that bass! He was a cab driver at the time...

[keith_h]

I still have my Vox Mk IV. Never wore a Tricorn hat though.

[cozmik_cowboy]

There are just not enough bands with Colonial-costumed, horseback babes onstage these days!

Peter (who is thoroughly digging the keyboardist's complete lack of try on the finger-synch thing)

[lbpesq]

I particularly enjoyed the bass and double neck players' choreography!  Can you imagine Bobby and Phil engaging in such antics?  lol

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

A band I did sound for covered"Kicks"; Fender Electric XII, Ed Reynolds custom bass,  IIRC, and some flavor of Korg - but (while they did dance around) no choreography, nor, alas, any period-dressed equestriennes.

Peter