[Incorrigible]

Oh! No!  I'm getting old!!!!!!!!!!

Some of my favorite music is being called "Classic Rock!"

 

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I almost cried the other day. some college radio station was playing cutting crew "died in your arms" during their oldies program. Hard to believe that I'm 16 years out of high school and 12 years out of college. I am amazed by every new gadget out there. My coworkers take it for granted. Of course, they have never had only three TV to choose from channels.

[Space Wrangler]

Caught Lollapalooza in Nashville and Atlanta. Did anyone catch the HORDE shows that followed the next year I think?

[Richard Kimball]

I do this every year, as I teach college, and want to make sure I am in touch with my new students.

Students entering college this year were probably born in 1988. They were born the year the films "Beetlejuce", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", "Rain Man", "Die Hard", and "Big" were made.

When they were born, the TV show "Family Ties" was in it's final season. Dallas had already fallen out of the top twenty TV shows, and Highway to Heaven was in it's final season.

George Bush was elected the year they were born. Pete Maravich, Heather O'Rourke (the little blonde girl in Poltergeist), Louis L'Amour, Andy Gibb, and Pappy Boyington died the year they were born.

FWIW, as a baby boomer, my critical moment came in 1987, when they re-released the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper" album as a CD, and put up banners in the store, with pictures of the Beatles that said "It was twenty years ago, today..."

[new cruelty]

For Generation X, now in their 30s and 40s...

Hmph. I never considered myself a part of generation x.

[misterrob]

I went to one back in 1991.

Ice T
Butthole Surfers
Jane's Addiction

plus a bunch of other bands I have forgotten....

[stands2reason]

How about this to make you feel old?

The kid that was in the Sixth Sense ("I see dead people") Haley Joe Osment was in a car crash last week.

He rolled his SUV. (He's 18 now.)

[Drew68]

I missed the first Lollapalooza (what was I thinking?) but I caught the second one in 1992. Acts consisted of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Ministry, Lush, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ice Cube and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The play order was typically, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and the RHCP closing the show.

It was a great show.

Damn! I miss my 20s.

Now I'm in the navy and I work with a lot of sailors who are much younger than me. They love it when I regale them with stories from my youth. Of course they listen to a lot of music I've never heard of --my "music appreciation" peaking in about 1995 or so. Some of these new songs are starting to rub off on me a little bit.

When we listen to classic rock they are always asking me, "Drew, who sings that song?" "Oh, that's Bad Company or that's Boston, Styx, Kansas, etc." They can never stump me on classic rock.

On the "flip side" -another Gen-X term, I'll always ask them who is singing a contemporary song on the radio since I don't have a clue.

[Mr. Silverback]

I was 20 and still a liberal that summer...but I still saw the Lollapalooza thing starting up and thought"Aw jeez, again with the hippies."

[the OlLine Rebel]

What the !$#@!@#! is Lollapalooza?

[Clemenza]

I remember it well. I missed it but a cousin of mine got caught in a mosh pit when Jane's Addiction played. This was at Randall's Island, where the Cosmos used to play.

Does anyone else remember the NY Cosmos? Whatever became of Shep Messing?

[Nowhere Man]

Some of my favorite music is being called "Classic Rock!"

Here in Pittsburgh, one of our local radio stations plays a lot of the music I listen to as a kid and they call them "Oldies." "Oldies?!" I have the mind to go down there and club the program director with my walker. B-D

Seriously, I turned 40 on July 8th, so I know how it feels. B-)

[Vision]

I saw the second year in VA where Eddie Veder showed up late and along with Temple of the Dog played "I'm going hungry"