[Will_Zurmacht]

for a time I winced at the old music we loved growing up...but looking back I think it was the last golden age of "Average American guy music".
Eddies old guitar and DLR schreeching as you are doing 80 on a back road.....good times.

It was stuff dudes could play in the Camaro while cruising for chicks. Back when drinking a few beers and chasing girls was still acceptable behavior for young men.
Nowadays that'll get ya arrested, in treatment, or thrown into a consiousness raising class.

Everything became really "sissified" sometime in the 90's. While not a great fan, I think the grunge guys were the last gasp against the "non-threatening-pretty boy band"/teen tart mentality of modern pop rock.

I miss the days of loud @ss bands, loud cars, jean jackets, bad hair and the cheapest beer/women you could find. Oh, to be young again....

[T. Jefferson]

for a time I winced at the old music we loved growing up...but looking back I think it was the last golden age of "Average American guy music". Eddies old guitar and DLR schreeching as you are doing 80 on a back road.....good times. It was stuff dudes could play in the Camaro while cruising for chicks. Back when drinking a few beers and chasing girls was still acceptable behavior for young men. Nowadays that'll get ya arrested, in treatment, or thrown into a consiousness raising class.

I played in some great metal cover bands in the middle of those days...there's nothing in the world like blasting out fat A Chords with a Les Paul standing in front of 8 foot high stacks of Marshall's with girls in mini skirts screaming at you. To pull off Eddie's licks and Slash riffs took alot of fret experience and patience. The modern era guitarists are about a 2 in skill comparison. We always said it was so fun we'd do it were free, and we pretty much did that the entire career.

When we weren't playing, we raced in our hot rods, blasted the 8 track and drank a million beers without a care in the world. We didn't even have a police force in my hometown of 20,000, there wasn't ANY crime. Always appreciate the moments for what they are, every day is the good ole days.