Thread: Article: How cool is this?

Enjoyed your report and pics. Always good to keep the best generation of music (ever) going and to be able to pass it on to the younger generation is priceless

That's very cool. I was a teen in the 80's and went to just about every Heavy Metal concert that came close from 1985 until 1989. I once saw Def Leppard on a Friday night in Shreveport and then the very next night in Little Rock. Same concert complete with Joe Elliot's comments verbatim. Went to Memphis to see the Monsters of Rock in July.........HOT!!!!

Like you, I now have grown children and my 17 year old son, especially, asks for some "good songs" that I used to like. Apparently my list of songs was a hit at the last teen get-together. My wife doesn't like that kind of music anymore, but there are lots of things that kids hear today that's much worse than the "explicit" lyrics from bands like Dokken, Krokus, Y & T, Tesla, Van Halen, Def Leppard, and Ratt.

Carry on. GTT

My wife and I love the music of that era and go on the Moody Blues Cruises and 70 Rock and Romance with so many great bands from that era and earlier including roger daltrey, zombies, ambrosia, starship, little river band, ELO, ides of march, rare earth, america, peter frampton, asia, great cover bands, player and so many others that really rock you! Heck she has a shrine to justin heyward, peter noone in our basement! passing it on to the kids and grandkids and one of our son in laws plays in a great cover band and is terrific musician himself, so we are INTO it.

Rock on dude and catch some big slabs along with it!

Been bangin my head to all of the bands mentioned since I was about 12. Large collection of CD's keep me in touch with what I like. From Thelonius Monk to AC-DC there is no telling who you'll find in there. Have a stack of ticket stubs from when I was younger and crowd tolerant. Black Sabbath and Peter Frampton was one show I remember as one of the better. My younger daughter enjoys a lot of the music I had on while she grew, and was in the school band for a long time. In one conversation that she reminds me of sometimes, she fussed about not getting her music on the car radio. She claimed that this new song was cool, when it was a remake of one from my era. I told her that she needed to pay attention to what I played, and of course she asked why. I said something like How do you know where you're going if you don't know where you came from? The things we pass along.........