Reaching a certain age!

[Cubist]

I for one am relieved to hear that you still like what you used to like when you were younger. For many years I have harboured the theory that as soon as you hit a certain age, you suddenly start liking Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass. No amount of emersing myself in my collection of 70s punk, 80s Two Tone and 90s REM stuff has been able to prevent me from nervously watching for the first signs of foot tapping when Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore" comes on the radio. I guess there is still the chance that I will go to my twilight care home still delighting in the sound of The Jam and Eddy and the Hotrods after all. Come to think of it, those places will probably be full of tattooed old-timers listening to 70's Prog Rock or heavy metal in the communal sitting rooms. All the visiting kiddies will think of it all as "old people's music" in the same way as we did of our parents' Doris Day albums.

Holmfirth Picturedrome hosts many 70 s and 80s bands, with the Damned, The Stranglers, Bad manners and a few others springing readily to mind. They also have a few excellent tribute bands,most memorably an AC/DC one called Livewire, who last year teamed up with a ZZ Top tribute. The place was rammed with middle aged bald men wearing Levi's and black t shirts over their beer guts.

 

[Globalti]

I heard a 62 year-old on the radio recently and when asked what were the best years of his life he replied: "The mid fifties: that's when you can do your job blindfold and most of life's stressful events are past. You are still fit and vigorous enough and you have the cash and freedom to enjoy yourself."

 

[SteCenturion]

I've got it on cassette. I got it for Xmas when I was 15, but it had been out a while by then.

What is a cassette ??

 

[SteCenturion]

Holmfirth Picturedrome hosts many 70 s and 80s bands, with the Damned, The Stranglers, Bad manners and a few others springing readily to mind. They also have a few excellent tribute bands,most memorably an AC/DC one called Livewire, who last year teamed up with a ZZ Top tribute. The place was rammed with middle aged bald men wearing Levi's and black t shirts over their beer guts.

Have seen LiveWire, excellent, as are Guns2Roses.

 

[Saluki]

What is a cassette ??

Oh shut up

 

[accountantpete]

The foreign reviews for JTTCOTE were marginally better than the British ones

 

[Leaway2]

I saw the first concerts and bought the album on the day of its release!

So did I! I saw him a the free trade hall in Manchester

 

[SteCenturion]

Oh shut up

Charmin' @Saluki

Actually I remember all those 'Special' times I had with a cassette & a pencil,

Re-wind to 1978.

 

[mr_cellophane]

I have tickets to see him at the O2 in December.
Saw Boot Led Zepplin in January. That was full of old men, but none as old as the real Led Zep

 

[mr_cellophane]

I saw him at Stevenage many years ago. Mid 80s.
Well, I say I saw *him*, what I mainly saw was many, many keyboards...

You sure that wasn't jean michel jarre. That's all I saw when he played Destination Docklands in 1988

 

[Saluki]

Charmin' @Saluki

Actually I remember all those 'Special' times I had with a cassette & a pencil,

Re-wind to 1978.

It would take a long while to rewind to '78 using a pencil I reckon.

I still have cassettes. Mostly Rick Wakeman, Iron Maiden and ABC. There might be some Yazzoo in there too.

 

[raleighnut]

I for one am relieved to hear that you still like what you used to like when you were younger. For many years I have harboured the theory that as soon as you hit a certain age, you suddenly start liking Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass. No amount of emersing myself in my collection of 70s punk, 80s Two Tone and 90s REM stuff has been able to prevent me from nervously watching for the first signs of foot tapping when Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore" comes on the radio. I guess there is still the chance that I will go to my twilight care home still delighting in the sound of The Jam and Eddy and the Hotrods after all. Come to think of it, those places will probably be full of tattooed old-timers listening to 70's Prog Rock or heavy metal in the communal sitting rooms. All the visiting kiddies will think of it all as "old people's music" in the same way as we did of our parents' Doris Day albums.

Did'nt the Clarkson say this a while back but using Anarchy in the UK as the song. And he's a Rick Wakeman fan too, Coincidence.

 

[Mattonsea]

I thought he was on Countdown

 

[vernon]

I still enjoy my vinyl collection from early seventies onwards. My younger son covets it but is hacked off because I managed to convince him eight or so years that it's bequeathed to a young colleague as a wind up - and its still ongoing. It's my longest and most successful wind up. The rest of the family are in on it.

 

[SteCenturion]

I still enjoy my vinyl collection from early seventies onwards. My younger son covets it but is hacked off because I managed to convince him eight or so years that it's bequeathed to a young colleague as a wind up - and its still ongoing. It's my longest and most successful wind up. The rest of the family are in on it.

Good to see another vinyl devotee.

I had to give up part of my vinyl collection as it started to chafe the groin a little.