Heh, I like hearing from you guys that were gigging back when rock and roll was actually a thing that still freaked out a lot of parents.
Me, I was BORN in 1970 ... on the other hand, since I work in the world of "tech", I've gotten used to often being the oldest guy in the office by a wide margin, and more recently I've had to come to terms with having some coworkers who were born after I graduated college.
I have apparently just hit the age when I start seeing medical professionals younger than me. That's going to get irksome over the next however-many-decades-i-have...
I thought of a fun "how to feel old" game. Start making a list of things and events that, if they were people, would be at least old enough to legally drink in the US.
- Punk
- "New Wave"
- "The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal"
- The Who's "Farewell" tour ( hahahahahhaha)
- The Who's first reunion tour
- Live Aid
- "Hair metal"
- "Death metal"
- a thousand other flavors of metal
- Fall of the Berlin Wall
- The entire f***ing decade of the 80s
- Nirvana and all the Seattle / northwest / grunge bands
- Sinead O'Connor ripping up the Pope photo
- Prince making no sense
- Bill Clinton getting elected
And so on and so on.