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Talkin' bout YOUR generation...

Hello.

A lightweight thread here, folks. Just want to see where we are all coming from - YOUR generation, that is.

We all had a defining band growing up. In your formative years, who was that band??? The only rules are that you have to pick a band from the time when you were somewhere between the ages of 11 and 17, and they have had to be current at the time - still together and vibrant. For example, at age 34, I can't pick The Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, or The Who, even though I may have listened to them a great deal. As such, I doubt any of us will be able to choose Haydn or Vivaldi...

It would be that if CDs were in cars at the time, that would be blaring when you picked up your friends. It doesn't mean you have to still be listening to them today. Heck, you may even hate them now.

I think it will provide a little insight into our backgrounds and a special time of our lives. OK, so let's have some fun with this!

MY choice in my time period(1980 - 1986) would have to be Van Halen, and I don't even listen to them anymore
trelja
calanctus
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Stuff I listened to myself: Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Devo, Talking Heads. If I had to pick one of these as a 'defining band' for my 11-17 period, it would be Zep.

Stuff I was subjected to by my friends: Supertramp, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel.
jwrobin
25 posts
 
Cream
The Ventures
The Doors
Jimi Hendrix-My first rock concert @ age 15 in Berlin, Germany.
John Mayall-saw him in Berlin, too!
Pink Floyd
Led Zepplin
Deep Purple
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swampwalker
5,138 posts
 
Beatles & Stones (of course)
Dylan
Dead
Cream
Jeff Airplane (before that Starship nonsense)
Yougbloods
Moody Blues
Jethro Tull
Allman Bros.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Band

I've been lucky enough to have heard most of them play at least once (w/exception of Beatles) and my ears are still ringing from some of them (although loudest by far was Mahavishnu Orchestra, w/Quicksilver a somewhat distant second)
flacre
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When I was 11 in 1961 Elvis was singing "Little Sister" and "Marie's the Name of His latest Flame" along with the Everly Brothers and Neil Sedaka and Pat Boone. The British invasion had yet to happen and Dylan wasn't yet on the radar (at least not on mine). Six years later the world had changed forever: Dylan had had his motorcycle accident, America was mired in Vietnam, the Doors were singing "The End" and the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed were singing "I'm Waiting for My Man" and "Heroin". To quote the Grateful Dead (another of my favourite bands) "What a long, strange trip it's been".
aroc
760 posts
 
Metallica and Pantera.
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