I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s.

"The question and the responses just seem to prove that this is a venue for old men…..   Will this hobby survive when all the old men die off?"

Hate to be a bearer of bad news, but when we old Boomers die off, they'll be another generation of old guys right behind us. . . which means even you will be old, one day. 

 “ I Feel bad for Gen - X er’s “. It sounds more like “ I need to put you down, so I can feel good” . But you probably had to walk to school both ways uphill through the snow . I was Driving down Highway 99 last Thursday from Fresno to Kingsburg with a former member of Tower of Power . We spent the whole trip reminiscing about Bay music from the 60’s and 70’s . The only person we felt sad for was  Bruce Conte , as he recently passed away . But since I didn’t have a TT in my Denali  , I had to listen with my modified Bose system to some of that crappy Tidal/CD stuff . I remember buying gas at .26 per gallon , but I made $ 1.35 per hour. I think newer music like Collective Soul, Pink, and The Killers is pretty good . Happy sniveling , Mike B. 

"But you probably had to walk to school both ways uphill through the snow"

Yes, with only half a small banana for breakfast and rabid wolverines to fend off along the way. . .   

@jasonbourne52  I agree.  Classical covers many centuries of music.  Jazz 20th C. is close (love the 50's & 60's straight ahead and fusion type).  Pop music, musicals with singable melodies until the 1990s.  Sure, I like rock but from the 50s to the 80s.  Current rock rarely sounds like music to me.  Everything up to hip hop and rap can enthrall me.  Hearing music performed by great musicians of great music live in a great venue is the ultimate.  That's why classical and some jazz performances are still my preference with current rock having lost it's appeal. 

Born in '52. Loved what I heard in the 60s and 70s. Love what I hear today from Derek Trucks, Keb Mo, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Amos Lee, Bela Fleck and Sierra Hull. Not a fan of rap or hip hop, but we live in an era of great musical diversity and great live studio recordings.

My sons are Gen X at ages 43 and 37 and they heard all of the 60s and 70s greats on our home stereo...and stood on the wings of Festival stages as kids watching David Grisman, Johnny Cash and Emmy Lou Harris.

In the day, they had an SA5500 II Pioneer system and Bose 601s in our 1980s household...and when they visit dead old dad now, the grand kids groove to my throwback pro audio rig made from AE Techron serviced Crown PS 200s (rescued out of local churches) driving a mellow medium room size array of Onkyo towers and a REL T5i sub on one floor...and a similar system on the other floor with a TEAC 400U managing the content into some throwback 1990 Cerwin Vega bookshelves and a high output connected plate amp powered Jensen sub.

Two generations behind us and they haven't missed a thing :)