Old Time Music

[madmike2]

I have good kids. They aren't that much different than real ones. They can make you feel a little bit moving in time. This story is from one, who like me, is a baby boomer:

At my ten-year-old's request, I loaded my Rolling Stones tunes onto his iPod.

"I had no idea you liked the Stones," I said.

"Sure. I like all that old-fashioned music," he said.

"What do you mean, 'old-fashioned music'?"

"You know," he said defensively. "Music from the 1900s."

 

[Silent]

Yer gettin old Mike

So am I

 

[old&slow]

Went to a music store a few years ago ,, and found the "Hard Rock" music I listened to in the "60's"

in the Easy Listening Section....

Or you get into an elevator and the music they are playing you recognize as music you use to party with..

1900's that's good...

 

[Fred W]

We are all so last century...

 

[Patriot]

geez, when my youngest was 6 (Mary Beth is now 14, but that's another story), I thought I'd surprise her by recording some fav TV shows from my youth that I thought she'd like. Nickalodeon had old reruns of the first Lassie's and she's a real animal and doggie lover. Gave the VHS tape to her on her birthday. Crank up the players and on comes Lassie in all her sappy glory. I see Mary Beth frowning and shaking her head.

"What's wrong darlin'."

"Daddy, is the set broke. The screen is all gray."

"No dear, those old shows from when I was your age are in black n white."

"Black n White, you mean no color ???"

"Yes, sweetie."

"Geez, Dad, that's just trashy. Can I go now?"

:blink:

 

[madmike2]

Oooohhhh yeeaaahhh....

Try to 'splain to the children (my "princess" will be 34 this year) that we didn't have FM radio...or stereo.

Nope...we had AM radio (remember the little pocket transistor radios) and Hi-Fidelity record players.

I remember when the really cool addition to one's car radio was a rear speaker and a reverb. Bitchin!

Boy, am I dating myself!

 

[MEM]

Nope...we had AM radio (remember the little pocket transistor radios) and Hi-Fidelity record players.
I remember when the really cool addition to one's car radio was a rear speaker and a reverb. Bitchin!

Boy, am I dating myself!

How about an 8-track player - blasting early 60's Rolling Stones - in a '74 VW bug ?! :yahoo:

 

[user 6393]

20 years ago a co-worker of my ex's had a chat with his teenaged son...

"Dad, did you know Paul McCartney was in another band?"

Just as the dad was about to reply, his son continued..."It was called "Wings"

The rest of the afternoon was spent with a Beatles collection spread out over a living room floor, and stories of the British Invasion were told.

 

[Feejer/Weejer man]

Yea baby. Told my 16 year old daughter a few years ago that we had black and white tv with no remote. Had to get up and turn the channel.

 

[johnny80s]

Yea baby. Told my 16 year old daughter a few years ago that we had black and white tv with no remote. Had to get up and turn the channel.

As recall the youngest kid in the house was the remote. I would sit close to the TV because I always had to change the channel or or turn down the volume. Then they used to yell at us for sitting to close to the TV and said we would go blind. They said we go blind from a lot of things. I didn't stop doing that either.

 

[chrisflock]

Yea baby. Told my 16 year old daughter a few years ago that we had black and white tv with no remote. Had to get up and turn the channel.

As recall the youngest kid in the house was the remote. I would sit close to the TV because I always had to change the channel or or turn down the volume. Then they used to yell at us for sitting to close to the TV and said we would go blind. They said we go blind from a lot of things. I didn't stop doing that either.

I guess I don't get the whole 'no remote' thing. When I was kid, we didn't have a remote for our TV. It had a DIAL. It also didn't have stereo sound. I remember over at my Grandmothers (where I spent a lot of time as a youth, she lived in town so when I was little I got dropped off there after school every day until my parents got home from work) her TV had BUTTONS to change the channel instead of a dial (still no remote) and I thought that was cool...

Also, when I was a kid, we only had 1 TV in the house. About the time I went to college my parents remodeled the basement and got a 2nd TV.

Heck, it was just over 6 years ago that I got my first 'Movie-watching thingamig' (IE, didn't have a VCR or a DVD player until I got married).

 

[Hit the Road Jack]

"I had no idea you liked the Stones," I said.
"Sure. I like all that old-fashioned music," he said.

"What do you mean, 'old-fashioned music'?"

"You know," he said defensively. "Music from the 1900s."

I'll have to agree. Have you looked at the Stones lately?

 

[HotRodZilla]

One day my wife was with her neice and they heard a song that had an older song mixed into it. My wife commented that she used to have the original song on a 45. Her neice paused and then asked her what a 45 was. That was when I knew.

 

[MCML]

I was in the Bay Area on business, driving from The City to San Jose, and a local radio station played a really great set. One song after another that was just wonderful. After the crap we get on the radio here in L.A. I was grinning ear to ear.

The freakin' DJ comes on afterwards and says, his best mellow DJ voice and cadence, "...and that was our set for aging hippies."

The year was 1981 or '82.

Our kids are right.

 

[exskibum]

How about an 8-track player - blasting early 60's Rolling Stones - in a '74 VW bug ?! :yahoo:

Pfffft! Youngsters!!! 8-track and a '74 bug??? You don't remember 4 tracks, Mary Ellen?

4 tracks had a wheel that swung up into the cartridge (which was otherwise shaped like an 8 track). I was at the cutting edge of 8 track releases when I bought a 4 and 8 track player (that's right, it did BOTH -- ohhhh the technology!) for my '67 Mustang when I got it in '69. Had mostly 4 track tapes at first, but pretty soon, the 8 track releases took over.

Of course, madmike probably remembers the 45 players for cars that were the first inroad into taking your own music with you in your ride. (My older next door neighbor had one.)

 

[wheatonFJR]

The first TV my parents had was 4 ft wide by 4 ft tall by 3 ft deep and had a small circular screen. It got about 5 channels.

2, 5, 7, 9, 32

 

[Moon Man]

Why am I getting the feeling that I am young enough to be everyone in this threads child? (at 26)

Growing up pops had a custom stereo in his Mustang GT and we listened to nothing but classic rock everywhere we went, so I did get my learn on.

And honestly, my playlist is always half full of "Old Time Music". I like music from a time when everyone in the band was a musician. Not some pop star with a Band in a Can behind them.

 

[RICLET]

The first TV my parents had was 4 ft wide by 4 ft tall by 3 ft deep and had a small circular screen. It got about 5 channels.
2, 5, 7, 9, 32

When I left England in '75 we had 3 channels BBC1,BBC2 and ITV. I did not see a colour TV in my house until 1975 which was the same time we got our first phone. On the other hand we did know all our neighbours.