Boomers vs. Gen X-ers: Middle-aged Faceoff

does jon spenser live in europe or something? i never hear about him. or see pictures of him playing live! i can see him still drawing a big crowd in japan.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:07 (twelve years ago)

Billie Joe Armstrong, aged 40, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99PwfIzMzr0

John Lydon, aged 41, 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhNanlYWWmA

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:07 (twelve years ago)

this thread is truly wondrous

― Butt Trump tweet (Matt P), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:10 (twelve years ago)

Velvet Underground, early 50's, 1993

http://www.badreputation.de/VelvetUnderground19930702_front.jpg

Pixies, early 50's, 2012ish

http://www.licklibrary.com/Images/Resources/The%20Pixies%202(1).jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:26 (twelve years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3uFjaXydPAM/UIA__8xYgnI/AAAAAAAACzY/PwjtvFGSJx8/s1600/billycorgan.jpg

why is this so funny? why?

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:27 (twelve years ago)

not easy to find a band dressed worse than lou but you did it

― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:28 (twelve years ago)

Public Enemy, early 50's, 2012
http://www.billboard.com/photos/stylus/2606259-public-enemy-treasure-island-festival-2012.jpg

The Monkees, early 50's, 1989
http://www.monkeesconcerts.com/uploads/7/8/9/5/7895731/1085887_orig.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:43 (twelve years ago)

Public Enemy, early 50's, 2012

http://www.billboard.com/photos/stylus/2606259-public-enemy-treasure-island-festival-2012.jpg

The Monkees, early 50's, 1989

http://www.monkeesconcerts.com/uploads/7/8/9/5/7895731/1085887_orig.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:44 (twelve years ago)

2013's thread to beat

― Cunga, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:44 (twelve years ago)

J Mascis, 47, 2012

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/121015-j-mascis-fender-jazzmaster.jpg

Johnny Winter, 47, 1991

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OzFcdtU6kGA/TTS8e10BRMI/AAAAAAAAGxs/tSS45LOnzWs/s1600/Johnny%2BWinter%2BCant%2BLoose%2BThe%2BBlues%2Bback.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:03 (twelve years ago)

Robert Plant, 48, 1996

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2011/08/Plant.jpg

Chris Cornell, 48, 2012

http://grungereport.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/cornellleno2012.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:10 (twelve years ago)

Anthony Kiedis & Flea, 50, 2012

http://stadium-arcadium.com/red-hot-chili-peppers/anthony-kiedis-flea-march-23rd-2012-portland-trail-blazers-lakers-game.jpg

Jagger & Richards, 49, 1992

http://images.gibson.com/Lifestyle/English/aaFeaturesImages/mickandkeith.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:22 (twelve years ago)

damn the cornell/plant one is hard to think about

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:23 (twelve years ago)

do one with dave grohl

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:24 (twelve years ago)

this thread started off as a great mood enhancer but now I'm left depressed...geez, has it been that long...

― *tera, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:30 (twelve years ago)

Bob Seger, 42, 1987

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=bob+seger+1987&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&tbo=d&rls=en&biw=847&bih=474&tbm=isch&tbnid=YZ-7rQEkq61xuM:&imgrefurl=http://atlasicons.photoshelter.com/image/I0000YC1IXNNsDow&docid=VkHCbC1Jl1MvNM&itg=1&imgurl=http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000YC1IXNNsDow/s/500/500/BOB-SEGER-LIVE-1987-NZ-9.jpg&w=334&h=500&ei=XyP-UPyCEqm50QHlooGICA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=231&vpy=80&dur=1409&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=94&ty=205&sig=113491329581640080299&page=1&tbnh=152&tbnw=90&start=0&ndsp=11&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:90

Dave Grohl, 42, 2011

http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/files/2011/03/davegrohl600.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:31 (twelve years ago)

seger, 42
http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/58/5839/XU5SG00Z/posters/bob-seger-thomas-weschler-1987-detroit-michigan.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:32 (twelve years ago)

Rob Zombie, 48, 2012
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/wennpic/rob-zombie-malcolm-mcdowell-walk-of-fame-01.jpg

Gene Simmons, 48, 1997
http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/styles/article_slideshow_slide/public/2011/09/02/153691-gene-simmons-shannon-tweed.jpg

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:38 (twelve years ago)

Is it just me, or do the boomers generally look a bit better younger and healthier?

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:53 (twelve years ago)

Skipping 80 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

a workmate of mine has an amusing story of how she left thurston moore stranded at a record store in st paul for 5-6 hours and forgot that he was there, then he wandered off with some college kids and got stoned at an apartment, so she had to babysit coco as penance

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:55 (twelve years ago)

sonic youth is so old

― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:57 (twelve years ago)

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/george-harrison-gets-back-rolling-stones-1987-cover-story-20110225/1000x306/main.jpg

George Harrison in 1987 (age 44)

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/88/5f/885fd83d6bbaea7ec69d5a046056e651.jpg

LL Cool J in 2012 (age 44)

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:12 (twelve years ago)

we're not seeing george's guns so i don't think that one's fair

― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:28 (twelve years ago)

kim gordon being 60 is blowing my mind, then again it was blown when I found out how old she was in the late 80s

do alan vega next

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:12 (twelve years ago)

didn't kim avoid telling her parents she was in a band for years? or is that some urban legend?

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:14 (twelve years ago)

suicide featuring alan vega @ age 50, 1988

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Suicide%28band%29crop.jpg

al jourgensen @ age 50, 2008

http://timeoutchicago.com/sites/timeoutchicago.com/files/imagecache/timeout_492x330/images/articles/159/159.x600.outthere.5min.jourgense.jpg

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:22 (twelve years ago)

Suicide going on that death-defying first european tour at age 40 is pretty amazing.

― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:25 (twelve years ago)

Pete Townshend in 1997 (Age 52)

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/X_ZBGxzW_Tw/0.jpg

Bob Mould in 2012 (Age 52)

http://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bob-mould-2012-e1346886417640.jpeg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:45 (twelve years ago)

bob mould incense holder $49.99.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:52 (twelve years ago)

Johnny Cash in 1982 (Age 50)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CIkBXaKftBo/TjHpM7_7FvI/AAAAAAAAQHc/3RN2Q0nFH6w/s400/The%2BAdventures%2Bof%2BJohnny%2BCash%2B%25281982%2529.jpg

Garth Brooks in 2012 (Age 50)

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Garth+Brooks+2012+Country+Music+Hall+Fame+ZNymPhqH3cjl.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:56 (twelve years ago)

Joni Mitchell, 40, 1983

http://media.mtvne.com/manual/intl/warner/2009/USW980401858_640x480_01.jpg

Liz Phair, 40, 2007

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8564/lizphairelizabethphairw.jpg

― pplains, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 02:00 (twelve years ago)

mould looking better at 52 than he did at 25

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 02:24 (twelve years ago)

Peter Frampton in 1992 (Age 42)

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/119033214-peter-frampton-poses-for-a-portrait-in-1992-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=oToYvXs3XPbg5%2bsLNpXWIQftOkspkMK92s99AqgsykDCaPpl4Gf1K5V9%2bxood45jKR%2bij0e48ENZKHFqDKFEEg%3d%3d

John Frusciante in 2012 (Age 42)

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/80127853/John+Frusciante+JF+2012.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:01 (twelve years ago)

Elvis Costello in 1996 (Age 42)

http://cdn102.iofferphoto.com/img3/item/523/174/303/cd-elvis-costello-live-1996-new-york-algonquin-hotel-dd85.jpg

Rivers Cuomo from Weezer in 2012 (Age 42)

http://media.musicfeeds.com.au/files/fa6cda233652bf414c48aab2bc9a3fd4-576x384.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:11 (twelve years ago)

mould looking better at 52 than he did at 25

Could say the same for Grant Har...oh wait.

― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:14 (twelve years ago)

Kiss in 1983 (Gene Simmons is 34)

http://www.necramonium.com/KISS82.44.jpg

Slipknot live in 2006 (Corey Taylor is 34)

http://www.slipknot-metal.com/photogallery/albums/uploads/live/mayhemfestival2008/Mayhem%20Festival%2C%20Mansfield%2C%20MA%20%2805%20August%202008%29/2760389521_a4c05fc92a_o.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:46 (twelve years ago)

Ted Nugent in 1997 (Age 49)

http://static1.imagecollect.com/preview/560/3b952b9135e8c38

James Hetfield in 2012 (Age 49)

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31200000/2012-Orion-Music-More-Festival-Day-2-james-hetfield-31243520-418-594.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:56 (twelve years ago)

Geddy Lee in 2004 (Age 51)

http://api.ning.com/files/klggl9g40O6okRR*BWqmdTlYT3tuxqzMKkA1LYTQ9Gf1ycJwG8FVYe3cF1Ev4ixd2h3J1a0P9pettegyui56594UC22SkFqR/Geddy_Lee_Milan_2004.jpg?width=495&height=600

Tom Araya in 2012 (Age 51)

http://media.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/tomaraya.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:03 (twelve years ago)

I wish Ferry and Hoffs had hooked up in the 70s and had a daughter that I could have spent every waking moment since I hit puberty in the mid 80s chasing all over the world...

― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:05 (twelve years ago)

tell us more about this dream...

― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:07 (twelve years ago)

I had way too much fun with that and spent way too much time on it.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:08 (twelve years ago)

http://0.static.wix.com/media/cec8b8_4ae6fcef15f00cb896bf4b7cf7c4bffb.jpg_512

Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01157051f7a7970b-800wi

Alice In Chains 2009

― earlnash, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:25 (twelve years ago)

Geddy Lee being only 8 years older than Tom Araya does not compute

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:31 (twelve years ago)

Weirded me out too... But Geddy was born in 1959 and Araya was spawned in 1961. I mean, I wasn't in the delivery rooms or anything. But that's what Wiki says.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:34 (twelve years ago)

Geddy was 1953, he says without a typo.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:34 (twelve years ago)

You know when you look at alot of metal musicians, they often make it quite a bit older than other rock bands. Ronnie James Dio was 33 by the time Rainbow got popular in the mid 70s.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:36 (twelve years ago)

The first Rush and Slayer records were released 9 years apart (74 and 83 respectively) so it's really not that weird for Geddy Lee and Tom Araya to be 8 years apart.

― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:45 (twelve years ago)

Dio did a lot of things before he did metal though. He was recording doo-wop in the late '50s:

http://ronniejamesdiosite.com/NewsInterviews/articles/Biographys/Ronnie&TheRedcaps/Redcaps.gif

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:47 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, he was playing rock and roll pre-Beatles, definitely an interesting part of his story.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:51 (twelve years ago)

Rivers Cuomo from Weezer in 2012 (Age 42)

Looking even younger now - but then again hair-regrowth should do that:
http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws.com/a67f595e638a11e2a82422000a9e07ae_7.jpg

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 05:16 (twelve years ago)

The first Rush and Slayer records were released 9 years apart (74 and 83 respectively) so it's really not that weird for Geddy Lee and Tom Araya to be 8 years apart.

― Oblique Strategies, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're right of course, i guess now culture & music feels like it evolves so much more slowly in some ways, so 2004 doesn't really feel like a different world the way that 74 and 83 do, if that makes sense

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 16:54 (twelve years ago)

It really is weird how the movement of time and eras have slowed. I can't tell if it's because I'm getting older or if it's because things really haven't changed as much from 2008-2013 as they did from 1968-1973 or 1978-1983.

But yeah, when you think how we're as far apart from Synchronicity being released as Led Zeppelin's first album was from the death of Robert Johnson, it's a bit disorienting.

― pplains, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:23 (twelve years ago)

i spend hours pondering this. when i was a kid i remember watching lots of documentaries with my dad celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sgt Pepper's. 1967 seemed like lifetimes ago to me back then, but Nevermind - the landmark album of my youth - just celebrated its 20th anniversary, and that shit still feels like last week to me.

― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:30 (twelve years ago)

Yet something like The Matrix already seems from another age: Payphones? Dialup?

― SongOfSam, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:29 (twelve years ago)

The Killers. Franz Ferdinand. Little Jon. Hey Ya.

― how's life, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:35 (twelve years ago)

there's a chapter in RETROMANIA on why this is so.

it's the internet, which never lets us forget

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:41 (twelve years ago)

not to derail this wonderful thread but is retromania worth checking out

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:42 (twelve years ago)

xpost
yeah, technology is what dates things in movies now way more than music or haircuts or whatever

william gibson calls it "the infinite digital now" but I can't remember his whole argument - heard him talk about it in relation to the beatles in this interview:
http://www.cbc.ca/day6/blog/2012/04/06/william-gibson-on-elvis-sonic-youth-and-the-eternal-digital-now/

― brio, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:43 (twelve years ago)

The Killers. Franz Ferdinand. Little Jon. Hey Ya.

― how's life, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:35 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Hey Ya" was an answer in the NYT crossword puzzle today! ("17 Across: 2003 OutKast hit that was #1 for nine weeks.")

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:45 (twelve years ago)

The Killers. Franz Ferdinand. Little Jon. Hey Ya.

― how's life, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:35 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not saying things don't change

but it's ridiculous to say that things change as fast as they used to, or as drastically

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:15 (twelve years ago)

No, I do agree: things feel like they've slowed down or stagnated.

― how's life, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:19 (twelve years ago)

I got really freaked out when they released the Nirvana live at Reading 1992 DVD (a show I was at) and realised that for some kids I know it was as far removed as when I heard The Song Remains The Same.

― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:21 (twelve years ago)

agree with the last few posts. can any oldsters comment on this? was the difference between 1968-1973 or 1978-1983 as substantial as it seems now? or is my perception colored from marking time contrasting Dave Clark Five to Mater of Reality

― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:55 (twelve years ago)

Master

― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:56 (twelve years ago)

now i'm imagining larry the cable guy singing "into the void"

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:57 (twelve years ago)

not to derail this wonderful thread but is retromania worth checking out

This thread should cover you: Retromania: Pop culture's Addiction to its Own Past. (New Simon Reynolds book).

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:41 (twelve years ago)

why ben folds always gotta curse

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:36 (twelve years ago)

Ha! Bob Mould stole my thunder from above by actually posing with the guy:

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/376370_10151408120960699_1094890529_n.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 2 February 2013 20:09 (twelve years ago)

Don't know if I've ever seen anyone look more smug while taking a picture of Pete Townshend.

― pplains, Saturday, 2 February 2013 20:13 (twelve years ago)

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