AMEN, brother!!! Playing outside until the lights came on unsupervised. Riding bikes miles away with friends, playing in the woods. This is just the way it was. To be grounded inside and have the windows open hearing your friends outside was BRUTAL 😂. Drinking water out of the hose. The good old days. I delivered flyers for the local meat market at 12. I helped a local video store at 12 and 14. Lied about my age at 15 to work at York Steakhouse. I always wanted things and worked to get them. I'm very fortunate for those days now. CHEERS
We were the first generation where both parents worked outside of the home. We were left to fend for ourselves which made us independent and "street smart." We learned at a young age to handle everything on our own. I'm glad I grew up that way!
Bmx bike riding, dirt jump building kid genxer. We'd ride to a friends house to play atari 2600 - then ride back to mine to eat a totino party pizza and play my atari 2600. pacman, defender, space invaders, donkey kong and pitfall. Then go throw a frisbee or just some dirt clods. Those were the days.
I miss reading the t.v. guide, waiting all week to watch a new show, no computers, no cell phones and i had a job as a teenager delivering flyers around the neighborhood from the local pizza shop 😂 cash, no taxes!
If I had a TV guide in front of me today, my first inclination would be to sketch a beard on the cover face. Every issue got the look no matter who it was. 😂
Brad I love your videos I'm hooked now in 56 years old and it's so refreshing to hear about how times changed for the better and for the worst people are not sociable anymore and it's hard for me because I love talking to people people
I’m eternally grateful for being a kid in the 70, a teen in the 80s and a young adult in the 90s. Thanks God, perfect timing! When we were 11, we rode our BMX bikes 10 miles each way to a store that would sell us dip. (Distance google map verified). When we were 16, we drove a couple hours into Boston all the time to see all the thrash metal acts of the golden age perform at a club called The Channel. When we were 18, we drove 6 hours, over the Canadian border to Montreal just to party, many times. We figured it out with a map.
Great stories and hiatory right here right now. I was mowing lawns and shoveling at 8 or 9, saw my brother's doing it to make money. I delivered newspapers in my small town at 13 and eventually 2/3 of the routes. Coulda used the money better but. I was a kid hahahaha. We have a resilience that's ingrained in us. A will to survive adapt and overcome. I'd build and sell bycicles also from old broken bikes. There a pile of them in the garage at the house we moved into. Where my own mother thought me basic mechanic skills. But ake points alternators vehicle maintenance at 8 years old. At the same time we had musicians coming over and playing games n the basement I'd pass out to music being played.. Wow. What memories you sparked me to think of Brad. Thank you. Everyone hats why I love your channel.. That's what I get from your content.. For me. Namaste and happy new year bro.
It is what it is. Decades of social conditioning has produced generations of people who are dumbed down narcissists, self absorbed, insulted by everything, take no responsibility for anything, divided, and are at each other's throats, and have no balls. I ran a successful alt-media/news website for many years that covered a myriad of topics that had a lot of traffic coming in daily. I still know a lot of people in that area who have very popular alt-news channels and sites. The comments I would get from clueless people on my site was astounding I shut the doors the beginning of this year. Casting pearls before swine.
Been in the music business via the technology business for 25 years... Once we saw Napster come out in 1999 or 2000 we could see the writing on the wall.. It was Apples deal for 99 cent downloads (2000 or 2001) which put the nail in the coffin for the recorded music industry.... No more paying for a 12 song CD when you only wanted that ONE song.
@@sv-yh3mq Yes. exactly! But back then, artists would take the effort to put out an actual ALBUM...a collection of songs that, maybe they weren't all "great" but at least worked together and gave you a good "meal" of that musician's work at that stage in time. And then there were the artists who kicked it up a notch and did concept albums, which would take you on a whole journey for almost an hour...there will never be a Tommy or Dark Side of the Moon again, when instead of an album they're just dripping out an endless stream of singles.
Hello Brad ! I hear you ! I grew up in Angola ( my parents fled dictatorship in Portugal, with four kids !), deep into the African savanna (where I started learning guitar at 6/7 years old) . If you wanted a toy, you better built it, there was none to buy in a 1000 miles radius ! Back in Europe, it was a different ballpark , but, it stayed with me all these years , autonomy ! To this day, I still have all my 'analog' gear' (no need for computers, just in case...). Yes, along the years my 80's fridge size rack grew better and better, but those Boss pedals are hard to beat, when reality comes into play. Nowadays, young people don't realize what we went thru. I think we are lucky to see the 'before 'and the 'after' . That will serve us in the future . These times are exciting, but we are here, and now, for a reason ! Take care Stay Human !
I remember buying my first record, a K-Tel compilation with 80's CPU graphics and music that had nothing to do with the packaging. It was called NU Rock and was released in 1982. It was loaded, Ozzy; Flying High Again, Joan Jett; I Love Rock N Roll, Rainbow; Stone Cold... I also remember biking a few miles to my grandma's house to listen to her Elvis records on her huge console stereo. Good times!
Thanks Brad. I'm barely a Boomer myself, but I'm an X'er as well. Yea, bro, I think our generation has an advantage over the other ones. Being the possible "forgotten generation", like you said, we had to adapt. I believe we are also great critical thinkers. Rock on dude! Wanna gig? Get the wig!
Don't tolerate anyone calling you a boomer. It's the go to insult for anyone that wants to call someone a dinosaur. I'm no where near boomer age but it's the easiest go to insult when younger idiots disagree with someone on the internet.
No ninja turtles but we did have stretch Armstrong! I have two grandkids 9 and 12 they both smoke me on technology Spot on BB! As a kid we all had household chores in the house as well as outside. Mom and Dad didn’t have to remind us to often we knew we had to take care of our share of the duties.
Another good memory of the late 70s was being on the cross country team in North Jersey HS.... Every day, for "practice" We would run about a mile to anither members house and listen to WFMU or NYU (ny/nj underground stations) and basically spend two hours trying to win tickets to NY shows by calling in to the stations which gave away tix to all the punk clubs in the city... After winning tix for the weekend... we would splash water on our running gear and run back to HS where the coach was waiting for us.. Those were the days may friend.
Bad,you ain't just an uplifter,man, when you you put the bow on the gift you wrapped and then took it to the house,I had a spring in my hobble all a sudden and to no one for miles around but maybe,I shouted make your move! No lie that was as positive a message I've heard in many moons. Thanks
For some reason this vid has got me thinking hard.... Members of this channel over 60 will know what Im talking about.... There comes a time when you realize that your not gonna write that hit song, or develop that genius piece of software, or get that fantastic lead part in a blockbuster movie, or start that billion dollar tech business, or (*** add your dream here ***) ... Thats when you start LIVING life, enjoying all those things around you that you missed or dissed while you were so focused on your dream to the exclusion of all other aspects of life. Artists have a tough time letting go.. but generations change, eyes open... and life becomes much more enjoyable when you realize not to be so tough on yourself. "Selling out" aint so much as giving up.. but "Buying In" to all those aspects of life you have been pretending not to care about. Just my two cents.
Pong was our first video game handed down from our cousins we played it a couple times and figured out it sucked , we were back outside riding our bmx bikes ❤
Gotta set you straight here Brad. Im a tail-end boomer, born in '62, and went through all the music media and computer development that you did. My oldest brother is a front end boomer 14 yrs older than me...also went through all this stuff, and had a very successful career, always using the latest tech in his field, which he still loves. What takes most folks out of adapting to new tech is age; failing vision, failing dexterity, failing memory, which you and I are on the cusp of. But Boomers weren't there yet. They adapted and thrived as well. All my friends, tail end Boomers, were latch key kids. Some even wearing their house key on a string around their neck! If Gen X is special for the reasons you cite here, Boomers maybe moreso, as we came out of even deeper trenches of no tech. We didn't even have a TV in the house when I was born!
Duuuude… As a boomer, I am thankful that I got to see so many great shows here in the greater Los Angeles area… 14 years old and I was seeing Jimi Hendrix at the forum in Inglewood… And just a couple years later shaking hands with Dexter Gordon in front of the lighthouse in Hermosa Beach… Too many others to mention, but unfortunately I never ran into you in your playing days… My bad! Or is it my Brad? Happy new year to you and yours my brother!
I enjoyed that Brad! good points 👍 brought back some memories. Also figured out ,,I believe we're the same age? That's cute that your daughter asks those type of questions and cool that you are sharing your past insights with her.. add cool story about you helping your mom in the restaurant. I can definitely relate in some other situations in my past. When you mentioned recording songs off the radio and had to be ready, I hadn't thought about that in a while, haha.!I Used to make mixtapes off the radio ,to take and play in the car or share with friends. Even before that ,,when I was a younger kid, I used to take Dad's flat little tape recorder and sit it next to the radio or my record player and sometimes record a whole record album.🎶🐦
Great video Brad, 62 years old I think that makes me a boomer, but grew up in the same era my parents divorced when I was five lived with my mom and two sisters all I wanted was to play guitar, had a paper out but my mom paid for most of the first guitar Gibson es 325 I wish I had that guitar today had the firebird pickups man I traded it for an SG in the school band room big mistake LOL I just wanted a rock and roll guitar... Really appreciate your videos Brad bring back so many memories❤
Does this sound crazy❗ I miss old TV resolution and photo resolution(I mean the 70's and 80's) First that comes to mind is the outro to all in the family. Also, we had a satellite dish that could get about 300 channel but guess who had to go out and crank it 🤣 They don't have that anymore? I mean stations from all over the country and even the world
A big difference between now and then are the rules There’s so many rules now for everyone we’re all doing it wrong, whatever it is, and the rules change, and we’re all confused, and the kids can tell and their minds develop within that In the past it was more simple. Adults ran things, and kids were allowed to participate. The rules were work hard, suck it up, and have fun!
I think we boys were doing chores in the barn and working on the farm after school/weekends/ in summer at least by the time we were 8, maybe younger. No one thought anything of it back then. I look at some (not all, there are good ones) 19/20 year old guys today and just can't believe it. At their age I was in the Army in Germany in charge of the weapon systems on a 1.5 million dollar armored fighting vehicle. I remember taping some show/interview about the Beatles from a little radio in our bedroom with a run of the mill tape recorder once. No stereo sound to be had anywhere. I remember Rock Line, The King Biscuit Flour Hour, and there were others I can't remember. We didn't really have records or tapes until late into high school because we never had money so we never really bought anything. I remember the A Team, Dukes of Hazard, The Incredible Hulk, and others, all on country cable (ABC, NBC, CBS PBS). Fukk I'm old! It might be nostalgia, but I think things/life in general/growing up back then was genuinely better even without our modern technology, conveniences and "progress." The world certainly seemed to be a lot less stoopid.
I was telling my adult children the other day that when I was 10 I had to do barn chores (feeding animals and shovelling dung) before my bus came at 7:20. So different than how they grew up but they know how to work hard and they have made me proud
@sirbaronvoncount4147 Been there, flung that (dung, that is). When I was in 8th grade (if I remember correctly) and my brother 1 year older, our dad had hernia surgery and for a week we had to get up and do all the milking, feeding, cleaning out the barn, washing milkers and spreading manure by ourselves before going to school, like you. To make matters even more delightfully miserable, it was in the dead of winter and our farm was about a quarter me away from our house. AND, it was uphill BOTH WAYS! Glad to hear your kids turned out well.
Did you know Butch Walker by any chance, from the sunset strip days? Just watched his interview on Rick Beato’s channel and was wondering if you two ever might have crossed paths…
I learned to code on Texas Instruments TRS80. I mean coding DOS. It’s come in very handy in my daily business dealing with coding excel among other things. Now excel is going C++ so I’m learning that. I believe our generation developed a lot patience and not expect immediate results. Also the first computer using windows was an amiga. That computer predated a lot of the features of Mac and windows. Then commodore bought it out and ruined it.
First album i ever bought was Alice Coopers "Welcome to my nightmare" ..... I was looking for "Billion Dollar Babbies" which came with a couple of posters and neat coins... but couldnt find it.. Not sure todays kids could comprhend the anticipation of going to the record shop (or woolwors) buying something you heard on the radio... driving home with mom... getting out the record player, setting up the needle.....then reading every word of the liner notes while the music filled your room... and mom said "your father is not gonna like this."
Ive met and seen play the bass player on that Alice Cooper album a bunch of times. Toronto legend Prakash John, he also played on Lou Reeds Rock and Roll Animal. He's a true class act. Cheers
When I was a kid, the local paper did a story on "latchkey kids" featuring our family. I forget who was pictured, but they interviewed my mother and discussed a typical after school day using me and my younger brother as examples. This was circa 1978-79, I'm guessing. I was still a "tween" because I didn't hit 13 until the end of 1980. My father was on the West Coast, a total party animal at that time, and we had my mother, but she was partying on the weekends, working (sometime full-time) and going to college so we wouldn't be on the government cheese indefinitely. Childhood was turbulent and there were seriously tough times, but also so many great memories and fun times. The 70s and 80s were a great time to grow up in.
I was 5 years old riding my bike into town. Had a bro. 3 years older who was responsible for me. We would go home at lunch and go back out. Parents would never let their kids do that these days. We would be left alone for hours sometimes. It's crazy to think about but it's how it was then.
I think being Gen X made me very able to "sacrifice" certain things that didn't matter as much to me as music. I've lived the majority of my life with either no TV or no cable (2020 was a time where, in addition to starting to record live instruments again, I caught up on a bunch of shows I'd heard people talking about for years). When i lived in Chicago the first time, I was working in night clubs and if i came home alone (most of the time but not always), i would turn on one of the 2 channels i got and watch re-runs of the original Hawaii Five-O and count my money (long story - but i had a couple of shoeboxes full of cash next to cartons of cigarettes on the top shelf of my closet). When i woke up, I'd put on General Hospital or a Telemundo soap opera for noise. There was a long period where, every time i was out somewhere and there was a TV on, it just seemed more and more bizarre and alien to me. I think that's actually healthy. Now that i think about it, when i lived in my first apartment in Chicago, i didn't have a landline and cell phones were still expensive, so i re-activated this old pager i had. If somebody paged me, I'd walk down the block to the pay phone in front of the bodega to call them. I had to use phone cards for long distance calls (the Virgin Of Guadalupe cards were the best deal). Honestly, thinking about this makes me realize how much we had to do more with less and come up with these weird strategies. Hell, when i very first set foot in Chicago, i didn't know anyone, didn't have a job lined up, or a place to stay. I found a place for the first couple of nights through an anarchist infoshop. We've increasingly gone to a world of monoculture in a lot of ways. Given that the best art/music usually seems to come out of "mistakes" or at least an element of chance, it makes sense that a lot of the music and art being made now is uninspiring. Even the "rough edges" usually feel contrived and/or half-assed. This isn't to say there's not tons of new stuff i like - it's just that it's pretty niche...it's probably never going to get millions of streams and forget about it getting on the radio.
Excellent video Brad; the transition from analogue to digital, a friend of mine is a very advanced technician, he spent ages, while we were on one of our marathon drinking sessions, explaining the concept of the compact disc- way back. I use to record things of the TV as well, and radio; Press "Record and Play". Plugging a guitar into the back of a radio, three-in 1 stereograms. No guitar tuners, walk up the road to use the neighbours piano. Trying to buy guitar strings other than Black Diamond living in a small town, not easy. etc etc
It's common for many people who grow older to get stuck in the past and find everything new to be threatening and frightening. Even things that were bad in the past are distorted into something good, because it feels safe and familiar.
Because we were 5 when Star Wars came out. We were born after the alleged moon landing, so we were all going to be flying spaceships when we became adults. We grew up musicians, because so much money could be earned in recordings. All we had to do was practice, get better than anyone else, and then the money would be ours. On the bad side of things, college went from $1,000 for 4 years of college for the boomers, to $25,000 a semester for Gen X. We saw computers in our grade school classrooms when we were 10. And we had music; the best ever made, as the soundtracks for our lives as children. We had Buck Rogers and Battlestar Gallactica as our tv shows as kids. Gen X was the best ever.
I'm also a Gen Xer. Aside from mowing lawns, my first job was at a supermarket cleaning meat grinding/cutting machines; taking them apart, cleaning the parts, then them back together. They wouldn't let a 16 year old do that nowadays.
Oh yeah.. watched Mom, learned to cook, sew. Dad worked 2 jobs at times. Mom worked everyday. Needed jeans turned up, did it myself. Parents went away for a week’s holiday at Xmas one year, I was 15…stayed alone had some food prepped by Mom I did the rest. Clothes dirty, no problemo, washer & dryer room on the top floor of our apartment building. Learned bass lines with my turntable speed @ 33rpm. Couldn’t turn up my 64 Bassman amp in my room or listen to King Crimson , Iassac Hayes Johnny Winter, Booker T. No headphones …Lined all my walls top to bottom with cork to sound proof it ( yes it worked). Learned PC’s on the job, never took software courses. Embraced tech to eliminate music charts on those ridiculous music stands. iPad, 4Score, iReal. Now programming synth sounds on a C4 pedal for a project , LFO, sine , saw, envelope filters .. learning this on my own. Boomer all way, but act my shoe size not my age 😂
@@badbrad Dad had Lewey Body Dementia& Mom had Dementia, although very late in their lives… this is my one fear of having this happen to me. Keep the brain busy, learning, social interactions & music. The more you learn your instrument & challenge yourself the better. Even when sleeping the brain recognizes the repetition of learning songs. Even if only 2 per day. Learn them inside out, back to front, with & them without charts. I learn parts like the record or version that was requested. If the drummer didn’t do his homework, groove fills, kick pattern, guitarists, pick up lines specific licks/riffs, everybody’s gonna know it.
I’m a Gen X Fender Bender. My bends are more unique and embellishing than boomer bends lol. I’m bout to turn 56 in less than a month and still rocking!!
Your daughter's comment about the ninja turtles, cracks me up. I grew up with the Ninja Turtles in the 90s. I saw all the movies and I owned most of the game. I was what you would call a die-hard fan. It blows my mind to think that the turtles are still going in 2024.
As a late "Boomer Generation" guy, I also embraced technology early on. I was in my early 20's when video games were first introduced and dropped many a quarter into Pong and Space Invader machines, owned an Atari 2600, and every generation of Sony PlayStation, Sega Genesis and Microsoft Xbox. Learned to write code for Apple II and TRS computers. At 68 years old, I'm still an active gamer. There are definitely boomers out there that embraced technology, too 😊
Old School... I started playing in 1979 I was 10yo. Old's Kool!🤘🎸🤯 PS... Where has this been hiding? Just came into my feed now? I've been on music guitar channels for donks. Bukovac, Pierce, Beato; the lot? Subbed instantly great 👍 stuff Brad, you're here to tell em, and they're here to be told. Bingeing Bad Brad now is this Aussie Guitarcheologist.
@badbrad You speak my language mate, except with a strange accent, I feel vindicated having watched a few of your fact filled clips. Right on the money! Kids, heed Brad for he speaks stone cold motherless facts. 🤘Didyabringyabongalong,🎸 Central QLD🦘
Boomer here. Trying to learn what I can from each Generation. I have to admit my shortcomings. New Years Reso = learn and own some new Technolgies. I appreciate your content!!
Great video. We have a lot in common, being in bands, working at the family business as pre teens etc. I was born at the tail end of 1966. I can identify with everything you talked about in this video. It was a different time for sure. I think my parents did the best they could and I wouldn't change anything. I learned how to survive and deal with whatever I was faced with. DLR was right, it's all small stuff.
It took me a while to mentally process this video. I have lost most of my family so memory lane can be painful at times. You are absolutely right though Brad. I am very fortunate to be a part of the gen x generation. How many can say they rocked Nazareth, Humble Pie, and Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush in Cobo Hall at twelve years old? The tough latch key kids generation learned survival skills and experienced the best live shows. Blessings to you and your family!
Every Gen X'ers parent "We have to go to work. Go out there and learn about life." No wonder we're so independent, savvy and hardened. I also think we're the generation that might lead some political/cultural/arts revolution in the future. We've all been through a couple of these in our lifetime.
Brad, in the 70s we were paid 5 bucks a day for hauling hay. Brutal labor. Mowing a huge yard? 5 bucks. The only jobs in Louisiana were construction or the dangerous oil business. Get a job, get used for minimum wage, get laid off. That was the pattern unless you left the state or worked offshore. I sold rabbit meat, squirrels, fish, firewood, arrowheads, scrap metal, weed, old bottles I found in creeks, pawned my drums....before I finally found a band. The first time I made 35 bucks playing music and could buy a sandwich and some beer I was amazed!
I was born in 1965...one year after the boomers. I have no idea what my label is. But I survived Disco after my older brother and his friends threatened to kill me for listening to the Bee Gees. They gave me a bunch of Rock records/8-tracks and saved me.
Gen X was rad. So many good TV shows and a lot of really friendly and pretty women. Live music was $5 or $10 for most bands. $20 for national bands. Analog tape and vinyl. Playing outside, cruising, muscle cars and all that. Dang good times.
I had a paper route in the 70s. In a gang-infested part of Pomona, CA. Delivered to a Hindu cult house. Got chased by gang members and dogs. Went collecting one day and the customer had hung himself...police opened the door and gave me the bum's rush. I survived.
Not a gen x, but older millenial, yet i find so much of what you talk about in the video similar. Maybe cause i'm from poorer country and technology was expensive, so it was creeping in slower than in USA. But for most part, very similar childhood. 3 programs on tv, old rotary phones, very independent from young age.
I bought my own Atari Game console in 1979/80 from fur trapping. I don`t like trapping anymore except for survival but that`s how I was raised. I`m glad I learned all these outdoorsy things though, but.
On Saturday night in the early 80s the Monroe, La Rock/POP station would play full new albums. I got several great ones on cassette like Signals by RUSH, 2 by Van Halen, one by YES (90210?), The Cars Heartbeat City, RATT, and Alabama`s 1st album etc. But the main albums that made me love drums more than piano were in the 70s: #1 In Through The Out Door by Zeppelin & #2 Monolith by Kansas.
@OlePalmer-t6z were the Dr. Demento shows already over by then, if that happens to ring a bell? I remember rockline and the King Biscuit Flour hour too. FM radio played long "bathroom break" cuts from albums...
@badbrad - Lol Dr. Demento, King Biscuit - and there was Cheech & Chong comedy album, " Bailiff! Whack his ..." ( can't input the rest) Lol. We laughed and laughed.
Another late boomer here. Your video brought back a lot of memories about waiting for that song on the radio to hit record on the cassette player or playing outside all day without having a play date. I think everything you say applies 100% to a segment of boomers also and you’ll be facing the challenges of social media and the iPhone with your daughter as she grows older. I remember the constant battles with my kids. Keep the videos coming!
My dad got a 10 ft satellite dish in 1982. Try to imagine us Southern boys watching MTV for the first time on the homegrown. Ha! My friend Bob would look at me and say, "WTF???" All the cable channels were on there and free back then.
It was 82 Jr school dance (Halloween)...waiting outside to get in...to be honest-smokin pot with stoner buddies... A van pulls up into the school parking lot....Indian Jones jumps out.....right after him Texas Chainsaw massacre dude jumps out with chainsaw ( it was on man) ...He chases Indiana Jones around for a bit....they jump back in the van ...then take off.......Crowd went crazy...Good times Simi Valley Ca....
We are supposed to to enjoy today’s technology through our children but all this stuff was for us from when we were kids … As the future approaches we are going to the generation that used technology manually the next will using machines automatically with touching it
I remember the punch card computers we had in high school to learn programming and thinking to myself, this computer stuff is stupid. No one is ever gonna want to use these things, their stupid.
1/2 Analog 1/2 Digital the only generation that will have had this unique vision of the world. It's a real thing. FAAFO It's not just a slogan. It's beast mode when enabled.
I'm your age too, but kids today think we are old and dumb. you are correct for sure but just try and explain that too them yer gonna get a dumb look like, WTF this old guy saying?
My Mom told me at 8 after I didn't Hit the bully after He hit me if I didn't fight back she would give me a real reason to cry,do you understand me? I said oh yes Ma'am, she said I'll take care of teachers because they lied about electric paddle to me.next time I got in trouble ,do he started on me next day I grabbed double leg and my self defense training with God combat academy began, and did okay,I became a problem for them,they moved on,and mom didn't give me a bloody good hiding.
AMEN, brother!!! Playing outside until the lights came on unsupervised. Riding bikes miles away with friends, playing in the woods. This is just the way it was. To be grounded inside and have the windows open hearing your friends outside was BRUTAL 😂. Drinking water out of the hose. The good old days. I delivered flyers for the local meat market at 12. I helped a local video store at 12 and 14. Lied about my age at 15 to work at York Steakhouse. I always wanted things and worked to get them.
I'm very fortunate for those days now.
CHEERS
We were the first generation where both parents worked outside of the home. We were left to fend for ourselves which made us independent and "street smart." We learned at a young age to handle everything on our own. I'm glad I grew up that way!
Whoever labeled us "The Feral Generation" was spot on.
Yes we were Feral!
Nah, mid to tail end of the Boomers had both parents working as well. I'm one.
@jfo3000- this is very true
Bmx bike riding, dirt jump building kid genxer. We'd ride to a friends house to play atari 2600 - then ride back to mine to eat a totino party pizza and play my atari 2600. pacman, defender, space invaders, donkey kong and pitfall. Then go throw a frisbee or just some dirt clods. Those were the days.
loved BMX riding!
I miss reading the t.v. guide, waiting all week to watch a new show, no computers, no cell phones and i had a job as a teenager delivering flyers around the neighborhood from the local pizza shop 😂 cash, no taxes!
The good ol' days!
I do too and the crossword in the back
And the fall issue of TV guide, reading all about the new shows that were up and coming.
If I had a TV guide in front of me today, my first inclination would be to sketch a beard on the cover face. Every issue got the look no matter who it was. 😂
@@rhondachilson2402 lol
Brad I love your videos I'm hooked now in 56 years old and it's so refreshing to hear about how times changed for the better and for the worst people are not sociable anymore and it's hard for me because I love talking to people people
Thank you so much for watching.
Gen X raised on neglect and hose water 👍🏻
man you know it
Wait, you got water?
Hose water contains less than 1% high fructose corn syrup.
I’m eternally grateful for being a kid in the 70, a teen in the 80s and a young adult in the 90s. Thanks God, perfect timing! When we were 11, we rode our BMX bikes 10 miles each way to a store that would sell us dip. (Distance google map verified). When we were 16, we drove a couple hours into Boston all the time to see all the thrash metal acts of the golden age perform at a club called The Channel. When we were 18, we drove 6 hours, over the Canadian border to Montreal just to party, many times. We figured it out with a map.
That is amazing!
Great stories and hiatory right here right now.
I was mowing lawns and shoveling at 8 or 9, saw my brother's doing it to make money.
I delivered newspapers in my small town at 13 and eventually 2/3 of the routes.
Coulda used the money better but. I was a kid hahahaha.
We have a resilience that's ingrained in us.
A will to survive adapt and overcome.
I'd build and sell bycicles also from old broken bikes. There a pile of them in the garage at the house we moved into.
Where my own mother thought me basic mechanic skills. But ake points alternators vehicle maintenance at 8 years old.
At the same time we had musicians coming over and playing games n the basement I'd pass out to music being played..
Wow. What memories you sparked me to think of Brad. Thank you.
Everyone hats why I love your channel.. That's what I get from your content.. For me.
Namaste and happy new year bro.
Namaste
It is what it is. Decades of social conditioning has produced generations of people who are dumbed down narcissists, self absorbed, insulted by everything, take no responsibility for anything, divided, and are at each other's throats, and have no balls. I ran a successful alt-media/news website for many years that covered a myriad of topics that had a lot of traffic coming in daily. I still know a lot of people in that area who have very popular alt-news channels and sites. The comments I would get from clueless people on my site was astounding I shut the doors the beginning of this year. Casting pearls before swine.
great comment. ... yeah, narcisim is rife out there 😳
@@jesusislukeskywalker4294 Especially in the music business.
Been in the music business via the technology business for 25 years... Once we saw Napster come out in 1999 or 2000 we could see the writing on the wall.. It was Apples deal for 99 cent downloads (2000 or 2001) which put the nail in the coffin for the recorded music industry.... No more paying for a 12 song CD when you only wanted that ONE song.
Lots to unpack for sure.
Just think how much one missed by only getting that one song...
@@sv-yh3mq Yes. exactly! But back then, artists would take the effort to put out an actual ALBUM...a collection of songs that, maybe they weren't all "great" but at least worked together and gave you a good "meal" of that musician's work at that stage in time. And then there were the artists who kicked it up a notch and did concept albums, which would take you on a whole journey for almost an hour...there will never be a Tommy or Dark Side of the Moon again, when instead of an album they're just dripping out an endless stream of singles.
I'm so old, I had to rebuild my music collection three times 😂 from records/cassette tapes to cds 💿 to now digital play list.
I know that feeling!
Add some of us also had compiled music on Sony mini- discs too-Lol!
Bad Brad sounds like a good Dad
Thank you.
Hello Brad ! I hear you ! I grew up in Angola ( my parents fled dictatorship in Portugal, with four kids !), deep into the African savanna (where I started learning guitar at 6/7 years old) . If you wanted a toy, you better built it, there was none to buy in a 1000 miles radius ! Back in Europe, it was a different ballpark , but, it stayed with me all these years , autonomy ! To this day, I still have all my 'analog' gear' (no need for computers, just in case...). Yes, along the years my 80's fridge size rack grew better and better, but those Boss pedals are hard to beat, when reality comes into play.
Nowadays, young people don't realize what we went thru. I think we are lucky to see the 'before 'and the 'after' . That will serve us in the future . These times are exciting, but we are here, and now, for a reason ! Take care Stay Human !
Wow what an adventure life has been....wild. Take care brother.
dear @ pedro17118 - wow! What an adventure! Did you by chance have to make your own guitar? Just wondering
I remember buying my first record, a K-Tel compilation with 80's CPU graphics and music that had nothing to do with the packaging. It was called NU Rock and was released in 1982. It was loaded, Ozzy; Flying High Again, Joan Jett; I Love Rock N Roll, Rainbow; Stone Cold... I also remember biking a few miles to my grandma's house to listen to her Elvis records on her huge console stereo. Good times!
Thanks Brad. I'm barely a Boomer myself, but I'm an X'er as well. Yea, bro, I think our generation has an advantage over the other ones. Being the possible "forgotten generation", like you said, we had to adapt. I believe we are also great critical thinkers. Rock on dude! Wanna gig? Get the wig!
No doubt! Best to you bro!😎
Don't tolerate anyone calling you a boomer. It's the go to insult for anyone that wants to call someone a dinosaur. I'm no where near boomer age but it's the easiest go to insult when younger idiots disagree with someone on the internet.
Remember how cool it was hearing Cheap Trick and The Knack?....that shit blew me away...still does...
Thanks!
Thank you Dana! You are the best!
No ninja turtles but we did have stretch Armstrong!
I have two grandkids 9 and 12 they both smoke me on technology
Spot on BB!
As a kid we all had household chores in the house as well as outside.
Mom and Dad didn’t have to remind us to often we knew we had to take care of our share of the duties.
Another good memory of the late 70s was being on the cross country team in North Jersey HS.... Every day, for "practice" We would run about a mile to anither members house and listen to WFMU or NYU (ny/nj underground stations) and basically spend two hours trying to win tickets to NY shows by calling in to the stations which gave away tix to all the punk clubs in the city... After winning tix for the weekend... we would splash water on our running gear and run back to HS where the coach was waiting for us.. Those were the days may friend.
Bad,you ain't just an uplifter,man, when you you put the bow on the gift you wrapped and then took it to the house,I had a spring in my hobble all a sudden and to no one for miles around but maybe,I shouted make your move! No lie that was as positive a message I've heard in many moons. Thanks
I love hearing how the message hits people!
We can't lose with the stuff we use!
For some reason this vid has got me thinking hard....
Members of this channel over 60 will know what Im talking about....
There comes a time when you realize that your not gonna write that hit song, or develop that genius piece of software, or get that fantastic lead part in a blockbuster movie, or start that billion dollar tech business, or (*** add your dream here ***) ... Thats when you start LIVING life, enjoying all those things around you that you missed or dissed while you were so focused on your dream to the exclusion of all other aspects of life.
Artists have a tough time letting go.. but generations change, eyes open... and life becomes much more enjoyable when you realize not to be so tough on yourself.
"Selling out" aint so much as giving up.. but "Buying In" to all those aspects of life you have been pretending not to care about.
Just my two cents.
Very wise words my friend.
Pong was our first video game handed down from our cousins we played it a couple times and figured out it sucked , we were back outside riding our bmx bikes ❤
And that’s how it should be! 👍
I bought my own Atari game by catching raccoons and mink. I was the only one who had one and it took me months to get it.
Gotta set you straight here Brad.
Im a tail-end boomer, born in '62, and went through all the music media and computer development that you did. My oldest brother is a front end boomer 14 yrs older than me...also went through all this stuff, and had a very successful career, always using the latest tech in his field, which he still loves.
What takes most folks out of adapting to new tech is age; failing vision, failing dexterity, failing memory, which you and I are on the cusp of. But Boomers weren't there yet. They adapted and thrived as well.
All my friends, tail end Boomers, were latch key kids. Some even wearing their house key on a string around their neck!
If Gen X is special for the reasons you cite here, Boomers maybe moreso, as we came out of even deeper trenches of no tech.
We didn't even have a TV in the house when I was born!
Man I hear you and salute you.
@badbrad
Right on Brad! We're all just trying to get by regardless of the hurdles thown in our way.
Music, books, teen lines... Gen x. Fun vid, Brad
Thank you!!!
Duuuude… As a boomer, I am thankful that I got to see so many great shows here in the greater Los Angeles area… 14 years old and I was seeing Jimi Hendrix at the forum in Inglewood… And just a couple years later shaking hands with Dexter Gordon in front of the lighthouse in Hermosa Beach… Too many others to mention, but unfortunately I never ran into you in your playing days… My bad! Or is it my Brad? Happy new year to you and yours my brother!
WOW Hendrix at the Forum!!!!
@atombombtom- too funny you're question near the end of your comment! Yeah- your Brad- Lol!
The original latch key kids. And we survived it.
Much better times.
It was!
I enjoyed that Brad! good points 👍 brought back some memories. Also figured out ,,I believe we're the same age? That's cute that your daughter asks those type of questions and cool that you are sharing your past insights with her.. add cool story about you helping your mom in the restaurant. I can definitely relate in some other situations in my past.
When you mentioned recording songs off the radio and had to be ready, I hadn't thought about that in a while, haha.!I
Used to make mixtapes off the radio ,to take and play in the car or share with friends.
Even before that ,,when I was a younger kid, I used to take Dad's flat little tape recorder and sit it next to the radio or my record player and sometimes record a whole record album.🎶🐦
Man those were the days!
@badbrad Yaaa 👍🌞
"life is one big upgrade path"
Perhaps
I was born in 1962 and took computer science at the friends school in Detroit MI in 1975.
Right on!
Great video Brad, 62 years old I think that makes me a boomer, but grew up in the same era my parents divorced when I was five lived with my mom and two sisters all I wanted was to play guitar, had a paper out but my mom paid for most of the first guitar Gibson es 325 I wish I had that guitar today had the firebird pickups man I traded it for an SG in the school band room big mistake LOL I just wanted a rock and roll guitar... Really appreciate your videos Brad bring back so many memories❤
Man thanks for sharing your memories.
@wolfie - I think you're just a bit too young, and not a boomer, imo. Good story-for real.
@sv-yh3mq thanks brother appreciate the comment 👍
Does this sound crazy❗
I miss old TV resolution and photo resolution(I mean the 70's and 80's)
First that comes to mind is the outro to all in the family.
Also, we had a satellite dish that could get about 300 channel but guess who had to go out and crank it 🤣
They don't have that anymore?
I mean stations from all over the country and even the world
The early days of Satellite TV were like the Wild West....
A big difference between now and then are the rules
There’s so many rules now for everyone we’re all doing it wrong, whatever it is, and the rules change, and we’re all confused, and the kids can tell and their minds develop within that
In the past it was more simple. Adults ran things, and kids were allowed to participate. The rules were work hard, suck it up, and have fun!
Work hard and suck it up! We need more of that.
I think we boys were doing chores in the barn and working on the farm after school/weekends/ in summer at least by the time we were 8, maybe younger. No one thought anything of it back then. I look at some (not all, there are good ones) 19/20 year old guys today and just can't believe it. At their age I was in the Army in Germany in charge of the weapon systems on a 1.5 million dollar armored fighting vehicle. I remember taping some show/interview about the Beatles from a little radio in our bedroom with a run of the mill tape recorder once. No stereo sound to be had anywhere. I remember Rock Line, The King Biscuit Flour Hour, and there were others I can't remember. We didn't really have records or tapes until late into high school because we never had money so we never really bought anything. I remember the A Team, Dukes of Hazard, The Incredible Hulk, and others, all on country cable (ABC, NBC, CBS PBS). Fukk I'm old! It might be nostalgia, but I think things/life in general/growing up back then was genuinely better even without our modern technology, conveniences and "progress." The world certainly seemed to be a lot less stoopid.
I was telling my adult children the other day that when I was 10 I had to do barn chores (feeding animals and shovelling dung) before my bus came at 7:20. So different than how they grew up but they know how to work hard and they have made me proud
@sirbaronvoncount4147 Been there, flung that (dung, that is). When I was in 8th grade (if I remember correctly) and my brother 1 year older, our dad had hernia surgery and for a week we had to get up and do all the milking, feeding, cleaning out the barn, washing milkers and spreading manure by ourselves before going to school, like you. To make matters even more delightfully miserable, it was in the dead of winter and our farm was about a quarter me away from our house. AND, it was uphill BOTH WAYS! Glad to hear your kids turned out well.
Did you know Butch Walker by any chance, from the sunset strip days? Just watched his interview on Rick Beato’s channel and was wondering if you two ever might have crossed paths…
No but I shot a video this AM talking about my experience and hearing about his band back in the day.....
I learned to code on Texas Instruments TRS80. I mean coding DOS. It’s come in very handy in my daily business dealing with coding excel among other things. Now excel is going C++ so I’m learning that. I believe our generation developed a lot patience and not expect immediate results.
Also the first computer using windows was an amiga. That computer predated a lot of the features of Mac and windows. Then commodore bought it out and ruined it.
First album i ever bought was Alice Coopers "Welcome to my nightmare" ..... I was looking for "Billion Dollar Babbies" which came with a couple of posters and neat coins... but couldnt find it.. Not sure todays kids could comprhend the anticipation of going to the record shop (or woolwors) buying something you heard on the radio... driving home with mom... getting out the record player, setting up the needle.....then reading every word of the liner notes while the music filled your room... and mom said "your father is not gonna like this."
The only thing that compares in my life today at 60 is.... the anticipation of a good, but unfamiliar cigar-- just out of the box.....
Those were the days!
Ive met and seen play the bass player on that Alice Cooper album a bunch of times. Toronto legend Prakash John, he also played on Lou Reeds Rock and Roll Animal. He's a true class act. Cheers
When I was a kid, the local paper did a story on "latchkey kids" featuring our family. I forget who was pictured, but they interviewed my mother and discussed a typical after school day using me and my younger brother as examples. This was circa 1978-79, I'm guessing. I was still a "tween" because I didn't hit 13 until the end of 1980. My father was on the West Coast, a total party animal at that time, and we had my mother, but she was partying on the weekends, working (sometime full-time) and going to college so we wouldn't be on the government cheese indefinitely. Childhood was turbulent and there were seriously tough times, but also so many great memories and fun times. The 70s and 80s were a great time to grow up in.
All in all a great time to be alive.
I was 5 years old riding my bike into town. Had a bro. 3 years older who was responsible for me. We would go home at lunch and go back out. Parents would never let their kids do that these days. We would be left alone for hours sometimes. It's crazy to think about but it's how it was then.
Those were the days.
I think being Gen X made me very able to "sacrifice" certain things that didn't matter as much to me as music. I've lived the majority of my life with either no TV or no cable (2020 was a time where, in addition to starting to record live instruments again, I caught up on a bunch of shows I'd heard people talking about for years). When i lived in Chicago the first time, I was working in night clubs and if i came home alone (most of the time but not always), i would turn on one of the 2 channels i got and watch re-runs of the original Hawaii Five-O and count my money (long story - but i had a couple of shoeboxes full of cash next to cartons of cigarettes on the top shelf of my closet). When i woke up, I'd put on General Hospital or a Telemundo soap opera for noise. There was a long period where, every time i was out somewhere and there was a TV on, it just seemed more and more bizarre and alien to me. I think that's actually healthy. Now that i think about it, when i lived in my first apartment in Chicago, i didn't have a landline and cell phones were still expensive, so i re-activated this old pager i had. If somebody paged me, I'd walk down the block to the pay phone in front of the bodega to call them. I had to use phone cards for long distance calls (the Virgin Of Guadalupe cards were the best deal). Honestly, thinking about this makes me realize how much we had to do more with less and come up with these weird strategies. Hell, when i very first set foot in Chicago, i didn't know anyone, didn't have a job lined up, or a place to stay. I found a place for the first couple of nights through an anarchist infoshop. We've increasingly gone to a world of monoculture in a lot of ways. Given that the best art/music usually seems to come out of "mistakes" or at least an element of chance, it makes sense that a lot of the music and art being made now is uninspiring. Even the "rough edges" usually feel contrived and/or half-assed. This isn't to say there's not tons of new stuff i like - it's just that it's pretty niche...it's probably never going to get millions of streams and forget about it getting on the radio.
Excellent video Brad; the transition from analogue to digital, a friend of mine is a very advanced technician, he spent ages, while we were on one of our marathon drinking sessions, explaining the concept of the compact disc- way back. I use to record things of the TV as well, and radio; Press "Record and Play". Plugging a guitar into the back of a radio, three-in 1 stereograms. No guitar tuners, walk up the road to use the neighbours piano. Trying to buy guitar strings other than Black Diamond living in a small town, not easy. etc etc
It was a different world.
It's common for many people who grow older to get stuck in the past and find everything new to be threatening and frightening. Even things that were bad in the past are distorted into something good, because it feels safe and familiar.
Because we were 5 when Star Wars came out. We were born after the alleged moon landing, so we were all going to be flying spaceships when we became adults. We grew up musicians, because so much money could be earned in recordings.
All we had to do was practice, get better than anyone else, and then the money would be ours. On the bad side of things, college went from $1,000 for 4 years of college for the boomers, to $25,000 a semester for Gen X. We saw computers in our grade school classrooms when we were 10.
And we had music; the best ever made, as the soundtracks for our lives as children. We had Buck Rogers and Battlestar Gallactica as our tv shows as kids. Gen X was the best ever.
Man you said it!
Started doing digital audio production in 87... kept up ever since...
Right on!👍🏻
Gen X here, born in 1978. Every word you spoke is the truth.
Thank you!
I'm also a Gen Xer. Aside from mowing lawns, my first job was at a supermarket cleaning meat grinding/cutting machines; taking them apart, cleaning the parts, then them back together. They wouldn't let a 16 year old do that nowadays.
Sounds like a tough job!
Oh yeah.. watched Mom, learned to cook, sew. Dad worked 2 jobs at times. Mom worked everyday. Needed jeans turned up, did it myself. Parents went away for a week’s holiday at Xmas one year, I was 15…stayed alone had some food prepped by Mom I did the rest. Clothes dirty, no problemo, washer & dryer room on the top floor of our apartment building. Learned bass lines with my turntable speed @ 33rpm. Couldn’t turn up my 64 Bassman amp in my room or listen to King Crimson , Iassac Hayes Johnny Winter, Booker T. No headphones …Lined all my walls top to bottom with cork to sound proof it ( yes it worked). Learned PC’s on the job, never took software courses. Embraced tech to eliminate music charts on those ridiculous music stands. iPad, 4Score, iReal. Now programming synth sounds on a C4 pedal for a project , LFO, sine , saw, envelope filters .. learning this on my own. Boomer all way, but act my shoe size not my age 😂
"Pegged" my own jeans with moms sewing machine.
That’s awesome you’re still learning and pushing boundaries!
@@badbrad Dad had Lewey Body Dementia& Mom had Dementia, although very late in their lives… this is my one fear of having this happen to me. Keep the brain busy, learning, social interactions & music. The more you learn your instrument & challenge yourself the better. Even when sleeping the brain recognizes the repetition of learning songs. Even if only 2 per day. Learn them inside out, back to front, with & them without charts. I learn parts like the record or version that was requested. If the drummer didn’t do his homework, groove fills, kick pattern, guitarists, pick up lines specific licks/riffs, everybody’s gonna know it.
@lowdownfender - everything you said about learning the songs is golden
@ thanks amigo.. Happy New Year
I’m a Gen X Fender Bender. My bends are more unique and embellishing than boomer bends lol. I’m bout to turn 56 in less than a month and still rocking!!
Your daughter's comment about the ninja turtles, cracks me up. I grew up with the Ninja Turtles in the 90s. I saw all the movies and I owned most of the game. I was what you would call a die-hard fan. It blows my mind to think that the turtles are still going in 2024.
My daughter loves them.
@@badbrad Man, that's cool! I used to love them when I was her age. 👍
Excellent!
As a late "Boomer Generation" guy, I also embraced technology early on. I was in my early 20's when video games were first introduced and dropped many a quarter into Pong and Space Invader machines, owned an Atari 2600, and every generation of Sony PlayStation, Sega Genesis and Microsoft Xbox. Learned to write code for Apple II and TRS computers. At 68 years old, I'm still an active gamer. There are definitely boomers out there that embraced technology, too 😊
You are definitely part of the tech-savvy generation!
Old School... I started playing in 1979
I was 10yo. Old's Kool!🤘🎸🤯
PS... Where has this been hiding?
Just came into my feed now?
I've been on music guitar channels for donks. Bukovac, Pierce, Beato; the lot?
Subbed instantly great 👍 stuff
Brad, you're here to tell em, and they're here to be told. Bingeing Bad Brad now is this Aussie Guitarcheologist.
Welcome to the club! Thank you for finding me!
@badbrad You speak my language mate, except with a strange accent, I feel vindicated having watched a few of your fact filled clips. Right on the money!
Kids, heed Brad for he speaks stone cold motherless facts.
🤘Didyabringyabongalong,🎸 Central QLD🦘
Like your comments- both of you! I hit the subscribe button faster than Beato's somehow
Boomer here. Trying to learn what I can from each Generation. I have to admit my shortcomings. New Years Reso = learn and own some new Technolgies. I appreciate your content!!
That’s great! Keep at it!
Great video. We have a lot in common, being in bands, working at the family business as pre teens etc. I was born at the tail end of 1966. I can identify with everything you talked about in this video. It was a different time for sure. I think my parents did the best they could and I wouldn't change anything. I learned how to survive and deal with whatever I was faced with. DLR was right, it's all small stuff.
Couldn't agree more, we were tough back then.
It took me a while to mentally process this video. I have lost most of my family so memory lane can be painful at times. You are absolutely right though Brad. I am very fortunate to be a part of the gen x generation. How many can say they rocked Nazareth, Humble Pie, and Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush in Cobo Hall at twelve years old? The tough latch key kids generation learned survival skills and experienced the best live shows. Blessings to you and your family!
Blessings to you.
Every Gen X'ers parent "We have to go to work. Go out there and learn about life." No wonder we're so independent, savvy and hardened. I also think we're the generation that might lead some political/cultural/arts revolution in the future. We've all been through a couple of these in our lifetime.
First genx 65. Life moves fast but we are built for it
Yes indeed! 🫡
Absolutely the truth about the shifts we've seen and adapted to
You know it.
Brad, in the 70s we were paid 5 bucks a day for hauling hay. Brutal labor. Mowing a huge yard? 5 bucks. The only jobs in Louisiana were construction or the dangerous oil business. Get a job, get used for minimum wage, get laid off. That was the pattern unless you left the state or worked offshore. I sold rabbit meat, squirrels, fish, firewood, arrowheads, scrap metal, weed, old bottles I found in creeks, pawned my drums....before I finally found a band. The first time I made 35 bucks playing music and could buy a sandwich and some beer I was amazed!
Incredible!
Anyone out there remember learning "Necromancer" by ear? 💪💪
I never learned that one...
Yeah...that comes through very clearly
Older than Google we are
YES!
I was born in 1965...one year after the boomers. I have no idea what my label is. But I survived Disco after my older brother and his friends threatened to kill me for listening to the Bee Gees. They gave me a bunch of Rock records/8-tracks and saved me.
Gen X was rad. So many good TV shows and a lot of really friendly and pretty women. Live music was $5 or $10 for most bands. $20 for national bands. Analog tape and vinyl. Playing outside, cruising, muscle cars and all that. Dang good times.
It really was a different world back then.
A proud member of Gen X, right here. 👍 Even saw "Black Flag" perform last night.
Right on!!! Salute!
I got my first video game console the month before I turned 4. I cannot imagine a world without video games, quite literally speaking.
Imagine a world with only three tv channels.
@@badbrad That's interesting to think about. Definitely very different from life in the 90s which was all about cable and having lots of channels.
I had a paper route in the 70s. In a gang-infested part of Pomona, CA. Delivered to a Hindu cult house. Got chased by gang members and dogs. Went collecting one day and the customer had hung himself...police opened the door and gave me the bum's rush. I survived.
Wow
Not a gen x, but older millenial, yet i find so much of what you talk about in the video similar. Maybe cause i'm from poorer country and technology was expensive, so it was creeping in slower than in USA. But for most part, very similar childhood. 3 programs on tv, old rotary phones, very independent from young age.
Right on.
1961... last of the boomers... dont think youre alone... PLAY EVERY DAY
Salute 🫡
My mantra is don’t sweat the petty stuff and don’t pet the sweaty stuff.
Lol
LoL, Agreed!
That's right Brad the latest generations can hardly wipe their asses without a parent doing it for them.
oh man
I bought my own Atari Game console in 1979/80 from fur trapping. I don`t like trapping anymore except for survival but that`s how I was raised. I`m glad I learned all these outdoorsy things though, but.
On Saturday night in the early 80s the Monroe, La Rock/POP station would play full new albums. I got several great ones on cassette like Signals by RUSH, 2 by Van Halen, one by YES (90210?), The Cars Heartbeat City, RATT, and Alabama`s 1st album etc. But the main albums that made me love drums more than piano were in the 70s: #1 In Through The Out Door by Zeppelin & #2 Monolith by Kansas.
Those are some great albums!
💯
I’m with ya. I’m 53 and my son Halen is almost 6. He asks the same questions. 😂
Wow! You know how it is!
Hair is looking good today, Brad! You should keep doing whatever you are doing to it.
Just letting it grow ....
@OlePalmer-t6z were the Dr. Demento shows already over by then, if that happens to ring a bell? I remember rockline and the King Biscuit Flour hour too.
FM radio played long "bathroom break" cuts from albums...
Loved Dr dementia and king biscuit.
@badbrad - Lol Dr. Demento, King Biscuit - and there was Cheech & Chong comedy album, " Bailiff! Whack his ..." ( can't input the rest) Lol. We laughed and laughed.
Another late boomer here. Your video brought back a lot of memories about waiting for that song on the radio to hit record on the cassette player or playing outside all day without having a play date. I think everything you say applies 100% to a segment of boomers also and you’ll be facing the challenges of social media and the iPhone with your daughter as she grows older. I remember the constant battles with my kids. Keep the videos coming!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm finding it's more than a "Gen X" thing...it's the "analog generation" thing!
Good topic my brother with my coffee ☕️ 🤘
Cheers!
1979 was the greatest year for classic rock... London Calling and The Wall... what could be better?
Two great albums and vastly different.
And i thought i had a lot of guitars😂
My dad got a 10 ft satellite dish in 1982. Try to imagine us Southern boys watching MTV for the first time on the homegrown. Ha! My friend Bob would look at me and say, "WTF???" All the cable channels were on there and free back then.
I bet you guys were like what the heck is this.
4 channels if you count channel 13 PBS
Yes!👍🏻
It was 82 Jr school dance (Halloween)...waiting outside to get in...to be honest-smokin pot with stoner buddies...
A van pulls up into the school parking lot....Indian Jones jumps out.....right after him Texas Chainsaw massacre dude jumps out with chainsaw ( it was on man) ...He chases Indiana Jones around for a bit....they jump back in the van ...then take off.......Crowd went crazy...Good times
Simi Valley Ca....
Wow
Gen X here... doing Electronica now. Linux freak, also. Cheers
Cheers!
We are supposed to to enjoy today’s technology through our children but all this stuff was for us from when we were kids …
As the future approaches we are going to the generation that used technology manually the next will using machines automatically with touching it
I remember the punch card computers we had in high school to learn programming and thinking to myself, this computer stuff is stupid. No one is ever gonna want to use these things, their stupid.
wow
@1969Donavan - and " floppy discs"
1/2 Analog 1/2 Digital the only generation that will have had this unique vision of the world. It's a real thing. FAAFO It's not just a slogan. It's beast mode when enabled.
I'm on the cusp of Boomer and Gen x and pretty clued up on technology
Right on!!!
"Honey, we had Hong Kong Phooey and Super Friends."
Yes...I tell her Flinstones and Bugs Bunny.
When they call me a Boomer I just reply obviously you are a Bird Brain!
😂
LOL!
I grew up with valve tvs and radios, landlines phones and valve guitar amps. I'm now digital...lol
Man I hear ya there.
You had me at teenage mutant ninja turtles 😂
I was raised by parents who grew up during the Great Depression. No whining was tolerated.
I hear you there.
The teenage turtles were around when we were kids - It came out in 1983. lol
I was a Junior in High School that year and not watching cartoons.
You know your Gen X when you think the left side of your thumbnail is a line of Coke
lol
I'm your age too, but kids today think we are old and dumb. you are correct for sure but just try and explain that too them yer gonna get a dumb look like, WTF this old guy saying?
I know what you mean
Kramer vs Kramer really influenced divorce stats. Feminism was rolling in hard.
Adapted😂I’ve been kicking scratching and biting the whole time as I’ve been drug along😂
I hear you.
Don't sweat the petty stuff, just pet the sweaty stuff.
😂
So many people who grow older, that's everybody, right,? Unless you've got the freezes time universal galactic remote
Mr Fred _free, scuse me
My Mom told me at 8 after I didn't
Hit the bully after
He hit me if I didn't fight back she would give me a real reason to cry,do you understand me? I said oh yes
Ma'am, she said I'll take care of teachers because they lied about electric paddle to me.next time I got in trouble ,do he started on me next day I grabbed double leg and my self defense training with God combat academy began, and did okay,I became a problem for them,they moved on,and mom didn't give me a bloody good hiding.
Our punishment was to watch Lawrence Welk🙀
That was pretty bad.
Guitar player was seriously awesome though..
tiny bubbles
I lie about my age.
he he