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jackhammer · 01-05-2012, 06:35 PM

As I have got older (and older) I have begun to realise that to ignore the music that formed you is folly.

Of course if you don't actually LIKE that certain type of music anymore then fine but listening back to music from my youth I can still listen to many bands from that time because even then they weren't always flavour of the month.

I am a metalhead too at the end of the day but I can look back and still love the music because even then as an idiotic 14 year old I hated many band's images, imagery and lyrics so I can reassure myself now that it isn't pure nostalgia but love for the actual music and for me, nothing can beat a good old guitar riff. That's where Blues came from musically and it is easily identifiable.

I am digressing a little so I will bring it back and say that Poison were awful but Dogs D'Amour were the best band not many have heard outside of the UK and anyway if it it wasn't for 80's Glam/Metal we wouldn't have Hot Tub Time Machine which is probably the best John Hughes comedy film not written by the man

Looking forward to this.

01-05-2012, 06:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	As I have got older (and older) I have begun to realise that to ignore the music that formed you is folly. Of course if you don't actually LIKE that certain type of music anymore then fine but listening back to music from my youth I can still listen to many bands from that time because even then they weren't always flavour of the month. I am a metalhead too at the end of the day but I can look back and still love the music because even then as an idiotic 14 year old I hated many band's images, imagery and lyrics so I can reassure myself now that it isn't pure nostalgia but love for the actual music and for me, nothing can beat a good old guitar riff. That's where Blues came from musically and it is easily identifiable. I am digressing a little so I will bring it back and say that Poison were awful but Dogs D'Amour were the best band not many have heard outside of the UK and anyway if it it wasn't for 80's Glam/Metal we wouldn't have Hot Tub Time Machine which is probably the best John Hughes comedy film not written by the man Looking forward to this. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”