...Anyway I was just thinking that it almost took a full generation before some people were able to treat classic old school punk as mainstream music. I read somewhere that generations are 30 years apart because that would be the time when most people would take to start having children. Pretty arbitrary if you ask me. But since no one is asking...
Ain't it weird that after 28 years the Ramones and other band are being used in commercials and what have you? I mean my first thought was that the '77 generation were now decision makers and could therefore act to play the music of their youth. BUT, if some guys was 20 during the '77 punk explosion he would now be 48! Would he still like the '77 bands or would he have moved on to more mellow and IMHO boring bands?
Or perhaps the later generation of decision makers now in the age of 28/35 has picked up on the '77 punk bands.
What I do know is that some people of my generation, born in the 1958/1973 are refusing to grow old when it is concerning their music. During my study I worked in a record shop and we noticed that I could sell some really heavy music to people of my age or sometimes even older. There was also great interest in the back catalog of 60 and 70s bands. When you go into the average cd store most of the records on sale there is geared towards the younger crowd. But there is a huge market for people of my age that want a good overview of the music they grew up with and the music of today they like.are Most of these customers that are being served by web shops like Amazon and specialized web shops like Laser edge.
I guess part if what we are discussing now is due to the influence of "my generation". And I think its a very interesting phenomenon!
