what will your kidz think of your music.

tribus · #1 11-18-2009, 04:30 PM

the future, in the "golden years" when daddy talks to the kidz about his young rock days , band pictures and cd's. showing the kidz that bass stored in the garage for the last 20 years "hopefully you will still have it". do you think the kidz will laugh comparing your "looks" or "music" to whatever popular "trend" during their time. wondering if they ever pick up an instrument will they play the way daddy did. I am looking forward to those moments. how about you ?

fdeck · #2 11-18-2009, 08:18 PM

I'm looking forward to getting up on the bandstand and showing them that I still know a thing or two. "Old age and treachery can overcome youth and vigor."

Dirk Diggler · #3 11-18-2009, 09:07 PM

I'm not having kids.
Problem solved.

Dirk

PBass101 · #4 11-18-2009, 09:13 PM

My kids will listen to my music or they can find another place to live.

iamlowsound · #5 11-18-2009, 09:14 PM

I still intend to be playing music when I have kids.

lowsound

tdogg · #6 11-18-2009, 09:24 PM

im just waiting for the day when i hear Linkin Park or 50 cent on an oldies station...... its gonna happen.

Pilgrim · #7 11-18-2009, 10:15 PM

My kids grew up listening to oldies when I drove, and country when my wife drove. I play surf and classic rock, and they know it well. They also know all the rock oldies well, and though they've added their own music while in high school and college, they appreciate the stuff I play. No problem.

kesslari · #8 11-18-2009, 10:20 PM

My kids dig my music, all phases of kids and all phases of music. I've done some performances with my (now adult) daughter, who is a fine singer. Both kids like my current funk and folk bands.
I'm a lucky man.

Joe Gress · #9 11-18-2009, 10:22 PM

I hope that they will be as open minded about music as I am right now. It has opened up so much good music for me.

mpm32 · #10 11-19-2009, 08:13 AM

My 10 yo daughter and 5 yo son have my tunes on their mp3 players.

Santa bought her a squire mini strat last x-mas and he will be bringing my son a drum kit this year.

Can't wait until they can play so we can have the family band.

Nothing's better.

JTE · #11 11-19-2009, 08:35 AM

My boys (now 32 and 28) grew up hearing not only a wide variety of music, but discussions of why it's good or not so good. So, they learned the Duke Ellington quote I've used for years; "There are only two kinds of music; music that sounds good and whatever you want to call that other stuff". My older son once wrote "My taste in muisc is largely influenced by my dad. THere's a reason that I still think The Who is the greatest rock band ever, and that U2 is as smart as they are savvy. Thanks to him, I appreciate Robert Johnson and BB King. There's very little music that I can honestly say I can't stand, because he taught me that even in bad music there can be fun stuff that makes it worth a listen." He had a radio show on his universtiy's station (went to school here in town). I was listening one day and called him up because I didn't know "In A Gadda Da Vida" had been released on CD. He replied "You don't check your vinyl very often do you?" He'd taken a bunch of my LP's to school with him. Heck, he and his bride asked if my band would play their wedding reception!

My younger son came home one beautiful spring day with a huge smile on his face. He said "Do you know how cool it is to drive around with all the windows rolled down, cranking "Purple Haze" as loud as you can? Oh, yeah, YOU do!". He once hooked up a tape deck to my PA and when I came home he was playing "Pachebel's Canon" loud enough to warrant a call from the cops. The song before it on the tape was something like Lou Bega, and the one after it was Faith Hill.

Bottom line is that we raised our children to listen to music, not use it for "audio wallpaper", and to think for themselves.

BTW, we also raised our "kidz" to spell correctly too...

John

Poor Tom · #12 11-19-2009, 08:39 AM

JTE beat me to it, what are "kidz"?

mpm32 · #13 11-19-2009, 08:41 AM

Also, I just took my daughter to see Miley - I know, I know, but she sang every note and her band played with I'm pretty sure no backing tracks.

Anyway, her brother's band - crap, Metro Station opened up. Her brother kept switching guitars, he probably had 10 different guitars in 40 minutes. So she said to me "why does he keep switching guitars, he hasn't played a note on any of them"

I told her they were props.

She also spent a lot of time asking about the sound system and lighting set-up and I pointed out where the lighting board, sound board, speaker arrays etc were.

Made me happy that she was interested.

Valerus · #14 11-19-2009, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tdogg

im just waiting for the day when i hear Linkin Park or 50 cent on an oldies station...... its gonna happen.

oh...noo...

Luke19Boarder · #15 11-19-2009, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tdogg

im just waiting for the day when i hear Linkin Park or 50 cent on an oldies station...... its gonna happen.

I'm inclined to disagree. They might be played as throwbacks on the current (future) rock and rap stations, but I don't think they have the longevity to ever be considered oldies or classics.

**peabody** · #16 11-19-2009, 09:30 AM

My 14 year old son (who's also a bass player BTW) currently has Who, Led Zepplin and Beatles t-shirts and his iPod is almost all classic rock songs. In addition to the bands mentioned above, it also contains songs by The Doors, Pink Floyd, Yes, Lynryrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, etc. Of course since he also plays piano and French Horn, his tastes also include everything from Mozart to Scott Joplin. While I'm glad he's into the classic rock thing, I'm also happy he is exposed to (and appreciates) other genres.

iamlowsound · #17 11-19-2009, 02:16 PM

I should mention that I routinely show my Mom new music and she digs it. Not only do I like some of the older stuff that she will listen to, she like some of the stuff that I listen to. I intend to stay open like that in the future to what my future kids will listen to. My dad couldn't care less about music.

lowsound

BigOldHarry · #18 11-19-2009, 02:18 PM

All my friend's kids LOVE Led Zeppelin.

I, for one, am indoctrinating my GF's 8 year old boy in FUNK. He *digs* motown and anything funky I throw at him... He can even explain "Swing" and what the "pocket" is to folks (I'm so proud!)

Of course, when he turns 15 he'll want to dive into doom metal or something ghastly like that...

lunarpollen · #19 11-19-2009, 02:54 PM

Not having any kids here, but i know that I am extremely fond of music dating all the way back to the 1930's and earlier. So as long as we are making good, timeless music right now, there's no reason for it not to be well-thought-of several dozen years from now.

Caca de Kick · #20 11-19-2009, 03:43 PM

For starters, it will be interesting to see what will actually be considered "oldies" and making it onto those stations. I remember back in the mid-late 80's, music from the mid 70's was considered oldies. But yet here we are today, and some of my favorite band/albums 20ys old now and older, and are not considered oldies at all and still played on the modern stations. Heck even pop stuff from the very early 80's isn't oldies and still mixed with modern.

My two are very young, 1-1/2 and 3-1/2, but both show to have rhythm and love trying to match singing pitch with songs.

But I've run into lots of younger teens lately (nephews/nieces and, all my friends' nephews/nieces too) that seem to be really into 70's rock music. This didn't seem to be the case with similar aged teens a decade back.