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Heck. I'm 51 and am familiar with all the bands mentioned.
I dont know if that is good or bad.

I still listen to those most of those punk/hardcore bands and I just turned 40 (Hey, may parents still listen to the Stones, so I feel this is no different - its what I know). I was weaned on them in my youth as they were intertwined with the skate/surf scene I used to be apart of. Sucks getting older and seeing more and more people die. It seems like people are not living as long VERY recently. Maybe this is just a coincidence or simply because many of these publicized deaths are due to the fact the people were famous, and therefore, lead "live for today" lifestyles.

gd wrote:

Heck I'm 16 and I am only familiar with Nirvana. I'm guessing it's a bad thing.

I guess that depends on the POV though.

You should have at least head of Danzig.
He did a song with Shakira.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHv3qO_Y8kk

sturner wrote:

I remember the Chad Mitchell Trio, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and the Stones.

Should I pay attention to any others?

You totally forgot the Beatles. NTM the Who, Buffalo Springfield, the Kinks... hell, you even forgot the Weavers.

And everyone else, but let's not get too deep into your memory lapses. Aging sucks, but even I'm into some more recent stuff.

But you knew that.

(Stevie Ray Vaughn... have you no regional pride, even on the road to nowhere? )

gd wrote:

Heck I'm 16 and I am only familiar with Nirvana. I'm guessing it's a bad thing.

I guess that depends on the POV though.

Wow... you've lived almost your entire life with Auto Tune. How sad.

Real music was dead by the end of of 1970.

Pithecanthropus wrote:

gd wrote:

Heck I'm 16 and I am only familiar with Nirvana. I'm guessing it's a bad thing.

I guess that depends on the POV though.

Wow... you've lived almost your entire life with Auto Tune. How sad.

Auto Tune?

1's and 0's, what a way to record.

Pithecanthropus wrote:

gd wrote:

Pithecanthropus wrote:

Wow... you've lived almost your entire life with Auto Tune. How sad.

Auto Tune?

Oh, my god! You don't know what Auto Tune is?

You can barely turn on a modern popular song these days without hearing it. R&B and Hip-Hop are the worst offenders because they set the damn thing on MAXIMUM, partially for effect, partially because they just can't sing.

In all honesty, my band used it on our last record, but that was to fix a couple of slightly out of tune vocal tracks, it's a lot easier than redoing an entire track. But I would never just "set it and forget it."

Probably one of the few good uses of Auto Tune is by Daft Punk.

Don't believe in the 60's
The golden age of pop
You glorify the past
When the future dries up
Heard a singer on the radio late last night
He says he's gonna kick the darkness
'til it bleeds daylight
I...I believe in love

-- U2

Chuck Biscuits is ALIVE! It was a hoax. See Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Biscuits

Daddyo wrote:

1's and 0's, what a way to record.

I'd have to disagree. Yes, I understand the "warmth" of analogue recording, but in my experience, digital is a "take saver."

For example, yesterday I was in the studio doing Xmas music for a friend's forthcoming CD, I kind of futzed the last chord of one of the songs. All I had to do was play that chord again, cleanly, and the engineer can paste it in place of the bad one. We didn't have to re-record the entire track, which we would have had to do if we'd been recording to tape.

On my band's first CD the other guitarist played a G when he was supposed to play an F, we didn't notice it until days after we recorded the basic track. Rather than gather all the musicians together again, or even make him come in again, we were able to digitally lower the chord a whole step -- making for a pretty gnarly sounding F, but saving time and effort.