generations...

[roger]

lotus and Keith's conversation about TFK and lotus' son enjoying the show got me thinking about my own boys. I have three, the oldest will be 14 this month, and twins who are 10. they've been requesting Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth while we drive to soccer practice, and then later they were singing some of the melodies. it was so great! they sing well, too, thank goodness...
anyway, I just thought it might be fun to talk about some of those generational experiences...

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Heh. I got the middle one (age 14 also) hooked on Aural Moon by the simple expedient of leaving it on (my computer is in the kitchen) while she's doing dishes.

She's got remarkably good taste. Funny, the only time she's ever complained about it was when GY!BE was playing.

Now I just have to get her off the Billy Idle kick that she's been on and I'll be in good shape.

Roger -Dot- Lee

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally posted by roger
lotus and Keith's conversation about TFK and lotus' son enjoying the show got me thinking about my own boys. I have three, the oldest will be 14 this month, and twins who are 10. they've been requesting Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth while we drive to soccer practice, and then later they were singing some of the melodies. it was so great! they sing well, too, thank goodness...
anyway, I just thought it might be fun to talk about some of those generational experiences...

My now 15 yr old son loves music... music, not that crap the others his age are listening to.

His mom and dad have taken him to England to see Marillion. He's been to NEARfest and ROSfest. RickandRoll had a blast corrupting him with dirty jokes at ROSfest. He's seen acts Peter Gabriel, Yes, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Neal Morse's solo tourand even Sir Paul McCartney. He's taking a few days off from school to accompany mom and dad as we gig with Marillion up and down the coast.

With any luck, he'll grow up normal just like me!

[zvinki]

My 14 year old son loves Spocks Beard's The Great Nothing and Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. He listens to those two tracks constantly which is strange since he tends to lean toward the new punk. His insightful comments bring tears to my eyes. My 12 year old son says that The Great Nothing makes him feel good inside. It's a start.

My 2 nieces love Rush especially Freewill and Closer to the Heart. It's especially strange since I had no part in this. They heard the songs on a local classic rock station and found out that I had the CD's. The rest is history.

The torch has been passed.

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by zvinki
My 14 year old son loves Spocks Beard's The Great Nothing

I forgot to mention this one.

My 11 year old LOVES this song. She was listening to it and initially thought it was 5 or 6 different songs. I told her that it was one song, about 25 minutes. Her comment: "You'll never hear THAT on radio."

Brought a tear to my eye and a lump to my throat, it did.

The torch has been passed.

Always a good thing. Corruption of the young should be every human's primary goal.

Originally posted by VAXman
With any luck, he'll grow up normal just like me!

Hmmmmmm, OK VAX.......I'll go along with that one.

I have no offspring but I've been trying to tell my neice and nephew about prog for ages.

Some of you might remember the day Tom was visiting and sat with me while we all chatted in the white room and in the black box. Some of the conversations were pretty wierd and his comment was "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT!!!!"

He was quite proud of me when I bought the Opeth CD "Damnation" (actually recommended to me by mossy's son) and he actually said that his mad hippy uncle could be quite coooooool

Strange boy. Still can't get him into Yes though. Maybe when they do a Darkness cover, eh?

[RogorMortis]

I'm like you Keithie - no offspring but my wife's family are totally unmusical so I've given them up utterly. The same with the dog. My sister's family I don't see often enough to influence

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by VAXman
With any luck, he'll grow up normal just like me!

SHRIEK!

Roger -Dot- Lee, Twitch. Just ... Twitch.

[Rick and Roll]

to this point because I've been chipping back and forth with my oldest (17 in Nov) and I didn't want to give him credit.

But I have to admit after a brief rap period when he was 14, he listens to some good stuff. He'll alternate between classic rock and 60's AM stuff and metal, but all in all I'm pleased.

The impetus for my post is that my 11 year-old has "2112" and "Queen" written on his binder. I had forgotten that on a camping trip we played Uno (us two and the 8 year old) and I played Rush In Rio and A Night At the Opera. Took me weeks to explain "Death on Two Legs". But it was fun.

There must be something wrong with me. Everyone loves The Great Nothing. I think SB is great, but I can't get into that song. Oh well, the majority rules.......

[Bob Lentil]

I corrupted my 15 year old brother, who now owns almost every album Kansas has released. He listens to a fair bit of Dream Theater too. Though, I'm sure some of you don't think that's a good thing. Try as I might, however, he still hates King's X.

[mossy]

Keith wrote: ....Opeth CD "Damnation" (actually recommended to me by mossy's son) ....

I write:

There is now a licence plate that says OPETH on the back of his recently acquired first car.

[mossy]

We've always had music around and I daresay it will be the thing that keeps the generations together in the end when there's nothing else to talk about.

Going to concerts is the one thing we can do together, and the one place where it's ok to be seen with mum when you're almost 18. Our last shared concert was Yes.

My first discovery on the Moon was Sigur Ros and they have since become well loved by sprog as well.

I don't think it's a question of me passing anything on to him. Some of his compositions are bloody brilliant, and I'm a hard critic.

Perhaps we should arrange a multi generational mooners unconventional convention.

[roger]

Perhaps we should arrange a multi generational mooners unconventional convention.

hell, I'd just like to make it to one of the conventional ones...

[Rick and Roll]

I'm going to work on Moses for Rosfest next year. not too far......

but I hear Vermont is a nice place to have a convention

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by roger
hell, I'd just like to make it to one of the conventional ones...

Part of the problem with conventional conventions is that they're usually infested with "Booth Bimbos". These pathetic creatures are hired simply based on their "eye candy" factor. Their technical knowledge is usually on par with my own personal skill as a professional wrestler. They're nice to look at, but even the smallest technical question will likely be greeted with the slow head tilt, glazed over stare, and vague smile as though you'd just delivered a global economics and logistics treaty in Armenian.

Not a very good sight if one is looking for technical information.

Nice eye candy, though.

Roger -Dot- Lee, sexist pig, level 3

[moses]

I'm not married and I don't have kids so I too have not had the privelege, nay, I say DUTY of exposing my kids to prog.

However, I have thoroughly indoctrinated the drummer in the high school ministry worship team (he's 15) with Rush, Yes, Kansas and all the greats. He discovered Dream Theater on his own and that's his favorite, but hey, nobody's perfect.

I also had an amusing car ride earlier this year taking some kids on a Boy Scout camping trip...

ME: Do you like Echolyn?
KID: Never heard them.
ME: Well, I'll tell you what - we'll just play the first song and if you're not into it, we'll put in something else.
KID: Sure.

Of course, the song was Mei and it's 50 minutes long.

The kids were intrigued if not impressed...

[Rick and Roll]

That was the sound of the cat being let out of the bag.

The 10/17 & 18 show will be all Echolyn. Please have the kids tune in!