Silversun Pickups, Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles, Bob Marley, and Pink Floyd

The Captain · Feb 3, 2026

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think about being a kid in the 50's compared to now. you had to create most of your entertainment, which was mainly playing outside with your friends. you didnt have all the options you did today. you had a B&W tv with 3 channels vs hundreds of channels and the entire history of film and tv at your fingertips. and then all-of-a-sudden chuck berry, elvis, little richard, ect come along and literally became the PS4 / netflix / facebook of their day. music was how youth culture shared ideas, style, attitudes, ect...rock and roll was the internet of the 50's.

i dont have kids, but when i go over to my friends houses who do the kid is almost always off in a corner by themselves playing on a small electronic device. or playing a video game on a wide-screen tv. being a kid today seems so much more solitary and in a lot of ways, music is a communal, shared thing. so you dont have groups of friends sharing their favorite bands, but instead they talk about video games or netflix.

for me, i know that its sometimes harder to decide what i want to listen to b/c i have access to the entire recorded history of music. when i just had my cd collection or even 15 years ago, my ipod, it was much easier to make that in-the-moment decision of what album to put on. sometimes, i think too many choices ends up leaving you unable to make a decision.

its not entirely hopeless. one way to look at it is that the people who are into being musicians for the wrong reasons will just stick to guitar hero and never actually start a (crappy) band. also, girls rock camp in austin is a great incubator of young people in it for the right reasons. its been around so long now that there are girls that came out of that and are now grown-ass women fronting or in several popular austin bands.
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You aren't wrong about kids and their devices. It's a real problem that I don't think most modern parents realize. It's straight up lazy parenting. Kids quiet? They must be happy. I think we're going to look back at phone usage and social media in 30 years like we do at smoking now.

CCorn · Feb 3, 2026

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I've been waiting for this moment...all my life...

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