Ok...this is going to piss off all you kids...but today

[pott]

I'm 21 and I totally agree.

[Cygnus X1]

Yeah - the Perfect Strangers tour - one of the best shows I've ever seen, before Blackmore went completely pyscho. January 31, 1985 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco (errr, I mean, Daly City)...woulda been 1984 for you...and yes - I DID find my ticket stub toverify
And, since Phil Lynott drank himself to death, and Lemmy still lives, I really have to award Thin Lizzy with the "Drinking Man's Band" award...God bless them both...

I saw rainbow twice before that. He trashed his strat the second time and threw the neck into front row. What a scramble that was! I wasn't the recipient of it, though.

Ooooh..soooerry. I knew that, and wasn't thinking about Phil.

[Sinistas]

This is a stupid way to look at things. AC/DC and Thin Lizzy / Staind and Shadows Fall? What? How can you compare those bands?

I've seen plenty of great concerts from bands in the last few years, and just as many horrible late 70s/early 80s performances on video. This just reeks of "back in my day..."

[atilla]

AC/DC ... a great band. All rock music would be poorer if they had never existed, or if they were no longer out there touring. It's impossible to deny their enthusiasm even after decades.

But that doesn't mean they are at everyone's pinnacle. If there at yours, that's cool. But there are a lot of bands -even modern ones- that I'd rather see.

[chrisolson]

Well, Staind has always sucked and will continue to so...

[Rsmacker]

AC/DC ... a great band.

But even saying a certain band is great is divisive, depending on where you are looking at them from on the timescale, because as all of us old farts know, AC/DC with Bon Scott is fucking excellent, whereas AC/DC with Donald Duck is shite!

Meh, Sinistas and Levantin and all are right, everything was good when I was young, and the Summers were warm, and beer was cheap, and there weren't any shit bands. I think.


Mind you, lots of these new bands really are shit.

[thetroy]

The difference is back then good bands were popular. Now the popular stuff is shit and you have to dig around on the internet to find the good stuff.

[toejam]

Shadows Fall does not suck in any way, shape or form. And I'm a 35-year-old kid.

[Robert Burns]

I really don't want to troll all over this thread. I love all the old bands from Motorhead to Motley and lots of new bands, but:

This is a time old debate. When my parent started listening to the Beatles my grandparents told them that it wasn't as good as whatever it was they enjoyed. When I started listening to Megadeth my parents told me it wasn't as good as the Beatles. When my child starts listening to whatever he will listen to I'll tell him it' s not as good as Megadeth and do you see a pattern emerging here It's always the eye of the beholder that matters. Each generation brings its own music with its own taste and values. That's how it's been since Zog the caveman stretched a mammoth skin over a frame and started beating it with a buffalo bone.

True...but Megadeth WAS NOT as good as the Beatles! So your
parents were right...(and you will be right too!)

[Robert Burns]

Shadows Fall does not suck in any way, shape or form. And I'm a 35-year-old kid.

I didnt say they "Sucked"... but their only 75% as good as Thin Lizzy,
on a bad day! :-) (35? your a kid!

[Guitarzandstuff]

I know that the 80's were the best, at least i was born in the 80's (84). I would give anything if i could turn back time and spend my teens in the USA 1980-1991.

Then you'd be as old as I am and wish just kthe opposite!!

+1 though for the good years!! 73-88

[srommes]

Shadows Fall does not suck in any way, shape or form. And I'm a 35-year-old kid.

I'm 38 and couldn't agree more. I loved the music from the 80's. I was in HS from 84-88 and those were some great years with great bands. That said, there are some excellent metal bands today that I keep in full rotation.......Shadow's Fall, COB, Killswitch Engage and Avenged Sevenfold just to name a few. It is cool to appreciate a certain generation of music but don't be so quick to discount other generations.

[hippietim]

Shadow's Fall rocks. Thin Lizzy rocked. AC/DC rocked and rocks. It's all good.

[hippietim]

I saw Thin Lizzy a few years ago with John Sykes fronting the band. They were fucking brilliant. Sykes is just badass.

They opened for Deep Purple. Purple got their ass kicked by Thin Lizzy that night. Steve Morse is a brilliant guitarist but he does a lousy Ritchie Blackmore impersonation - who the fucks wants to hear his chicken pickin' noodling in Smoke on the Water?

[anuske9]

The difference is back then good bands were popular. Now the popular stuff is shit and you have to dig around on the internet to find the good stuff.

Blame that on Kiss. They took the commercialism behind pop music and applied it to rock n' roll. They made a disco album for F's sake... ever since then, popular genres have came and went. They usually start out as something small and different, develop a fan base, get exploited, and become a joke. And the funniest thing is when you have people who will act like rap is the worst thing to ever happen to music, but quickly forget about all of the horrible hair metal bands who sang about the same shit. Sure, you might argue they had better musicians behind them, (Paul Gilbert), but the aesthetics are the same. Essentially, you're more prone to listen to what you are used to, once you realize this and break down any borders, that's when you'll find some really great music...