And yet not only did we survive.. we’re like the cockroaches of the generations
How many GenX'ers do we have?
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There was a settlement, my mom had one of these cameras, she got something from Kodak.
73 here
Great selection, something for everyone.
Gen- X audio details required actual knowledge, money and time to get right.
A tape wasnt a tape, wasn't a tape.
To get the most out of your Pioneer headhunt and Jensen Triaxes....you needed a tape made from vinyl run at high speed (if you could that was rare) using a good base stock and get a better signal to noise ratio.
It took effort and time to steal music that sounded good. You needed friends that would commit time to you, and typically you share the good stuff hardware wise creating a " super system" (Buds turntable, Mikes cartridge, and Bobs equalizer) amongst buddies that may have lasted a weekend or for life.
You could make a better quality tape of (Dark side of the Moon) than buying it, but the album art /labelling the sleeves were up to you.
Low grade friends got a cheap tape to tape copy of the Dark Side of the moon running on the lowest speed.
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Michael Hutchence went out with a.....
Well... If you know, you know.
Proud latch key Gen X guy here who still loves mid-80's early 90's rock and Hair Metal.
Say what you will, most of us could feed ourselves before we were 8 and left home before we turned 19.
Well... If you know, you know.
Proud latch key Gen X guy here who still loves mid-80's early 90's rock and Hair Metal.
Say what you will, most of us could feed ourselves before we were 8 and left home before we turned 19.
Is it live, or is it Memorex?
How many of us pieced together a ****ty but functional sound system for our mid 70's 500$ junkers out of Radio Shack lol
I taped songs from the radio on my panasonic boom box.
Was it live, or was it memorex? Definately memorex. Ha
The radio copy - yeah.
When you didnt have an album or tape you could glue yourself to the radio standing by....then listen to the DJ talk over the opening or ending of your song - which resulted in a " will work till I get a better one or one of my friends buys the album tape"
Albums were expensive - swallowing three lawns mowed of labor. Money hard earned and spent with great care.
I did that a year or two ago. All parts free from the transfer station. One blown audio channel, but one transistor later, all the quality of the 70's. I might have paid $10 for some cheapo speakers, but got 2 or three sets for free. [My hearing ain't great, so they sound just fine to me.] Free audio splitter thing above it (ignore the DMM's, my office is a mess!
)My first vehicle, I I just paralleled some extra speakers to the dual channel system it had. Hey, it came with a tape deck, all I needed was speakers literally behind my head to make it complete... I wasn't into 80's music in the 90's but I'm surprised that my copy of STP Core didn't wear out as it just played over and over again... my interest in 80's music didn't come around until after 2010 or so.
In the 90's, once I got a bicycle I was never home. Got worse when I got a car, then a girlfriend. I'm not convinced my son is related to me, at his age I knew what I wanted (fast cars and faster women), may have failed but I sure wasn't sitting in the basement waiting for life to find me.
Not sure 1976 was a good year but with pride I can say "whatever".
I have those on CD, except for the Smashing Pumpkins and Singles tapes.
When I was in Junior high on our WWII chapter the concept of generation came up, was told I was millennial along with anyone born through the end of the century. Not long after that definition got redefined and more recently as well.
Xennials - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
One oddity is that different organizations and countries set the millennial generation to different years.
Oddly there has been a recent motivation to redefine the 1996 cutoff back to 1999
This is my long way of saying “generation “ is a made up and apparently fluid concept, prior generations had strong events that separated them from other generations, we don’t have world wars and counter culture as a universal uniting feature anymore.
The Radio Shack (20 band?) equalizer reigned supreme on my budget.
Would agree, things happen and sometimes some event has a bigger, more lasting consequence than something else initially observed.
All it is is some way to use some easy to apply labels that helps understand and categorize, help understand why people in one era act one way, and people born 10 years later don't. It's not the be-all, end-all that some make it out to be--plenty of exceptions to the rule. Interesting to look at, but perhaps drawing too many conclusions from it isn't helpful.
In all seriousness, As a 1976er I am latish Gen X. I was somewhat of a latchkey kid but more by parental design than by circumstance. In retrospect, growing up in the '80s and '90s was great.I should have chosen bababoom as my forum name. No wait that sounds too much like baboon.
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1970 for both my wife and I. Based on what I see today I am happy to have grown up when I did, but I supposed what generation hasn't said that exact thing.
My kids still call us boomers. LOL
My kids still call us boomers. LOL
I’m a tweener. Born in the early 80’s so technically an old millennial but raised like an X-er with my X-er older sibling. We were poor so I didn’t get the benefit of experiencing things like people of my same age. When you’re broke it is like living 10 years in the past cause you cannot afford anything new. I guess you could say I’m old enough to remember the before times but not old enough to consider it my heyday.
Funny phenomenon: most people consider the “best era” to be when they were at their youthful peak… it has to less to do with things actually being “better” back then and more to with you being “better” back then. Things didn’t get worse over time - you did. Lol
Funny phenomenon: most people consider the “best era” to be when they were at their youthful peak… it has to less to do with things actually being “better” back then and more to with you being “better” back then. Things didn’t get worse over time - you did. Lol
1973
As a former free-range kid it pains me to have raised a kid who despite my best efforts could experience only a fraction of the freedom I had when I was growing up. It's a matter of place and time.I’m a tweener. Born in the early 80’s so technically an old millennial but raised like an X-er with my X-er older sibling. We were poor so I didn’t get the benefit of experiencing things like people of my same age. When you’re broke it is like living 10 years in the past cause you cannot afford anything new. I guess you could say I’m old enough to remember the before times but not old enough to consider it my heyday.
Funny phenomenon: most people consider the “best era” to be when they were at their youthful peak… it has to less to do with things actually being “better” back then and more to with you being “better” back then. Things didn’t get worse over time - you did. Lol
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1979 model here
Raised on dirtbikes and my dad's late 70s rock until the Seattle sound came around .......I have folowed Candlebox on tour since 1993
Dirtbikes Music and Trucks have been my enjoyment for all the years
Raised on dirtbikes and my dad's late 70s rock until the Seattle sound came around .......I have folowed Candlebox on tour since 1993
Dirtbikes Music and Trucks have been my enjoyment for all the years
1973. All three of my brothers were boomers. Lucky for me I shared their taste in music. They had hundreds of albums loaded with good music. Not the corporate rock garbage that dominated the airwaves during my high school years.
Every time I hear the term Gen-X I think of the wrestling stable D-Generation X. Their theme song is pretty much an anthem of the Gen-X mentality.
Every time I hear the term Gen-X I think of the wrestling stable D-Generation X. Their theme song is pretty much an anthem of the Gen-X mentality.
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