Now, I'm talking about while they were still living at home and in grade school thru high school. Did they listen to what you were listening to? I've been sort of shocked how many young people, our kids age today, know some old Classic Rock groups. I've heard "that's the kind of music my parents listened to all the time." "My parents" meaning, us Seniors. Only music my step-parents listened to was the Saturday night Lawrence Welk Show. Definitely not my kind of music and I'd try to head upstairs to my bedroom to avoid that show and music.
My son listened to the same type of music that I did, although he was into some of the newer groups as music had become somewhat less important to me by that time. He was surprised to learn that I had seen some of his favorite groups in concert, and seemed to have trouble understanding that most of them were older than I was. I took him to see a few groups that he liked while we lived in Long Beach, as pretty much everyone played The Forum, and I also took him to see some of the groups that I liked, such as the Grateful Dead, and I liked his well enough, and vice versa. But then, I am only thirteen years older than him. My dad use to refer to the Beatles' music as a bunch of screaming, and the Beatles were really pretty mellow.
I use to have the 8-track, Three Dog Night Live At The Forum. And, you're right, many, many groups played at the Forum, but I never went to a single concert there. For me, the crowd could get to wild. However, I remember going to Anaheim Stadium, in Anaheim, for their Concert Day At The Big A. AC/DC, Ted Nugent and someone else was there. That was the only "wild" concert I ever went to.
Interesting. While I lived in Long Beach, I could walk to The Forum from the duplex I was renting. From there, I moved to Anaheim, where I could walk to Anaheim Stadium, but I only went there for Angels games.
Well there's no point in answering this because I gave you my answer when you asked it on the other forum...
I grew up in the 60s. My interest in music began at the age of 12-14 in the mid-60s when I started listening to the charts on the radio. I tuned in to radio stations broadcasting from West Germany like the English-speaking BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service), the German-speaking RIAS (Radio in the American Sector of West-Berlin) or RTL (Luxemburg/Europe). All of them played the pop and (mainstream) beat music of the time (Beatles, Stones, Bee Gees, Beach Boys, Troggs, Who, Herman's Hermits and all the other bands of the time with hits on the charts.
You're right, of course, Holly. I skipped that. Thank you. @Cody Fousnaugh , Sorry about that. I can't delete my post any longer but I'd ask you to ignore it.
Ok, this raises a question in my mind, Ken...…..the city of Long Beach is quite a ways from the Forum. It was across the 405 freeway from LAX, around the area of W. Manchester and S. Prairie Ave. Just east of the area of South Central, Los Angeles. I'd only been to the Forum for a weekend pro-rodeo each year, called The Forum Championship Rodeo.
No problem, but Holly was right...…..was asking about what members kids listened to at home. Apparently a lot of kids, from the mid 80's and on, had to listen to their parents music, for whatever reasons. Kind of surprising just how many 40+ year old's of today know the rock music some of us listened to.
If I had kids at the age when most people do, they would have probably liked the same music I did...late Sixties and Seventies. I was a late bloomer to popular music, because I grew up in the Fifties. With a handful of exceptions, I really didn't like the 50's music on the radio, even as a preteen. That was the only way I heard popular music---on the radio. Weren't the 50's the Payola scandal era?