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2 cool things in past 24 hours.

Was at the mall last night, close to closing time and the bathrooms are down these long corridors, like under steam tunnels and shit, so I had to walk Sabrina back there and wait on her. While waiting in the hall, a 16-17 year old dude came out of the men's room - he was wearing a mall janitors uniform - And suddenly his cell phone went off - The ringtone was "Separate Ways." Pretty cool!

Then today on the way back to my office I was jamming to some remastered "After The Fall" at the traffic light (windows up, the new company car has a slammin' car stereo) - I kind of peek next to me and there's a camaro with 2 metal dudes (the driver looked like an 18 year old Tom Araya), and I notice the dude is mouthing the words to "After The Fall!" I'm like, "What the fuck, is that dude listening to a Journey CD synched up to mine?!" Then I figured out he was jamming to my car stereo, and knew all the words to After The Fall. Before I could throw up the devil horns to him, the light changed and they sped off.

Disclaimer: This is NOT a dreaded "Ooh, I heard 'Send Her My Love' in the produce section today!" The point was that the Journey reference was shared with 2 very unlikely sources...

Jeremey wrote: The ringtone was "Separate Ways." Pretty cool!

I made that one for my phone. I've made a bunch of them. If you have Cingular and your phone is mp3 capable, it'll work. All I do is make the ring tone with a program I got from the internet called MP3 to Ringtone Gold. Upload it to a webpage (I use geocities), and then send my cellphone a message with the url to that ringtone in the body of the message. Easy as pie. You will be charged for the data transfer on your cell phone bill. It's not much.

Jeremey wrote:Disclaimer: This is NOT a dreaded "Ooh, I heard 'Send Her My Love' in the produce section today!"

Yep, seen a couple boys walk by me today about 14, 15 that were wearing vintage KISS and JOURNEY t-shirts!

EXACTLY!!!! Thank you Jeremey! That was point I was trying to make the other week. I believe we live in an age today where radio and MTV doesn't control the music scene as much as it did even ten years ago, and we're seeing that even the young adults can still find favor in "our" type of music.

As cool as that is, I actually feel sorry for these younguns. How pathetic is it that they don't have their OWN rock bands to look up to and enjoy? I think it's great that they appreciate the classics, but so many that I talk to tell me that they listen to stuff like Journey and Def Leppard because all the new bands "suck". I think this is more the fault of the industry to be quite frank. They don't want anything remotely original or groundbreaking anymore. They only reward the "flavor of the month". Really kinda sad...

Greggie wrote:I believe we live in an age today where radio and MTV doesn't control the music scene as much as it did even ten years ago, and we're seeing that even the young adults can still find favor in "our" type of music.

Geesh, MTV doesn't even PLAY music anymore!

Pop music is so fragmented anymore. There needs to be a great band to come along and bring it all back together. It's a mess right now. There are too many bands that sing such trash. They've gone totally overboard with explicit lyrics. I hope that is just a phase that is nearing it's end. One of the best things that could happen that seems to be happening, is a return of AOR. The resurgence of touring from our classic bands might help fix this mess.

I continue to be living proof of young people loving Journey.

'Sup, guys.

NealSchonFan53 wrote:I continue to be living proof of young people loving Journey.

'Sup, guys.

Hey dude, my exwife is from your town. I've been there a few times. I like that part of the country.

Although once you hit 18-19, you kind of look to that music from the generation before you anyways....When I went to college, the music everyone was listening to was Zeppelin, Boston, Journey, Van Halen, the Dead, etc...This was in the early 90's. Of course I was also keeping up with my favorites like Tears For Fears, TTD, George Michael and The Outfield, as they were still putting out good, new music.

Pop music continually shoots younger and younger on the age spectrum. I'd say now popular music is geared toward the tween set, maybe early teens at the most...Radio, MTV, etc - It's all geared toward kids 11-14. No cool 15 year old kid is going to listen to Justin Timberlake.

Just in. Our local high school unanimously voted "Don't Stop Believin'" for the Senior song.

Bam!

X factor wrote:As cool as that is, I actually feel sorry for these younguns. How pathetic is it that they don't have their OWN rock bands to look up to and enjoy? I think it's great that they appreciate the classics, but so many that I talk to tell me that they listen to stuff like Journey and Def Leppard because all the new bands "suck". I think this is more the fault of the industry to be quite frank. They don't want anything remotely original or groundbreaking anymore. They only reward the "flavor of the month". Really kinda sad...

If I ever see a kid listening to Def Lippard, I will take them aside, and when no one is looking, and punch them in the nose.

Thats funny Deano. I had a 25 year old guy with an Ironworkers sticker on the back of his truck passed me and gave me a thumbs up. It had to be my Journey bumber sticker, it sure as hell wasnt for the way i was driving

I am walking proof. I love being the guy tagged as "He's the Journey guy" Feels good. Good taste of music always scores one..esp with the chicks lol

RockinDeano wrote:

X factor wrote:As cool as that is, I actually feel sorry for these younguns. How pathetic is it that they don't have their OWN rock bands to look up to and enjoy? I think it's great that they appreciate the classics, but so many that I talk to tell me that they listen to stuff like Journey and Def Leppard because all the new bands "suck". I think this is more the fault of the industry to be quite frank. They don't want anything remotely original or groundbreaking anymore. They only reward the "flavor of the month". Really kinda sad...

If I ever see a kid listening to Def Lippard, I will take them aside, and when no one is looking, and punch them in the nose.

Point well taken...but I'd take them over FALL OUT BOY or whatever te hell passes for rock music these days.
And Leppard's HIGH AND DRY is a fuckin classic, man! Your boy Mutt produced the hell outta that one...

The generation of kids now, up to their teens are being raised by people from the 80's era. We are playing the music and they are listening. My kids know the words to most Journey songs just from hearing it in the car, and they like it. My son has downloaded many of our 80's rock songs onto his ipod. He's trying to teach himself the guitar riffs from the 80's, not from what he's hearing now. They have to go 2 decades back because the 90's sucked in music.

My daughter love to sing Journey. She can hit all the high notes and dosent lip. Maybe they should srart a teen Journey tribute band