Things you were too young to enjoy...

[Wendy Summers]

I'm watching the Queen concert that's on Netflix and it makes me realize I wish I had been old enough to have seen them live.

It also got me wondering -- what sort of things were you too young to do when they were happening, but you would have loved to experience?

[Dino Velvet]

The Ninth Configuration(when I first saw it at 10)
Avocados

[onmyknees]

I'm watching the Queen concert that's on Netflix and it makes me realize I wish I had been old enough to have seen them live.

It also got me wondering -- what sort of things were you too young to do when they were happening, but you would have loved to experience?

You missed one of the greatest acts of the past 50 years. They are/were timeless.

I have few regrets, but missing Hendrix at Montery or Newport is one of them...or Stevie Ray with Buddy Guy.

[Jericho]

The middle ages! :shrug

[otherguy]

http://www.sohoblues.com/RockandRollRevue/previewpages/preview22.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

I have few regrets, but missing Hendrix at Montery or Newport is one of them...or Stevie Ray with Buddy Guy.

I was gonna see Stevie Ray Vaughan with Clapton. Went to work one day and heard about Vaughan's death on the radio. Had to pull over and collect myself before driving again. Such a talent lost way too soon.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tin Pan Alley (Montreux) part 1 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McI1NJ_iG24)

SRV Live in Montreux - Tin Pan Alley Part2 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulAtTcKSZGc&feature=related)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSlR23JZqMo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nejProj6_r4)

http://jaygordonandthepenetrators.com/stevie_ray_vaughan_wings.jpg

[onmyknees]

I was gonna see Stevie Ray Vaughan with Clapton. Went to work one day and heard about Vaughan's death on the radio. Had to pull over and collect myself before driving again. Such a talent lost way too soon.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Tin Pan Alley (Montreux) part 1 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McI1NJ_iG24)

SRV Live in Montreux - Tin Pan Alley Part2 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulAtTcKSZGc&feature=related)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSlR23JZqMo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nejProj6_r4)

http://jaygordonandthepenetrators.com/stevie_ray_vaughan_wings.jpg


A virtuoso

[buttslinger]

you get the picture.....

[Wendy Summers]

you get the picture.....

We can arrange that one for you... you Do know I lactate... right?

[onmyknees]

you get the picture.....


wtf ??????

[Quiet Reflections]

Woodstock, studio 54 , CBGB's in the 70's and 80's, the Wild West, pre-depression Detroit, the birth of the muscle car.....so many more

[buttslinger]

you Do know I lactate... right?

ga ga... goo goo....

[Dino Velvet]

We can arrange that one for you... you Do know I lactate... right?

Yummy. Milk gives me gas. http://vickirichter.com/boards/public/style_emoticons/default/dino.gif

[SammiValentine]

happyhardcore raves!

[cerulean]

We can arrange that one for you... you Do know I lactate... right?

Got Milk? :party:

[shaustin]

Disco.

[robertlouis]

The middle ages! :shrug

Are you sure Jericho? I'm pretty sure this is you.

[robertlouis]

The concert that The Band gave in London in 1975 that that lucky dog Prospero managed to see.

[Quiet Reflections]

happyhardcore raves!
I second that!! But I did go to a ton of raves

[Cecil Rhodes]

Disco.

I remember Disco ...... and Funk aswell ..... Good thing they both died . :dead:

[Cecil Rhodes]

Hair Pie

[SammiValentine]

I second that!! But I did go to a ton of raves

I was faaar to young for helterskleter/dreamscape kinda stuff here in the UK :) (early 90s etc)

[robertlouis]

I was faaar to young for helterskleter/dreamscape kinda stuff here in the UK :) (early 90s etc)

Went to a couple but not my scene. I guess I've always been a bit fuddy-duddy. Oh well....

Thought you were going to bed missy. I'll be up shortly with a glass of hot milk and a rich tea biccy.

[EyeCumInPiece]

I'm watching the Queen concert that's on Netflix and it makes me realize I wish I had been old enough to have seen them live.

It also got me wondering -- what sort of things were you too young to do when they were happening, but you would have loved to experience?

What an interesting post...i watched the same thing on netflix and i definitly felt the same way...i wouldve loved to experience woodstock, and the 60's in general.

[Willie Escalade]

Hands down, Studio 54.

[Prospero]

Frank Sinatra in concert. Duke Ellington.

I did manage to see Hendrix - and Cream - on the same bill at a college concert in Twickenham aeons ago.

[Wendy Summers]

Yummy. Milk gives me gas. http://vickirichter.com/boards/public/style_emoticons/default/dino.gif

Cut you a deal... next time I'm out west, if you're willing to shoot a scene breastfeeding from me; I'll let you do nasty things to my ass (on film) :whistle:


Got Milk? :party:

Yes

[Wendy Summers]

Hands down, Studio 54.

oooo... I'll agree with that one too


What an interesting post...i watched the same thing on netflix and i definitly felt the same way...i wouldve loved to experience woodstock, and the 60's in general.

Hey - I'm not ALWAYS about sex...

[ed_jaxon]

Frank Sinatra in concert. Duke Ellington.

I did manage to see Hendrix - and Cream - on the same bill at a college concert in Twickenham aeons ago.

I got to see Sinatra in the late 80's in Vegas. He had lost a step but it was still an incredible experience.

[Ecstatic]

Missed opportunities (but not too young): Hendrix in my home town, Framingham MA when I was in high school. Woodstock (my senior year).

Too young: Dylan, Baez, Richard and Mimi Farina, et al. at Club 47. Beatles & Stones first Boston concerts. Voting against Nixon in '68.

Missed but too damn close for comfort: getting drafted into the Viet Nam war (went though pre-induction, but they stopped calling 2 numbers shy of my lottery number...thankfully).

[LeelaWang]

a pink floyd concert...

[Prospero]

Used to see the Floyd when they played at a little London club called UFO - when Syd Barrett was still with the band.

[Dino Velvet]

Used to see the Floyd when they played at a little London club called UFO - when Syd Barrett was still with the band.

What was it like to see Syd Barrett live? Be amazing to have a sit down and chat with him.

Syd Barrett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=syd+barrett+documentary&oq=Syd+Barrett+doc&aq=0&aqi=g5&aql=&gs_l=youtube-psuggest.1.0.0l5.6743.10393.0.12459.4.4.0.0.0.0.82 .309.4.4.0...0.0.rvcuECNLxMo

Syd Barrett - Documentary - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyz-mbctnpw)

[Stavros]

Had I been in Russia the first performance of Shostakovich's 13th Symphony in 1962; had I been in the USA I would like to have gone on the March on Washington in 1963; and had I been in the UK Maria Callas as Tosca and Tito Gobbi as Scarpia at Covent Garden in 1964.

Possibly the worst 'miss' happened shortly before Ingrid Bergman died in 1982, when the ICA cinema in London was showing films by her ex-husband Roberto Rossellini. I arrived for the early evening double bill of Stromboli and Viaggio in Italia and the projectionist was wandering around in a daze because Bergman had been in the audience. I think I missed her by about five minutes, she may even have passed me as I made my way down lower Regent Street. I have seen a few 'stars' at the NFT talks (James Mason, Rod Steiger, Tarkovsky etc) but Bergman is a legend.

[Prospero]

I had a stunning confrontation with Lauren Bacall in London about 15 years ago. i was at a gala film event to benefit the charity Index on Censorship and there in the lobby was the playwright Harold Pinter and his wife, Antonia fraser - quite famous faces. I turned around after looking at them found was face to face - about eight inches from - Lauren Bacall. I gasped, literally, at suddenly seeing a screen legend so close and in person.

[SammiValentine]

No ones lowered the tone and said breast feeding yet??!?! ooops just did it..

[Jericho]

No ones lowered the tone and said breast feeding yet??!?! ooops just did it..

No, apart from buttslurper on the first page!
Or at least, he intimated it.

[SammiValentine]

my aldi glasses missed it :D

[Jericho]

my aldi glasses missed it :D

Oooo, 'ark at you and Aldi.
Lidl not good enough! :dead:

[buttslinger]

No, apart from buttslurper on the first page!


Slinger!...... Butt-Slinger!!!

[Nicole Dupre]

AIDS and HIV not existing.

[Nicole Dupre]

But other than being able to have bareback sex more easily, I can't think of much. The world has plenty to offer just as it is imo.

[Merkurie]

I was going to say the 70s, but Nicole said it best.
"AIDS and HIV not existing."

[robertlouis]

Had I been in Russia the first performance of Shostakovich's 13th Symphony in 1962; .

I'd like to have been in Leningrad for the first performance of the 7th in 1941. There can't have been many more emotionally-charged moments in musical history than that heroic first performance of a work played by starving musicians under the most brutal siege conditions of World War II.

[buttslinger]

Hot Tub Time Machine quotes:

Lou: It's the fucking 80's guys. Let's do what we want to do. Free Love!
Jacob: That was the 60's dipshit.
Adam: We had like Reagan and AIDS. Get the fuck outta here, okay. Do the right thing, Violator!


Jacob: I'm kinda right in the middle of a thing right now, but can I text you later?
Girl at Club: Can you what?
Jacob: Are you online at all?
Girl at Club: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Jacob: How do I get a hold of you?
Girl at Club: You come find me.
Jacob: That sounds... exhausting.

[buttslinger]

I'd like to have been in Leningrad for the first performance of the 7th in 1941.

There's all this talk about the world today is going to hell, but my neice and nephew's idea of hard times is a popularity crisis at school.

[BluegrassCat]

AIDS and HIV not existing.

That's what I was going to say. That brief window between birth control and HIV was a bareback paradise.

[Prospero]

If we are talking about musical events - I'd add the first performance of the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky in Paris.

[johnnieev]

Muscle cars of the 1960's and Woodstock.

[south ov da border]

Studio 54, god acid, woodstock, the birth of Stax records, seeing blaxploitation and grind house flix in the theater, 70's fashion, 60's and 70's Rucker Park games, the AFL, listening to Malcolm live, the punk revolution in the late 70's, president Kennedy

There's a lot of stuff...

[robertlouis]

If we are talking about musical events - I'd add the first performance of the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky in Paris.

Probably the most chaotic premiere of all. You're a cultural anarchist, sirrah! I knew it all along.

[Stavros]

I had a stunning confrontation with Lauren Bacall in London about 15 years ago. i was at a gala film event to benefit the charity Index on Censorship and there in the lobby was the playwright Harold Pinter and his wife, Antonia fraser - quite famous faces. I turned around after looking at them found was face to face - about eight inches from - Lauren Bacall. I gasped, literally, at suddenly seeing a screen legend so close and in person.

That doesn't count because you can't say you missed seeing her, and anyway Bergman was an actress, and has become a legend. Not sure what Bacall is, although The Big Sleep is one of my favourite films.

[robertlouis]

That doesn't count because you can't say you missed seeing her, and anyway Bergman was an actress, and has become a legend. Not sure what Bacall is, although The Big Sleep is one of my favourite films.

Go on, Stavros, what was the Boer war really like? :dancing:

[buttslinger]

face to face - about eight inches from - Lauren Bacall

Bacall and Bogie were big names that spoke up against the McCarthy witch hunts in Hollywood.

Sissy Spacek used to jog in where I worked and I let her in the back and gave her a drink of cold water from our cooler, up close she looks about 13, -gorgeous skin (name dropper)

I didn't miss nothin as a kid!

I sat on my dad's shoulders when Kennedy's casket went by.

[Stavros]

face to face - about eight inches from - Lauren Bacall

Bacall and Bogie were big names that spoke up against the McCarthy witch hunts in Hollywood.

Sissy Spacek used to jog in where I worked and I let her in the back and gave her a drink of cold water from our cooler, up close she looks about 13, -gorgeous skin (name dropper)

I didn't miss nothin as a kid!

I sat on my dad's shoulders when Kennedy's casket went by.


Interesting because the issue about being too young for something assumes that certain experiences are age-related -seeing a famous band in a club when they were unknown assumes you were old enough to get into the club; or old enough to spend a night or two away from home at a music festival etc. A lot of people on HA have been exposed to cultural events at an early age, so I missed seeing Callas at Covent Garden even though I had already been to the opera by the time I was 11 (the theatre and the ballet at 10). Political events, again, one assumes a 6 year old would not volunteer to go to a march or a rally, but we see parents taking their children to them all the time, as your parents took you to JFK's last ride. So you weren't too young to 'enjoy' it, so maybe 'enjoy' is the key word? In which case, it would probably be sexual experiences for most people. Too young to have met those sex goddesses who died of HIV/AIDS or in some other way.

[Stavros]

Go on, Stavros, what was the Boer war really like? :dancing:

Blimey, even my parents couldn't answer that one.

[Helvis2012]

Mostly live rock acts.