I'm not trying to tell you that. I'm telling you that. The "old dudes" in this guitar shop were not into the younger, new players. They were in to the players they grew up on. The 60's guys. That's no news flash. In the exact same way I was not into the 90's stuff when younger kids would come in to my guitar shop and start playing grunge stuff even though grunge was at the peak of it's popularity. I'm still good friends with a couple of LA based guys 10 years older than me that were into the 60's guys and did not dig Van Halen or jump on that bus at all. In fact, they disliked Van Halen because it rendered their playing style, their wah wahs, their bell bottom corduroys and their big long Jeff Baxter mustaches as passe. Heck, one of these friends was good friends with Van Halen and wrote a recent book about him. He was still way more in to Beck and Blackmore and Hendrix.
Well it is great to know that my distinctly remembered experience didn't really happen. And I never said they looked at me strangely, those are your words. I said they weren't in to what I was playing. These guys were friendly in like an older uncle way. They were cool to me. They tried to hip me to what they were into and take me under their wing and turn me away from this flash new stuff and onto the real stuff like they were in to. Just like every previous generation of music fans and players does. Everyone thinks the music they grew up on was the best. These guys were no different.
So yeah, I'm sure in most guitar stores, the younger guys were all into exactly what was happening at the time because they were young and trying to make it and that was the sound to catch. You think I immediately got into Korn or Limp Bizcuit or Dragon Force or whatever new sound came along that kids would be playing in my guitar shop? Heck no, I was trying to hip them to Van Halen and Rhoads etc, exactly like the dudes did to me when i was young.
What year were you born? I was born in 1966.
