I just stumbled onto this and I LOVE it! I was born in 1967. I'd like to add a personal opinion regarding music and radio in Our time versus now. I think that the ability to hear any and every song today is overwhelming. The joy of hearing on the radio that one of your favorite bands was releasing a new album the following weekend, and then going to buy that album and listening to every song is gone. The joy of waiting, and the anticipation is what made music great! The joy of buying a Hit Parader magazine on Friday and seeing pictures of your favorite artists and hopefully finding an interview with them was magnetic. The joy of seeing your favorite movie star in a picture was exciting. And maybe it's just me, but I miss not knowing EVERYTHING ABOUT my Idol's lives. They seemed bigger back then. It was glamorous and fascinating. Patience is a virtue that is rewarded with pure glee, but there is no more patience, because its no longer necessary. I find it sad. Be well.

We traveled the entire country, five guys in an old Econoline van, finding venues with road maps and pay phones. Touring today is a piece of cake.

Wow, this stuff hits home. I remember and lived it. Back then if someone would have told me I could have everything at the touch of a button. I would've gone crazy for the idea. Now that we do, most days I wish I could go back to when we didn't. The easier things got the less exciting and cool they got.

So glad I discovered this channel. His Book is GREAT I couldn’t put it down

Wow, this bring back memories! Growing up in 80s in north Texas, my buddies and i would get a case of beer and drive out of town into the country on a Saturday night and find that "sweet spot", where the car radio could pick up signals from Dallas..Q102 and KZEW!! They would play all the great rock and metal that we would read about in magazines! We'd roll down the windows, crank up the radio and lay on tbe hood. Every so often, we would have to move the car a little bit to pick up the signal better! Man, those were the best times!

DC5 & LA Guns in the same vid. Love it

So true! 💜🤘🏻💜

Steve Marriott and Steve Perry are my favorite singers no doubt

True!

You're absolutely right! It's too easy today, just press a button and you can look up anything and everything. And no one is hungry, everything is taken for granted. Such a shame. The internet is good for so many reasons but I think it will be the downfall of our youth.

I remember there was a time when getting into a venue to see your favorite band was just as hard as a starter band trying to sell tickets to help a venue pay for the headliner act aka Pay to Play. Thank you so very much for your wonderful content I especially love the Motley Crue stories and the L.A. Guns stories . This whole age of entitlement is completely a lie no one should be given anything. Back in the day if you wanted something you had to go out and work terrible jobs just to save enough money up to buy what you wanted life was not meant to be handed to us on a golden platter, life is brutal and very hard with way to many heart aches and pain the internet can be helpful but also turns some people into mindless, entitled, disillusioned ignorant people.

LAG as the Rolling Stones lol, good advice at the end btw

The diner story's great! I could almost see them thinking they were the Stones if Tracii was chanelling his Keith look that he had for a short period of time...BUT NOT IN 1988! 😂 Funny story involving Steve Marriott recording that album, his Stones audition tape, & some of the Cheap Trick guys in a hotel room when they 1st went to LA in '75 to play the Starwood...I can message it to you.

Ciao!

new Mike video drop🔥🔥🔥

One night while gassing up at a Circle K in Florida (1988) a guy was convinced I was John Regan (R.I.P. John) from Frehley's Comet😹😹😹😹😹

Got “Stay Hungry” in my head now. Great advice, mf! Cheers.

night time in the winter am frequency from new york could be heard down south

I’ve always said I wanted to grow up in the 80’s. I liked the diner story, that’s hilarious, I live in Kentucky. Do you remember what area of Kentucky you guys were?

Have you done any podcasts? Appreciate the content ✌️

What happened? You "forget" about this channel?

you would literally have to get inside info from local record store when they were getting new releases in before the official on sale date or when japanese imports were coming in

In the 60’s/70’s was a random band able to sweet talk a radio DJ to spin their music…… or was radio ultra corporate programmed like these daze?

Hm....another "magnate" of 80s/90 hair bands has a one-man show with "gutter" in the title. Id rather have a book!