re: What was your favorite years in the music scene when you were growing up...

Early 80’s. Was on the wheels of steel in a dance club. Club dance shite was the bomb. Loved rock too but never shook the club mixes and fun stuff

The progressive country years, 1973-1978. I loved the Austin sound.

Then the doofuses who were shaking their booties in the discos discovered country music from Urban Cowboy and ruined the scene.

I dug a little punk at the time too.

60's-early 70's. More narrowly, 1963-1972-ish.

Mid 90s, Alanis, wallflowers, grunge rock, too many to name.

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Not sure what that’s supposed to mean

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The crowd for their Unplugged set is Exhibit A.

I was too young to fully appreciate it at the time but ‘73-‘74 were the best years for rock music.

84-89

Hair metal
Rap/ Beastie Boys
Thrash
Radio new wave stuff

From ‘78-‘80 I saw the following in everything from a 200 capacity club to a 16K arena. Never have seen anything like it since.

Ramones
Joe Ely/Clash
Devo
Fabulous Poodles
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Dead Kennedys
Joe King Carrasco
Sweet/ UFO/ Cheap Trick
The Knack
Scorpions/ Ted Nugent

Late 60’s to about 88’. After that rock music has sucked. I actually got into country after that....

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I was a teenager in the '80s so the so-called hair band era is pretty much right in my wheelhouse.

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I think most of the music you enjoy as an adult is what you listened to when you were a teenager or music along the same lines. I grew up in the 70's so my music is rock, prog rock, punk and new wave. When things went all synthetic in the 80's that didn't appeal to me. And I think it's that way for most people. What you listened to in the decade between 13 and 23 years old is mostly the type of music you still listen to. Most of the new music I listen to now had its roots in Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Dire Straits, Allman Bros., The Police and so forth.