# Too old to rock n' roll?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 31, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472 "2013-03-31T22:50:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/21 "2013-04-01T16:19:24Z")
48 years old. Still love cranking up the stereo in the car with some AC/DC, Led Zep, or Queen. I even started taking guitar lessons 4 years ago, so I could learn how to play rock guitar.
I still listen to a lot of the groups (and songs) that I listened to in high school and college. I came to the realization, a few years back, that my musical tastes had become pretty ossified. I make a point of listening to newer music now, as well – I’m not a fan of most music on the pop charts, but I keep trying new bands that I read about in _Rolling Stone_, or hear on Sirius’s _Spectrum_ station.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/22 "2013-04-01T16:33:34Z")
To paraphrase Kris Kristopherson (and how the last option should have been worded):
From the rocking of the cradle to the rolling of the hearse: ROCK N ROLL FOREVER, MAN!
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/23 "2013-04-01T16:43:55Z")
Still rockin’ out at Springsteen and Ian Anderson concerts despite being AARP-eligible for over half a decade.
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### Author:  [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/24 "2013-04-01T16:50:45Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> I’m almost 48. I play very loud guitar in a rock band every Tuesday night. And we don’t do but one or two ballads. We’re mostly straight up rock n roll (not metal – think Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, the occasionally Allman Brothers and a healthy dose of Bob Marley).
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> I will rock out with my cock out until it falls off. I recommend the same.
This applies to me as well. The songs our band play in cover the 60’s to '90 and like you, I will keep it up until the hearse shows up. I might outlast you but only because drummers don’t wear out as fast as guitarists, since we never get the girls. 😃
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### Author:  [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/25 "2013-04-01T17:04:43Z")
My tastes in music have broadened as I have gotten older but I do concert sound for a living and there is nothing like pushing up the kick drum until it makes me queasy with low end. There is something magical about it, like a big announcement that “tonight we shall ROCK”. No small wonder I am a little deaf. 42 btw.
I also play bass in a late sixties/early seventies New Orleans style funk band and oddly we are not loud at all, go figure.
**Capt**
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/26 "2013-04-01T20:31:03Z")
I listen to a wide variety of music. I still occasionally listen to Rock but not like I did 20 years ago. I like the 60’s but prefer MoTown, the early Beatles, Beach Boys. I still like Bob Seger. Hard Rock just doesn’t interest me any more.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/27 "2013-04-01T20:40:08Z")
I’ve been playing guitar for 35 years, mostly rock and blues. I’m trying to add a bit of jazz and slide, but will never be accused of anything but being a rock guy…
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### Author:  [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/28 "2013-04-01T20:43:56Z")
I think every generation mostly gets attached to the musical style popular when they were young (15 to 25 or so) and continues to be attached to that music as they grow older.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/29 "2013-04-01T21:08:19Z")
never listen to anyone under 30.
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### Author:  [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/30 "2013-04-03T15:54:16Z")
I’m 48 and I do think a lot of rock music is too loud. I mostly listen to either movie soundtracks or “ambient,” easy listening, nature sounds-type music now. However, I will occasionally listen to '80s music, disco and Michael Jackson.
If I want high energy music I am more likely to listen to Celtic music than rock. But I change to something quieter after maybe 20 or 30 minutes.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/31 "2013-04-03T16:03:44Z")
As I’ve aged, I’ve lost almost all interest in music. I do still prefer rock, metal, hardcore, hard rap and hip hop, though - loud raucous stuff.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-old-to-rock-n-roll/654472/32 "2013-04-03T16:04:29Z")
I mostly stopped listening to music about 12 or 13 years ago. I’m 50 now. I still like the old stuff I used to listen to (Beatles, Stones, Who, Neil Young, Doors, and stuff from that genre along with Gordon Lightfoot, Carole King, James Taylor and stuff from that genre) the main problem is that I’ve heard it all before so many times that it’s hard to listen to now.
And, I don’t seem to want to invest any effort in finding new artists. So I have talk radio in the car and pretty much don’t listen to music at home. Concerts are OK but whenever I attend one (rarely) I feel like I’m caught up in some form of hero worship. I don’t really like to applaud and yell and whistle. For what a concert costs they should be doing that for me.
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