This morning, Mollie, my 15-year-old, was making me pancakes while she listened to Behind Blue Eyes by The Who. She then went shopping with Grandma and came home with a Pink Floyd t-shirt.
Then, just a while ago, I got a call from my 24-year-old daughter, Jessica. She happened to mention that while she was making flower arrangements at her new job as a florist/wedding planner, she was cranking up the Led Zeppelin.
I have never been more proud.
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That’s awesome! My 13 year old has a Hendrix poster in his room and we play “Name that artist” when I have the classic rock station on in the car. Makes a Mama proud! My Stepdad exposed me to great music at a young age and I am so grateful, hoping to pass it on to the next generation!
It just seems important to let kids listen to a wide range of music, not just the stuff that is written now. My mom made us listen to a lot of classical music, and I never regretted it… well, I mean, now I don’t.
Isn’t it wonderful when our adult children make us proud. Cracked me up. 🙂
Thank you. I mean, they do make me proud in other ways too… but that one struck a chord.
Good job, dad! Wish I’d had half the dad you are. Hmmm. Does that even make sense?
It makes sense, and is extremely complimentary… well, to me, anyway…
To ALL of us at a certain age, trust me. You did good.
thank you
My kids can sing along with any Beatles song and it kinda surprises them when their friends don’t know the words, or the song for that matter.. I have video of my baby girl’s first or second birthday with her dancing (and singing) to Bob Marley.
Jessica rocked out to Lynryd Skynryd as a baby, Mollie loved ‘Old Black Water’ by the Doobie Brothers
I nominate you Father of the Decade!
oh wow…
You did a great job!!
My dad did a pretty good job too.
He seems to have.
What more can you give them. They are totally prepared to conquer the world! Well done!
That would seem to be the case… I mean, I wish they knew Kung Fu… I tried to teach them…
Music is better than Kung Fu. Didn’t they bring down armies by playing rock and roll somewhere? Or is that one of those Urban Myth things.
I think they brought the walls of Jericho down using the horn section from Earth Wind and Fire in the Bible…
I knew I heard it somewhere.
The bible has some awesome urban myths
True that.
ha
Loud rock and roll music made mice explode in Rock n Roll High School…
Just one of its many uses
I was so proud the day my five-year-old was running around the yard singing some very political 80s REM. But somehow my nine-year-old has developed a love for Michael Jackson. Not sure what to do with that.
Hey, as long as it is early Jackson… back when he was… human…
It all started when they performed “We are the World” at school. I’m just trying to keep her away from “Billie Jean.”
Keep her away from the whole crotch-grabbing phase… HA!
we listen, WE DON’T WATCH. just wait til I have to tell her about Macauley Culkin.
yeah… what about Honey Boo Boo… and Dick Cheney…
Please stop. I’m saving up so we can move to Canada. Where we will spend our days hiding from the existence of Justin Bieber.
Don’t move into his neighborhood…
And your work is done! I am always admirable of people raising kids, it’s the toughest job out there, making good, kind, decent human beings. it’s even more impressive when they have fantastic music taste.
Thanks, buddy
Don’t let them near your LP’s with toy cars, I used my dad’s rolling stones LP’s as race tracks and scratched them all
It is important though, imagine bringing up a kid and they are into One Direction, R N’ B music, a kids gotta rock.
Mollie loves One Direction too… you can’t have everything.
Dang! I forgot that. I was keeping an eye out in my neighbourhood for Harry to collar him for a video message for Mollie.. But I’ve moved home now. I am popping back to that area tonight for a drink, maybe I’ll get lucky.
She’s still young, time to outgrow that, she has good foundations
It will happen… and if you get lucky with him, you better do a blog post…
For sure
with pictures…
oh Dear God… you have children??? lol I raised both mine on PF and LZ, Jimmy Hendricks is my oldest’s favorite! Then came rap…. oh well, I did my best! 🙂
our best is all we can do.
Beware, they’ll be starting blogs next.
Jessica has that wedding/style one…
Rock on indeed
oh, we do
word
ha
You need a pair of suspenders to pull on, papa. 🙂
I would look goofy in those.
yeah?
I think so
Yes he does!
Don’t you have a beaver to skin?
ummm
I just made fun of Canadians in my post about Trent… deal with it…
Oh I haven’t see it yet…when I do oh boy look out..lol
uh oh
I saw it now
I saw that
I don’ think you’d like me very much because my musical taste is all confused, like a pile of spaghetti. I’ll be singing Mario Lanza, switch to Nirvana, follow up with CCR, maybe throw in a little Harry Nilsson and go from there. If anything, I hope beside exposing my teens to my horrible singing, they’re getting to hear a wide variety of music…
AnnMarie
ps My fifteen-year old daughter’s night shirt is Led Zeppelin if that counts.
that does count… and I used to listen to CCR practicing in their garage on my way home from elementary school… I do like music other than 70’s hard rock, and the songs I write seem to be be tender love ballads… You can hear a couple of them if you push that button on the top header bar called: my original music videos
Truth be told, I was typing with one eye open last night – so very tired and I will go back to your fantastical musical site refreshed today and listen to some of your tunes as I am a music junkie. Wasn’t it John Lennon that said, “Give music a chance?” 😉
AnnMarie
I thought Winston Churchill said that…
He said, “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm or your guitar pick.” 😉
what a guy!
YOU DID NOT!! Did you really??
How is it that you got the cooler part of our lives?? oh yeah, California…
They grew up in my home town, went to the same high school years before me… I also know some of the guys in Metallica and Les Claypool from Primus who wrote the theme song for Southpark
Greg Philbin lived on my street. He is older than I so I don’t remember it but yeah, that’s what I got. I did see Harry Chapin in a pretty intimate venue and Ricky Nelson at a FREE summer fest type venue.
We used to listen to a lot of rock greats in the Panhandle park in San Francisco playing for free… I need to stop making you jealous…
Yes. Yes you do. I am dangerously close to making this a oneupmanship. Do you think that’s because I am the youngest?? In my family I mean, not here. Bahahaha!
I would not play that game with me if I were you.
What??!! I was happy to let that go but then you have to go say something like that??
If we are gonna go this route we should go to the other post!
Unfortunately, I will let you win this round because I am going to have very little time until tomorrow or the next day… but you can see my post called: straight up name dropping…
Challenge! THATS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR! Darn. See what happens to me after a couple fifteen hour shifts?! I can’t find my words!
Even the wrong words can still say something…
Just AWESOME. With all the crap that passes for music these days, and also while they were younger and musically impressionable, to have them realize and appreciate QUALITY music such as this is awesome. My nieces are both in their early twenties and are quite knowledgeable and very into all the right kinds of music. Thanks for sharing this. Good to know that your girls were raised up right. Long Live Rock n Roll!!!
Rock on,,,