What is the quiet riot trajectory?

good call

Let's see: child from Texas, listening to Quiet Riot -- it won't be instantaneous, but eventually, it's going to get him to Pantera.

Listens to Slade -- he'll get to And Thou Shalt Know Us by the Carnage in Our Wake.

Listens to Oasis -- it'll be At the Drive-in.

There is something kinda crappy about old fucks like you lot 'suggesting' listening to their kids.

My dad was 'into' music but when I was a kid he made it quite clear if I ever touched any of his records he'd beat the shit out of me. He meant it to.

As a result I never heard the Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Kraftwerk etc until much later, and still haven't and probably will never set ears on Tangerine Dream, Joan Armatrading or Alan Parson Project. Since my dad was basically a hippy (albeit not peace loving, more of the 'kick your cunt in' variety) I got into punk, just to get it right up him and say 'hey dad, fuck your 60's and fuck your hippy shite!'.

Because you see that's an essential part of it all. Anger, resentment, generational divide, individualism, rebellion against authority.

The death of rock n' roll was when parent and child started liking the same sort of stuff.

the only thing my child will be allowed to listen to are field recordings from an abortion clinic

Fantastic. Might be my first sig quote.

I can get behind that statement. At least give your kid a chance at developing some taste.

I'm not worried about "suggesting" music. My goal here is to open his ears to something outside of the top 40 that his mother subjects them to in the car. The mp3 player is full of 16 gigs worth of a wide variety of punk, metal, pop, classic, indie, emo, alternative, and 80's rock. He can like whatever he wants to.

Fu, I'd bet your dad's "don't touch my records" was more based on the idea that he didn't want you breaking, scratching, or losing them over him not wanting you to hear dirty or suggestive lyrics.

He spent the remainder of this past weekend alternating the aforementioned Quiet Riot track with what has suddenly become his second-favorite song of all time, "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister.

So, basically, his musical tastes at 9 mirror those of mine at 17.

Needs more AM Gold.

don't we all?

Well, you may as well go ahead and get him a Ratt cassette now.

funny you should mention them, as it did occur to me that "round and round" is probably next on his list

and, it goes without saying that ratt was my favorite of those '80s hair bands

Or you could always just get him a copy of Billy Squier's Don't Say No, a Camaro and a bag of weed.

I had an '81 Z-28 (with T-TOPS!) back in '84, on which I routinely blasted Don't Say No. Was too big of a wuss to include the weed, though.

With munchies, you would have fattened up that much sooner, so good on not smoking, Bobbo.

Also: did Dizzee Rascal make the world -- or, at least, hip-hop -- safe for Billy Squier? Inquiring minds want to know.

metabolism is a helluva thing

i ate WAY more in those days (literally NEVER STOPPED) and couldn't so much as put on ONE POUND

only started getting TEH FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT when brewskis took center stage in college

Ale's what cures bloats ye.

I will just assume feathered hair and a members only jacket to complete that image.

feathered hair PARTED DOWN THE MIDDLE...check

members only jacket...NEIN

wardrobe of choice in those days was almost always a concert t-shirt with the sleeves cut off

photographic proof...

If you haven't by now, you should probably go look for Heavy Metal parking Lot. You may have been in that movie.

that was a couple of years after my high school days, but i am definitely going to try and find that for a viewing (just checked netflix, and it ain't on there)

I can see that guy driving a Z28.