{"id":20761,"date":"2013-12-26T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T22:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20761"},"modified":"2013-12-27T23:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T04:37:40","slug":"dad-rock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dad-rock-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"paulpetersen020\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dad Rock.<\/p>\n

\u201cDad Rock\u201d is a term for all that old ’60s and ’70s music that today\u2019s dads listen to. I\u2019ve seen references to it online, heard my kids mention it, and I\u2019ve even tuned into a radio show called Dad Rock<\/strong>. Understanding the demographic of this site, I think it\u2019s fair to say many of us have Dads that are from the pre-rock era. That\u2019s the case for me, too, but that didn\u2019t mean we didn\u2019t have any rock(ish) records in the family record collection when I was a kid.<\/p>\n

My parents were in college when rock and roll emerged, and were graduates when it was only a couple of years old. To them, rock and roll was teen music, utterly beneath them. In the 1950s, the median age for getting married was 20 for women and 23 for men; if you were in your 20s, it\u2019s safe to say you identified as a grown-up.<\/p>\n

My dad was an amateur musician and was in charge of entertainment on his army base in Germany, but he never ran into Elvis (who was there at roughly the same time). In 1977, he and my mom were dragged by another couple to go see Elvis on what would be his last tour; they attended ironically and the performance simply confirmed their long-held biases.<\/p>\n

But they had been liberal young parents in the ’60s. We had a Pete Seeger record stuck in among the jazz, classical, light opera, and show tunes albums. And they were not completely closed off from the pop culture. Indeed, I think they tried to like rock at some point in the late ’60s or early ’70s, but didn\u2019t get too far.<\/p>\n

What rock or pop-rock records did your parents have? Here\u2019s about all we had:<\/p>\n