Born in the wrong era…

With the current "era' I think you'd have to be insane not to think you were born in the wrong era in this circus clown world.

I'm just happy I had my first 8-10 years of my life in analog world and no mass surveillance. 

Well, for bits and pieces.

Glad I was around to witness,

The USGP's at Carlsbad. 

The Trans AMA's at Saddleback. 

Desert races with a smoke bomb start.

The original elsinore, and the 6th gear WFO runs on the beach in San Felipe,  when you could count on two hands the number of buildings in that little town.

The original Baja races with Parnelli Jones, James Garner, etc...

The old, Can-Am, F-5000, Trans-Am series, and Saturday support races.

Surfing before it became a territorial gang activity. 

Glamis when you were only about one of a dozen people there.

But hell, shit's pretty good right now !!!

Gotta morning view that never gets old...

And lots of 4x4 trails to explore down below.

And someone to share a good beer with at the end of the day.

“Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late, the cannons don’t thunder there’s nothing to plunder I’m an over 40 victim of fate, arriving too late, arriving too late”. - Jimmy Buffett approves this thread 

I'm with you on that but I do wish there would have been an easier way for musicians to get their stuff out in front of the public. It was very difficult back then and because of that, I think we probably missed out on some pretty good stuff. With digital, any musician, can publish their stuff and get an idea of how well it's received by the public directly instead of having to convince the king makers first. Although they seem to have been pretty good at making kings out of the right people. I have published a fair amount of my own stuff in the last 7 or 8 years and now I know that giving up on a musical career back in my 20's was the correct decision.

Born in 1970 and have fond memories of how good life was growing up through to my 20's. 

I feel sorry for my teenage daughters. So many challenges ahead.....

"I shoulda been a cowboy".

Imagine being 34 and having no interest in technology 😃 so yes, constantly. 

56-61 yr olds is the best 5 yr age ever. The 70,s music was great. Women wore short shorts with butt cheecks slipping out & no bras. Late 70,s early 80,s music was the best. Punk rock,new wave, VH, Rush, metal, etc awesome concerts.  I laugh looking back a group of us in 8th grade ska dancing going down the street . To Gary Numan cars song on a huge boombox . Adults really hated us & talked about . What’s going on with this new generation? Kids never acted like this.  Friday night at least 20 big house parties with multiple keggers.  8 track, to cassette then cd.eww that was big. Areas of town got cable tv. We all gathered & watched rock& roll high school with the Ramones. 8-9th grade a lot of kids talked like there where from England. Haha that drove the teachers nuts.  My grade pretty much drove the drinking age from 18 to 19 then 21.  

I too was born in 1970, I feel like I grew up in the last good years. It seems like everything got worse beginning in the 2000. at times I think it would have been fun to been driving when all the muscle cars where new, but then i realize we all were driving them in high school. And still are.

Had a cousin that fit this bill.  Should've been born in 1860, not 1960.  Real free spirit kind of guy, not a hobo or transient, just a guy that liked not being tied down to anything. Loved to hunt and fish and would take off in his truck during hunting season and be gone for weeks.   

Never really had a steady job, just a lot of rural construction jobs where he could stay at the site, earn enough after a few weeks, then drift off.  Type of guy that would show up at our house out of the blue and stay for 3-4 days.  Never an inconvenience or shady, just a guy that was never in a hurry.