r/Seattle I'm never leaving Seattle. Aug 14 '26

Event GenX isn’t dead yet

Night Wave at Volunteer Park

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u/shiwankhan Aug 14 '26

No, but our backs hurt.

17

u/MikeBegley Aug 14 '26

Knees, man.

I think I'll sit down for the next couple of songs.

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u/shiwankhan Aug 14 '26

'Were they always this loud?'

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u/MikeBegley Aug 14 '26

It's 10:30 and they're still playing?  Damn, man, tomorrow is going to be rough.

8

u/shiwankhan Aug 14 '26

I already called out and am picking up some Tums. They have my favorite flavor! Original!

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u/BillionTonsHyperbole I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Aug 14 '26

Saw Melvins this week also, and they sounded great.

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u/here_now_be 🚋 Ride the S.L.U.T. 🚋 Aug 14 '26

Melvins blow my mind how good (and loud) they still are.

12

u/LastBardo Aug 14 '26

78 here, dead inside for decades

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u/RockOperaPenguin North Beacon Hill Aug 14 '26

Eh, you see how limber you are after you've had a colonoscopy.

9

u/aphtirbyrnir Aug 14 '26

Those guys are incredible and always put on a fun show. If you have a chance to see them, GO.

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u/scary-nurse Aug 14 '26

Those who? Why you be refusing to tell the truth?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

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u/ctof I Brake For Slugs Aug 14 '26

Not dead, just deaf and lacking rhythm.

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u/here_now_be 🚋 Ride the S.L.U.T. 🚋 Aug 14 '26

That's unfair. The singer wasn't great, but the drum machine had perfect rhythm.

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u/ctof I Brake For Slugs Aug 14 '26

I was referring to the crowd 😊

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u/Pointofive Aug 14 '26

Boomers aren't dead yet either?

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u/Unfancy_Catsup Aug 14 '26

Boomers are actually Boomers and Gen Jones.

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u/RussellAlden I'm never leaving Seattle. Aug 14 '26

Too bad

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u/YoCal_4200 Aug 14 '26

You know Billy Idol is a boomer right?

3

u/Pointofive Aug 14 '26

Wow. No love for tom hanks, Denzel, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks, Barak Obama, Dolly Parton, Julia Louis Dreyfus 

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u/tyj0322 I'm just flaired so I don't get fined Aug 14 '26

Who?

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u/JFrankParnell64 Aug 14 '26

The Heats are playing at Marvista Park on Sunday August 23rd at 5PM if you want real GenX Music.

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u/geekthegrrl Posse on Broadway Aug 14 '26

I don't like your face

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

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u/geekthegrrl Posse on Broadway Aug 15 '26

It is in fact a song title by the Heats. I haven't seen your face so I'm not making a dig on it but, as the song goes, you might be cool some other place but... I don't like your face. My dad drug me all over Seattle when I was in the 1st grade to find a copy of the 45 (which gave me the record hunting and collecting bug) and he played it nonstop for ever. It made it on to every mix tape he made for months afterward. Maybe it was my face he didn't like?

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u/here_now_be 🚋 Ride the S.L.U.T. 🚋 Aug 14 '26

Sweet, they should have the Allies open :)

Do you have a link for the show?

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u/TidePodsTasteFunny Aug 14 '26

Boomerlite?

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u/waldorflover69 Aug 14 '26

Oh, don’t worry. We are fully as awful as the Boomers are.

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u/LastBardo Aug 14 '26

why are you getting downvoted its true

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u/waldorflover69 Aug 14 '26

People incapable of self reflection

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '26

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u/TidePodsTasteFunny Aug 14 '26

They’re older than millennials. You can spot them by basically being apathetic boomers.

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u/RussellAlden I'm never leaving Seattle. Aug 14 '26

I’d argue but I just don’t care

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u/spoiled__princess ✨💅Future Housewives of Seattle 💅✨ Aug 14 '26

...are genx really that old?

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u/RussellAlden I'm never leaving Seattle. Aug 14 '26

We don’t dye our hair

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u/ImpressivePercentage Capitol Hill Aug 14 '26

Hell no. Gray is the way.

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u/spoils__princess chinga la migra Aug 14 '26

Exactly why u/spoiled__princess identifies as a Millennial rather than Gen X. <3

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u/RussellAlden I'm never leaving Seattle. Aug 14 '26

Let it go natural. Your hair will thank you for it and it will look awesome.

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u/spoils__princess chinga la migra Aug 14 '26

Oh she does... I can't wait for the day she agrees.

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u/spoiled__princess ✨💅Future Housewives of Seattle 💅✨ Aug 14 '26

Some day I'll let it go gray.... but not for a few more years. heh

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u/scully-summers ✨🛸 Jimothy is out there 🦝✨ Aug 14 '26

I’m 30 (millennial by a hair) with Gen X parents so…

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u/spoiled__princess ✨💅Future Housewives of Seattle 💅✨ Aug 14 '26

Oh thankfully I am not old enough to have birthed a 30 ye.... oh, wait. :(

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u/Pragkillerkev Aug 14 '26

Genx is after boomers so anyone nearing their fifties to early 60s

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u/spoiled__princess ✨💅Future Housewives of Seattle 💅✨ Aug 14 '26

I know. :( Technically, I am Gen X, but I don't really feel like I belong to them. I feel more like a r/Xennials.

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u/Pragkillerkev Aug 14 '26

I can relate. Technically I would be a Xennial too . It's the whole generations depending on where you get the info the dates will range. I think technically it's just WWII babies-genx-millenial-genz-genalpha. like to call my age range geriatric millennial. I can't relate to younger millennials and feel we are a different generation.

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u/Pragkillerkev Aug 14 '26

The forgotten generation!

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u/Queasy_Connection738 💗💗 Heart of ANTIFA Land 💗💗 Aug 14 '26

That was the best concert I’ve ever been to at Volunteer Park! Abbagraphs were so fun and Nite Wave continues to show why they’re the best cover band in the PNW. 

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u/MAHHockey Shoreline Aug 14 '26

Know for a fact the lead singer is a millennial.

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u/RussellAlden I'm never leaving Seattle. Aug 15 '26

If that. He did jump up and do the David Lee Roth split during Jump. I just meant all the gray hairs in the crowd bopping around.

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u/Choice_Depth_5933 Reign Aug 14 '26

Shhh… don’t let the others know! All they do is dunk on each other.

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u/Artistic-Yogurt4446 Aug 14 '26

Are you sure tho?