I watched a lot of MuchMusic back in the day (i.e., back when they played continuous music videos) when I first started listening to mainstream/pop music (as opposed to classical). One video I remember is Aerosmith’s Crazy — the one featuring Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler (the daughter of lead singer Steven Tyler) running around doing what was considered “crazy” in the early 90s (although I can’t say for certain since I was too young to know what was really crazy).

When I learned more about who Aerosmith was, I was surprised that they were a band that’s been around for over 20 years! This was a band that my parents could have been listening to (well if they listened to rock), and they were still releasing hit songs. Most of the famous musicians I heard of had either broken up (Beatles), or died (Mozart, Elvis Presley) and even recent groups had split (NKOTB). Aerosmith and other bands like The Rolling Stones really had longevity (and the latter had a magazine named after them wtf).

Nowadays, young impressionable kids have their own version of Aerosmith, although maybe they’ve discovered them through Rock Band rather than MTV. The crazy thing is that these bands, you may know them as Radiohead or Oasis (remember when they were proclaimed the second coming of the Beatles?) were just forming when I started discovering music — 15 years ago! Yes, it has been that long.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: growingup, music