80's/90's music scene


if you were in the music scene in the 80s or early 90's, this show will bring back some nostalgic memories for you. it does for me. I love the portrayal of the aging rock star, played by Dennis Leary Love the long lost daughter thing, and the relationship developing between them, along with the competition, and his protectiveness. The songs are really good, I will buy the soundtrack.

The relationship between Gigi and Flash is totally believable. Gigi is trying to get attention from her dad, and flash...well he gets to show up everyday with a super hot young, talented hottie on his arm. Its a fact of life, this is still happening today. Put s guitar in a mans hands, or a microphone, and his hotness level goes through the roof.

I was never a Dennis Leary fan...but I am now.

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I feel like it's more 70s oriented, and a lot of the references they make are generally aimed towards the 70s.

I feel like it's more about a 70s rockstar being dried out in the 90s than it is about a 90s rockstar being dried out today... Whenever they make a modern day reference it feels out of place, but I see what they are trying to say about the current commercialization of pop, although Pink Floyd has been warning us about that problem since the 70s...

I'm just going to continue pretending it takes place in the 90s, because why not.

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I agree with you. In today's scene, Gigi's sizzling voice and hot body will not sell unless she goes POP. A rock band like this WILL NOT sell in today's music scene.

90's is the last great decade for rock. So yeah, I can totally picture that the show, Gigi's (The Assassins) is happening in the late 90's-early 2000's and the Johnny Rock's (The Heathen's) was in the late 70's - early 80's.

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Good I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels this way about the time setting of the show!

I just feel like Dennis Leary's character is from like the Sex Pistols, or some other late 70s punk band like the Ramones.

When I hear "dried out 'rock' star" I automatically think late 70s, because the early 70s was when they were at their biggest, and the 80s were the beginning of their decline, when I hear that I definitely don't think early 90s by any means... In my opinion True "Rock" was way dead by the 90s, (although I was just a baby then)... There are still rock bands making good music now (like Ponderosa, the Winery Dogs, and Metroid Man), but it just feels out of place, unfortunately.

Still, when I hear "90s" I automatically think of Brittany Spears or of alternative/grunge music, and the birth of "the modern pop artist"... not that that's bad or anything. I actually don't believe in hating on certain kinds of music, especially modern pop, and I hate when kids hate of modern stuff... it's so annoying.

Most young people who are into classic rock these days tend to hate on the modern pop and that's just extremely hippocratic, and it makes the modern classic rock community kind of crappy, like they are just trying to please their parents and don't actually care about their music, and that's unfortunate!

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I have to disagree with you about the 90's rock scene. Although alternative rock and/or the grunge scene is different from what you describe as "true" rock, it was the "rock" of my generation, and mind you I am not alone. And we literally have hundreds of alternative and grunge bands with dozens of hits to listen to in the early and late 90's.

It is easy for us too look back and appreciate good music from past decades, but it will not compare to the present music we listen during our formative years (teens and early 20's). I hope you did find some some jewels that you appreciated from your own time.

For me, the decline of rock was from 2000-2010. Beyond that, it's dead. I am open-minded when it comes to music, I love the classics, I loved the rock of my generation, and I will love any good rock song I can find today, but I can hardly find any, post 2010.

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@jpogi I think rock started to decline in 1998.

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That was probably the final throe, but I think it started in the early 80's, if not the late 70's. Listening to top-40 music today is like turning on the Disney channel and that's a shame.

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Close, but the decline of rock began with music videos. Music from the early eighties was creative and still pretty good, and MTV was entertaining in it's early years, but as the corporate world purchased record companies and began primarily targeting children, everything went downhill by the mid-eighties.

There was still some good music released until the time frame you mentioned, however, and it's just been junk ever since. I'm not sure that rock even exists anymore, sadly.

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I'd most definitely say late eighties through the early nineties. They look like an untalented MTV band and MTV didn't exist in the seventies.

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I completely agree with the original post. Definitely more seventies into nineties. Would've been a better setting for it. But I really like the show so, I am just going with it also.


...and I am just going to have to feel this way until I DON'T feel this way ANYMORE!

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So, after reading everyone's comments I had to put in my two cents: With the music and musicians they reference, The Heathens would've been a late Seventies, early eighties band. They would've been hanging out at CBGB's with The Ramones and Iggy when he came to town. and, if they came to L.A., The Whiskey, The Troubadour, maybe even some of the smaller clubs like Blackies or the Cathay de Grande. (Oh, and they DEFINITELY would've gone to the Rainbow Bar and Grill If the band had stayed together and made it big, right after they played next door at The Roxy) I knew many such bands back in the day. For those that think the current story is set in the 90's, I disagree. Denis Leary's character has said he's fifty, which would mean that this story could be set about a decade ago, though to my way of thinking it is set present day, and Leary is having a hard time reconciling pushing sixty with rock and roll. (I get it, I'm a year younger than he is. Sixty is effing daunting!)Could be set in the last decade, could be set at present, not much to quibble about. The representation of that world is spot on and brings back a load of great memories!

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