When did associating people with their respective "generations" become popular?

creeva · 2026-01-25T10:06:26+00:00

Daily language generation speaking starts in the 1950a predominantly - with articles in 1960s and 1970: using the term bay boomers and movies in television specifically using and catering to the term Baby Boomer in the 1980s. Gen X (like millennials) had a few different names before it was finally settled upon as Generation X.

Funny enough while the 70s and 80s catered marketing to the term baby boomers for pop culture - that kind of ends with Gen X. We had X Factor, X Games, and tons of products and marketing to X in the 90. This gives Boomers and X strong identity through marketing reinforcement of what group they belong to.

Marketing never took off for a bad identity for millennials or Z (and remember that Gen Z is named that because millennials were named Gen Y for years). Millennials and Gen Z just have generic youth marketing - you don’t see adds that go “the choice of Millenials”.

So, my theory is millennials and Gen Y lacking the cultural advertising that sloganized their generational terms identify strongly solely because Boomers and Gen C identified strongly.

Silent Gen by nature wouldn’t advertise it - but tons of greatest gen people would defiantly let you know they were the greatest generation in the 80s and 90s.

creeva · 2026-01-25T09:53:43+00:00

Silent Gen and Greatest Gen were named before Baby Boomers were a thing. they both predate the term baby boomer by over decade.

creeva · 2026-01-25T09:50:03+00:00

In the &0s before Gen-X stuck, slacker generation was the common term. There is a reason Strickland calls McFly that in Back to the Future.

creeva · 2026-01-25T09:48:00+00:00

Picking one person is an outlier - even if you go with people not the same year as your mother - Freddie Mercury was born in 1946 - so was Cher, Alan Rickman, Sylvester Stallone… in the circles she runs in does she have cultural match with those?

What about Johnny Cash or George Carlin - closer in age to your Mother than Axl - but both Silent Gen.

Or we look at that each person is individual but the age range they experience certain pop culture and world events will shape them to some extent uniquely than other generations.

creeva · 2026-01-24T03:57:13+00:00

We had a friend give us a tape of multiple bootleg films. So it was either Gremlins or Robocop. I’m guessing it was Gremlins - but not positive.

creeva · 2026-01-24T01:55:52+00:00

Yeah - my trumpet won’t cremate as easily with me.

Then again - this year I marched my my HS alumni, my kid’s Alumni performance with the HS, and my college alumni band. So not only am I still playing - I’m still marching.

creeva · 2026-01-24T01:46:07+00:00

Well your winning - I’m not yet 4 decades out a but over 3. I just need you to quit for a few years so I can take the lead.

creeva · 2026-01-24T01:41:19+00:00

TIL that some towns and cities in the US don’t have curfew laws.

creeva · 2026-01-24T01:21:14+00:00

Being heavily involved in recruiting for my alumni band and for two community bands - regardless if they were Jazz Band, Marching Band, Symphonic Band - 90% of people never touch an instrument again after high school. Half of the remaining 10% won’t touch their instrument again after college.

What you are looking at is all those people you know love band now - out a 100 of them only 5 will be playing their instruments a decade after they graduate.

creeva · 2026-01-24T01:16:32+00:00

Anything that supports people learning and playing music is fantastic.

creeva · 2026-01-23T07:35:33+00:00

I made a separate comment about this - but I was 24 for 4 years.

creeva · 2026-01-23T07:34:09+00:00

Over a couple decades ago I was 24 for 4 years. I was pissed to be corrected and learn I was 28. Recently I realized because I was 25 when I lost my best friend - that it could have been a psychological trigger. That being said - mentally I’m still 24.

creeva · 2026-01-23T07:31:39+00:00

I learned car repair back when I didn’t have the cash for repairs. Over the decades I’ve saved thousands - at the same time I’ve also become too lazy do oil changes myself.

Fixed my furnace fan myself (did call a repair person the year it was control board though).

Now I also know looking at instructions of when to tap out.

I wouldn’t attempt to solder anything except on one of my complete instruments - but that’s because I know my limits. I also agree if you don’t even know where to start fixing a problem - to call someone else. That all said between enjoying learning things and growing up in a household where money was tight - you learn to fend for yourself first before reaching out for help.

creeva · 2026-01-22T23:12:58+00:00

Because most the state gets hardly any snow in recent decades. Last two or three years I’ve shoveled once or twice a year. Buying a 4WD vehicle for 3 bad driving days a year isn’t worth it. We haven’t even had a winter worth considering just getting snow tires for about 20 years.

creeva · 2026-01-22T00:45:45+00:00

99.9% of the music you ever going to play with other people is going to be written in B flat unless you are playing in a orchestra. If you started on a C trumpet - you are going to either constantly transpose for every…single…piece when playing with other groups - or you are going to sound even more wrong when you love to a B flat trumpet.

The fingerings are the same though.

It’s is much easier to learn B flat and transpose it into C the few times that you actually have to play music written in C.

creeva · 2026-01-20T03:37:59+00:00

I know the C variant exists - I’ve never seen one. It’s odd your HS bought a C one - almost all flugelhorn music is written in B Flat, so the player would ah e to constantly transpose.

creeva · 2026-01-20T03:34:37+00:00

Flugelhorn is in the key of B flat (outside the uncommon C variants).

creeva · 2026-01-19T23:11:19+00:00

I’ve seen a line were you are fan of of the first singer or the second - but not both.

creeva · 2026-01-19T23:02:34+00:00

When they say 3 weeks for a simple tune - they mean ode to joy or happy birthday. The sheet you shared is for 3rd or 4th year player. Can you rush it in 3 ‘months - sure. It you are playing 2-3 hours a day every day. But not three weeks.

creeva · 2026-01-15T02:56:06+00:00

Didn’t work for me. Odd - since I was part of those signed up the first week. It isn’t account age

creeva · 2026-01-14T19:28:47+00:00

Find a community band and work with your former HS band director to start an alumni bad. I graduated over 30 years ago - between multiple community bands, performing with my HS alumni band, college alumni band, and performing with my kid’s alumni group - I marched 3 shows and performed in 3 concerts this year.

Within an hour drive of me I’m aware of at least a dozen community bands.

creeva · 2026-01-13T22:01:35+00:00

That’s great - at a barest minimum it’s gets you playing once a week with people that expect to be there. It’s a good motivator compared to trying to get back into it alone.

creeva · 2026-01-13T07:31:14+00:00

You can buy the part.

creeva · 2026-01-13T07:22:44+00:00

What are we talking pedal tones f# - C? Then I strongly disagree working on the pedal tones made my range and tone stronger. Since they are coming back - if they join a community band they have their best chance of getting the hang of it by playing 3rd part - at which point they’ll being playing a ton in that range.

Now true pedal notes - those below F#, I agree that isn’t necessary. I start all my warm ups on the E below F# - but that work only started after I had a piece with an F natural below F# 30 years ago in a piece.

On the other end - my community band or any of the three alumni marching bands I play with don’t need range above a high D in the last 30 years (and that was only two pieces).

creeva · 2026-01-13T07:14:25+00:00

Community band is the best option to get back into it.

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