What do you mean I am still 21, with 31 years of posting and handling
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Exactly
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I like this. Is this at last a fine specimen of the wombat metal genre? Suave and butt-kicking (see what I did here…)?
Or is this - wait for it -
merely an impostor of the true, original wombat metal?
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Ah, what do I know, I am stuck at 20…
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In my head, I’m 22.
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I’m 19, and Iron Maiden just released “Fear of the Dark”…
Oh shit.
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Oh my. My brain fog just parted enough to see me dressed like judd Nelson in the breakfast Club (with longer hair) telling everyone present how iron maiden was the best band of all time.
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Yes, that’s it! (can we agree that music in our times was… Ok I will try not to say better, but at least different?)
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In that case, I am 10 stuck in 1982.
Thats the year The Vandals released Peace Thru Vandalism.
Thats the album that when I first heard it, I said, I wanna play bass like that.
Also Suicidal Tendancies released Suicidal Tendancies in 82
Or I could still be 17 in 87 when .Appetite for Destruction came out.
Today GnR is a joke IMO (Still like Duff, but Acel and GnR, not) they have not put anything out ever again since that album, but that album was / is a masterpeice. (IMHO)
And Duff, yeah I kind of wanted to be him for a little while.
Plus a few years later when I played guitar, cuz my left handed best friend bought a bass before I did, I got a Tele, probably influienced by Izzy.
In early 90’s The Beastie Boys released Check your head/ and or Ill Communications with live instrument punk tracks like Sabotage, Heart Attack Man, Time for Living, etc…
and re- released some older Hardcore recordings on Same Old Bullshit.
All big bass albums for me.
1992, at 20 when Pantera put out Vulgar Display of Power and White Zombie Released La Sexercisto…
Always loved both guitar and bass on those albums, and while they were out while I was playing guitar at my peak, They are albums that continue to draw me back for the bass.
Ohhhh, cant forget Les Claypool and Primus with their best 3 albums
Released back then (IMO)
Suck on this
Frizzle Fry
Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Big time bass fascination there
I have many bass inflluences NOW, some that were in their prime before my time, even tho they still kick ass today (Geezer for example) but the albums stated above are ones that I lived thru their releases, and are albums I immediatly think of for my life long fascination with bass.
Along with Releases in those time periods or before from:
Anthrax
Rage Against the Machine
Iron Maiden
Motorhead
Danzig - Danzig
Way too many to list
I say thats what matters most.
I agree, Things were ummm… different (better) back then, but its cuz its my experience, what I grew up thru, and what drew me and continues to draw me to bass.
Everybody elses would be different, or similar, or some things yes, other things No… of course, and its ok, cuz its about the bands, and releases you grew up with, and if you didnt know right then, that bass was for you like I did at 10 with Peace Thru Vandalism, its still the music you experienced that you can now reconnect with thru bass.
You may not have known it when you lived thru it, but they are now probably the stronger or strongest influiencers on you now.
Plus
I have seen all the bands (including Black Sabbath with Geezer) at least once, some like 7x, but all of the ones I put up there, I have seen live, another big influence to relate to my bass life.
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Apropos of “things were better then”. Things were ALWAYS better then.
In the 1850s an elderly French baroness was asked what decade of her life she remembers most fondly. She said that it was the 1790’s. When the journo incredulously pressed her on this point, because “Robespierre, revolution, guillotines”, she replied “Ah yes, but I was 18 then!”
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Yep, subjective popularity in formative years is a definite thing. But in the massive Venn diagram of music history, the most influential music genres will be represented with BIG circles that will inevitably be larger as they withstand the test of time. Same as it’s been with every art form. There are standards, deviations of the standards, deviations of deviations of standards, on and on and on. But the standards remain the constants that define world-wide hallmarks.
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I was in my teens when run to the hills from Maiden was released now I SHOWING MY AGE
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When I started listening to Maiden, Seventh Son was the newest release. I was 13. That said, it was Piece of Mind that was my introduction to them at that time, and I haven’t looked back.
Up the Irons! 
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In that case, everything is an inconsequential blip compared to classical* 
*in the West
Standards are overrated. The interesting part is where the boundaries are pushed. To me, anyway.
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Not so at all. In fact, much of what we consider classical was not appreciated for its cultural worth in its own time. That said, there have been legitimately consequential art movements and genres that were originals in their respective times that have transcended to withstand the test of time, that have become standards of greatness in their disciplines.
No one is obligated to like or dislike standards. It just doesn’t matter. But there have been seismic events in art and music history that have changed the world, and have been appreciated for their worth by people substantially beyond their inception period, for generations.
Bottom line, choices of art or music to appreciate are up to individuals. But art standards are defined by the perspective of history.
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I can think of very few things more fungible over time than “art standards.”
Maybe language? It’s probably close though.
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So to clarify this line of thinking for me, in the visual arts, what time period would you consider the “standards” to come from, and what are the deviations that came after that maybe are cool but shouldn’t be considered a “standard”? Because it seems to me that different time periods have their own “standards” based on what was popular at the time.
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Indeed. “Rubenesque” - not so popular today. As an easy example. (and a sad one!)
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Oh that’s funny 'cause I was gonna say the Venus of Willendorf would have to be the original standard - ironically Rubenesque
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