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Archae

(46,345 posts) Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:31 PM Jan 2015

I sound like my Dad!

I was with my nephew today, and he was listening to some rap on his car stereo.

It was some weird sound (supposed to be music?) and a guy saying "Bleep bleep gonna do some dope bleep bleep gonna shoot a cop bleep bleep gonna bang my ho bleep bleep bleep."

I asked him to put a music station on instead of his rap shit.

He said "You sound like Grandpa."

Oh gawd, I do.

Especially considering most of the rock stars I listen to ARE grandfathers!

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I sound like my Dad! (Original Post) Archae Jan 2015 OP

LOVE IT!!! elleng Jan 2015 #1

My Dad too. Archae Jan 2015 #3

Mine: elleng Jan 2015 #4

Funny, my Dad didn't like Der Bingie or classical music. Archae Jan 2015 #5

Bing not so important to Dad, elleng Jan 2015 #8

Two weeks before my Dad died marym625 Jan 2015 #10

Yeah but our music was MUSIC! marym625 Jan 2015 #2

Even David Lee Roth is now 60! Archae Jan 2015 #6

omd! marym625 Jan 2015 #7

Just look at Eddie and Dave in 2012! Archae Jan 2015 #9

Actually this is awesome. marym625 Jan 2015 #11

Wish in one hand and shit in the other. See which one fills up first Major Nikon Jan 2015 #12

no biggie. we ALL sound like your dad! orleans Jan 2015 #13

elleng

(131,107 posts)

1. LOVE IT!!!

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:33 PM

Jan 2015

I DO recall my Dad (very music-conscious) complained about Rock + Roll in the car!!!

Archae

(46,345 posts)

3. My Dad too.

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:39 PM

Jan 2015

This was what he liked.

elleng

(131,107 posts)

4. Mine:

Reply to Archae (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:48 PM

Jan 2015

Archae

(46,345 posts)

5. Funny, my Dad didn't like Der Bingie or classical music.

Reply to elleng (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 08:59 PM

Jan 2015

Dad didn't like those crooners like Bing Crosby, and he called classical music "longhair."

He called rock music "shit."

elleng

(131,107 posts)

8. Bing not so important to Dad,

Reply to Archae (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 09:13 PM

Jan 2015

but the song was among his favorites.

As I recall, and because Dad was born and grew up in NYCity, his older sister (his mother had died in the 1918 flu epidemic) took him to concerts including ballet, I guess to educate him in culture. Grandpa ran a deli, in the City. Dad didn't call rock 'shit,' but didn't like it so was a no-no on car radio!

marym625

(17,997 posts)

10. Two weeks before my Dad died

Reply to Archae (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 09:16 PM

Jan 2015

My niece and I were visiting him. He was very uncomfortable by dinner time. Antsy, restless, in pain. It was taking forever for them to bring him his tray.

I pulled this up on YouTube and played this for him. He started singing. And he still sounded beautiful.

Dean Martin - Sway (1954):

My dad was a professional singer in his teens. He performed at the Chicago Theater and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra asked him to tour with them. My grandparents wouldn't let him. He sounded better than any of the rat pack