[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1436998772' post='2822792']
I was 15 in 1980. It was the decade in which I really got properly seriously into music (having been hooked by 2-Tone in '79), discovered girls in a meaningful fashion , picked up a bass for the first time, did my A levels, got a job and a car and a band, and then a really good band, built a following and spent every weekend playing in London at the Brentford Red Lion (RIP), 100 Club, T&C, Rock Garden... loving life and loving music and the whole thrill of being young with the world as my oyster.
GOD, I F**KING LOVED THE EIGHTIES.
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The best bit was ramming a club/pub full of your school mates. They'd come to see you just because you were in a band. Who cares how good the music was. Now thanks to strict ID you can't do that.