What age groups use Rock & Metal?

JohnnyCrash

In light of a recent conversation between 2 posters,thought this might be a fun way to see how diverse an age range use this forum.

Max Power1

25-35 years

well i'm 23, I presumed the average age was around that.

JohnnyCrash

Hope I dont get left on my own as the elder lemon! ha ha ha:eek:

DrumSteve

25-35 years

Im 24 now... Getting old

GLaDOS

25-35 years

20 myself, I imagine it's all ages, but the biggest group on boards as general users is probably 18-30 and that will be reflected in the poll

lord lucan

45 +

I'm 35,not far off 36. I love the fact that i'm the age i am as it meant i was around to see lots of great Rock/Metal acts from the late 80's on live.:)

Catari Jaguar

25-35 years

My 26th birthday is in 2 weeks... But I clicked the 18 - 25 box because I'm young at heart and still get asked for ID

Jako8

18-25 years

I'm a measly 17 years of age. 18 in November.

GrizzlyMan

35-45 years

Im 27 soon be to 28

Minstrel27

35-45 years

JohnnyCrash wrote: »

Hope I dont get left on my own as the elder lemon! ha ha ha:eek:

Don't worry. Dermo is every age.

PeterIanStaker

35-45 years

I'm 27, the ideal age for a (dead) rock star.

NIBBS

45 +

I'll be 40 in a couple of months.......don't feel it, certainly don't act it.......and like lucan - I'm just so happy to have been able to catch so much good music live since the late 80's............kinda fell out of love with new music for a few years in the 90's - but got that back quickly enough and can't believe how many good gigs there are on our little Island nowadays........lets hope it keeps coming....:D

slavetothegrind

45 +

nibbs and lord lucan i have yis trumped!
( though nibbs is about to catch me)

NEVER TOO OLD TO ROCK AND ROLL!!!!

I am looking forward to growing up one of these days.....:p

Nibbs it is entirely possible i would have met you in bruxelles or mc gonagles over the years!
You'll remember the old vinyl jukebox.......now the young 'uns are in shock! VINYL!

DazMarz

25-35 years

21, nearing 22.

Rock/metal music doesn't mean as much to me as it once did (back from when I was about 14 up until about 19, I was a true follower!) but I still love listening to some of the old tracks. Not as fanatical as I once was. Maybe I'm getting old.!:o

Malice

I'm 31 and I still appreciate the stuff I was into when I was 16/17.

NIBBS

45 +

slavetothegrind wrote: »

nibbs and lord lucan i have yis trumped!
( though nibbs is about to catch me)

NEVER TOO OLD TO ROCK AND ROLL!!!!

I am looking forward to growing up one of these days.....:p

Nibbs it is entirely possible i would have met you in bruxelles or mc gonagles over the years!
You'll remember the old vinyl jukebox.......now the young 'uns are in shock! VINYL!

Amen :-)

I've no doubt that there's a load of people that post on the various message boards that know each other but have no idea who they are talking to online :-)

holy **** - now you are bringing me back, we've seen that bar move to everywhere in the place except the entrance door........I remember when the jacks was downstairs in the Rock bar too......I know a lad that attacked it one night because he thought it was laughing at him (gas does strange things to the mind).......

Max Power1

25-35 years

DazMarz wrote: »

21, nearing 22.

Rock/metal music doesn't mean as much to me as it once did (back from when I was about 14 up until about 19, I was a true follower!) but I still love listening to some of the old tracks. Not as fanatical as I once was. Maybe I'm getting old.!:o

funny. I went through the same phase when I was about 19 or 20.

Then Machine Head released "the blackening" and I got right back into metal!

scudzilla

45 +

I'm 37, Went to my first gig aged 12, Monster of Rock at Donington, line up was
ZZ Top, Marillion, Bon JOvi, Metallica, Ratt & Magnum.

Been to literally hundreds of gigs and festivals since, seen most of the biggest rock bands ever, met most of the rock gods.

Seems the older i got, the more metal i get, at the moment fav bands are Hatebreed, Cancer Bats, Slipknot.

Fav of all time is Metallica, seen them around 25 times now all over Europe

Arnold Layne

45 +

Being 39, the best gig I've been at has been Metallica at the Top Hat with Danzig supporting during the Blind Justice Tour. Seeing Hetfield & Hammet coming onstage for the end of the Danzig set was one thing, but having Glenn Danzig singing Last Caress during Metallica's encore was the biz.

Can't get into Metallica's latest offerings, but Slayer's back catalogue gets a blast almost everyday while stuck in traffic

Angron

25-35 years

18 myself.

galwayrush

45 +

I was 13 when i discovered Rush, and that was 5 years after their first release.;)

rednik

46, it all started at the Macroom festival in the 70s with Rory and Wishbone Ash and the rest, although The Blues Band with Paul Jones stole the festival one year for me. I have to be honest I haven't a clue about most of the bands that get mentioned today, I'm just an old rocker who is looking forward to some great gigs this year.:)

slavetothegrind

45 +

Arnold Layne wrote: »

Being 39, the best gig I've been at has been Metallica at the Top Hat with Danzig supporting during the Blind Justice Tour. Seeing Hetfield & Hammet coming onstage for the end of the Danzig set was one thing, but having Glenn Danzig singing Last Caress during Metallica's encore was the biz.

Can't get into Metallica's latest offerings, but Slayer's back catalogue gets a blast almost everyday while stuck in traffic

Them were days, was there, master of puppets tour was amazing too.

slavetothegrind

45 +

NIBBS wrote: »

Amen :-)

I've no doubt that there's a load of people that post on the various message boards that know each other but have no idea who they are talking to online :-)

holy **** - now you are bringing me back, we've seen that bar move to everywhere in the place except the entrance door........I remember when the jacks was downstairs in the Rock bar too......I know a lad that attacked it one night because he thought it was laughing at him (gas does strange things to the mind).......

Well i'll tell you what nibbs, if you and lucan go to the meet i might just not feel like a predator and go myself!!!!!!

lord lucan

45 +

slavetothegrind wrote: »

Well i'll tell you what nibbs, if you and lucan go to the meet i might just not feel like a predator and go myself!!!!!!

I'll go for the laugh. Fly the flag for veteran rockers!:pac:

Nea

45 +

Qualified for the fourth group this week. Feeling auld.

I started listening to Bon Jovi and Def Leppard when I was 12. First gig was Bon Jovi when I was 15.

As said above the older I get, I listen to more and varied genres of metal, i.e as a 17 year old " Oh my God do you listen to Deicide, they're Satanists"( No such thing as OMG:eek::eek::eek: when I was 17)

Now everything gets listened to regardless of genre ( emo is taking it a bit far tho....)

I met a school colleague last week who I hadn't seen in years who asked me did I still listen to metal.

"Yes" I answered proudly "And even more so than when I was in School" \m/

dasdog

35-45 years

I'm thirty three and proud of it! (Spider from Bad News). Well I'm actually thirty five and nearing another birthday. My little synopsis - older cousins playing Zeppelin/Deep Purple albums to me aged six (and early Elvis). Hearing Iron Maiden in fourth class (now that was something else). Spent my mid teens buried in thrash metal and then reverted to older rock/blues/funk/jazz/soul/techno/electronic etc in later years. I listen to jazz more than anything else now (as well as writing a lot of music of all sorts) but I'm still in touch with rock and metal which was part of my youth. And I finally went to see Slayer a few years ago who were the only band in the late 80's/early 90's I really regretted not seeing.

Motley Crue

35-45 years

I'm 25 and have been a metal fan since I was a young impressionable 13 year old who first picked up Metal Hammer with Jerry Cantrell on the cover

StormWarrior

35-45 years

I think the poll is going to say more about which age groups use internet forums, than which age groups listen to metal. I'm in my late twenties and the majority of my friends are metalheads aged from late twenties to mid forties. However the older ones are less likely to answer questions like this on the internet, I think this poll will give a false result.

TangyZizzle

25-35 years

19, 20 in August.

I saw Bon Jovi on that chart show that used to play on Rte 2 on Saturday mornings.. rocked out to that. Got a voucher for Golden Discs when I was 12, bought Slipknot's Iowa, then my parents got Sky Digital so I spent every single day after school watchin Kerrang and goin a lil mental in the livin room
Only been to two gigs in my life, Soulfly in 2009 a few months after my 18th, Garcia plays Kyuss a few weeks ago there in ALT \m/
Iv got tickets for Sepultura in the end of July, a ticket for Soulfly in August on the way, hopefully Ill make Brant Bjork in a few weeks.. and hey.. Soundgarden? if they come here, Ill be there
I try not to just stick with one genre, but I really cant stand metalcore or emo stuff.. and whatever bullet for my valentine is considered.

Angron

25-35 years

StormWarrior wrote: »

I think the poll is going to say more about which age groups use internet forums, than which age groups listen to metal. I'm in my late twenties and the majority of my friends are metalheads aged from late twenties to mid forties. However the older ones are less likely to answer questions like this on the internet, I think this poll will give a false result.

Well that's technically the point here, it's to gauge the ages of the users of this particular subforum as opposed to a the ages of everyone that likes rock and/or metal.

JohnnyCrash

The name of this poll is What age groups use Rock & Metal.Pretty self explanatory i thought.To see the poll one would have to use the forum in question and take part or not!

Rubberlegs

45 +

Stick the head round the door of this forum from time to time:D. Am 37, and still listen to the stuff listened to 20yrs ago ie Guns n Roses, Def Leppard, Queen,anything thats on compilaton albums I have from years ago. It all still gets a blast in the car. Can't say I've much time for anything you'd see on Kerrang! these days. God be with the days of Headbangers Ball:)

Sephiroth_dude

25-35 years

24 getting old

Max Power1

25-35 years

ah stop it will ya - i'll be 24 in a couple of months, I dont think im getting my pipe and slippers anytime soon tho :P

lord lucan

45 +

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

24 getting old

Sure you're only a nipper!:p

PattheMetaller

45 +

40 pushing onwards to 41 in October.

Remember some great gigs in the 80's. Like a previous poster, I don't like much that you'd find in Kerrang nowadays. Reading material for me now is Classic Rock, CLassic Rock Presents Prog Terroriser and Metal Hammer

bazmaiden

25-35 years

cherub rock wrote: »

My 26th birthday is in 2 weeks... But I clicked the 18 - 25 box because I'm young at heart and still get asked for ID

Wow, seen you at Kiss thought you were only early 20's!:eek:

23 myself, and can say that i'm now more definatly into hard/classic than metal as opposed to my teen years

silvervixen84

35-45 years

26, it sucks being in a new category on surveys :mad:

NIBBS

45 +

slavetothegrind wrote: »

Well i'll tell you what nibbs, if you and lucan go to the meet i might just not feel like a predator and go myself!!!!!!

When's it on ???

Catari Jaguar

25-35 years

Malice_ wrote: »

I'm 31 and I still appreciate the stuff I was into when I was 16/17.

I still appreciate the stuff I used to listen to when I was 11 or 12! I remember loving Nirvana when Kurt was still alive! Used to dress like him too

Catari Jaguar

25-35 years

bazmaiden wrote: »

Wow, seen you at Kiss thought you were only early 20's!:eek:

Hahah! Cool. I suppose I stood out a bit.. You should have come over to say hi!

ride-the-spiral

18-25 years

17, will be 18 soon.

I feel so young.

bazmaiden

25-35 years

cherub rock wrote: »

Hahah! Cool. I suppose I stood out a bit.. You should have come over to say hi!

Well i didn't know who you were until you posted the pics in the Kiss thread of you and your mates at the gig.
I was just standing directly in front of you.


I think the poll has some interesting results, would make for a diverse Beers night!

Malice

cherub rock wrote: »

I still appreciate the stuff I used to listen to when I was 11 or 12! I remember loving Nirvana when Kurt was still alive! Used to dress like him too

I bought my first album when I was 12 - Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion 1 on tape not long after it came out in 1991. And yes I still like it .

NIBBS wrote: »

When's it on ???

Note to self: Update the meetup threads later! June was voted as the most popular date but Dublin was voted as the most popular venue and seeing as how I don't live there it would be a bit difficult for me to organise it. It would be much simpler if a crowd would come to Galway or Cork .

NIBBS

45 +

Malice_ wrote: »

Note to self: Update the meetup threads later! June was voted as the most popular date but Dublin was voted as the most popular venue and seeing as how I don't live there it would be a bit difficult for me to organise it. It would be much simpler if a crowd would come to Galway or Cork .

Always looking for the easy way out Malice

June indeed, yeah not that long left in June.....will check for updates later...

Motley Crue

35-45 years

TangyZizzle wrote: »

and whatever bullet for my valentine is considered.

Bad. Very Bad.

Under A Funeral Moon

25-35 years

I'm 24, nearly 25.

chin_grin

35-45 years

28 and I still act me shoe size! ^_^

Just one thing though.....Why has the poll got a multiple choice select instead of a radial button option. Is this for the schizo's?

Under A Funeral Moon

25-35 years

chin_grin wrote: »

28 and I still act me shoe size! ^_^

Just one thing though.....Why has the poll got a multiple choice select instead of a radial button option. Is this for the schizo's?

It's for people, like us, who want to vote for both their chronological age and their mental age.

chin_grin

35-45 years

Under A Funeral Moon wrote: »

It's for people, like us, who want to vote for both their chronological age and their mental age.

I'm goin' back and checking the 0 - 18 years option so!