Dear Gen Xer At The Rock Club

A modest proposal for fellow middle-aged music lovers

S.W. Lauden
The Riff
Published in
3 min readOct 27, 2021

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I’m proud of us.

It takes guts to show our weathered faces at a club filled with beautiful twenty-somethings. So what if a few of them giggle and mock our “Lollapalooza 1991” T-shirts and Day-Glo earplugs?

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S.W. Lauden
The Riff

LA-based writer and drummer. New essay collection, “Forbidden Beat: Perspectives on Punk Drumming” available for pre-order. Twitter: @swlauden