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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aarondhgraham" data-source="post: 4281713" data-attributes="member: 13337">My Brother just retired after a very successful career,,,As a guitarist/teacher in Norman, Oklahoma.He said the most difficult part was,,,Listening to and learning the riffs for anything after after the mid-eighties.He had to know the most recent music though,,,It was necessary to stay relevant to his younger students.He was born in 1958 and his music tastes are like my born in 1951 self,,,Late 60's Zeppelin through early 80's hard rock,,,Anything after Dire Straits is a waste.He did manage to turn some of his students on to real guitar players,,,Jimmy Page, Robin Trower, Lindsay Buckingham, Rory Gallagher, Mark Knoffler and such like.He didn't "hate" any genre except for maybe the speed metal bands,,,He didn't much like the "hair bands" of the late eighties either,,,But his profession made him tolerant of all music genres.And he absolutely refuses to play "Stairway to Heaven" ever again,,,Unless it's to teach a new guitarist how to play it.I'm of the opinion that what music one likes is "mostly" a product of environmental exposure,,,Since the 20's, whatever was playing on the radio when you went through puberty,,,Is the music that you will profess to love for the end of your life.I firmly believe that my love for Classical music,,,Came from the soundtracks to the cartoons I watched as a youth.Aarond.</blockquote>