New website opens for R'n'R vets
A new social website has opened for veteran Rockers. The site features a forum, events, blogs, social groups and the chance to meet fellow music lovers.
From the press release:
A 50 year old lawyer who wears his Clash t-shirt under an Armani suit...a 40 year old artist who does her best work late at night, with Journey blasting from the speakers...a thirtysomething couple, just relocated and desperately looking to find friends who want to do more than share potty training stories.
These are the “veteran rockers” – people who know that a gray hair or two is no reason to turn down the volume on your life. They're everywhere, and yet there was no way to find one another. Until now.
RockandRollTribe.com, The Community for Kick-Ass Grownups, launched in July, features free memberships and a full social network experience. Online, members can create special interest groups, post blogs, embed video and audio and make friends with like-minded people across the globe. Offline, local Tribe chapters gather for record store expeditions, pre-concert tailgating and parties that are anything but dull.
>> Cheap Beer + Thin Lizzy = A Big Idea
The site is the brainchild of two 48 year old Colorado music geeks, Jon Bard and Bruce Brodeen. “We were sitting in our favorite dive bar on a Friday night, pumping money into the jukebox and drinking cheap beer,” Bard says. “And it occurred to us 'where is everybody?' Why aren't there scores of other people our age in here listening to Thin Lizzy and having a blast?”
“We knew that these folks were out there,” continues Brodeen. “We see them at shows, we see them at record stores. But how do we connect them with each other?”
A few scrawls on the back of a beer coaster ultimately led to a worldwide social network for veteran rockers – The Rock and Roll Tribe.
A visit to their site, my curiosity aroused from reading the press release, revealed the following statement, a sentiment many AC/DC rockers will relate to:
We founded The Rock and Roll Tribe because we know that there are millions of people out there just like us: men and women in their 30's, their 40's, their 60's, their 70's, who are never going to buy into this whole "act your age" bullshit. Who aren't prepared to give up rock and roll and -- more importantly -- rock and roll people, just because the date on their drivers license isn't considered the "right" demographic for music labels and media hipsters.
To hell with them - we plan on rocking for a long, long time. Yep, they're gonna have to pry our AC/DC records from our cold, dead hands.
With us? Ready to have some fun? Ready to meet thousands and thousands of righteous people in your hometown and around the world?
Hell yeah you are! So welcome, Kick-Ass Grownup. Your people are here.
Meet JB & Bruce – Founders of the Tribe
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Thanks for the shout out. And that’s right — Back in Black is heading into eternity alongside me!
Come on over, fellow fans of the Young Bros & Co, and let’s have a good time….
They whole idea and passion behind The Rock And Roll Tribe is embrace not not only *who* we are(rockers!) but *where* we are in our lives, too. Chew Rawk! Thanks for rock-out w/ RRT – We’re not trying to live in the past but embrace how our passion for rock ‘n roll has made who we are now – and forever.
The attitude is embrace MORE ‘rock-i-tude’, not less as we get older because it keeps us young at heart. I’m 48 and “Touch Too Much” is song that I’ll play over and over again – and will when I’m 82, too!
There must be an army of us out there with no simple way to connect…maybe your site will change that!
brillant site/ lookin forward 2 havin a hell ofa time
rock n roll aint gonna die ..