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Originally Posted by Road-Runner
I keep wondering if The Villages will ever tap into the Hard Rock / Metal bands of the 70's and 80's. People my age listened to Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Nazareth, Montrose, Blue Oyster Cult, Uriah Heep, etc. from the 70's then Metallica, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Megadeth, etc. from the 80's. At the squares they wouldn't have to play the hardest songs, but there's also ticketed concerts where a band like this would likely draw a much larger crowd than they expect!
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It’s really hard to say. I grew up listening to music in the 70s/80s , and though there was a “subset” that was in to metal music, most were not. Most were into more main-stream and softer rock (Doobie Brothers, Journey, Foreigner, John Cougar, The Police, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, etc), as well as dance/r&b (Michael Jackson, Pointer Sisters, Earth,Wind &Fire, Rick James, Donna Summer, etc) If you research the Billboard singles and radio play charts of the time, you will see the most popular music of this time was more mainstream. Talking to most people born my age (1960s), Metal and Rap are not the genres they listen to now. I’m not saying there is not a group in The Villages that would support a metal band, I just think it would be more “niche” and would not have wide-support to be profitable or in heavy rotation at the squares.