I was 15 when I started liking Fleetwood Mac. I was just like all of my friends who loved the things that people our age were liking, I just liked Fleetwood Mac as much as they loved the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync and everything that was really popular when I was in high school. I came to these forums and was probably annoying but ultimately, being accepted by fans who had liked the band for much longer than I did kept my mind open and kept me interested. I've ALWAYS liked music of another era better than the music of my own, though I appreciate a pretty large scope. What I've been finding as I've grown up is the groups that I loved when I was a teenager are still my favorite bands. I still fall back onto those bands every now and then and get really immersed in their music and culture for awhile. Fleetwood Mac is my prime example, I went a few years without them while I was in college and really into other things, but found myself right back where I left off a few years ago. I think there's something to the idea of what you like helps build you into who you are, and having a place to come and explore music that I found to be much more real and easier to relate to and lose myself in at 15 was a wonderful thing.
Though David really has a point there too!
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