I retired April before last. I am absolutely loving it. It kind of reminds me of when I was a kid and summer vacation started. That feeling of waking up at your own time and knowing you had the whole day ahead of you to do whatever you wanted to do.
Depends on what you mean by "real". I started playing on a $60 K-Mart Tiesco Del Ray tulip single pickup. I guess you could call it real. Sometime after that, someone gave me a Sears guitar that had an amp built into the guitar. Likewise, I suppose it was real. They were both mostly playable...
Aerosmith back in the late 70s. They were so high they could barely stand up. Joe Perry kept playing intros to the wrong song and would have to stop and start over. And it was LOUD - even by 70s standards.
Def Leppard. I saw them long after their hit machine had run out of juice, and they were...
I love that series! Greg Garcia did another great show called Raising Hope. It is just as funny as Earl. He also did a series called Sprung which is funny, but not up to Earl and Hope standards.
I don't know about the rest of the country, but in Louisville in the mid 70s you couldn't listen to the radio for more than 10 minutes without hearing something from Frampton Comes Alive