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Sarah and Vinnie Full Show

GenX Had The Greatest Music Experience

Sarah and Vinnie Full Show

Audacy

Comedy

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and Vinnie are reminiscing on how the live music experience has evolved over the decades - for better and for worse.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right.

0:00.7

Wake up with Sarah and Vinny.

0:02.7

They're great.

0:03.2

They're awesome.

0:03.8

Every morning.

0:04.6

Every morning on Ellis 973.

0:08.7

A lot of this I feel is very true.

0:11.3

They're saying that over the course of history, the generation that had the best music

0:17.7

experience was Gen X.

0:21.2

And here are the reasons why.

0:23.0

Okay.

0:24.1

The personalities were huge.

0:26.3

You had your David Lee Roths, your Billy idols, the guys from Twisted Sister and Motley

0:30.1

crew jumped off album covers and into our living rooms.

0:33.1

And it's about MTV.

0:35.4

Like people were putting on a big show, put out videos and making them as amazing as they possibly could because MTV was brand new for us, for our generation.

0:47.7

Music videos actually mattered.

0:50.6

You know, MTV actually played them.

0:52.2

Everybody made a video for every new song they were putting out. Absolutely. And it became this whole new marketing tool and like bands that had a bunch of ugly guys in them. I was so sorry for them. Bye. You know, that's where like if Duran Duran Duran had been a bunch of ugly guys, we would not know Ria. Right. Because we were watching the radio. And it was, even the way they set it up with VJs and all day long, just programming of music and then specialty shows at night, it felt very much like a radio show.

1:20.4

But you saw it all the time.

1:22.1

I was, I guess I was maybe 84, so I was probably 18 or 1718 when that started. And we had basic cable.

1:31.8

And it was, by the time it got to my house, it was like that fully formed. I would sit and watch

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