I'll tell ya, I'm from a time when fishnets were for men, and if you didn't wear more makeup than your girlfriend, you just weren't cool....
I'm also from a time where you had to woodshed for at least 6 hours a day just to be able to keep up with Joe Hairband for club bookings...
I'm also from a time where if you didn't have a wall of at least 4 full stacks of some color other than black tolex, you weren't cool... ( I know everyone has heard my story on the Soldano fake stacks and using a combo amp running through a rack system off of the stage )...

Nowadays, people just don't care. They go on stage with whatever they were wearing to work that day. (Note to fat guys that like the wifebeater... DON'T)
Everyone nowadays sound like everyone else, except Metallica... They just sound like **** now.
Nowadays no one takes pride in their playing... Most of these guys sound like they just bought their first guitar last week...

I think I saw a t-shirt the other day that 'splains it all..
it consisted of 3 chords I believe they were open G,A, and D. The caption under it said... Now go start a band....

That's about what they do these days.