The 80's for me really started when I saw Van Halen for the first time on their 1980 Invasion Tour. The whole apathetic 70's thing, disco, the Vietnam stigma and all that was dissipating. Great new music was flooding in hard and real rock and roll was returning. There seemed to be new confidence. I knew good times don't last and knew the times were special so I inhaled it all. Now after experiencing the lame 90's, 00's, and now paying for all that lameness in the 10's, my only regret is I didn't inhale the 80's in harder. I wished I would have fucked it harder and rolled in it more.