Creativity Quote by Vinnie Vincent

Nostalgia is easy; nostalgia with a guitar pedigree is a claim to authority. When Vinnie Vincent says he misses the 80's and calls it "a truly great decade for music", he is doing more than reminiscing. He is positioning the era as a benchmark, a time when rock stars like him weren’t just entertainers but cultural infrastructure: MTV rotation, arena tours, glossy production, guitar heroics, and a mainstream that still made room for loud, theatrical risk.

The intent reads partly personal and partly corrective. Vincent’s career is tangled with the promise and volatility of that decade: the speed, the flash, the sense that a great riff could buy you a new life. By praising the 80's broadly rather than name-checking genres or bands, he sidesteps the hair-metal punchline and argues for the decade’s range: pop’s maximalism, metal’s technical leap, new wave’s synth experimentation, hip-hop’s ascent. It’s a polite rebuttal to the common modern posture that the 80's were kitsch with good hooks.

The subtext is also about what’s missing now. Calling the 80's “truly great” implies today’s music culture feels fragmented, less eventful, less committed to craft as spectacle. It’s not that great music stopped being made; it’s that the shared stage shrank. For an artist formed in an era of big budgets and bigger myths, the longing is as much for the ecosystem as the sound: a time when the world agreed to listen at the same volume.