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Joseph
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Ca. USA
Feb 2000 time: 21:30
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quote: Originally posted by Troll
But being a child of the 50's, 60's, 70's , 80's, 90's & beyond..... | a child of the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and beyond
quote: If you LIVED IT you would have had a perspective...afterall..your watching a POPCORN-Colored version of the 70's....not actually living the 70's.....
I was highschool age in 70's..actually pretty cool times.. | High school 58 to 62
quote: Elephant pants Blue-Suede Converse Dingo Boots Peter Frampton Boston Ted Nugent ..yes even my Disco Days..although I was stationed U S Army in Germany during most of Disco times....
But I would say that it was the greatest era..although i have many fond memories as well as some very painful times...
Peace
Grandpa Troll | Navy time listed below.
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-Jrabbit
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of the Electronic Egyptians
Feb 2002 time: 23:30
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Responding to the troll --
Boston epitomized what was wrong with arena (corporate) rock -- but I LOVED that first album.
The Cars -- kinda stupid, a guilty pleasure. Like the way the whole first album connected.
J. Geils -- great bar band, nothing more or less.
Aerosmith -- the 70s were their drug years. Better or worse than the rehab version? (discuss)
But I gotta say, that's a pretty impressive list. What did Chicago contribute to 70s music? Let's see -- well, there was Chicago (duh) and, um, hmm.... Styx (eewww) and uhhhh, err... Head East...?
No cool factor there...
There were some great Chicago punk groups like Ministry, Naked Raygun, and Strike Under toward the end. And we'll always have our blues scene...
From my college town in Champaign came... REO Speedwagon (who were actually good for 2 albums before they moved to LA, changed vocalists, and went corporate.
Hope I forgot some, cuz that's a pretty sad list.
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molly bloom
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001 time: 15:30
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I loved a lot of things in the 70s-
Roxy Music's first two albums, Marc Bolan and T.Rex, Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' and 'Let's Get It On', Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' and of course Jon Pertwee as 'Dr. Who'.
And when I was young there were excellent children's programmes- 'Tarot, Ace of Wands', 'Children of the Stones' (set in the Avebury stone circle), 'The Changes' and 'the Feathered Serpent' (set in pre-Columbian Mexico).
Mostly I hated the fashions. I hated wearing flares made out of tweed- it itches, it makes you hot, you perspire, you itch some more. Clothes were made with vile fabrics- crimplene is an instrument of torture, invented in some North Korean laboratory to ruin Western children's childhoods and make them detest their parents and the West. Velcro as a fastener on trouser pockets and shirts and pullovers? Please, goddess, no....
Luckily drainpipe trousers came back with punk and new wave, to prevent people being blown away in high winds.
Skinny ribbed zip up cardigans- ecch.
Great films- American paranoia: 'Night Moves', 'Klute', 'the Parallax View', 'The Conversation' and 'All the President's Men' and 'the Crazies'- and Roger Corman's 'Assault on Precinct 13' and 'Dark Star'.
And of course Fassbinder's films to make you feel all warm inside- 'Fear Eats the Soul', 'Despair'....
And great late night films- 'Performance', 'the Baker's Bread', 'Adalen 31', 'the German Sisters', 'Don't Look Now'....
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