I love the 70's!

[Joseph]

Somebody else say somthing.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Joseph
Somebody else say somthing.

hmmm..ok..

We are family..-Sister Sledge-Theme to Pittsburh Pirates World Series 79 (hats off to Roberto Clemente)


That was a great World Series...
Nice Climax to the 70's


I am from New England and had lots of Music Interests from my area...

Boston, The Cars, J.Geils Band to name a few ..

Oh yes and a group named..was it..yes..AEROSMITH

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[-Jrabbit]

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.

[SpencerH]

I was in highschool in the early to mid 70's. I liked that era.

FM Radio was much better then (at least in Vancouver). I cant even listen to radio now it sucks so bad.

[Dis]

I remember a little bit of the late 70's.

I remember my dad had some crazy idea to live outside the city. We had a nudist colony out in the desert. I think that is how I turned up so perverted . Seeing all those naked women at an early age couldn't have been good for me.

I remember going to people's houses and they had beads hanging down from the ceiling in place of doors. Must have been a remnant of the 60's.

I kind of like the **** carpets and stuff. I remember my dad had some thick **** carpet on our van Maybe I'll try to find some and bring that back in style.

I do remember slip and slide from the VH1 show. I never found it that dangerous as in the VH1 show. But I did find the bit about all the dangerous toys pretty funny. Those were the days. Back when kids could have fun with toys. Sure you got hurt once in a while, but you had more fun with toys back then than you do now.

And I remember big wheels. I remember they don't work at all out in the desert on soft sand . But we eventually moved back into the city for cost reasons and I got to use my bigwheel again.

I remember when I was young and one of my training wheels fell off and no one would fix it for me . My parents were very negligent. Of course it was a good thing because it eventually taught me how to ride a bike without training wheels.

And roller skating rinks. I remember those.

And El Caminos

[Dinner]

Re: Re: I love the 70's!

Originally posted by Troll
Ted Nugent ..

Ted Nugent? :Barf:

Still, dispite Ted filling the 70's with his foul music there were still a few good things. The TV show Let's Make a Deal is a true classic as is All in the Family. Anferd and son was kind of lame though. And don't get me started about the cars. The 70's were the worst period of design in the history of the Automobile.

[Grandpa Troll]

Re: Re: Re: I love the 70's!

Originally posted by Oerdin


Ted Nugent? :Barf:

Still, dispite Ted filling the 70's with his foul music there were still a few good things. The TV show Let's Make a Deal is a true classic as is All in the Family. Anferd and son was kind of lame though. And don't get me started about the cars. The 70's were the worst period of design in the history of the Automobile.

Ok..I'm not sure how old you are..BUT

The game show is ok..but I never watched any show Anferd and son..

I am thinking that you be meaning Sanford and Son..
that was funny sitcom with Redd Foxx..
As for Cars being lame in 1970's..we definetly had our share..Pacer and Rambler by AMC..Ford Pinto and Ford Country Squire...

BUT..I dont think it was worse era...


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[Dinner]

Re: Re: Re: Re: I love the 70's!

Originally posted by Troll
The game show is ok..but I never watched any show Anferd and son..

I am thinking that you be meaning Sanford and Son..
that was funny sitcom with Redd Foxx..
As for Cars being lame in 1970's..we definetly had our share..Pacer and Rambler by AMC..Ford Pinto and Ford Country Squire...

Yeah, that was a typo. I was typing so fast I dropped the S. The 70's were a dark, dark time for automobiles. Not only were all cars universally crap but the smog regulations (and the automakers uncreative responses to the regulations) meant cars were robbed of horse power compared to the 60's. You also had the dreaded 5 mph bumber which ended up defiling even good older designs from the 60's. You could no longer even find relief by buying a foreign car anyone remember how the rubber bumper turned the rather good looking MGB into a hidious monstrosity?

[Dis]

but you had the Starskey and Hutch Car!

I seen one of those around Vegas the other day. Stripe and all.

Can't remember what kind it was though.

And then you had Dukes of hazzard Dodge Challengers

Corvette Stingrays.

[JohnT]

Best game show of the decade? "Match Game", hands down.

[Dis]

I guess the beatles did break up in 1970. The 1970 episode of I love the 70's is on right now. That was before I was born. So I can't remember much.

[Joseph]

Re: Re: Re: I love the 70's!

Originally posted by Oerdin


Ted Nugent? :Barf:

Still, dispite Ted filling the 70's with his foul music there were still a few good things. The TV show Let's Make a Deal is a true classic as is All in the Family. Anferd and son was kind of lame though. And don't get me started about the cars. The 70's were the worst period of design in the history of the Automobile.

We still had muscle cars until 73. In 74 the car were crap.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Dissident
but you had the Starskey and Hutch Car!

I seen one of those around Vegas the other day. Stripe and all.

Can't remember what kind it was though.

And then you had Dukes of hazzard Dodge Challengers

Corvette Stingrays.

It was a Dodge Charger, not the challengers.
Them Dukes boys will be looking for you calling their car a challenger.

[molly bloom]

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'....

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by molly bloom



Great films- American paranoia:Roger Corman's 'Assault on Precinct 13'

Finally..someone who appreciates a great flick...

CHOLO


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