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Thread: That 70’s Thread
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05-21-2022, 05:37 AM #176
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05-21-2022, 07:57 AM #177
I like the 70s though I'm at a loss as to why. It was a horrible time in my life. Both my brothers died. It marked the beginning of a long illness that eventually took my father's life in 1986. There was a war, oil embargo, inflation, Watergate etc. but I learned to ski in the 70s, got a horse, had good friends, discovered a lot of great music and generally had all I needed re: food, housing, education, family support ect.
The 70s def. hold a lot of nostalgia for me probably because it was a time when I came of age as they say.“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something." Rep. John Lewis
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05-21-2022, 04:50 PM #178man of ice
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Speaking of Jaws, this is pretty good: https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/...ry-of-the-year
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05-21-2022, 05:21 PM #179
Dave’s not here, man
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05-21-2022, 05:45 PM #180
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05-21-2022, 06:15 PM #181man of ice
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05-21-2022, 06:16 PM #182
This is so similar to what happened to me. Summer of 75, loaded up my buddies El Camino and drove around Wisconsin for a week or 10 days. Met up with 3 girls from Beaver Dam. Can’t remember where we were camping, but four of us ended up in the girls tent and one couple spent the night in the cab of the truck. That horn kept going off all night long, but none of us cared. Good times!
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05-21-2022, 08:07 PM #183man of ice
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Then when it was all over I bet you and Harry and the rest of you Sconnies all drove home at 55 in the left lane.
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05-21-2022, 08:12 PM #184
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05-22-2022, 08:40 AM #185
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05-22-2022, 12:15 PM #186
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05-22-2022, 12:24 PM #187
Well, the production was in the late 70s. Here’s a question, is 1980 the last year of the 70s or the first year of the 80s?
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05-22-2022, 12:39 PM #188
The seventies ended November 4, 1980. I came home from school and my mom was in the living room, ironing my dad's shirts in front of the tv, and crying.
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05-22-2022, 12:41 PM #189
The Reagan era began?
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05-22-2022, 01:04 PM #190
Yeah
Culturally, I'd say it started with Alex P Keaton. There's a straight line from there to Bud Fox and Gordon Gekko.
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05-22-2022, 01:07 PM #191
Mainstream 80s culture was really abhorrent.
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05-22-2022, 01:16 PM #192
Some yes, some no. Mahre brothers were pretty cool and definitely mainstream... My more hardcore friends still argue that The Clash was mainstream garbage. Lots of excellent 70s bands got more mainstream in the 80s and still held their ride or die fans..
But the economic policies , reaganomics is responsible for the brutal economic inequality and end of the middle class, union busting where we are today for sure..Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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05-22-2022, 01:23 PM #193
So I just googled it. The 80s came in with a bang.
1980
- Mount St. Helens erupts
- the dingo ate Chamberlain's baby
- Iran Iraq War
- John Lennon killed
1981
- first five aids cases
- Reagan and Brady shot
- Pope shot
- beginning of Iran-Contra
- Walter Cronkite retires
Fuck, no wonder my mom was crying.
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05-22-2022, 02:47 PM #194
Don't forget the 80 and 84 Olympic boycotts...
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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05-22-2022, 02:54 PM #195
I still think 1980 was the end of the 70s, not the beginning of the 80s.
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05-22-2022, 03:15 PM #196
I understand how politically and culturally it is tempting to include 1980 with the decade of the 1970s, but chronologically, I believe it belongs as the first year of the 1980s -
Otherwise, we are on the (slippery) slope of claiming the 20th century ended Jan. 1, 2001...
You can have it however you need it, but I believe the 1970s ended on December 31, 1979.
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Thanks for the memories...
it's down my list, but for music from the '70s, I will offer Dan Fogelgerg.
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05-22-2022, 03:38 PM #197
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05-22-2022, 04:06 PM #198man of ice
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05-22-2022, 04:11 PM #199
There is an adage about speaking ill of the dead, core-, if you want to talk about worst of the decade...
I still play Souvenirs from time to time...
... back to you
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05-22-2022, 04:51 PM #200
Fuck off CS. Music is all about what appeals to each of us. Fogleberg created some good stuff and I saw him warm up for another act and the guy actually rocked.
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