80's Nostalgia

Sp8ctre said:
I detested all the Hair Bands that tried to sound and look the same.

There was some great New Wave and Punk music in the 80's and that's where I drifted at the time.

The Fixx, The Church, Depeche Mode, Midnight Oil, Missing Persons, The Motels...I could go on and on...

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I honestly truly hated the music of the eighties (except stuff like in my previous post, those bands were brilliant). It was mainly because of what was popular, and knowing it would be an eventual precursor of what was to come. The hair metal was beyond stupid, and most of the commercial crap was, well... crap. That, and the recording process then. Layering tracks with a click track, then building up bass, guitars, vocals, etc. It sucked the life out of music, especially adding gated reverb on drums.

At the time I was still listening to a lot of prog, and still heavy into the first and second waves of British metal. Then there was the post-punk and proto-punk stuff. My friends gave me crap for listening to unpopular stuff like Motorhead, UFO, Radio Birdman, MC5, Stooges, Mission of Burma, and many others, then jumping into the great wave of garage and rock bands of the eighties such as The Records, The Plimsouls, The Lyres, DMZ, Pere Ubu, and many other greats who still stand up to the test of time. Great songs are great songs, and when the lyrics are a little more advanced, you can listen to them in your fifties and not say to yourself "What was I thinking liking these guys?"

Here's a fun little thing that Alejandro Escovedo posted on his page today. There are some great bands listed in this article.

These 10 bands made Boston one of America’s greatest punk-rock towns
 
still listen to this stuff all the time ........................... and play along...........................





L.A.GUNS-Electric Gypsy

Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle


But I also listen to the MISFITS -- the STOOGES -- MOTORHEAD -- UFO -- the SEX PISTOLS -- ROY CLARK-- Dean martin-- Rod Stewart--Placido Domingo -- Jaco ......

Lawrence WELK ...... EVEN JOHN MEYER......... AND COUNTRY!!!!!! and a lot of other music -- :2Thumbs:
 
smitty_p said:
Shoot, sometimes on weekends, I’d get in my car and just drive the country roads alone at night and just play some tapes. My old ‘71 Nova had no A/C (a lot of cars didn’t back then), so I’d roll the windows down and let the wind blow through the car.
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Hey, I did the same thing in my '71 Malibu with a 12 pack of Bud and some bottle rockets! Usually polished off a flask of Cutty Sark before I went out.
 
smitty_p said:
Mullets aren’t a thing anymore, either…and neither are rat tails - just in case you were curious!

But, down where I live I still do see the occasional mullet.

I never had a mullet, even in the ‘80s. My hair was kind of all-over a little longish…and feathered! I guess it was kind of a Michael J. Fox, circa “Back to the Future” sort of hair style.

I had the acid-washed jeans, too.
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No mullet for me back then. No acid wash jeans either. Leather or Boot cuts.

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SG John said:
I honestly truly hated the music of the eighties (except stuff like in my previous post, those bands were brilliant). It was mainly because of what was popular, and knowing it would be an eventual precursor of what was to come. The hair metal was beyond stupid, and most of the commercial crap was, well... crap. That, and the recording process then. Layering tracks with a click track, then building up bass, guitars, vocals, etc. It sucked the life out of music, especially adding gated reverb on drums.

At the time I was still listening to a lot of prog, and still heavy into the first and second waves of British metal. Then there was the post-punk and proto-punk stuff. My friends gave me crap for listening to unpopular stuff like Motorhead, UFO, Radio Birdman, MC5, Stooges, Mission of Burma, and many others, then jumping into the great wave of garage and rock bands of the eighties such as The Records, The Plimsouls, The Lyres, DMZ, Pere Ubu, and many other greats who still stand up to the test of time. Great songs are great songs, and when the lyrics are a little more advanced, you can listen to them in your fifties and not say to yourself "What was I thinking liking these guys?"

Here's a fun little thing that Alejandro Escovedo posted on his page today. There are some great bands listed in this article.

These 10 bands made Boston one of America’s greatest punk-rock towns
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Yeah! Mission of Burma, and The Neighborhoods we’re still kicking it when I came of age….great stuff!
 
Cadorman said:
Hey, I did the same thing in my '71 Malibu with a 12 pack of Bud and some bottle rockets! Usually polished off a flask of Cutty Sark before I went out.
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Now I miss that car. It was a total pile of poop, but it had a 350 with a 4bbl and way to big of a cam, close ratio Muncie with a Hurst T handle and a 4.10 geared 12 bolt. I had the Cragar S/S wheels all around and they were 14 inchers. I think they were 7s in front and 12s in back. Had L50 rear tires and had Hijackers in back to get tire clearance. Full length headers into Thrush can glass packs. Boy, was that a money pit. One time I was coming into town on a 6% downhill and when I backed off the gas the diff locked up solid, broke the pinion shaft off, twisted the driveshaft and cracked the aluminum tranny tail housing. So much fun!
 
Zzzzz said:
Acid wash jeans are coming back in. I have a pair, complete with manufactured rips because nobody knows how to do it themselves now-a-days.
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Rips tears knee blow outs take me about 6 months with work and a weekly wash, but no acid, they are Dickies carpenter jeans, I try to buy 6 pairs a year, and I only wear them in the winter, or jobs that require pants, otherwise I wear Dickies shorts ..
Thanks
 
Cadorman said:
Almost everything comes back "in" if you wait long enough. Except for the inherently stupid ideas that are dangerous or just plain stupid. Like Rayon. Anybody that remembers the 70s knows what I'm talking about. For those that don't: fabric doesn't breathe, impossible not to sweat in it and it amplifies smell like a Marshall amplifies sound. I had a really sweet Rayon shirt that was light blue with happy clouds and 'Merican flags on it. Must have been around the Bicentennial.
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Jeans and T’s for me
 
SG John said:
No mullet for me back then. No acid wash jeans either. Leather or Boot cuts.

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I was not cool like you John, when we played live I wore the outfits my wife and sister had picked out for us.
I would have worn old 501’s and concert T’s but I was out voted by the rest of the band.
And by 1984 I was done with it.
And it got crazier after that..
Cheers
 
Cadorman said:
I need leather pants like that John. I miss my hair being like that. I'm just starting to be able to get it in a ponytail again.
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It's funny. I still have those pants, and a few others. Got them all in Germany in the eighties, and early nineties. They're still in nice shape, and I need to lose 45 pounds to wear them again. And, I will eventually.

Mitch Pearrow SJMP said:
I was not cool like you John, when we played live I wore the outfits my wife and sister had picked out for us.
I would have worn old 501’s and concert T’s but I was out voted by the rest of the band.
And by 1984 I was done with it.
And it got crazier after that..
Cheers
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When I was in the band in those photos, a couple of other guys in the band (drums and guitar) were always pissed off that I had a "Look" or "Image", and they tried to hard to copy it, and they failed miserably. I was just basically wearing stuff I would wear while riding my motorcycle. So, it was my actual street clothes that I was wearing, and not a costume. But I also never did the mullet or a hair style because I worked in a machine shop and rode a motorcycle for primary transportation. My hair was always in a braid or pony tail. I had to be able to hide it, and then at 5:00 (or after parking the bike) it came out of hiding. All funny stuff when I look back at it.
 
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Mid 90s

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Now. Larger and less hair. At least the mullet amd stache are gone


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My long hair ended in 1979 when I joined the USAF. I still wore 501's and Harness Boots in the early 80's.

When I got stationed in Korea everything changed. The pursuit of women led me to the clubs every night.
You had to be able to get out and dance if you wanted to score regularly. My very first dance song was
Whip It by Devo. I had never danced at all in High School because I was to "Cool" to go to dances back then...

I really dug the music and I still do. Don't get me wrong, I still listened to Rock and Roll, but not many of the
Hair Bands until GnR came along...


 
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@Jethro Rocker I had that model of guitar(or similar…I had the neck through/set neck version, with all the silly switches) briefly….I grew to hate the wide, flat, neck profile with a passion. To be forthcoming, a have a childhood hand injury that was aggravated by it…just the edge to edge feel set me off after about 20 minutes of play time…Of course, I only tried it for about 10 minutes at the shop that I bought it from ;)
 
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