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[SinceThe70s]

3 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

I had to go through the late 70's and early 80's as a kid.  KISS and Def Leopard were so cool. And then so was Poison, Ratt, and Motley Crue.
 

boy what a ***** Golden Age that was.... 

 

haha - I listened to all of those bands. With the exception of KISS I was in from the first album/EP. I could still listen to the early Def and Motley albums. I think I saw Ratt twice and they hold my distinction of being the worst live band I ever saw. 

[BillsPride12]

6 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

I had to go through the late 70's and early 80's as a kid.  KISS and Def Leopard were so cool. And then so was Poison, Ratt, and Motley Crue.
 

boy what a ***** Golden Age that was.... 

If you have Paramount Plus you need to watch the docuseries Nothing But a Good Time 

[SinceThe70s]

 

 

 

 

 

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[Another Fan]

Well for obvious reasons his last name came to my mind today.  

 

But he was a great musician.  I think even from Rochester?

 

 

[BringMetheHeadofLeonLett]

On 12/7/2024 at 5:56 AM, SinceThe70s said:

 

haha - I listened to all of those bands. With the exception of KISS I was in from the first album/EP. I could still listen to the early Def and Motley albums. I think I saw Ratt twice and they hold my distinction of being the worst live band I ever saw. 

Aww man I couldn't wait for the 80's to ***** end haha- different eras different tastes.  
 

Just a stupid, funny, aside story- maybe about 1987 in HS Drivers Ed class, we were put in some large shed or double-wide, with, I'm pretty sure wooden steering wheels in front of us. and wooden pedals down below.  The instructor would tell us how to use a turn signal then throw on the projector-
 

None of it was connected to anything, you were just supposed to 'follow along', manipulating your wooden steering wheel and disconnected pedals so you knew how a 'safe driver' would handle these situations.  
 

We did that for a couple weeks... or maybe a couple months..., and then the big day came- we were actually gonna be driving!  
 

My day 1 partners were a hessian named Scott - huge huge huge Crue fan- I think he had a Motley Crue shirt for every day of the Zodiac - seriously the dude wore Motley Crue t-shirts every single day of the entirety of high school, and a very very shy Vietnamese chick -  who really didn't speak English... at all.  
 

The chariot was a brand new model from Pontiac - the 1987 Pontiac Le Mans:

 

Obviously made for racing, the 1987 Pontiac Le Mans featured the lightest weight plastic hubcaps ever introduced on a production car up to that time. 
 

Me and Scott made it through our turns at the wheel ok enough, then it was the gal's turn.  With us 2 guys in the back, the Vietnamese girl with the only wheel or brake in the car, and the instructor in the passenger seat... with no override or braking ability whatsoever- just the calm voice of his instructorness, and a non-English-speaking student at the wheel, what could go wrong descending twisting canyon roads on the way back to the HS?

 

Anyway, despite the calmest efforts to tell the girl to let off the gas pedal... which she obviously hadn't figured out was any different from the brake pedal during our wooden-wheel training, we went skidding all down this 4-lane canyon road going faster and faster until she finally couldn't steer us out of anything more and BLAM! nailed the center-divider.  The plastic Pontiac stuck to the divider all the way through a giant sweeping turn with sparks flying, tires blowing out and other spins, wobbles and belches.  
 

We finally ground to a stop, thank ***** God, and I am so sorry to the gal, but the 2 of us in the back just spontaneously burst out into the biggest laughs of our entire lives.  We'd survived.  The whole lead-up to the accident was insane- she just kept going faster and faster, the instructor kept speaking calmer and calmer, and every single one of us knew this was not going to end well.  

 

And she burst out into tears.  
 

Anyway, me 'n Scott were forever cool from that day on.  
 

Ours was racing red, but I present the 1987 Pontiac Le Mans

 

 

 

 

Edited December 10 by BringMetheHeadofLeonLett

[DrW]

5 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

 

Ours was racing red, but I present the 1987 Pontiac Le Mans

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, the pic shows the German "parent" of the Le Mans, the Opel Kadett E. However, the German version was too expensive; thus, GM had the Le Mans built by Daewoo in South Korea.

[XXXtraAnchovies]

9 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

Aww man I couldn't wait for the 80's to ***** end haha- different eras different tastes.  
 

Just a stupid, funny, aside story- maybe about 1987 in HS Drivers Ed class, we were put in some large shed or double-wide, with, I'm pretty sure wooden steering wheels in front of us. and wooden pedals down below.  The instructor would tell us how to use a turn signal then throw on the projector-
 

None of it was connected to anything, you were just supposed to 'follow along', manipulating your wooden steering wheel and disconnected pedals so you knew how a 'safe driver' would handle these situations.  
 

We did that for a couple weeks... or maybe a couple months..., and then the big day came- we were actually gonna be driving!  
 

My day 1 partners were a hessian named Scott - huge huge huge Crue fan- I think he had a Motley Crue shirt for every day of the Zodiac - seriously the dude wore Motley Crue t-shirts every single day of the entirety of high school, and a very very shy Vietnamese chick -  who really didn't speak English... at all.  
 

The chariot was a brand new model from Pontiac - the 1987 Pontiac Le Mans:

 

Obviously made for racing, the 1987 Pontiac Le Mans featured the lightest weight plastic hubcaps ever introduced on a production car up to that time. 
 

Me and Scott made it through our turns at the wheel ok enough, then it was the gal's turn.  With us 2 guys in the back, the Vietnamese girl with the only wheel or brake in the car, and the instructor in the passenger seat... with no override or braking ability whatsoever- just the calm voice of his instructorness, and a non-English-speaking student at the wheel, what could go wrong descending twisting canyon roads on the way back to the HS?

 

Anyway, despite the calmest efforts to tell the girl to let off the gas pedal... which she obviously hadn't figured out was any different from the brake pedal during our wooden-wheel training, we went skidding all down this 4-lane canyon road going faster and faster until she finally couldn't steer us out of anything more and BLAM! nailed the center-divider.  The plastic Pontiac stuck to the divider all the way through a giant sweeping turn with sparks flying, tires blowing out and other spins, wobbles and belches.  
 

We finally ground to a stop, thank ***** God, and I am so sorry to the gal, but the 2 of us in the back just spontaneously burst out into the biggest laughs of our entire lives.  We'd survived.  The whole lead-up to the accident was insane- she just kept going faster and faster, the instructor kept speaking calmer and calmer, and every single one of us knew this was not going to end well.  

 

And she burst out into tears.  
 

Anyway, me 'n Scott were forever cool from that day on.  
 

Ours was racing red, but I present the 1987 Pontiac Le Mans

 

[Another Fan]

That hair!!  This is mad retro.  But I like the song…. Guilty pleasure

 

 

[Pecos Bills]

On 12/9/2024 at 8:35 PM, Another Fan said:

Well for obvious reasons his last name came to my mind today.  

 

But he was a great musician.  I think even from Rochester?

 

“Ever since the explosion, every song I play sounds like Feels So Good.”
 

 

 

Edited December 11 by Pecos Bills

[Buftex]

Charley Crockett - -Lesson In Depression- (Official Video) - YouTube.url

 

[Pecos Bills]

The World's Saddest Christmas Song, by Buffalo's own Grabbitz

 

 

[Buftex]

Khruangbin - People Everywhere (Still Alive) (2019-11-02 – Houston, TX) - YouTube.url

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

"The "Robbie-less" Band, live in Vancouver 1983. Four guys to replace Robbie (the Cate Brothers Band, featuring Levon's nephew Terry Cagle on drums). Richard makes me cry every time I hear him sing this verse. God, these guys were great!!! Missing Rick and Richard..."

[DrW]

Funk and Jeff Beck - an intriguing combination

 

 

[DrW]

An early psychedelic masterpiece by "The United States of America". What was remarkable was the omission of guitars. Their place was taken by very primitive and not easy to play synthesizers ("ring modulators"). From the review in "Pitchfork":

 

If USA had an anthem, it was "The American Metaphysical Circus". The track opens with a pleasantly disorienting hodgepodge of sampled John Philip Souza marches and Byrd's faithful kiddie-baiting Ringling Bros. calliope melodies before chanteuse Dorothy Moskowitz arrives with her herbal tea-watered croon, carefully enunciating like a three-nights-of-sleep-deprived mother's lullaby. Meanwhile, electric violinist/ring modulator foreman Gordon Marron emits aurora borealis streaks of police siren wails and bassist Rand Forbes keeps the music resting its head on a bar table all night long.

 

 

 

Edited December 14 by DrW

[DrW]

Australia's arguably most famous hard rock band, Cold Chisel, with their attempt at reggae - and it works.

 

 

[SinceThe70s]

Another from the 80's

 

 

 

[SinceThe70s]

1 hour ago, DrW said:

Australia's arguably most famous hard rock band, Cold Chisel, with their attempt at reggae - and it works.

 

 

Love the Rock/Reggae cross-overs.