Those guys are freaks, especially the tambourine guy; he reminds me of Will Ferrell's role as the cowbell player from a Saturday Night Live skit. We need more tambourine!
I remember listening to "Golden Bisquits" over & over in our basement rec room. Sheet paneling, (which hid the iron door to the bomb shelter installed in the 60s) wall to wall carpet, and a pool table. Woo hoo!
I don't understand why the fashionistas keep trying to bring back the 70's. Those shirts were just gawdawful.
Were? You forget that they were made of some kind of imperishable polyester with a half-life of ten million years or something. Entire condo complexes are built on landfills full of those shirts.
I remember how cool this all seemed ... but you needed ten percent down to buy a house at the time... and you could buy a decent 3 or 4 bedroom job for 30k or less in almost any major city in America.
Of course, we all know what happened next.. the lead singer of 3 dog night went on a ten year drug bender, Nixon closed the gold window, the Arabs closed the oil spigots, the money supply started creeping open, and the first books on 'getting rich on real estate' appeared.
Memories.
I will admit to having liked that soong when it came out on the radio the first time, but I was only nine years old then. Those people in the video are all adults; they have no excuse.
You forget that they were made of some kind of imperishable polyester with a half-life of ten million years or something.
Somewhere I have a polyester faux metalic-green print shirt from the height of the disco-era. It is so hideous that it survived multiple trips to the goodwill bin. Maybe its time has arrived.
I hated that song then, and I was in my teens. I hate it more now.
Some called me a dork back then, but this dork always hated the '70s. All of it: polyester shirts, leisure suits, disco, wine coolers, Pet Rocks, pistol-grip blow-dryers, fern bars, bad Detroit cars, crockpots, astrology ("what's you sign?"), puka beads, mandatory beards and mustaches, price controls, corrupt and weakened unions, stagflation, proto-yuppies, the beginning of rampant real estate speculation, and cocaine.
But I really hated the '70s because that's when we began to lose it as a nation; and even as a college dork i could see it.
Lord, Bill, there are days I never really wake up.
The post time on this blog is PT because The Original and Best Blogger is on PT. I'm just the Assistant Adjunct Contract Co-Blogger, and I live in the eastern edge of ET.
I go to bed at about the time most of our commenters are just warming up, and I get out of bed while they're still sleeping it off.
Have I thanked you lately for, lord, how many jillions of years you've been doing news clips? Um, I was getting my morning Coppedge & Coffee back when we all wore indestructible polyester. I love your new blog, and may you continue to Fight Ignorance in the mortgage business for many years to come . . .
My earliest boyfriends looked like these guys -- shag haircuts, big mustaches. Bell-bottomed jeans. Lord.
The funny thing was that they mostly turned out to be idiots about women. I mean above and beyond the ordinary idiocy of adolescents. Feminism was about the same thing as communism to these guys.
We little girls grew up in the 60s and 70s thinking the world was changing, that being female had new possibilities. The little boys who were growing up with us had no idea what we were talking about.
The Mortgage Bankers Association ... blasted the ruling. The programs provide "important assistance to cash-strapped borrowers," said Steve O'Connor, the association's senior vice president of public policy.
When I was in high school my family lived right across the street from the school.
I got to listen to the pep squad practicing to this number, repeatedly, every afternoon for an entire football seaso
"We little girls grew up in the 60s and 70s thinking the world was changing, that being female had new possibilities."
Feminism is great, she goes to work and I can work less, we have more income, I can go fishing more and buy more toys. Plus we didn't have a bunch of screaming kids just a couple. The great thing is wedding vows didn't change "to have and to hold" and "to honor and obey" are still in there, the rolls didn't change. Worked for me.
Was there ever a more anti-establishment figure as Don Henley in rock music? His lyrics dripped cynicism about American culture including overdevelopment.
"You call some place paradise - kiss it goodbye"
"The Last Resort" from the Hotel California album:
And, yes The Eagles can poke at the record companies all they want. They are corp. rock...hell they only sell their new album out of Starbucks for chrissakes...talented...yes...but corp rock...yes.
"The Last Resort" or "Hotel California" ('you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave') would have fit the shack parked on the 101 freeway featured here a couple of days ago.
Credit crunch in real-time in Sacramento. Preliminary sales show only 1,031 for the month of September. That's a 40% decline from August 2007 vs an Aug 06 - Sept 06 decline of 6%. Shameless plug:
Everybody lived the seventies an infinite number of ways. Ziggy fell to earth. Milton implemented phased price controls. Poor people marched. Tet was offensive. Ben's helicopter was snatching people from a rooftop in Saigon. Some developed a fear of flying. Melanie got a brand new key. The surf was up. Mark had a chest full of gold (and great abs). RK and MLK bought the farm. And Nixon resigned.
Al Greenspan was a banker
Rode a good trend in time
I never understood a single word he said
But he helped us drink and dine
And he always helped the stock market climb
Singin'
Chorus:
Joy to that man?
As the homes go down, now
Joy from homeowners in the deep red sea?
Joy from you and me?
If I were maestro of the world
Tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the debt and the jets and the bets
Make us pay our bills
Sing it now
Chorus
Was quick to sell my silver
Hindsight ain't so fun
I'm a canned goods hoarder and a coupon sorter
Can shoot straight and have my own gun
Yeah, I can shoot straight and have my own gun
Chorus
Joy to that man?
As the homes go down
Joy to that man?
Joy from you and me?
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Bank credit risk rose amid renewed concern lenders are having difficulty raising funds in the money markets, according to traders of credit-default swaps.
Contracts on the iTraxx Financial Index of subordinated debt, a benchmark for the cost of protecting the bonds of 25 European banks and insurers against default, rose 4 basis points to 49 basis points, according to Deutsche Bank AG. The index increases as perceptions of credit quality worsen.
I was a student at Vanderbilt in 1969. The student government invited the Allman Bros. to play, not really knowing who they were. Nobody knew who the Allman Bros. were in '69, unless you lived in Jacksonville or Muscle Shoals.
This is Nashville, Music City. The bros. stepped on the stage, said not a word, and started to play, and nobody could believe it. Two drummers. Two leads. Organ and bass.
Similar to what the Dead was doing on the West Coast, but different. Hard rock out of the Mississippi Delta, but different than the British were doing with it at the same time. Really American. The music world hasn't been the same since.
The odd thing about the Allman Bros is that they consider themselves a jazz band - or at least that was what they said in a interview when they played locally at UNCW. I consider them a Southern Rock band.
You probably already know but that is Duane Allman playing slide is the classic Clapton song Layla.
Nobody knew who the Allman Bros. were in '69, unless you lived in Jacksonville or Muscle Shoals.
I lived just up stream from Muscle Shoals in '69... we knew about the studios but didn't think that much about it. They were there, good music, what else do you need to know?
That was a great place to live... our back yard was next to a small tributary of the Tennessee River & part of a huge wildlife refuge. I would go swimming in the Tennessee after school - filthy warm muddy water.
That place was the strangest mix of modern 'high technology' and backward red neck hickness I've seen anywhere... before or since.
The father of one of my friends was a lead project engineer for the Apollo project (worked in Huntsville - booster engines)... Yet he'd take us on weekends out to his families original homestead that didn't get power or indoor plumbing until a few years prior to this - his mother (my friends grandma) had lived there. If she had an 8th grade education I can fly (yet her son graduated from college on the GI Bill, with honors, and became a lead PM for the moon shoot).
I know that 3 Dog Night hasn't aged that well, but that's a song by Hoyt Axton, so a little respect for the guy who also wrote Boney Fingers, (and The Pusher, Snowblind Friend, and Greenback Dollar)
No, but I could get cheap drugs. Run-of-the-mill Mexican marijuana for 5 or 10 bucks a lid. It wasn't spectacular -- but stuff enough into a batch of brownies and you'd have a very interesting evening.
A lot of Duane Allman's session work in Muscle Shoals was preserved. Some of it can be heard on the tribute double album An Anthology, Volume II.
There is no doubt after listening to the earliest Allman recordings (including those when they were "the Allman Joys" in Jacksonville) that their main influence was Delta blues.
Huh?
Those guys are freaks, especially the tambourine guy; he reminds me of Will Ferrell's role as the cowbell player from a Saturday Night Live skit. We need more tambourine!
We need more tambourine!
Well, and triangle. We need more triangle.
Still, this dude's got nothing on that little girl in the Partidge Family, whatever her name was.
I guess you'd have to have been there, heh.
I remember listening to "Golden Bisquits" over & over in our basement rec room. Sheet paneling, (which hid the iron door to the bomb shelter installed in the 60s) wall to wall carpet, and a pool table. Woo hoo!
I don't understand why the fashionistas keep trying to bring back the 70's. Those shirts were just gawdawful.
Those shirts were just gawdawful.
Were? You forget that they were made of some kind of imperishable polyester with a half-life of ten million years or something. Entire condo complexes are built on landfills full of those shirts.
Well, now, that's a happy thought.
I remember how cool this all seemed ... but you needed ten percent down to buy a house at the time... and you could buy a decent 3 or 4 bedroom job for 30k or less in almost any major city in America.
Of course, we all know what happened next.. the lead singer of 3 dog night went on a ten year drug bender, Nixon closed the gold window, the Arabs closed the oil spigots, the money supply started creeping open, and the first books on 'getting rich on real estate' appeared.
Memories.
I will admit to having liked that soong when it came out on the radio the first time, but I was only nine years old then. Those people in the video are all adults; they have no excuse.
Well...I got ideas on this...celebration theme...but I just can't not put this here. And it so fits if you think about it...
What kinda oyster is that>
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Can't find a live performance, but there is a pornstash on the drummer.
Led is spelled LEAD for chrissakes.
YouTube -
Cheers,
And of course...who could forget this.
When the afro was king...
YouTube - Kool & The Gang - Celebration
"liberating your inner 70s dork. " How did you know that? I've tried all these years to keep it a secret... :
Yeah...way before glam...
Knights In the Service of Something...
YouTube - KISS - Rock n Roll all night!
Cheers,
Dear Tanta - Do you ever sleep? PS - I have the 8 track of that album in my attic.
You forget that they were made of some kind of imperishable polyester with a half-life of ten million years or something.
Somewhere I have a polyester faux metalic-green print shirt from the height of the disco-era. It is so hideous that it survived multiple trips to the goodwill bin. Maybe its time has arrived.
Don't be sad for DAP's demise...
Sympathy...my butt
YouTube - Uriah Heep - Sympathy
Cheers,
Ah... 8-tracks. Wasn't cool when they would shift tracks in the middle of a tune?
Those nylon shirts were very popular during the days of disco.
And just in case there is any doubt, "Mamma Told Me Not To Come" was their best recording. And who woulda thunk it was written by Randy Newman (Mama Told Me Not to Come) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia?
And while I'm at it, what the hell is a "Three Dog Night" anyway? Do I want to know? I didn't in 1975. Wikipedia to the rescue again (Three Dog Night) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I hated that song then, and I was in my teens. I hate it more now.
Some called me a dork back then, but this dork always hated the '70s. All of it: polyester shirts, leisure suits, disco, wine coolers, Pet Rocks, pistol-grip blow-dryers, fern bars, bad Detroit cars, crockpots, astrology ("what's you sign?"), puka beads, mandatory beards and mustaches, price controls, corrupt and weakened unions, stagflation, proto-yuppies, the beginning of rampant real estate speculation, and cocaine.
But I really hated the '70s because that's when we began to lose it as a nation; and even as a college dork i could see it.
FHA's secret conversation with builder financed charity DAP's.
Where was that Jesus dude from...
YouTube -
Cheers,
Dear Tanta - Do you ever sleep?
Lord, Bill, there are days I never really wake up.
The post time on this blog is PT because The Original and Best Blogger is on PT. I'm just the Assistant Adjunct Contract Co-Blogger, and I live in the eastern edge of ET.
I go to bed at about the time most of our commenters are just warming up, and I get out of bed while they're still sleeping it off.
Have I thanked you lately for, lord, how many jillions of years you've been doing news clips? Um, I was getting my morning Coppedge & Coffee back when we all wore indestructible polyester. I love your new blog, and may you continue to Fight Ignorance in the mortgage business for many years to come . . .
Oh yeah that JC Superstar thang was 70's....Played JC and Judith in college...Let's see...this fits the theme...
YouTube
- jesus christ superstar hossanah
Cheers,
One would be remiss to leave this out.
Ain't I sly...
YouTube - Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music - Music Lover
Cheers,
A train wreck is a commin'
Might as well enjoy it.
YouTube - Grand funk railroad - Footstompin' Music
Cheers,
Wow! people who remember the 70's.couldn't you get good drugs?
Still, this dude's got nothing on that little girl in the Partidge Family, whatever her name was.
danny bonaduce?
1971 was the year I was born. Hmmm...are you guys all retard, oops retired?
i was born long after 1971 and i continue to be befuddled by those mustaches.
Yeah well, "one is the loneliest number" (when it comes to testifying before the Senate Finance Committee) -
http://www.senate.gov/~finance/hearings/testimony/2004test/062204htest.pdf
*pdf file, requires adobe reader
Hate me all you want. This one is:
Bite me. Besides what am I going to say on a sunny afternoon...I have a headache?
YouTube
- Afternoon delight
Cheers,
I was born in 66...But I was a DJ in the late 80's and early 90's...gotta know your decades.
Drugs...someone asked...bah...done a million of 'em...ain't affected me none.
shhhhhh...the spider monkeys are getting close........
Cheers,
One is the lonliest number is from the 60's man...
Three Dog Night
LOL
Cheers,
Now the 70's saw the rise of coporate rock. And this is the quintessential coporate rock band.
Maybe some of them are bald now...
YouTube -
Cheers,
More corp rock from the 70's...
I think it fits.
Some revolution started here:
YouTube - Boston - Don't Look Back
Cheers,
My earliest boyfriends looked like these guys -- shag haircuts, big mustaches. Bell-bottomed jeans. Lord.
The funny thing was that they mostly turned out to be idiots about women. I mean above and beyond the ordinary idiocy of adolescents. Feminism was about the same thing as communism to these guys.
We little girls grew up in the 60s and 70s thinking the world was changing, that being female had new possibilities. The little boys who were growing up with us had no idea what we were talking about.
And they still don't.
Well this corp rock fits this:
The Mortgage Bankers Association ... blasted the ruling. The programs provide "important assistance to cash-strapped borrowers," said Steve O'Connor, the association's senior vice president of public policy.
Bansters fight back...beyatches..
YouTube -
Cheers,
Sorry folks, you can't get through the 70's without this craptacular stuff.
It fits the the theme too...sadly...
I'm just going to gag...no tag line.
Enjoy,....gah,
YouTube -
Cheers,
I just can't resist. Banksters deserve another chance...as CR said nonsense.
Here he is a little boy...not playing with one...(sick yes)
YouTube - Jackson Five I Want You Back music video
Cheers,
Ah hell...copied the wrong link...should be this one...
YouTube -
Sorry
Ahh.. the insanity of the 70's followed by the sanity of the 80's...
Don't Go Breaking My Heart ( by the dynamic duo )
YouTube
- Ru Paul & Elton John - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
dedicated to everyone twisting in the economic wind... Lets Dance !
When I was in high school my family lived right across the street from the school.
I got to listen to the pep squad practicing to this number, repeatedly, every afternoon for an entire football seaso
And while I'm at it, what the hell is a "Three Dog Night" anyway?
I believe that's a genuine Alaskan Old Fart's term.
A night cold enough to require three dogs to keep you warm.
Of course corp. rock spawned a rebellion...punk.
This is where much toxic credit is heading...what a prophet...
YouTube -
Cheers,
"We little girls grew up in the 60s and 70s thinking the world was changing, that being female had new possibilities."
Feminism is great, she goes to work and I can work less, we have more income, I can go fishing more and buy more toys. Plus we didn't have a bunch of screaming kids just a couple. The great thing is wedding vows didn't change "to have and to hold" and "to honor and obey" are still in there, the rolls didn't change. Worked for me.
Grafifit Grammarian
I donno, but my experience was that the touchie feelie guys that listened to the young women and tried to understand did not get any.
But they did get to listen to all the young women's complaints about their clueless crass boyfriends.
There is a lesson there somewhere.
What sporting event celebration would be complete without this bit o' 70's gold?
Just a piece of it...
YouTube - Queen-We Will Rock You
Cheers,
Misean,
The Eagles as corporate rock?
Was there ever a more anti-establishment figure as Don Henley in rock music? His lyrics dripped cynicism about American culture including overdevelopment.
"You call some place paradise - kiss it goodbye"
"The Last Resort" from the Hotel California album:
YouTube -
Also two great bands first albums were in 1969 - Led Zepplin and the Allman Brothers.
Vader...
My exp exactly...
The 70's also spawned groups that took both sides of the vinyl to complete a tune.
No....
YouTube -
Cheers,
NC Jim
And, yes The Eagles can poke at the record companies all they want. They are corp. rock...hell they only sell their new album out of Starbucks for chrissakes...talented...yes...but corp rock...yes.
Cheers,
"The Last Resort" or "Hotel California" ('you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave') would have fit the shack parked on the 101 freeway featured here a couple of days ago.
ol' Helicopter Ben could sympathize with this.
Was she really thin though?...
YouTube - Thin Lizzy-Whiskey in the jar
Cheers,
"The Eagles can poke at the record companies all they want. They are corp. rock...hell they only sell their new album out of Starbucks for chrissakes"
Not Starbucks, Wal-Mart. How much more corporate can you get?
Misean,
1. Correct, but songs posted are in the 70's
Hotel California was released December 1976.
Hotel California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Some rich man raped the land
nobody caught him
Put up a bunch of ugly boxes
Jesus, people bought them"
Totally on topic in today's mess.
Here is a more extensive overview of Nehemiah and it's lawsuits.
IRS scrutiny of down-payment gifts threatens charitable movement
Credit crunch in real-time in Sacramento. Preliminary sales show only 1,031 for the month of September. That's a 40% decline from August 2007 vs an Aug 06 - Sept 06 decline of 6%. Shameless plug:
sacrealstats.blogspot.com
Here's what I remember about the drugs of the 70s: They were very powerful. And they made you want to clap your hands uncontrollably.
I want you to go back and watch that video again. And just notice what I'm saying about all these stoned people. Their hands are out of control!
Oh, and another thing about the 70s. They wouldn't let you be in a video unless you were totally stoned.
"Put up a bunch of ugly boxes
Jesus, people bought them"
I always thought the last line went/meant:
"Jesus' people bought them"
It was an invasion of both houses and religious zealotry.
Everybody lived the seventies an infinite number of ways. Ziggy fell to earth. Milton implemented phased price controls. Poor people marched. Tet was offensive. Ben's helicopter was snatching people from a rooftop in Saigon. Some developed a fear of flying. Melanie got a brand new key. The surf was up. Mark had a chest full of gold (and great abs). RK and MLK bought the farm. And Nixon resigned.
Oh. While I'm thinking of it, 30 years from now your grandchildren will think all you listened to was J-Lo and Dr. Dre. Heh.
Al Greenspan was a banker
Rode a good trend in time
I never understood a single word he said
But he helped us drink and dine
And he always helped the stock market climb
Singin'
Chorus:
Joy to that man?
As the homes go down, now
Joy from homeowners in the deep red sea?
Joy from you and me?
If I were maestro of the world
Tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the debt and the jets and the bets
Make us pay our bills
Sing it now
Chorus
Was quick to sell my silver
Hindsight ain't so fun
I'm a canned goods hoarder and a coupon sorter
Can shoot straight and have my own gun
Yeah, I can shoot straight and have my own gun
Chorus
Joy to that man?
As the homes go down
Joy to that man?
Joy from you and me?
Chorus
Hat tip to Hedge Fund Implode-o-meter...
Bank Credit Risk Rises Amid Concern Over Money Market Funding
By Hamish Risk
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Bank credit risk rose amid renewed concern lenders are having difficulty raising funds in the money markets, according to traders of credit-default swaps.
Contracts on the iTraxx Financial Index of subordinated debt, a benchmark for the cost of protecting the bonds of 25 European banks and insurers against default, rose 4 basis points to 49 basis points, according to Deutsche Bank AG. The index increases as perceptions of credit quality worsen.
[snip]
I was a student at Vanderbilt in 1969. The student government invited the Allman Bros. to play, not really knowing who they were. Nobody knew who the Allman Bros. were in '69, unless you lived in Jacksonville or Muscle Shoals.
This is Nashville, Music City. The bros. stepped on the stage, said not a word, and started to play, and nobody could believe it. Two drummers. Two leads. Organ and bass.
Similar to what the Dead was doing on the West Coast, but different. Hard rock out of the Mississippi Delta, but different than the British were doing with it at the same time. Really American. The music world hasn't been the same since.
Rich,
The odd thing about the Allman Bros is that they consider themselves a jazz band - or at least that was what they said in a interview when they played locally at UNCW. I consider them a Southern Rock band.
You probably already know but that is Duane Allman playing slide is the classic Clapton song Layla.
quackprogrammer,
Interesting slant. Listen to Henley sing the lyric and he places a highly scaractic emphasis on "Jesus" followed by a slight pause.
Perhaps it should be written as "Jesus!" with an exclamation point to express amazement as in :
"Jesus! Who would loan money to those people."
Nobody knew who the Allman Bros. were in '69, unless you lived in Jacksonville or Muscle Shoals.
I lived just up stream from Muscle Shoals in '69... we knew about the studios but didn't think that much about it. They were there, good music, what else do you need to know?
That was a great place to live... our back yard was next to a small tributary of the Tennessee River & part of a huge wildlife refuge. I would go swimming in the Tennessee after school - filthy warm muddy water.
That place was the strangest mix of modern 'high technology' and backward red neck hickness I've seen anywhere... before or since.
The father of one of my friends was a lead project engineer for the Apollo project (worked in Huntsville - booster engines)... Yet he'd take us on weekends out to his families original homestead that didn't get power or indoor plumbing until a few years prior to this - his mother (my friends grandma) had lived there. If she had an 8th grade education I can fly (yet her son graduated from college on the GI Bill, with honors, and became a lead PM for the moon shoot).
Lessons there.
scaractic ?
Where the hell did that come from?
I meant sarcastic of course. I need a drink - then I can spell (sometimes).
I know that 3 Dog Night hasn't aged that well, but that's a song by Hoyt Axton, so a little respect for the guy who also wrote Boney Fingers, (and The Pusher, Snowblind Friend, and Greenback Dollar)
"Could you get good drugs?"
No, but I could get cheap drugs. Run-of-the-mill Mexican marijuana for 5 or 10 bucks a lid. It wasn't spectacular -- but stuff enough into a batch of brownies and you'd have a very interesting evening.
dryfly,
A lot of Duane Allman's session work in Muscle Shoals was preserved. Some of it can be heard on the tribute double album An Anthology, Volume II.
There is no doubt after listening to the earliest Allman recordings (including those when they were "the Allman Joys" in Jacksonville) that their main influence was Delta blues.