What is you favorite bands, songs, or singer?

i love emmylou.
the del mccoury band does a great bluegrass cover of robert cray's "smoking gun".

What kind of 'test', drzz?

Aw, Amy, I thought that link was going to be a picture of you and your date from that dance!

be glad it isn't!
somewhere, packed away, i have one.
not a pretty sight, i promise.

Onewish - "O & A" fan? - you've stumped me.

Amy - sorry to dredge up an old memory, but my curiousity has been piqued: what did you do/say, & what did the other "jilted" date do/say, while all this was transpiring? I just can't imagine myself keeping cool under these circumstances. And at the very least, I would have shot a few good barbs in their direction. Discovering his lack of qulaities must have been a timely epiphany.

drzz - "why I don't hear so well anymore": oh yes, and I still prefer my rock turned up LOUD!

Opie and Anthony.... talk radio guys... guess not then... Anthony always says how it's a small world is the most annoying thing ever... and the ride got suck and he had to listen to it for a long time

"...why oh why did I click on that link?..."

And why oh why did I look for it to post it? I've been singing that stupid song for three days now, lol! Aaggghhhhhhh!

O&A stumped me too. I don't listen to them, but I think most people would agree with their opinion of "Small World".

I don't know, Amy.... I think it would be fun to see some of those old pics. Of course, that is as long as their not MY old pics, lol! It's always fun to look at old pictures, as long as they're not of oneself! Especially from the 70's & 80's...

VG, I'm a landscape design student at North Shore Community College due to an occupational knee injury. Vocational rehab.
I have about a 1 1/2 hour commute each way to class and Willie
serenades me and lowers my adrenaline level to the point where I can concentrate on the test material and get a good grade. It hasn't failed to work yet!!

Cool - how do you like the program?

Good luck drz--that sounds great.

Amy- Ouch! Sorry about that.

I had never heard of a ring dance (I was imagining Greek folk dance) until this. We didn't have them.

I am a bit of a snob on the music I grew up with (graduated HS in 72) but I'd prefer Walking on Sunshine to Ring My Bell. Late 70s were the worst!

I have been to Disneyland way too many times, and I am more of a "Pirates of the Caribbean" fan. It's a Small World opened in 1964; its music has the potential to push the listener into a drone-like state or over the edge, or both.
Opie & Anthony - well, they've got that one right. Bad enough to be be on the ride - getting stuck on it would be similar to doing time.

Dave - '72 grad as well. Geez, that was a long time ago.
What do you mean you're a snob?
You just have good taste, yes?

Amy - please elaborate. i even thought about your story at work today - it gave me the willies.

willie nelson?
oops - wrong post...

elaborate on what? i'm confused...

Amy - Let me further confuse you (!): the "willies" is another term for the heebie-jeebies or something that is unnerving, like your high school dance saga. But that post is waaaaaayyy up there now. =:0)

i know about the willies - i was just making a lame joke.
i also know that willy is slang for something else in England - which made it quite a joke amongst me and my Anglophile friends in HS. (And then i was in a play where i had to say, "You gave me the willies!" and boy was it hard not to giggle...)
The Junior Ring Dance Horror isn't worth even a single willie. It's been funny for years... At the time i didn't do anything because i just wanted the night to end. But within a year it was a total joke - imean, c'mon, "spring colors" indeed!

wet willies?? Slick Willy, Free Willy? Where does the term "the willies" derive from?

Katye, I think it was a great time to grow up. Best music, interesting times, great causes.

Dave, I'm just a teeny tad bit younger - my teenage years straddled the end of the 70s/beginning of the 80's - but I agree it was a great time (give or take a few years) to grow up, and to be a teenager. Even though I was never a disco fan, and was a metal-head surrounded by disco fanatics, it was still lots of fun.

My daughter is forever saying the 80s are the most embarrassing time in the history of humankind. I always tell her it was the BEST time - you could wear whatever you wanted, wear your hair BIG, and the music was so varied. What's not to love, especially as a teenager/college student?

I think the only other time I would have loved to be 18 was 1966-68, preferably in London.

I liked disco and rock (and lots of other stuff). If you liked to dance, you liked disco. Also, lots of girls / women were into disco...

Victor, Did you have platform shoes? Huckapoo shirts?

No, sorry to say.

I had a pair! And a Quianna shirt. don't know how to describe it but it wouldn't burn, it would melt.

Good fuse material.

Favourite all time song = Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress by The Hollies

Other favs include the aria by tenor and baritone in The Pearl Fishers

In fact, my choice of music is variable - except I don't like country and western (though I do like folk music, especially Gordon Lightfoot).

I saw him!

Dave - it was a great time, and a constant morphing.
But I am sooo curious as to how you discovered that Qiana melts instead of burning - experiential knowledge? =:0)

"Huckapoo" shirts? what the........?

You saw Gordon Lightfoot! You are sooo lucky. I wanted to buy tickets for DH last summer, but we just didn't have the resources.

The late 70s were a time for synthetic clothes in unnatural colors.

The melting may have been the result of a burning seed going "pop". ;^)

And synthetic people.

In about 1968. My first concert. He opened for Janis Joplin .

You saw Janis!! Lucky you, she was a woman that was way ahead of her time.

Dave - "may have been....." lol, right.

Pixie - I lived near SF so i was able to see her several times. She was one of a handful of singers that could project her voice quite well in an outdoor venue with less than desirable acoustics (Golden Gate Park). And she was "real" in that she did not put on airs, like some entertainers do. She was definately her own woman. How sad that her time with us was so brief.

huckapoo shirts?!? is that what you wear if you are anti-huckabee?
(not politically meant, iswear!) (but i don't swear here...)

Amy, i'm thinking it's for huckin' poo???
Somebody please elaborate on this shirt.

I thought it was worn by the strange people who want to ban Huck Finn.

the lost adventures of Huck Finn and Winnie the Pooh.

I had suspicions about them.

i just saw Juno and i really loved a lot of the music in that - i've gotta find some of those songs. i was amused that the songs that 2 characters play as examples of cool are songs i love too: "All the Young Dudes" Mott the Hoople and "Superstar" (the Carpenters song) covered by Sonic Youth. And you can see the cover of Patti Smith's "Horses" album in Juno's room.

Michaela, my favorite song of all time is also a Hollies song -- "The Air That I Breathe," followed closely by Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," the Beatles' "Hey Jude," and the Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin."

Katye, the name you're looking for is Hilton Valentine. He was the Animals' guitarist. I loved the lead singer, Eric Burdon. 2008 will be a big year for him. He's reuniting with War for the first time in almost 40 years for a concert, and his records with War will be reissued.

My exception to the CRap rule is the very early work of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. It was a wall of sound beyond Phil Spector's wildest dreams

As for other favorites, I like to listen to Mahler when I'm happy, and nothing perks me up more when I'm sad than some nice Willie Nelson songs, especially his duets. That twang goes down better when it's neutralized a little by another voice.

Other favorite voices are Dolores Keane, Linda Ronstadt, Esther Ofarim, George Chakiris, Chad Mitchell (with or without the trio), and Steve Perry (with or without Journey).

if we are doing absolute ultimate favorite song - there can be only one - i'd pick Townes Van Zant's "To Live's to Fly."
There an awful lot of others vying for the spot though!

Barry White!

A voice to swoon to.
He was on the Letterman show once and did a Top Ten List.
"The Top Ten Things That Sound Sexy When Spoken By Barry White"
LOL!
I don't remember any of the things - they were just ordinary phrases - but he made them sound G-O-O-D!!!!!

Nancy

Linda Ronstadt was someone else I got to see early in her career as an opening act. She opened for Neil Young.

Katye, it took someone else from the class of 72 to understand!

Zuzu, Ever check out the Oakland sound of Tower of Power? I loved their concerts. Probably the group I've seen most often.