I Feel Like I Time Warped to the 1970's.

Myself | 5-17-2014 | Myself

[Salamander]

I see what you did there.

[Salamander]

Last horse race I ever watched.

[FlJoePa]

Anyone who doesn’t think that video is the shit is...just...well...dead to me.

[Salamander]

I didn't have one either....but I'm makin' up for it, big time...>:-)

[ealgeone]

didn’t they do “American Band”?

[P.O.E.]

I haven’t been in a mall in literally years. Even then, I only used to go there to keep my kids occupied.

At the heart of it, I think it’s the antisocial atmosphere - from the clerks to the loudmouth, pushy, rude clientele dressed like slobs.

[Salamander]

Zombified...so much better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzlky9Klu4I

[P.O.E.]

Just heard “Limousine Driver” by GFR on the radio today. They just don’t write ‘em like that anymore

[FlJoePa]

Or not.

[Salamander]

There’s just no pleasing you.

:-P

[dfwgator]

One of the albums I probably played the most during my high school years was LRB’s “Backstage Pass” Live Album....Great Stuff, they recorded most of it with a symphony orchestra. I’ve been searching high and low on iTunes for it.

[dfwgator]

Mel, Don and Mark.....Hell, Yeah!

People forget just how huge these guys were in the 70s.

[dfwgator]

Best GFR story, was when they opened for Zeppelin, Peter Grant threatened their manager and told them they couldn’t tour anymore with them because they were blowing Zeppelin off the stage.

[ealgeone]

LRB had some of those songs that made you think as a teenager. “Cool Change”, “Reminiscing”come to mind. Now if I could just find a early model Mustang with a cassette deck we're really going back!

[dfwgator]

My favorite was “It’s a Long Way There.”

[kitchen]

The 1969 Jets/Colts Superbowl preceded all the things in your first paragraph.

[who knows what evil?]

Grand Funk concert, upstate NY, five bucks. Sweet.

[Rockingham]

Obama gets a partial pass on the Shuttle retirement. It was obsolete and at the end of its useful life because, among other problems, the insulation on the Shuttle's miles of wiring had begun to crack and shed. To keep the Shuttle in service would have required waiver of its scheduled inspection and recertification for manned space flight, making for a near admission that it was no longer safe to fly.

The real point (which you may well recognize) is that after retirement of the Shuttle and Obama's cancellation of Bush's Constellation program, NASA no longer has clearly identified, ambitious manned space flight goals around which to gather political and public support and plan and budget the development of missions and suitable new hardware.

Obama's proposal to have astronauts chase near earth asteroids offers little challenge or inspiration. Such a small goal does not stir our sense of adventure and demand useful new technologies in the way that manned Mars missions and a permanent base on the Moon would. Obama seems content to let NASA founder and have Russia and China lead mankind into space. It is as if, after discovery of a new hemisphere, Columbus was told to stay home and conduct coastal patrols around the Spanish peninsula.

[cherry]

70’s weren’t so bad....remember all the patriotic celebrations for 1976?...the Tall Ships?....my wedding?...the birth of two of my children?....

[SoFloFreeper]

The difference is this: in the 70s, as liberal as the media was, they knew and reported that Carter was a failure.

The media today, obsessed with race and sexuality, refuse to trumpet the truth about this abject failure Obamugabe.