There wasn’t a lot of great music in the 80’s, but a bunch of it sure was fun!
I had a great time in the Eighties...there were a lot of good parties and music!
One of the high points of that decade for me was a Halloween party that took place in a huge three level barn...
I wore a pink elephant costume I made myself...took a white bedsheet, sewed up what looked like a KKK hood with the eyeholes, sewed two ears onto it and ran a bent coat hanger over the top of my head to hold up the ears on either side...made a trunk out of a tube of sheeting and passed a plastic tube for drinking through the trunk which I then cinched up in segments like an elephant trunk after sewing it on. Bought some pink dye and did the whole thing up pink. Put a Blues Brothers type hat on above, Ray Bans over the eyeholes, tucked the bottom into shirt and tie under a suit jacket, and drank through my trunk all night!
What a wild party. My best friend who went into the USN with me was dressed up like one of the killer bees from SNL, and he got drunk, passed out on the top part of the barn, fell of the side to middle level (no rails) then immediately plummeted to the floor (again no rails). Racked up his knee.
All the rest of us had simply slept in our cars in the freezing cold, and I woke to see my buddy in his silly bumble bee costume limping down the road towards us, his little wings all smashed to one side as if hit by a giant fly swatter!
Another acquaintance tried to drive his car home, drove off the road, threw his keys in the woods and called to cops the next day to say his car was stolen. As the cop had him sign the form, he said “Lying on an accident report is a FELONY. Read it and sign.”
Seemed like the entire Eighties was like that...