To me, the lead singers of Air Supply, Styx and Supertramp all sound alike.
How simple things were back then. I didn’t have anything but a future. Ronald Reagan was in the Oval, Space Shuttle was flying all the time. Ribbon cables and RS-232. CPUs had at most 16 bits, and if you needed more than 4 or 8K of memory, you could get a floppy drive.
ATM machines had built-in cameras, and banks. Beyond that, no one was looking at you. Computer viruses didn’t exist yet. Ransomware didn’t exist yet. A VCR was way out of my price range. When I saw Blade Runner and Body Heat, it was in a theater, and the fear of being shot in there by a crazed mass murderer was completely nonexistent.
For fun, I could go to a shopping mall and hang out at a Waldenbooks. Or I could go to South Street, the TLA, get a cheesesteak at Jim’s, sit upstairs and watch the people go by on the sidewalk.
Long ago.
Gotta admit pretty minor compared to all the rest 60’s, 70’s, 80’s
Air Supply made me react the same way then, as now: I want to puncture my eardrums out with ice picks. It’s the bubonic plague of yacht rock.
Those songs only worked when there was love and hope in life. A certain political party has changed all of that.
During that time we were listening to Def Leppard, Foreigner, Journey, Styx, Rush and Van Halen.
The song I liked best was Making Love Out Of Nothing At All. ItâÂÂs still one of my favorites. My husband and I saw them in Las Vegas twice. A rather lackluster performance each timeâ¦.but their songs saved them. The packed house loved the music. And they were Air Supply. And it was Las Vegas. âºï¸Â
And a friend of mine said they are better than the Beatles. I laughed... loudly.
My wife really loved Air Supply. We saw them in concert at a county fair in the 90’s. They were ok live but I must say I was a little disappointed. Hicthcock’s amazing vocal range was not on display once during the evening. Was it just an off night or had he lost his range? If these singers don’t take care of their voices, they can lose them doing 200 shows year after year. Maybe that’s why they really haven’t had any hits since the 80’s....
I think Air Supply should be banned from playing on the radio. Too many accidents caused as people try to change the station.