rambo, first blood!And Duran Duran's Simon Lebon's less than prophetic announcement that, "Duran Duran would do for video, what Pink Floyd had done for Stereo."
I was born in '69, so the '80s spanned that period of my life when I went from child to young adult. Far too many memories, raging hormones, bitter with the sweet to comment on here.
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Reagan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back To The Future, Miami Vice, Max Headroom, Tainted Love, New Order, The Smiths, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Bloom County...
My fave music from the time was Rush. I played drums in HS and saw Rush a bunch of times and tried to be Neil. Maiden and Priest were good too.
Miami Vice, The Lost Boys, Duran Duran, "Dance Like an Egyptian"
Speaking of threads, I used to wear a stonewashed Guess? denim jacket, with whitewashed leather shoulder pads. Matching pants, too!
It's still in my closet, waiting for the right '80s party to break it out. If only I still had my white Don Johnson Capezios.
I used to tend bar at an after hours alternative club, called "One Step Beyond," in Santa Clara, CA.
While I worked there, I saw Fine Young Cannibals, The Beat Farmers, X, The Blasters, Gene Loves Jezebel, Chris Isaak, The Ramones, Iggy Pop, The Violent Femmes, Fiahbone, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sig Sig Sputnik, Feargull Sharkey and a bunch of others that escape me right now. The head security guy was Hillary Stench, formerly of Pearl Harbor and the Explosions.
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Who can forget the dawn of cable TV with only 13 channels? I remember staying up late on Saturday nights to watch Night Tracks on TBS and Friday Night Videos on NBC after Late Night with David Letrerman. That show was great more that it is now and who could forget Johnny Carson.
Any of you have an Atari and a Commodore 64? I wish I would have kept mine to show my kids when they get older. And What about New Coke? I lived close to Mexico at that time so we would go across the bridge to get the Real thing. And that reminds me of old high school memories. The Drinking age was not an issue thanks to Mexico.
Most of all , who could forget Ronald Reagan? A man I always admirred the day he became President and I was 8. It was great to have a man like that in the White House and I am happy to see that my kids will see somebody like that now that GW Bush is President.
rambo, first blood!
I could go on and on and I wil probably chime in again as I think of more stuff.
They've already been mentioned, but I must reiterate the memories of Friday Night Videos. We'd be in the cabin up north and I'd drive them nuts staying up all hours to watch that.
I remember when the hostages were released from Iran. We had a tiny transistor radio in the school office, listening to the inauguration. The secretary got on the PA and you could hear the cheers from the gym/lunchroom.
When the Challenger blew up, I was supposed to go to the doctor's that afteroon. It was my birthday, too. We sat in the waiting room just watching the TV, even after they had called me back into exam.
Whooba, Whoooba, Whooba, Downtown Julie Brown
Adam Kurry - the coolest VJ
Fat Shoelaces
Multi-colored Converse
T&C Surf Shirts (Thrilla Gorilla?)
OP Cordorouy shorts
Friendship Bracelets
Garbage Pail Kids (They'll be worth money someday!)
the Gnu with the Gnews on Great Space Coaster
stonewashed everything
the Beatie Boys
WWF
George the Animal, Junkyard Dog, and Hulkamania
Beat Street
Addidas with no shoelaces (thanks RUN DMC)
ThunderCats HO!
Pinwheel, Pinwheel Spinning Around
and finally who remembers the show these quotes came from: AAAAAAllistare!, IIIII heard that!
Yes, it was You Can't Do That on Television! What? Ahhh, I just got slimed....