70s Saving Graces

Ted Samsel tejas at infi.net
Thu Jul 10 09:43:39 CDT 1997


> 
> > 
> > Harrison Sherwood sez:
> > 
> > Not that anybody in 1977 did, anyway. Great time to be alive and
> > chock-full o' Nothing.
> 
> Hey now, any decade that witnessed the musical birth/death/rebirth cycle
> of Lou Reed *at least* three times can't be all bad. Let's not forget,
> while we're on this somewhat more genteel topic that Bowie peaked in the
> 70s, Funkadelic provided the basslines for an entire generation of
> sampler-happy teenagers and Debbie Harry and Afrika Bambataa "cooked the
> whole [rap] thing up". Uh wait, scratch that last one, I'm still thinking
> over that post with a quizzical expression. 

So no other Southroners? No one a fan of Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band?
No one ever puke their guts out at a Wally Nussbaum Picknick and
meet Slim Pickens?
No one ever get a BAD sunburn at a Lynyrd Skynrd concert?
No one ever see Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts?

que lastima
(I played in a band that Stirling Morrison was in...on accordions)
back in them there daze...

tejas at infi.net
          "I only use my gun whenever kindness fails"
                                 Robert Earl Keen




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