From 1974. On the list I can see things I owned from:
Led Zep
Steely Dan
Neil Diamond
Stevie Wonder
Curtis Mayfield
Moody Blues
David Bowie
The Sylvers
Richard Harris
Raspberries
Isaac Hayes
Jackson Five
Eric Clapton
Yes
You can see why I'm partial to the shrieking electronics.
DOOMSDAY!
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Is this like music with benefits?
1974 also.
One thing I didn't know until recently is that the guy who directed Wattstax is the same guy who directed Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. That's an odd sorta résumé.
Those ads were also in the magazine that came with the Sunday paper, if I remember right.
Wow, the Sylvers. Their "Boogie Fever" song was huge. I remember my brother, before he became a Disco Sucks rock purist, just had to have that album, and when he had saved up enough money, we had a big family outing and went to the store with our mom so he could buy it.
And all available on 8-track.
One of the things that always fascinates me looking back on the music from the seventies is how open the whole pantheon of "popular" music was to all different genres, an a manner that's impossible to even consider now.
You had your country (Daisy a Day type crap), your instrumentals (Also Sprach whatever), your Gilbert O'Sullivan type ballads, your "novelty" songs like Uneasy Rider or Dead Skunk, the disco/dance music from the black and wannabe black performers, all mixed together and played on the same radio station (KFRC Six Ten Aye Emm in San Francisco). I mean, what do Not Fragile, My Beautiful Balloon, Fire and Rain and Mony Mony have to do with one another.
That was pretty cool, to be honst...
One of the things that always fascinates me looking back on the music from the seventies is how open the whole pantheon of "popular" music was to all different genres, an a manner that's impossible to even consider now.
Yeah. I really miss top 40 radio.
"Houses of The Holy."
And "Chuck Berry's Golden Decade," but Vol. I.
Siegel-Schwall Band & The San Fran Symphony might be worth a listen.
Richard Harris reciting "MacArthur Park?"
Richard Harris reciting "MacArthur Park?"
The thing advertised above is a repackaging of things and is mostly Jimmy Webb stuff, so yeah.
I never joined one of those things. Once I got to college, I was able to get cassette tapes from friends with extensive record collections and some pretty fancy tape decks.
W00 H00!
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I had the record collection and the fancy tape decks, including a really swell Aiwa machine that sensed divisions between songs on cassette by blank spaces. I COULD PLAY TAPES IN BACKWARDS SONG ORDER!!! For tapes with less than twelve songs that is.
AIWA made some nice 8-tracks, that's for sure.
Richard Harris made more than one song? The 70s were a WEIRD decade....
AIWA made some nice 8-tracks, that's for sure.
The family had an eight-track but I think it might have been Sears or Zenith or something. I later had an all-in-one stereo with eight-track and turntable from Radio Shack but using it as a guitar amp shredded the speakers (but not before it started making this cool WHUP WHUP helicoptery sound).
The AIWA was a cool double deck with varying dubbing speeds and all sortsa noise reduction. You could do sound on sound with it too.
I will not be doing with the music from the air along the helectricity. It ain't natural.
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