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Love the Simon and Garfunkel selections. More great memories from the angst-ridden teen years. I had a wonderful ex-hippie English teacher in jr. high (had quite a few hippie teachers, as a matter of fact, being the mid-to-late 70s, along with the nuns and old ladies in comfortable shoes) who gave us song lyrics to interpret along with(mostly instead of) the poetry we were supposed to be studying. So I learned all about S&G, Dylan and various other folk singers and such. This one has always stuck in my mind.

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LisaE , yes the seventies, did you see the suits and the platform boots? well I am sad to hear you had to wear Clarks T bar shoes, very sensible and hard wearing but totally embarressing in front of ones peers.

Recaredo, it is best to look for the inner beauty in everyone indeed, and everyone does have some to find, if one looks. For sexyfuntime though it can oft be helpfull to have some outer beauty of some description, or at the worst, a good wardrobe technique to hide the unsightly parts.
Or a dark room.

Anywaysey, Its nearly christmas, and I still have not recieved a pressie OffWayne or Griffin., or AimeeO or Eglantine or anyone really...

Boo Hooo.

Yes, Rossy, platform boots (which I did not need, at 5'7" at age 13, when the boys were all short), super wide-leg pants, and hideous colours. We all looked so ridiculous. But the music was great.

Ah yes Lisa. I definitely remember this song. I was in college. I was probably sporting a short Afro hair style, wire rimmed eyeglasses, and my first pair of bell bottom pants were green pin stripes. The platform shoes were not in yet. That came a few years later.

Glad you enjoyed Simon & Garfunkel.

Here's my favorite Simon & Garfunkel song. I borrowed the 45 from my parents some time in Jr. High and it got a lot of play until I gave it back when I moved out.

Good morning Rossy! I'm finding that giving you a present is quite a technical challenge for me. I seem to lack the technical skills to figure out how to embed a simple image in this thread.

However, I think I've come up with a lovely present for you that should please you, and not stress me out trying to present you with my photo card. You have to share your gift with everyone viewing this thread! I'm sure you won't mind, however.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ROSSY!!!

Rumillajta- La Guambrita

Since we seem to be going down Memory Lane I'm going to share this performance by Richie Havens of "Here Comes the Sun."

Oh most excellent pressie Griffin, I have to admit to opening it early... well its 2.19 pm here on christmas eve and there is one massive chicken in rossys oven, it had its skin lifted and half a pound of butter mixed with loads of garlic and fresh lemon were then inserted under the skin, skin put back down and rest of the lemons stuffed inside.

Just having a brew and a ciggy, and then on to preparing the 2kilos of venison ...this will be cooked in red wine slowly....

Young rossy is due on one of the two buses that will pass by today..

My first Seventies posting from the seventies is brought to you by Mott The Hoople and it mentions the suits and platform boots!!!! Also, Mrs R was born in the kings road Chelsea, and it mentions that...


So here we go folks Saturday Gigs...... Hooples "goodbye" song...

With Ian blaming Verdan allen for being the first person to leave hOople and also resposible for the reunion!! In this Verden holds up one of Pete "overend" watts platform boots from the seventies!!!

Pete had the letter "O" written on one of his trainers and the letter "W" on the other , for Overend watts of course.....

It is suspected that Ian may have filled in the rest; "Old and wa*ker" this was visable during all the reunion gigs....

there is a tag hanging from petes bass guitar, much speculation about what this tag said abounded, pete kept dipping the head of his bass into the audience, one guy grabbed the tag and the mystery was solved.. it read "do not polish"

No christmas would be the same without some Slade, but ignoring the christmas song they wrote, I will post the best song they ever wrote....
a most excellent chorus in this song.....

How does it feel..?

And for the third of my christmas eve postings, I thought "how about some wizard?" and then I thought, lets just have Roy wood instead, well with the rest of the move that is!!

Blackberry way...

The 70s?

I have just two words: hot pants.
Well, four words: home made hot pants.
The platforms came later. Som bloke in Spain said to me at the time - while on my hols - "Why are you wearing those shoes?" Why indeed. 'Cos we had them in the UK, but they didn't get as far as Spain.

I remember Little Boxes. In fact, I quoted it to an architect friend only this week. I remember the Pete Seeger version.

I've just dispatched some Christmas visitors with a book about keeping bees, and the 'ransom' version of fridge magnets. Fortunately, I was also able to provide them with half a dozen mince pies, fresh out of the oven. (I know they already have some fridge magnets, and I'm feeling they may already have these ones.)

As we are on a classic 70s jag, here's David playing the piano:

I'm going to guess this was likely not their best work, but its what I'm most familiar with, I like it and it brings back great teenagerhood memories. My best friend and I watched a lot of MTV and this got pretty heavy play for a while. She would imitate all the stupid faces the band makes in the video.

Hi Everyone! I'm just dropping by to nose around a bit. I'm looking forward to listening to all of these postings!! I can see several I'm familiar with. We're doing food preparations for Christmas Day. I'll be around all day. I have a few musical treats to share this evening!

Hi all!

Glad to hear preparations are well underway griffin.

I'm currently working on my 6th Billy CD tower, courtesy of Ikea. I just moved the 'B's from case 1 to 2, and came across this lovely 2010 album from Bonobo, Black Sands. I saw Bonobo live this year at Koko in Camden (yes, the location of the last known sighting of Bon Scott), and I'd already seen them at a festival in 2010. Amazing live band (12+ members) and brilliant album. It's got soul, funk, great female vocalists, about five brass players, dance, tunes! Turn it up to 11 on the hi-fi!




Bonobo are on the indie London label Ninja Tunes, which has been bringing out great music for 21 years now. If you ever get the chance to catch Bonobo live, do try and make it. Excellent show.

Hey everybody!

We had our Christmas dinner Wednesday... standing rib roast, Yorkshire pudding, mashed 'taters, acorn squash, and corn. Oh BillyO wanted some Stove Top stuffing, too, so we had that also (totally white trash, but it is delicious!). We topped it off with our favorite Pinot Noir and had a great time.

Tonight, we will open presents at 12:01am. That way, I won't wake BillyO up at the crack of dawn. Works for us.

Sounds like everyone is busy busy with their Christmas prep! Have a great one!

Now here's some stuff.

Here's Martha Argerich and Nicolas Economou, performing Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers on two pianos.

I love this version of Baby It's Cold Outside:

Here's Cartman singing Oh Holy Night. I must have South Park in my Christmas.

Oh Cartman rulz, Aimee!
Did you really kill Kenny?

What would make a totally white trash xmas?

BTW, I love Zooey Deschanel, it is absolutely criminal how adorable she is.

Everyone plays Tchaikovsky at Christmas, but how about some wonderfully cheerful music from Prokofiev.