foodie52 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 One of the guys I work with was the road manager for Aerosmith during their wild years. He has some hilarious stories that he shares with us on Margarita Fridays. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flyfish Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Not really, but Enid Blyton didn't do it for me.Noddy had a great car horn: "Parp-Parp!" But Noddy is now intent on world domination. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GG Mora Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 Remember when all cars had brightwork (aka chrome trim), not just the really expensive ones? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ghostrider Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Am I the only one left on earth who remembers the great pot smoker John Sinclair,... Manager of the MC5? I have the vaguest recollection that John Whiting knew him and that we once had a conversation about it. Am I joining the dots correctly, Maurice? Yeah, he managed the Motor City Five after he got out of jail on the pot charges. There are vast lacunae in my memory banks, but a bell is tinkling somewhere. Our discussion was on another site, and it wasn't Whiting but someone else who had a memory of Sinclair. He (whoever it was) and I discussed it, but I'm not sure if it was in public. I know Sinclair was in New Orleans when Katrina hit, but I haven't been able to find him on my radar. Something else about Sinclair was nagging me, something I ran across before this thread. Neiither of these is it but here are two pertinent links:  http://www.wab.org/events/2007_01.shtml  http://www.mapinc.org/newsnorml/v07/n067/a06.html  I think he did, or is scheduled to do in the near future, a similar reading/performance in NYC. Can't find anything on the Web about that tho & have no memory of where I ran across that info.  Hmm, here's a third link that may be of interest, tho it seems to need some work:  http://www.johnsinclair.us/10for2/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wingding Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Am I the only one left on earth who remembers the great pot smoker John Sinclair,... Â Manager of the MC5? I have the vaguest recollection that John Whiting knew him and that we once had a conversation about it. Am I joining the dots correctly, Maurice? Kick out the Jams,Mothe#@&*ers.....I remember reading Beezus and Ramona when I was 7 or so.Ramona was a Punk.She might have moved in with John Sinclair and the MC5 when she got older... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid1 Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Ah, the Nightbird. I loved her. When I used to get stuck doing overnights (on a small commerical rock station in 80s) I used to tell myself, "If it's good enough for Allsion Steele..."  And then I quit radio because the money sucked  I am a dangerous bore on this subject. I already mentioned listening to Radio Luxembourg under the covers. We can date that, because when Exile on Main Street came out, Kid Jensen played it through several times on his 1am "Dimensions" show. I would listen to Sounds of the Seventies (John Peel and sundry forgettable hippies) until midnight, then fill the gap until 1am with a mixture of Luxembourg and AFN.  Note: prior to 1975, the only legal commercial radio station in the British Isles was a local station on the Isle of Man.  Earlier in the evening, there was the Wolfman on AFN. Terrible reception, though.  And from the mid-seventies, a series of inter-related offshore pirate stations - Radio Nordsee International, Radio Caroline, Radio Atlantis and Radio Mi Amigo. Countless hours spent listening to stoned, seasick DJs playing whole sides of Captain Beefheart and Gong. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Maurice Naughton Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I said in an earlier post that I knew that John Sinclair was in New Orleans when Katrina hit. That was simply wrong. and he wasn't. I'm not sure how I knew what was simply wrong. Failing brain-parts and faulty inferences, I suppose. Sorry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
foodie52 Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I, too, used to listen to Radio Caroline and Won-der-ful Ra-di-o Lux-em-bourgh. I had a transistor radio with an earpiece. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
monkeymay Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust days was quite an act in live performance.A lot of his lyrics seem dopey in retrospect,but his band could rock.His first NY concert at Carnegie Hall was relatively stripped down,but the mere sight of him in that get-up was fairly hysteria provoking.The whole Warhol entourage was in attendance....one of those typical early 70's New York Scenes.The next show was at Radio City,a year or two later.They had a first come first served seating policy...nothing to do but sit outside and smoke dope while we waited for 6 hours.I remember that we 4 held hands and Ran down the aisle.The show started with Bowie rising from the floor;standard Radio City fare,but in our condition,it was a wondrous thing.Rocking music,many costume changes,and at the end Bowie pulled a fainting scene and was carried off the stage,which we were addled enough to think might be real.A great show,anyway...we went back the next night to see it again. Â Ahhh, I so wanted to see this show - 1974 , me, fourteen years old sneaking out of the house to the Universal Amphitheater in 6 " glitter platform weggies with knee socks, short shorts, tube top and stars on my face just like all the young dudes and got completely busted by my mother who grounded me for two months and threw my shoes away...saw Bowie tho for his "Thin White Duke" tour '76, snorting coke off the back of my hand as Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalou" opened the show...'77 was Bowie and Iggy at the Santa Monica Civic for Iggy's Idiot tour, Blondie the opening act... Rocky Horror was a stage play at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip when I saw it - Paul Jabara was the fabulous Frankenfurter...you could get into a lot of trouble and meet a lot of people as a teenager on the Strip in those days and I did a lot of both at the Whiskey and in the Rainbow parking lot. Early LA punk scene was fabulously crazy- the Masque was a club in the basement of the Pussycat Theater on Hollywood Blvd and the birthplace of many a great band - X, Germs, Screamers...this crazy groupie Cinnamon and I chased Dave Vainian in full Dracula drag up and down the Blvd until he gave us tickets to The Damned at the Whiskey that night... Â I loved Cheap Trick! There was a mother/daughter act that used to troll around town, the daughter was a real Lolita type her mother held out as bait - she used to go on Rodney Bingenheimer's radio show and announce she was saving herself for Robin Zander, he was gonna be the one to pop her cherry...years later I met Robin and Rick Nielsen when I was working at Smashbox and Rick gave me one of his guitar picks after signing my beat up copy of "In Color". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tanabutler Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust days was quite an act in live performance.A lot of his lyrics seem dopey in retrospect,but his band could rock.His first NY concert at Carnegie Hall was relatively stripped down,but the mere sight of him in that get-up was fairly hysteria provoking.The whole Warhol entourage was in attendance....one of those typical early 70's New York Scenes.The next show was at Radio City,a year or two later.They had a first come first served seating policy...nothing to do but sit outside and smoke dope while we waited for 6 hours.I remember that we 4 held hands and Ran down the aisle.The show started with Bowie rising from the floor;standard Radio City fare,but in our condition,it was a wondrous thing.Rocking music,many costume changes,and at the end Bowie pulled a fainting scene and was carried off the stage,which we were addled enough to think might be real.A great show,anyway...we went back the next night to see it again. Â Ahhh, I so wanted to see this show - 1974 , me, fourteen years old sneaking out of the house to the Universal Amphitheater in 6 " glitter platform weggies with knee socks, short shorts, tube top and stars on my face just like all the young dudes and got completely busted by my mother who grounded me for two months and threw my shoes away...saw Bowie tho for his "Thin White Duke" tour '76, snorting coke off the back of my hand as Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalou" opened the show...'77 was Bowie and Iggy at the Santa Monica Civic for Iggy's Idiot tour, Blondie the opening act... Rocky Horror was a stage play at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip when I saw it - Paul Jabara was the fabulous Frankenfurter...you could get into a lot of trouble and meet a lot of people as a teenager on the Strip in those days and I did a lot of both at the Whiskey and in the Rainbow parking lot. Early LA punk scene was fabulously crazy- the Masque was a club in the basement of the Pussycat Theater on Hollywood Blvd and the birthplace of many a great band - X, Germs, Screamers...this crazy groupie Cinnamon and I chased Dave Vainian in full Dracula drag up and down the Blvd until he gave us tickets to The Damned at the Whiskey that night... Â I loved Cheap Trick! There was a mother/daughter act that used to troll around town, the daughter was a real Lolita type her mother held out as bait - she used to go on Rodney Bingenheimer's radio show and announce she was saving herself for Robin Zander, he was gonna be the one to pop her cherry...years later I met Robin and Rick Nielsen when I was working at Smashbox and Rick gave me one of his guitar picks after signing my beat up copy of "In Color". You are absolutely one of the most colorful posters I've ever seen in my life. Â Long may you wave, Ms. M. I loved this post. For reasons of my own, perhaps to report later in a new thread called "You are SO busted." Where parents caught us doing shit. Or not. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
elyse Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Ummmm, what is some of us had those experiences but can't remember them for obvious reasons? Can we write what may or may not have happened to us? I know I was chased by cops a few times, but damned if I can recall the circumstances. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tanabutler Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 GG Mora can start a thread called "Do You Sorta Remember?" and it will become filled with anecdotes and links to old candy and Butch Patrick and stuff. Â I was chased by the Police, but that was my glory youth with a backstage pass in the early Eighties. Â Wait, maybe it was Fleetwood Mac. Â No, it was Starbuck, those one-hit wonders. "Moonlight Feels Right!" (I really knew those guys in Atlanta.) But I was only sixteen! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Scream Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Early 80's, dolphin shorts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tanabutler Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Early 80's, dolphin shorts. What are you talking about? (Or as Logie says, "What are you sayin' about?" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephanieL Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Early 80's, dolphin shorts. Are those sort of the same thing as jams? I had a couple of pairs of those in the mid-80's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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