Where were you in the early '70's? What were you doing then?

The 1970s (at least the early 70s) are the only era that I enjoyed as much
as the 60s.

I turned 13 in 1970. I became heavily involved in music to the point where
almost nothing else existed.

I did an extensive study of 60s music (even though I lived through the
Beatles and other groups of the time) because I wanted to go beyond
the "pop" stuff.

I subsequently accumulated what has to be one of the largest record
collections in the world...all on a $35 a week allowance and a paper route.

I lived with a transistor radio glued to my head. I was so compulsive that
I'd even buy records I didn't like just because it was available.

I grew out of that after 1989 when I finally couldn't stand 90% of what
was out there...but by then it was too late.

My basement is almost wall to wall records...a 900 square foot home.

Sometimes I think that I missed out on so much of life because of my
music obsession that I wonder what it was like to do other stuff.

I casually did:

Bowling
Baseball
Basketball
Movies
TV
Comics

But music had to take up at least 8 hours of every day after I got home
from school.

The scariest part of it, however, was how you could name a song and I
could tell you the date it charted and how high it went on the charts.

A failing memory has taken that skill and flushed it down the toilet.

But boy...did I impress a lot of people with my useless music trivia.

The 70s were...well...were the years that made me what I am today, for
good or bad.

I could tell you where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard
just about any song at the time...something that came from listening to
WABC weekly surveys and American Top 40.

High Points:

First time I heard "I Think I Love You" I was at my grandparents house in
their dining room playing cards. It was Casino.

First time I heard "Games" by Redeye and "No Matter What" by Badfinger,
it was walking home from the Valley Fair in Irvington after buying records
after school.

First time I heard "Stay Awhile" by The Bells, I was walking with my friend
Paul while he was out collecting for the Star Ledger and I heard the song
outside my apartment on Manor Drive on my radio that was shaped like a
police siren.

I could keep going but I think you get the picture.

The 70s are like a huge watercolor painting of my life...with the colors
slowly washing away with time.

Part of me would love to go back and relive those days.

And then there is a part of me that never wants to see them (the acne,
the girl troubles, the lousy homework, the raging hormones) again.

With the passage of time, we tend to remember the good and forget
about the bad.

Until we can't seem to remember much of anything.

Until we hear the music again.

And then we remember again and it all comes back.

God how I loved and hated those years.

I had a couple female friends that went to oxford around 86-90. I cant tell you how much money we spent on pitcher beers or how many times the girls had to carry my drunk self to the floor of their dorm room.

And yes..there were LOADS of hot females in oxford.


in the early 70's, i was not old enough to get into trouble yet, that didnt come until the 80's

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HeySal;1894902] You remember the Cinderella Ballroom? I used to love to go to concerts there. If you were at the J. Geils/Dr.Hook concert or that awesome Humble Pie premier concert, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, and on and on then we might have been at the same concerts together. LOL.
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I wonder.....

I seen Humble Pie in San Fransico. They were great. That concert had Edgar Winter opening for them.

First time I really heard Edgar. They were fantastic. I think they took away some of Humble Pie's thunder that night.

In Michigan I been to the Granny Ball Room way back... The Pontiac Silverdome and then there was that outside place... Forgot the name.... something HILL.


I did see Alice and Black Sabbath in Michigan, but not sure were now...

And of course there was Oz Fest...

Lambert