Bad lip synching and bored entertainers not trusted to perform live. See also Elton John and Kiki Dee doing "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart." Or better yet, don't.

However, this song brings to mind a "My Three Songs" trivia question:

What ties these three songs together:

"Long Tall Glasses" by Leo Sayer
"Gimme Three Steps" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
"If I Had A Rocket Launcher" by Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Hornsby played piano on all three?

Think, think, think.

As Alex Trebek would say, "More specific information."

All three songs refer to crying as water falling or rising in the singer's eyes.

"Well the crowd cleared away
And I began to pray
As the water fell on the floor.
And I'm telling you son,
Well, it ain't no fun
Staring straight down a forty-four"


... I think he means he was so scared he pissed himself, not that he cried.

But I've always heard it as the singer tearing up, which is probably what I would do in a close quarters situation like that.

the 70's were the hangover from hell. And by the time the 80's rolled around record companies and musicians had nothing but synth, and music video on mtv. Thankfully we had a blues revival at the end of 80's and in to the '90s, and then grunge and activism came around again. Now I don't know where its going anymore; boy/girl groups and disco still dominate. Thankfully for the net some really good music is out there, but you have to look for it.

Electing Reagan was the Country turning away from that, saying "Fuck it. Let's get rich." Back in 1974 people were still hopeful. It seemed like the worst was behind us. Nobody believes that now

(and sorry, I'm not trying to single out boomers) but yeah, 'lets everybody get rich' followed the glam with cocaine an deregulated banking and corporate raiding etc. etc. etc. I grew up in a family of generations of unionized auto workers, and in hindsight am sick at how they threw away their collective gains, just to buy cheap shit from Mexico or Japan, and gulliby take their good hard earned unionized earnings to play on the wall street casino.

that is, the small car market, which had suddenly come into prominence due to the oil shocks of that decade. And while Detroit made a half-hearted effort to get into the small-car market (with the Pinto, Vega, Monza, Gremlin, Pacer, Chevette, etc.), after the end of the oil shocks it essentially ceded the small-car market to Japanese makers.

By the way, the crappiest car I ever rode in was a Chrysler K Car.

it would be this.

that was the end of civilization

It was called the Dark Horse, but my friend called it the Dork House. In the daytime, it was just a restaurant with rather unusual interior decor, but at night...

...Frip, Eno, Nick Lowe.

Blondie, The Ramones, Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Van der Graaf Generator, Roxy Music, and I am only started.....

.... wow I never thought I'd read a reference to Magazine, the fantastic band nobody has ever heard of!

and original band. Nothing like them ever.

That's what most of the 70s was


One of the songs from the decade, with lyrics in case people can't remember them...

hahahah

Here's one that teaches people a foreign language...

along with the blow-dried man coiffure...

I will spare you the links.

Dire Straits' Walk of Life (other way around)? Or at least a mashup of the opening

That said, aww the '70s: Also about:

* Horoscopes
* health foods, vitamins
* Jesus Freaks & scientologists
* And this (paper) poster on walls:

********QUOTE*****

[font size=5]The Gestalt Prayer[/font]

I do my thing and you do your thing.
[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
And you are not in this world to live up to mine[/FONT].
You are you, and I am I,
and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
If not, it can't be helped.


(Fritz Perls, "Gestalt Therapy Verbatim", 1969)

*********QUOTE********

However, in the 1980s, the hit discobullshit tv show was Dance Fever. Denny Terio and his dancing pigs. They hired Frank Zappa as a judge. Zappa held up his card and said "I gave them a 9 because they were really sincere."