Time Machine - For Geezers only.

My First concert I saw John Sebastian, my brother and his friends went and my mother and another mother took me and my best bud too. I was about 6-8, thought it was the coolest thing in the world. Saw him at a Theater in the round on Cape Cod. It was a huge tent and the stage spun around. A few year later my mother asked if I wanted to go to the same place and see Liza Minnili. I said NO THANKs LOL

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Here's an ALL TIME GREAT SONG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWXcjYNZais
Thanks Tony for taking us down memory lane. Life is GOOD!!!!
 
I saw the Ramones a few times in the 70's at the Ritz in Manhattan. Probably the best Bar ban I ever saw that influence many future bands such as U2 another phenominal band but one person completely blew me away since I use to play Guitar back then and pretty much sucked at it and the band I was in named Armadillo better known by close friends back then as Arm a dildo(We sucked) was Eddie VanHalen. I scene them in concert the first time around 1981 and the last time around 2008. When Eddie plays this I daydream even today wishing I was playing it. The song is Eruption and its the best guitar solo to this day that I ever heard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_lwocmL9dQ&feature=player_detailpage
 
Tony, I guess I can qualify for semi-geezer status. In the 80's I was neck deep in raising a family. But music was mostly Country or Bluegrass. Willie, Waylon, Merle, Ricky Skaggs, Alabama, Charlie Daniels, Dixie Chicks, George Strait, Emmy Lou Harris.

I think this was in 86-87

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Tony Shelton said:
I thought this would be a fun thread. There's a new radio station in town that plays old songs (old for most of you guys, seems like yesterday for geezers like me!) Everytime I hear a song on the station it brings up old memories. How about bringing up some old tunes and the memories that go along with them. I'll start, You guys can either laugh and make fun of me or join in. It's your choice! :)

Here's the first. 1985. Just graduated Electricians Mate "A" School and stationed in Alameda California on the USS Carl Vinson in Alameda California. Listening to this and getting my perfectly groomed thick head of center parted hair combed then jumping in my newly acquired 1985 PONTIAC FIERO!!!!!!! Bought with this new thing called credit! (for Waaaaaay too much money and 13.5%!!!!!!!!!!!) ..... on my way out on the town to hit the clubs in San Francisco all alone to see what I got.

Waking up in the morning looking out the window of an apartment at Columbus and Broadway realizing my car has been towed and I have to run to take the train to the base. I kiss "whatever her name is" goodbye and head for the Bart station to try to make it to morning muster on time. This song plays in my head all the way.

Come on guys don't leave me stranded here. Surely there were some more dorks like me back in those days!

In spite of my bad decisions in the past, God has left me with priceless memories tied to every date in my life. I'll never forget the feeling of overwhelming confidence I had in those days of the sunrise of my life.

I'm thankful for that.

Where were you when this song was playing? (NOTE: if you weren't born yet, I don't need a picture to let me know where you were.....I took an anatomy class!)

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That's pretty cool that your carrier the USS Carl Vinson was the one to dump that whale shit overboard !!
 
CarolinaProWash said:
1976

I think I had my drivers license for about a month when I decided to sneak out in the middle of the night....joy riding through town to this song I managed to head on a telephone pole, spun twice, launched off a fire hydrant (still spinning), landed on TOP of the speed limit sign - which did not support the weight of my VW fastback....plunked me to the ground where I rolled backward into one of the 1776 trees planted two years earlier. I must have knocked my head pretty good because I asked the cop if he though we could fix my car before my parents woke up. Baaad night for Celeste.
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Saw him in concert. I think it was the summer after my senior year ('88). He opened for 38 Special. That still seems like an ODD mix to me.
 
Time keeps on slipping, slipping into the future

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All Mostly cool songs. Another one that had a profound affect on my life because of the way the Vidoe was filmed and the way the Man in black played it with his dead wife looking on. He died a few months later but this Video one numerous awards because of the stature and talent of this man. One of America's all time Greats. The one and only and its his true name---The Man in Black---"Thank you I'm Johnny Cash" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho
 
You can add so many songs to his legacy. I mean the man had 9 of the top 10 albums in 1969 along with a Top TV show. His was hitting on all cylinders back then and that year will never be matched again. Its like the Babe hitting 130 homeruns in a year. Here's another monster hit from the Man in black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Ts4M3irWM
 
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