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07-24-2014, 06:27 PM
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For most of the '70s I was playing solo, a big fish in a relatively big town (Louisville) in that particular segment (local solo restaurant, club and lounge scene), supporting myself in a nice apartment across from Central Park playing music most every night, then going out to listen to music until the bars closed at 4:00 A.M. Sleeping in and having my days free...
Single, lotsa pretty girls around, young and fit, lotsa free booze & drugs for the singer/guitarist ... Yeah, what's not to like about memories of the '70s? 
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#37
07-24-2014, 07:15 PM
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Did you know a local DJ at WSFR at that time named Murphy? Your former selves might have interacted back in the day, if ya know what I mean. max
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#38
07-24-2014, 09:25 PM
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Max,
I don't remember that station. I listen to WAKY mostly, because a buddy of mine (Gary Burbank) was a DJ there. What format was WSFR? What was Murphy's full name? Thanks, Dave Ooops! Googled WSFR. They didn't come into existence until long after I left Louisville for California. I've been out here since the late '70s. Last edited by kydave; 07-24-2014 at 09:35 PM.
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07-24-2014, 10:50 PM
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BTW, your description of heart of Darkness is bang on. Blood Meridian is another book that carries the same message.
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07-25-2014, 02:42 PM
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The 70's were incredibly rich in artistic value!!!!
Filmmakers broke free from the studio system and gave us individualistic and personal films like "Saturday Night Fever", "Vanishing Point", "The Wicker Man", "The Godfather", "The Friends of Eddie Coyle", "Dirty Harry" , "Jaws", "Halloween" , "Blue Collar", "The Shootist", and "Star Wars". You had Funkadelic and Earth, Wind and Fire roaming the same country as The Byrds, Conway Twitty, Olivia Newton-John, REO Speedwagon, ABBA, the Sex Pistols, Patti Smith, and Led Zeppelin. When Emerson, Lake and Palmer brought that huge tour convoy of theirs by our town you'd have thought the Second Coming had arrived! I remember guys dealing grass and moonshine from the front porches of their houses. But, I've also got two friends who are Acid casualties of the 70's. Dad had a CB radio and yeah, an 8-track tape player with "Sergeant Pepper's..." and "Sweetheart of the Rodeo". If you did head out for grass and 'shine, you'd better make sure there was enough fuel in the tank as the local station was probably out of gas that week!  I remember when cars started coming with locking fuel doors and caps because of all the siphoning. But I got to call it as I see it. The thing that I recall most about the 70's was the sexual freedom. It was a time in between curable STDs and herpes. Girls (with that great 70's straight hippie hair or the later Farrah super hair) EXPECTED you to make a move on them, and if you didn't, they'd make a move on YOU!!! There was "Porn Chic" ! My home town was a snooty colonial burgh but which had two adult bookstores, a massage parlor and several adult film theatres! When the Reagan/Thatcher era came in the town fathers chased all that out. Somehow I feel we were diminished for it. But man, it was great while it lasted! Last edited by BTF; 07-25-2014 at 03:13 PM.
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07-25-2014, 03:11 PM
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#43
07-25-2014, 03:37 PM
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I am sorry if my comments made it seem that I was romanticizing the Adult Film industry in particular. I was instead romanticizing the 70's in general.
The point I was attempting to make was that the 70's were in my view a more open and honest decade- perhaps the most open and honest we've yet had. Political Correctness had not then robbed us of the ability to freely express ideas without the fear of being labeled. William Buckley was a conservative, yet he welcomed liberals and radicals on "Firing Line" without the knee-jerk hysteria both conservative and liberal political commentators exhibit today when confronted by their opposites. And yes, the Adult Entertainment industry had its evil side as the mainstream Entertainment industry itself has. But "Porn Chic" was 70's society attempting to free itself from the rigid sexual codes and mores of previous generations. There was rape and sexual abuse long before stag films ever showed up in the 20's. And has there ever been a verified example of a mainstream Adult Film studio producing an actual "Snuff film"? The adult film actress Annette Haven once turned down a mainstream horror film role (in the 70's, no less) because of the violence toward her female character. She opined that the people in charge of keeping Adult films in the closet would rather see her character butchered than made love to. But I'd wager the seamy underbelly of the Internet today has far more to feel ashamed of than the Summit Theatre"s showing "Behind the Green Door" in 1973.
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07-25-2014, 04:03 PM
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07-25-2014, 06:35 PM
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I can see both sides of the argument.
The 70's was the Garden of Eden and you were Adam. If you bite the Apple, it's YOUR choice and YOUR trip. As William Burroughs said, "You lays down your money, you takes your chances!" The point I was trying to make in my original post was that -to me at least- the 70's had a wonderfully "FREE", "REAL" and personal feel to them that subsequent decades didn't seem to have. But along with now-humorous 70's trends like Disco, CB and polyester pant suits there was the flip side, with Black Power, Feminism, gas shortages, American car manufacturers getting creamed by the Japanese, major cities going bankrupt and yes, Porn Chic. You don't like your job? 70's Movies like "Adam at 6 a.m.", "Five Easy Pieces" or "The Lifeguard" told you it was okay to do what made you happy, not necessarily what made you rich. Good advice? Maybe, maybe not. There was sexual freedom unbounded in the 70's. On the other hand there were unwanted children, divorces, diseases and financial ruin that sometimes went along with the unbridled sexual license. Please understand that I'm not defending the Adult entertainment industry. I'm not d-mning it either because I don't work in it. In fact, I don't like Adult films other than their historical context in the 70's. The Adult film industry is like every other industry; It is in the business to make money. Some of that money is obviously put to evil purposes. But oil companies pollute, software companies spy on you. Your government thinks you're an idiot and manipulates you with lies and half-truths. I saw "Deep Throat" because EVERYBODY was talking about it. Heck, that Nixon tattletale even named himself after it!  I hated the dreary thing, as I've hated the two other Adult films I've watched while sneaking past the theatre age-checkers with friends of my youth. But in the 70's there was something TRUTHFUL to human nature when my town had that massage parlor and those Adult bookstores and theatres. It was out in the open. It was REAL! "What a piece of work is man?..." Well he's good AND bad. In the 70's it was out there to see- To be fascinated with and to be revolted at. The 21st Century man shows to the Outside World an alabaster facade, all the while looking at dirty pictures on his computer in the secret privacy of his bedroom. Sorry to prattle, Bill. Last edited by BTF; 07-25-2014 at 06:42 PM.
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