1980 all over again

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 2:25 pm

So I got tickets to see X, because what the hell it's been a while and they're playing a small venue (also, my birthday, pretty much).

And I'm noodling around on the ticket site and here's who's coming to town in the next month: Buzzcocks, English Beat, Stiff Little Fingers and The Damned.

I'm living in a goddam time warp.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:57 pm

Didn't they all work for Doug and Dinsdale Piranha at one time?

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:37 pm

Sue U wrote: Buzzcocks, English Beat, Stiff Little Fingers and The Damned.

.

Is that all one gig? A "Brit Invasion 1978" style tour?

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:51 am

Nah, each is headlining their own show. I half expect to see Mekons, Wire and The Fall coming around next.

But oh to be 22 again!

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:03 am

I'd see The Damned and SLF again if I had the chance.

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:40 am

If we're going back to 1980, does that mean we can bring back Ronald Reagan?

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:54 pm

Lord Jim wrote:If we're going back to 1980, does that mean we can bring back Ronald Reagan?

No.

Crackpot · Post by **Crackpot** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 7:08 pm

Why would you want to dig up Ronald Reagan?

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 7:33 pm

So he can lean the real Reagan up against the wall next to his velvet Reagan painting.

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:55 pm

Lord Jim wrote:If we're going back to 1980, does that mean we can bring back Ronald Reagan?

Hell with Ronald Reagan...that's about when my uncle paid $1000 for a white 1969 Mustang. Oh, yeah: it was a legit Boss 429 Mustang! (One of 859 build...his was Kar Kraft chassis #1299, IIRC.) I think he also kind of misses his 1978 Yamaha Speed Triple 750.

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:22 pm

For those who are in -- or can get to -- SoCal:

Early-bird Specials for everyone!

oldr_n_wsr · Post by **oldr_n_wsr** » Thu Aug 21, 2014 7:03 pm

I ahve about 500 LP's in my basement. Some ever the wrap isn't opened. Doors, Who, Stones.....

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 9:29 pm

Well, I went to the X show last week and despite some trepidation that it was going to turn out to be some kind of *barfff* oldies show (because no new material in the last 140 years) it turned out to be surprisingly fresh and super high energy. The first time they slowed things down was actually during the encore set (playing Blue Spark -- still not what you'd call a slow song in most anyone else's repertoire). It was a somewhat less personal performance than back in the day, but then again they're now pros working a road gig rather than kids tearing up the world. Still, it really was nice to hear them again, and they were killing it -- even (especially?) their version of Jerry Lee Lewis's Breathless.

My phonecam sux.

Noteworthy was that the audience seemed to include a lot of 50-something dads with their teen-age/twenty-something daughters. What is up with that?

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Tue Sep 02, 2014 11:19 pm

Old headbangers never die, they take their daughters along so as to have a genetic hair component on show.

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:54 pm

Sue U wrote:Well, I went to the X show last week and despite some trepidation that it was going to turn out to be some kind of *barfff* oldies show (because no new material in the last 140 years) it turned out to be surprisingly fresh and super high energy. The first time they slowed things down was actually during the encore set (playing Blue Spark -- still not what you'd call a slow song in most anyone else's repertoire). It was a somewhat less personal performance than back in the day, but then again they're now pros working a road gig rather than kids tearing up the world. Still, it really was nice to hear them again, and they were killing it -- even (especially?) their version of Jerry Lee Lewis's Breathless.

My phonecam sux.

Noteworthy was that the audience seemed to include a lot of 50-something dads with their teen-age/twenty-something daughters. What is up with that?

hahahahaha, you're such a naïf if you think the women were the daughters of the men accompanying them . . .

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 5:27 pm

hahahahaha, you're such a naïf if you think the women were the daughters of the men accompanying them . . .

Beat me to it...

Seems like an overly optimistic assumption...

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 9:31 pm

Well, I actually did ask several of them.

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Wed Sep 03, 2014 10:53 pm

That's even funnier. I'm sure some were, but the majority were not (having once been a 20-something that dated men twice my age....and seen how large that world is).

Wait, oh never mind.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 2:43 am

Sue U wrote:Well, I actually did ask several of them.

Me too - got me face slapped. How'd you do?

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:02 am

Guinevere wrote:That's even funnier. I'm sure some were, but the majority were not (having once been a 20-something that dated men twice my age....and seen how large that world is).

Wait, oh never mind.

Oh my! We're not talking about cockatoos again are we?

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