1979 What were you doing?

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I was one year from discovering hard rock, metal, etc. because my dad was a total classical music snob, so that's all we listened to in the house. My mom would listen to either oldies or soft rock on the radio, so that was all I'd heard of anything created in the 20th Century.

It was 1980 when I connected with the guy who'd become my best friend, and his older brother recorded his albums for us......hence my musical tastes being a bit older than me. I think Queen's Play the Game was my first album I bought with my own money.
 
I was 17 I remember seeing Kiss with Judas Priest. Getting a Hondo les paul copy . Saving money for a Marshall.
 
I was 8 .... I knew who Kiss was and that's about it .. I had double Platinum and Dressed to Kill .... I wasn't enlightened till 83 .... when someone in 6th grade had a Speak of the devil T-Shirt on .... I asked who that was ..... and then bought Speak of the devil and Blizzard that weekend ...
 
Started the year in northern Illinois, ended in Houston Texas and then moved to LA right before New Years. I was 10
 
Trying to scope my best friends' older brothers bedroom out for any shrapnel of weed, roach, hash, oil - A N Y T H I N G - we could to just find that ever elusive and oh-so-mystical "cool people smoke this stuff" elixir.

Failing that - said older brother had a right proper stack of all the nudie mags available at that time and we dove into that shit hard ???
 
Findthetone1 said:
Started the year in northern Illinois, ended in Houston Texas and then moved to LA right before New Years. I was 10
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Teenager in LA during the 80s? What could be better? The center of the earth was LA. I remember in 1990 walking down to Seventh Vail for my 21st birthday and some hooch stepping out of the shadows asking if I needed a blow job for the jangly in my pocket. Prolly 75 cents. WTF. I’m from smallville USA. I’ll pass. Now if you are talking about Louisiana; we’ll that’s a different story
 
panhead said:
This crossed my mind. My Dad was a damn smart man and realized he was even smarter after he passed. I just Bought Unleashed From The East/ Priest and Im cranking in the family room. He comes in and I turned it down to normal volume. He says, what is that? I said new JP. He picks up the album cover and looks at it. That guys a faggot,I said thats Rob Halford. He say no that guys a :ROFLMAO: faggot.
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That was the first album I ever bought. It also quickly became one of my all-time favorite albums, and they went in to be my all-time favorite band. I scoffed at the idea he was gay for years, and actually got butthurt, (no pun intended), when people said it in my presence. Years later, he came out, (I was also convinced prior that he WAS gay)..

It's funny now, how I didn't see it years ago. Pretty obvious here with his feminine pose that he was light in the loafers. But, one thing that will never change for me, is he's still the GOAT, and nobody's even close. Dio was a legend, but I still but Halford a few notches ahead...

 
alund said:
Teenager in LA during the 80s? What could be better? The center of the earth was LA. I remember in 1990 walking down to Seventh Vail for my 21st birthday and some hooch stepping out of the shadows asking if I needed a blow job for the jangly in my pocket. Prolly 75 cents. WTF. I’m from smallville USA. I’ll pass. Now if you are talking about Louisiana; we’ll that’s a different story
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Canoga Park then Simi Valley. I was only there for a year but it still left an impression.
 
Sitting on the floor a few feet from the TV, watching The Dukes Of Hazzard.
 
I was in third grade, got VHII and a Tyco racetrack for Xmas. It was a glorious time. VHII is probably still my fav.
 
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