1979 What were you doing?

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8th or ninth grade, listening to VH and fapping to Farah Fawcett and Daisy Duke. I didn't know or care he was gay then and still don't care now. He was a great singer/frontman...and apparently backman too. \:D/
 
napalmdeath said:
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...

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Thats what im talking about. Nobody I knew male or female at the time thought he was gay.
 
Smasheeng pumpkin make song called 1979 an this signul the start of end for band. Is to bad because they rock an shred before this. Front man Billy use to shred on his Stratocaster am there video of him on YouTube shredding from childhood but on video he play Les Paul!
 
I was 28 and just finished a 6-month road trip with my band. We were in Seattle waiting for the next gig when I got a message from my mom that my dad was ill and going in for colon cancer surgery. Of course, I came home, helped nurse him back to health, spent the next year+ hanging with him a lot getting to know him as an adult. Even though he ended up passing in '81 from a heart attack, I will always treasure that time we had at the end.
 
Ventura said:
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 ???
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More to the "RT" theme - same "best friend" had an older sister (hot AF, BTW!!) whose BF at that time was a guitarist for 3 bands including his own. Their rehearsal space was at my best friends house - this allowed me access to my first "big rig" experience - a half-stack JCM800 and a half-stack HIWATT Custom100. In addition to this - there was a MASSIVE full-on drum kit with all the add-ons (rotos, gong, etc.), and a towering SVT bass rig. Carpets - sound-proofing - sofa - coffee-table for all nefarious inputs - stomps littering the floor...

It was glorious.
It was the spark to my musical jamming DNA.
 
7th grade , BMX , Skateboards , Soccer. I learned there were other bands besides KISS lol and had a decent collection of Van Halen , Zeppelin, AC/DC, Aerosmith and Ted Nugent albums right around this time in `79 . But I was still very fired up for what would be my first concert

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I was 9 at the time. Only thing I remember musically was stuff I would hear on the radio in Canada and novelty songs that would appeal to my age group. Looking at the hits from that year, definitely remember Supertramp being huge with The Logical Song and Goodbye Stranger, ELO - Don’t Bring Me Down, Blondie, Village People, Rasputin - Boney M, Another Brick in the Wall, etc. no real concept of hard rock / metal till 81/82. First ‘45 single I ever bought was Crazy Train
 
Roller rink and arcades on weekends playing Pacman and Space Invaders…loads of 8 tracks from Columbia House….watching Don Kirshners and saving money to one day buy a guitar from the JC Penneys catalog.
 
I was 11 and a huge kiss fan but had not even thought about playing guitar I was 15 when I started playing guitar
 
I was 12 and loved Michael Jackson's Off the Wall album (the one with Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough, Rock with You and Off the Wall on it, released that year) and Toto's Hold the Line, released the year before IIRC.
 
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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It does kinda make you rethink the meanings of "POINT OF ENTRY" and "HELL BENT FOR LEATHER":dunno::confused::LOL:
 
harddriver said:
It does kinda make you rethink the meanings of "POINT OF ENTRY" and "HELL BENT FOR LEATHER":dunno::confused::LOL:
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Green Manalishi with a 2 Pronged Crown - either mescaline, or a nasty case of the limp-wrist clap ?

Halford fkn kicked all kinds of ass - HELION - to this day - GTFoutta here.... Killer killer band.
 
1979 - been playing guitar for a year at that point. Was 14, played my first live concert that year with our little band Also played football, basketball and baseball lol.
Completely into Kiss, Queen, Lizzy...they are still my three favorite bands but heavily into Journey, VH, Cheap Trick, Rush as well. Had my subscription to Circus Magazine jamming on my Ibanez PS-10 through my Marshall 2x12 combo. I had cool parents.
 
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