You wore long hair,turtle-necks,flaired trousers

Lol!......'Frampton's Still Alive' could be his chart comeback!!!.

I really don't know why but I can so clearly remember the huge impact of the 'Frampton Comes Alive' double album in 1976.I almost bought it back then even though it was more expensive than normal L.P.s.
Was it just promo-hype?.

 

At the time, it was the biggest selling album ever. I think the Bee Gees beat it out next with Saturday Night Fever followed by Michael Jackson with Thriller, both of which were mainly disco albums. I still prefer an album like Frampton's compared with Bee Gees or Jackson. Many of the highest selling albums seem to be ones with the most hype.

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the record sales ran in conjunction with the rise of the yuppie...money rules & all that

 

Frampton Comes Alive wasn't bad, but I only liked a couple of tunes from it.
How about Grand Funk Live Album from '70. Now that was a thumpin ass kickin album.

 

"You wore long hair,turtle-necks,flaired trousers"
is this not cool anymore?
maybe i should stop doing it, then.
:tongue:
nah, never!

 

Lol!!!......If you wear flairs & turtle neck you're called 'Retro' so it's still cool to wear 'em.

 

My first albulm was The Association with Cherish and Along Comes Mary on it.
My favorite outfit was these olive green bell bottoms and desert boots. I even have a picture. I'd only post it if I felt like making alot of people laugh.

 

In California in the early 70s we wore jeans - and not always bell bottoms - we'd buy them used at a COOL second hand shop in Hermosa Beach called The Aaardvark. As a chick, it was also cool to wear guys chords (bells) anything burgandy, navy blue or dark green was cool. For shirts, I wore a LOT of vintage blouses from the 40s-50s that I'd find at second hand stores. They buttoned up the back. High necks, embroidery on the collars. I also put together an outfit for myself with a mid calf flowing skirt made of some silkish material, and it looked rather like a vintage pattern of drapes (soft grape color and white flowers - that seemed a bit hawaiian-ish), and I had what my

crowd called my "$40 blouse" (because I HAD to have it when I saw it, but had to put it on lay-a-way since it was SO expensive). It was in a specialty shop at the mall, and was of a light silk like material, and the back and front panel had different fabrics. It wreaked of vintage, though it wasn't. Long sleeves that belled out, and a tie that tied in back. Very hot, I was. I would wear this skirt and blouse with knee high blue suede boots that zippered up the front. Reminiscent of Carley Simon's album cover "Anticipation". I even have a pic of me one Christmas, where I out and out looked like her for that nano second, due to the long full hair and huge grin. I love that pic.


Clogs were huge, and moccasins (sp?). Peasant blouses. Either we bought them at Olivera Street in Los Angeles, or the Mexican shop at Knott's Berry Farm, or we made our own. Also made my own bell bottoms, after my girlfriends Mom showed us how to make our own patterns out of newpaper.

 

Lol!......'Frampton's Still Alive' could be his chart comeback!!!.

He was awesome back then... I was about 14 or 15 when his live album came out, and if there was any one album that got me through my toughest teen years, it was that one. He was the first guitarist I recognized by "style." I watched his performance on Soundstage on PBS I think it was, recently, and he was as good as ever, better actually.

He now lives in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, supports and advances the cause of local music, and has a very good reputation around these parts. If I remember right, he is now a full US citizen, and publicly supported John Kerry for president last time around.

I really don't know why but I can so clearly remember the huge impact of the 'Frampton Comes Alive' double album in 1976.I almost bought it back then even though it was more expensive than normal L.P.s.
Was it just promo-hype?.

A few days ago, I figured out every note of the guitar solo in "Show Me The Way" (no talkbox, tho'), and it amazes me that it's all in this simple scale I've played for years. The lead isn't even hard. He was clever with the construction of his leads, in my opinion, without simply playing as fast as possible. There's not a bad song on that album.

I recall that when I saw him live, tickets were $12.50, a price that was regarded as outrageously expensive at the time. Then, concert tickets for a typical show with an opening act and two major headliners ran about $5.50 to $7.50. His opening act was Rick Derringer, who I remember played a blistering Helter Skelter that night. I also remember that I forgot my ticket at home, and my friend's older sister loaned me the cash for a scalped replacement, as it was sold out. I also remember being shocked at how many preppy chicks (the local term for prep girls then was "ra-ra's," as in girls yelling "ra ra go team!") were at the show too...

Ah, besides reality, there's nothing like memories...

 

Ok you got me. Favorite oufits of the 60's White Nehru Jacket. Red shirt with blue flowers and epaulets, plaid yellow bellbottoms, rose colored granny glasses. I always had to have crew cuts when I was a kid until Jr. High. When I grew my hair out was when I discovered I had naturally curly hair. I'd just fluff it out of the shower and have curls to my shoulders. Thank God there are no pictures left.

 

I wasn't aroudn then
but my dad had medium/shoulder length long hair--which he once got permed. He wore long sleeved V necked shirts, bellbottoms, vests, all sorts of "Hippie" clothes.
My maternal grandpa, though in his mid '50s in the 70s, wore ear length, thick sideburns, a small mustache, and wore flared bellbottom slacks and v neck shirts.

 

i still dooo

 

wow that is quite a blast from the past he he he i too wore those threads,he he he only thing i didnt like to wear were those damn turtle neck shirts but to each his own he he

 

only thing you left off was when winter time came we would be wearing some flair cut cordaroys he he he

 

I had one. Long cuffs, puffy sleeves.