I WISH IT WAS THE 70s damnit

well wishing won't get you there!

 

I feel out of place in this day in age. It's like everyone around me is like a "new generation" kid, & well i'm not. I'd have to say just about everyone of the people i come in contact with says something about my long hair. it's like...i dunno...it's ok i'll bring it all back...i'm gonna be big man. I'm gonna be a greaat guitarist & i'm gonna rock this pussy generation back to the good days.


~peace~

 

I feel I have to post this link again, to help cheer people up-

http://www.hippy.com/php/article-243.html

Perhaps we should get together at the next rainbow gathering and plan making the beginning of the millenium cooler than the 60's, 70's and 90's put together.

 

Yeah, you all complain, but you're young and your hair isn't grey....

 

All the best music came out in the 70's. It was like a surge, and all I could do was drool at so many of my friends' album collections, knowing there's no way I could ever hear all of it and remember who they all were. There was so much good stuff coming out, one after another, all the time, new bands, new albums out, all of it was just so fuckin hot, the style was extremely sexy and dancable and it made you rock to listen to it. It made you happy, like there was never anything like it before, because there wasn't.

 

i wish i lived in the 70s. im kinda known around as spiel's hippie/stoner sister thats a freshman in school. but yea.

 

I say right on dude, go for it.

BTW, I used to play that exact SG (even the color) in a band called Piramid in NYC 1974.

 

maybe it is the 1960's and 70's in another part of existence

 

Nikola Tesla does, except... he died about 60 years ago.

 

I used to skip school to go to my friend's house and listen to records. These days, music doesn't appear to be all that important to people. But compared to getting high and into the tunes, school was just too boring and structured. And it taught all the wrong things. I couldn't get into too much math, I had to save for learning my music! I NEEDED rock and roll and knew that I wanted to master at it.

 

They didn't put up too much of a fuss about skipping, either. (They probably knew they'd rather be home listening to records, too). All they did was send a computer skip notice in the mail that you could take out when you got home from school if you could get to it before your parents got home from work. These days, they crack down on skipping alot more. Detention, kicked out, etc. I guess the world's gotten more unsafe for kids to be out off school grounds during school hours.

 

yeah they are weird about missing schoo. Music is my life!

 

I long for the 70s, every time a movie from the 70s comes on I watch it bringing back the memories of the best time of my life. Girls God have mercy, no aids, people got along better. The music from that period is the best ever played. I'd go back and stay for the rest of my life. I miss the 70s terribly. However I did'nt know my wife then. You guys be well, love each other.

 

I was a teenager in the 70s. There was more racism (I had teachers who used the "N" word in class, I swear) more sexism, I had friends whose mothers got fired for getting pregnant. There were newspapers which still had Men and Women's want ad sections. There WAS HIV, and it was being transmitted, but people were unaware of it. (The Patient Zero probably came to the US from africa in the mid 1960s.) Politics were no better than they are now, and in the early part of the 70s we were still involved in Viet Nam. Richard Nixon was still alive. People did not "get along" any better than they do now. We simply ignored the Middle East, and socially people were actually more isolated by race than they are now.

Disco, it was impossible to find decent health food, (If you were to eat a Veggie "Burger" from any of the 70s recipies you would puke, and forget it if you were trying to avoid or eliminate dairy or other allergens, food wasn't even labled with what was in it!) the economy SUCKED and inflation was intamable. The interest rate to buy a home in the late 70s was around 19% for many people.

Things were NO better than they are now. Oh, yeah better hair, Quiana shirts and rock and roll. Now there's some reasons to turn back the clock.

I had a good time in the 70s, but I wouldn't go back. There is no such thing as "the good old days."

 

I second that motion!

By the way, I own that Hippie book as well that's in your picture in your sig. Rock on.

 

i miss the 7o's it was great, but i do look forward to the future, alot of good music and good times to be had!!

 

man, you couldnt have said it better, I was born in 1966 and the 70´s kicked ass, the 80´s were nice too, all good music came to an end in the 90´s, I mean how can you compare the music from today to Pink Floyd, Yes, Zeplin and all those guys, they were virtuosos, now I all I hear is shit.

and yes, the disco scene was easy avoidable.

peace.

 

Kind of ironic that we have all this great technology and the music is so terrible. What a waste of great technology.

One thing different about the 70s was that people really loved to see Nixon go. The past few years, people have developed an undying allegience to the President no matter how many screw ups happen in DC.

 

My dad's like, 52 so he must have been born in 1952 (i think, i'm not so great at maths). He was a hippie in the late 60s and 70s (lucky!). He doesnt dress like a hippy now but he's still got the ideals which is totally cool becaus it means i can get away with a whole lot more than my friends :sunglasse Well. I can when I'm at his house. At home my mums always on a complete stress attack. bleh. Anyway, I think 2004s pretty cool because even though there's loads of violence and bad stuff, you don't have to be part of that culture and me and my good friends have got a pretty groovy life..... We listen to music, do what we want and don't play along with the system. Just chilling. We try not to fuck up the environment too much by not using cars, and if we HAVE to drive places we either get the bus or car share (my mums got a 7 seater so thats pretty good). Also we do anti war protests in London and stuff. We know we're not doing that much but hopefully every little helps?

 

i say as long as everyone holds its memories the seventies are still well and alive. sure i think it would be better if i could have lived in those times but i dont and theres nothing i can do about it. its true how musically these days there are two types of "popular scene" music that promote violence (rap ands hardcore) i dont listen to either both genres piss me off, although old school rap like public enemy and house of pain fucking rock though cuz thats REAL rap with REAL MEANING.dont forget there is a hope for good music today that is still evolving since the 70's; heavy metal. late 60's early 70's brought us black sabbath (god i love em to death) which has evolved into so many different types of metal in the 80's and even more today. the metal scene is still going strong with music that doesnt promote any commercialism bullshit. its just all about being more progressive on guitar and all instruments used for it. todays black metal uses keyboards which is awsome. the ideas get better and better with this genre and is the only thing that makes me happy to live today. just focus on one aspect of today that you like and enjoy that its all you got, instead of sitting there wishing to live in a time you never could.