Dancing with a Ric

[jc-sz]

Check these guys...........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0k0z2MtvLY

OMG!! Although I gotta admit I enjoyed it!! And I'm not a lover of the bizzarre...

The Lord of the Dance guys were hilarious too! It's so funny how they copied Flatley's moves LOL

[bassduke49]

Was that a folded horn cab ?? too cool .

Yes, I used to have the 371 back in the mid '70s. It was a single 18" woofer reverse loaded in the cabinet, with baffles that projected the sound up and down, then out the top and bottom of the front. The amp was solid state (no tubes), but really loud for an SS amp in those days. There was a sticker on the back of the speaker warning that "sound levels could exceed 120db within 15 feet of this cabinet." It was a tank to move around, but had built-in wheels and handles in the back, so you could tip it back and roll it with ease. Still, lifting it into the band van took a couple of rugged (read young) guys.

[alanz]

That performance may be considered passé these days...

Are you telling me that at one time, this was...cool?

No, it was never cool.

And I do remember the 70's, just differently from other people who do, apparently.

[jingle_jangle]

The '70s, in sum total, were very uncool. They don't deserve nostalgia, though there were a few musical high points, like Steely Dan.

[bassduke49]

. . . like Steely Dan.

And Yes, ELP, Rush, Renaissance, The Allman Brothers Band, Derek & the Dominoes, The Doobie Brothers, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Steve Miller, Aerosmith, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd . . . well I could go on. A lot of us might just remember the low points, but really disco was only the late '70s and its style of music and fashion tends to shout over the really good things. It was a time when the really good music was album cuts on the "underground" FM stations, leaving the AM "hits" stations to blare out the disco, Captain & Tenille, Tony Orlando, etc. A LOT of good music came out of the '70s.

[johnallg]

I agree, Paul, you just had to hunt up the right FM station or go buy the albums. The mainstream stations and thus what ended up the bulk of our memories was what Paul W is alluding to. If you think about any of the decades, there is about half worth remembering and half you wish you didn't.

[ajish4]

I remember cutting class and taking the LIRR to NYC to hunt for all my YES & MOODY BLUES solo LP's....AH, the days when you HAD to go to a record store to find those hard to find gems. CULLING, I LOVED TO CULL....I was pretty good at flipping through those countless bins of LP's just looking for that missing one in the series....MEMORIES!

OH, yeah........and HAIR..........not the Broadway show, just having HAIR and being able to see my feet without a mirror!

[jps]

.......being able to see my feet without a mirror!

Feet are overrated.

[j_gary]

One good thing about the 70's, I seem to recall buying a new 4001 in the early 70's for about $350.

Tony, I hear ya, my feet got smaller as I aged.

[jingle_jangle]

. . . like Steely Dan.

And Yes, ELP, Rush, Renaissance, The Allman Brothers Band, Derek & the Dominoes, The Doobie Brothers, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Steve Miller, Aerosmith, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd . . . well I could go on. A lot of us might just remember the low points, but really disco was only the late '70s and its style of music and fashion tends to shout over the really good things. It was a time when the really good music was album cuts on the "underground" FM stations, leaving the AM "hits" stations to blare out the disco, Captain & Tenille, Tony Orlando, etc. A LOT of good music came out of the '70s.

Yeah, thanks for jogging my memory, Paul, but my own taste found the Doobies forgettable, Derek, and the Allmans, less than "A" list, Steve Miller more a pollster plutocrat of briefcase rock (same criticism of Jimmy Buffet more recently).

Loved Aerosmith and their antics, Yes and Zep for their flamboyance, and Floyd for their unique POV and musicianship. I'm still a big Maurice White/EWF fan. And I recall disco being more in '75-6, and by '77 we were seeing it die...wasn't it '79 that saw the Comiskey Park funeral? You forgot to mention an eternal favorite: the Ramones. And, of course, this was the decade that I got deeply into Chicago Blues, in ignorance of Top 40 a good deal of the time.

I'm not talking about musicianship here, just what I call the Pablum Factor. Anything that was obvious, predictable, and repetitive got a thumbs-down from me. We are talking about personal taste once record sales are discounted as a factor...remember, tasteless disco was huge by '76. I remember trolling the bars on Second Ave. in NYC during the Summer of '76 and it was very much like Saturday Night Fever; everyone was emulating Tony & friends.

[johnallg]

...remember, tasteless disco was huge by '76. I remember trolling the bars on Second Ave. in NYC during the Summer of '76 and it was very much like Saturday Night Fever; everyone was emulating Tony & friends.

Unfortunately. It took even longer to reach the hinterlands of the midwest, so for us disco lasted a lot longer.

But let's not even get into the 80s and the poles of hair (both male and female), pretentious staturing, and even worse videos!!!

[DanJ]

This was posted on the FDP. Wait for the solo at 1:35!

LOL! I will bookmark this as an example of why so many folks think the disco era was cheesy.

Check these guys:

Yanni when he was cutting his teeth? Surely this turned into an adult video shoot after the song was done?

[marc61]

Personally, I think Dancing with the Ric should be a weekly series.

[electrofaro]

Check these guys...........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0k0z2MtvLY

Surely they're german... it's like a Dschinghis Khan version



Ralph Siegel should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity

[bassduke49]

The Bohemian Village People?