The 70's ...

[Mk2Jo]

I remember them well .... Street Machine was full of these >>>>

[Vista]

Memory of the 70's isn't as good as yours as I didn't live in the UK for the last 2 - 3 years of them. Though I will confess to buying Figaro by Brother Hood of Man as my first single. I think Substitute by Clout was the second.

 

Strangely I love the music and cars of the period but not the modding scene that was prevalent then.

[Mk2Jo]

Substitute by Clout .. bloody hell that takes me back! Lol

[classicwhitey]

put your rocking chair away!

[ianb10]

I thought The Who did Substitute???

[Mk2Jo]

ianb10 ... I think there's 2 songs by that name by 2 different groups

[Vista]

I thought The Who did Substitute???

They did, Clout were a South African band who in 1978 released a cover version of an earlier (1975) song by the Righteous Brothers. Also called Substitute

 

 

And Classic Whitey, watchit!

[thrashermax]

Born in 75, so I don't remember much... All I know is good things were Fords, these have become loved.... 70s DJs not so loved.

[mk2 mike]

I'm a 70s child too generally dislike the music (although there's a few classics) and love the cars obviously. Like Vista I'm not a fan of the modded look of the day! Tv was much more fun back then too!

[accord83]

I was there, they were crap.

[irishtorag]

 

 

now were are sucking diesel

music was so much better

[Vista]

music was so much better

Indeed it was, glam rock, punk rock and on to the beginnings of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

 

That said, I do think we tend to remember the past with rose tinted glasses. In the real world there was a lot to forget about the 70's, unemployment, strikes, racism, sexism, homophobia etc. The latter three so casually accepted that they regularly featured in TV programs of the day.

 

Nah, with the benefit of hindsight, I love the cars and the music but wouldn't want the rest back again.

[irishtorag]

and a good night out was a bottle of old English cider and a tin of harp

 

nothing like a litre of snake bite hahaha

[irishtorag]

Scott a lot of the things you mention still xsist to a greater extent now than they did

 

But look in the high streets now ,because this new generation are saying fook society and embracing it all

,I see straight young lads with as much make up as lasses

and tanner.

[Vista]

Yes I know it all still goes on today, but my personal experience (at least where I live) is that it's not as commonplace as it was.

 

Nor is it socially acceptable to most people or printed/televised by the media like it was. Look at the recent furore over Clarkson maybe mumbling something that sounded like "the N word" in a take that wasn't even screened. In the mid to late 70's he could probably have said it live on air without most people batting an eyelid.

[accord83]

Music? What Disco? and the Bee Gees squeaking like a rat's in their kecks. Arrgghhh! I might be grumpy from having flu, but I can close my eyes and through the Paracetemol/Benylin haze I still see the curtain of musical crap that the 70's were. If it hadn't have been for Northern Soul there would have been no light at the end of the tunnel. Then I got married.........(actually that bit worked out very well). I joined the Old Bill (that bit didn't work out too good, it left me semi raspberryied 20yrs on).

[Vista]

Lol, Disco, Showaddywaddy and the BeeGees I'll grant you but there were other alternatives. Slade, Queen, Sweet, Supertramp, ELO and Clapton and Bob Marley to name but a few.

[Danish]

... Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, AC/DC

[Col-ashtonmobile]

Well I,m an old git , I left school in 1972 and went to work at Adlards ford main dealer and on to they,re Rallye sport centre where I saw the birth of the mk2 escort , in 1975 I had a 1969 mk1 escort as my daily drive , and one of my favourite songs of that decade ,

[Vista]

that is a great track Colin, one of my favourite driving songs. Golden Earring were (are I think as they're still active) a Dutch band weren't they?

[Lizzy]

Not forgetting Budgie, Rush, Wishbone Ash (and Led Zep are worth mentioning twice)...

 

Also, good book: "Where did it all go right?: Growing up normal in the 70s" - Andrew Collins.

[deltamal]

There was some top music in the 70's! couldn't get to see much of it though as had just bought a new house and was busy making babies and working all hours to pay for everything! enjoyed the music since as a lot of the 70's bands are still touring.....

[john123]

t-rex all day long with some slade thrown in then there was cruiseing why does everyone need to get there so fast

[Col-ashtonmobile]

Yes Scott from the Hague same as dutch dart player Raymond van Barnvelt , Golden earring celebrated 50 years as a band in 2011

[Vista]

50 years, wow. Will point that out to my wife the next time she makes some silly claim about some 5 minute sensation like Will I Am or Jesse J