1 post tagged “rocked world”
Audio: Show us cover art or share a track from the first band or solo artist you flipped for.
Submitted by Red Pen.
First record (that's right, vinyl). I bought it with my own money.
First rock concert I ever went to (I had to buy three tickets - and I bought good seats, too! - because I was twelve or thirteen and my parents wouldn't let me go without taking them along to supervise) - 1975 or 1976, I think - at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. We were in the sixteenth row. My mom sniffed the air and whispered (loudly) to me: "Is that--marijuana?"
Now, there was a loaded question. I'm pretty damned sure my mother lived through the sixties and early seventies, and not in a bubble, either. So what was she really asking?
Next band I flipped for was...don't laugh...wait for it...
Oh, Lord. My college roommate and I used to dance around the dorm room and sing this to each other while we were getting dressed and ready for parties. Actually, we'd just crack up over this - she was in her early twenties before she got her first kiss, and there I was, a Junior in college at the age of sixteen, discovering boys for the first time and doing my level best to trash a two-year 4.0 GPA streak. We were such dorks. Nice dorks, though. The kind who liked ABBA and drank non-alcoholic sparkling cider from champagne glasses and felt "worldly" doing it.
Our favorite "party trick" was to get everyone else drunk, put ABBA on the stereo, and lip synch while doing dance moves like the ones in this video. We could be totally uninhibited in our dorkiness and rest assured our friends would not remember a thing to taunt us with the next day. Too bad so many girls, today, have that all bass-ackwards.
And now, I'll just leave you with this thought:
