Today is my birthday! well.. not MY birthday, Black Francis birthday and since they'll probably shut down my internet tomorrow im gonna spend my whole day listening to all his albums.

Played full time pro from 1977 thru 1981. Disco killed our band. Was in a few really good cover bands later but "retired" in the mid 90s. Lots of disposable income came to play within the last 15 years so I bought a ton of stuff. Things have changed so it's time to sell it all off.

I still play all the time and my chops are about as good as they've ever been but RA is beginning to cut that down a bit. Been jamming all morning BTW.

Mr. C's Rock Palace. Lowell, Mass. 1979. Crowd of about 1000. We slayed them. Unfortunately for us, there was no iPhones or digital cameras to document everything. I so wish I had more pictures and video from those times.

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yeah man

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Thing is Disco died in pop culture in the late 70's but it stayed very much alive in the club scene for one simple reason.

Getting laid.

Smoke a joint, have few drinks, maybe snort a line, get on the dance floor and pick out a filly. Make a few Travolta moves while keeping the groove.

She will **** you. That's how it was.

AIDS ruined that vibe forever.

Pop music in the 70s was better and so much more innovative than what we have today...

sounds very rock n roll

Got a complimentary coffee today purely for getting stuck behind a couple of divas who held up the whole line. Needless to say, the baristas got a big tip for that one.

I won't deny that some men did this, but I didn't. Fuck that. I'd rather pull my pud for the rest of my life than demean myself in a fucking meat market again, I figured out in the '70's that it ain't worth the degradation. It ain't the end of the world to yoink one off, it really isn't.


Nope.


No, it just accelerated the acceptance of condoms. Yet another indignity I never had to deal with.

Condoms?

It's a self-ingratiating way of confessing that he never gets laid.

Which guitars will you be keeping? The Kirn Telecaster better not be going anywhere.

Sounds like something someone who lives in a time of ubiquitous pron would say. Not the case back then, so discoing down would be a decent option if you had a penis but weren't a creative person with an imagination...back then.

That's sad. I feel for you. :(

No way. I'll die with that by by side. Linda bought that for me for my 50th birthday.

And that was, what, thirty years ago?

How so?

Insane Coho Lips forever!

We played hard rock, prog, and fusion. Stuff that wasn't very conducive to dancing. Club owners wanted people dancing all night so they'd buy more beers. Our audience was more about smoking weed out in the parking lot and then sitting back and listening.

I think anything would have killed prog and fusion. If you were from England then punk would have killed it. A year or two later in America and new wave would have killed it. You were screwed from the start, bro.

Being a cover band probably didn't help things either.

Why would anyone want to cover prog and fusion? I might like prog more than I used to, but it's still not a very "coverable" genre.

My guess is that they like it.

Pretty much.

Just because hipsters decided it was "dead" doesn't make it so.
Like all genres there was a shitload of gawdawful crap and some good stuff

Alright, why would anyone ELSE want to LISTEN to prog and fusion covers?

I think the fall of Chula's band answers your question.

Ah, the world makes sense again.

My memory is foggy but at one time or another we played stuff like this.

Pat Travers - Life in London
UFO - Rock Bottom
Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim
David Bowie - Ziggy
Rush - Bastille Day
Jimi Hendrix - Let me Stand Next to your Fie
Robin Trower - Little Bit of Sympathy
Yes - Siberian Khatru
Rush - 2112 Live Version
Pink Floyd - Pigs
Lenny White - Stew Cabbage and Galactic Beans (look it up :-)
Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Pat Travers - Gettin Better
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Yes - I've Seen All Good People
Be Bop Deluxe - Third Floor Heaven
Zeppelin - Moby Dick
Rush - Xanadu
ZZ Top - Waiting on the Bus
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended as Lovers
Rush - Circumstances

And we sprinkled in a bunch of originals that were extremely Rush influenced.

Gay.

You'd have to live 5 lives to get as much as I was getting back then. :D

Having a wife doesn't count. And don't try to pretend that prog and fusion got you bitches.

Pre-wife bucky. The band was 77 thru 81. Me and Lin got serious in 81 AFTER I broke up the band.

Something about a long haired, good looking guy, wearing a guitar slung low, and playing really loud rock riffs, makes a normally sane hot chick just go crazy.

Not saying every hookup was great, but, hot damn! The ones that were way outnumbered the bad ones. Girls love ****ing rock stars. Even on the small scale.

What was the name of the group Chula?

we aren't so different, you and i

*high fives*

The band name was Trilogy III. We had to add the III cause there was already a band named Trilogy. They were a super syrupy lounge act but still caused us the alter our name.

You should have changed your name to Nonilogy or some shit.

I got a message today from a girl I'd known 20 years ago in the hospital. Her father is battling cancer and she asked me for a favor.

In my attic, I retrieved a cassette she'd made me in 1996. It contained a song she'd written and her father had performed. I hooked up a tape deck, ripped the track, and sent her a copy to play for him.

I'm so glad I could help.

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^ That's awesome. That title 'A ray of hope' sounds very uplifting.

I have no words for the feelings this stirs inside me. I need to read a dictionary one of these days.

Otherwise, wow. Hope brought to a tragic story, beautiful.

Ya, great stuff ISB.