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The radio station at work plays oldies from the 60's thru the early 80's. Not only do i remember them, but I can tell you what I was doing when they were popular on Baltimore's WCAO. Very evocative of being at the swim club (which cost $100/year for a family membership) in the snack bar line and hearing Band on the Run in 1973. That was 51 years ago.

Good God....
 
sfidc3 said:
Man, sorry you missed TTB, their live shows are incredible....but a mosh pit? At a TTB show? Must have been the oldest moshers in history.....
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Yeah, mosh pits really werent a late 60's/early 70's "counterculture" sort of experience a rock fan attending festivals or shows saw back then, also if you examine how rock crowds acted or behaved during that same time period compared to later on in the late 70's onwards, they tended to be more restraining, less unruly even if security regulations at early rock festivals like Monterey, Woodstock, Altamont, and Atlanta Pop Festivals weren't as stringent, or safety-conscious and disgustingly corporate they've become. I think when most major rock bands began playing stadiums in the early-to-mid 70's, and harder drugs hitting the mainstream like herion, cocaine, PCP, methaphetimes mixed in with 50-60k fans, that's when crowd control became a real, existential issue regarding entertainment or rock acts.

As far as "mosh pits", thats mostly a result of mid-late 70's UK and US punk bands' fans that liked to ram and collide into another to sort of mimic the violent, fast-paced, hard sonic sound of punk and then later on, hardcore punk bands like D.C.'s Black Flag, Fear, Minneapolis/St. Paul's Husker Du, The Minutemen, Agent Orange, and last but certainly not the least, Dead Kennedys. A lot of the New Wave British Metal bands and early 80's thrash metal bands kind of adopted and assimilated most of these norms. I know Metallica, early on especially when Dave Mustaine was still there had a very fast, punk-related sound and all of the original members of the band were huge fans of 70's punk bands in and as much as other thrash metal acts like Slayer, Anthrax, and Venom.

I'm curious, SF, considering D.C. had a pretty lively, competitive hardcore punk scene in the early-to-mid 80's, did you happen to catch some of Black Flag's early shows or with Henry Rollins?
 
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The radio station at work plays oldies from the 60's thru the early 80's. Not only do i remember them, but I can tell you what I was doing when they were popular on Baltimore's WCAO. Very evocative of being at the swim club (which cost $100/year for a family membership) in the snack bar line and hearing Band on the Run in 1973. That was 51 years ago.

Good God....
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It's only partly the reason, but it's a bit mind-boggling when one finally does some research and discovers that John Lennon's assassination in December 1980 and McCartney's receiving death threats in the immediate aftermath were one primary reason into why Wings broke up as a recording/touring outfit in 1981. Their were other factors of course, but even though McCartney would still continue to have a lot more solo hits in the 1980's and 90's, they never came close to reaching the same creative and commercial pinnacles that Wings achieved throughout the 70's.

Even though it was obvious Wings was primarily Paul's band, many of the songs on their albums had more of a collaborative effort that you didnt see later on and it's a shame that Wings has been overlooked because some rock critics or music fans have come to perceive them mostly as a Paul McCartney-backed solo operation and yeah sure, his wife probably couldn't play keyboards or had no business being on-stage trying to pretend being a musician, Paul never really reached the same heights after Wings broke up.

Although if one had asked him in 1970 whether this new recording/touring band would last over a decade, Paul likely wouldve had some Abbey Road doorman eject you from the studio for even suggesting such gibberish.
 
Saintman2884 said:
Yeah, mosh pits really werent a late 60's/early 70's "counterculture" sort of experience a rock fan attending festivals or shows saw back then, also if you examine how rock crowds acted or behaved during that same time period compared to later on in the late 70's onwards, they tended to be more restraining, less unruly even if security regulations at early rock festivals like Monterey, Woodstock, Altamont, and Atlanta Pop Festivals weren't as stringent, or safety-conscious and disgustingly corporate they've become. I think when most major rock bands began playing stadiums in the early-to-mid 70's, and harder drugs hitting the mainstream like herion, cocaine, PCP, methaphetimes mixed in with 50-60k fans, that's when crowd control became a real, existential issue regarding entertainment or rock acts.

As far as "mosh pits", thats mostly a result of mid-late 70's UK and US punk bands' fans that liked to ram and collide into another to sort of mimic the violent, fast-paced, hard sonic sound of punk and then later on, hardcore punk bands like D.C.'s Black Flag, Fear, Minneapolis/St. Paul's Husker Du, The Minutemen, Agent Orange, and last but certainly not the least, Dead Kennedys. A lot of the New Wave British Metal bands and early 80's thrash metal bands kind of adopted and assimilated most of these norms. I know Metallica, early on especially when Dave Mustaine was still there had a very fast, punk-related sound and all of the original members of the band were huge fans of 70's punk bands in and as much as other thrash metal acts like Slayer, Anthrax, and Venom.

I'm curious, SF, considering D.C. had a pretty lively, competitive hardcore punk scene in the early-to-mid 80's, did you happen to catch some of Black Flag's early shows or with Henry Rollins?
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Thanks for all the unsolicited info?

Naw, I grew up in NOLA, moved to the DC area in 1989.....so no idea and I was never into him or his music really....

BUT, one of my roommates back then (and close friend..... RIP Kevin) grew up in the same Bethesda neighborhood as Rollins and said he was an asshat and a bully back then.....
 
sfidc3 said:
Thanks for all the unsolicited info?

Naw, I grew up in NOLA, moved to the DC area in 1989.....so no idea and I was never into him or his music really....

BUT, one of my roommates back then (and close friend..... RIP Kevin) grew up in the same Bethesda neighborhood as Rollins and said he was an asshat and a bully back then.....
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Used to catch Siouxie and the Banshees, Psychedelic Furs, The Damned, The Plasmatics, etc at University of Maryland’s Colony Ballroom in the very early 80’s. Great times!
 
saintmdterps said:
Used to catch Siouxie and the Banshees, Psychedelic Furs, The Damned, The Plasmatics, etc at University of Maryland’s Colony Ballroom in the very early 80’s. Great times!
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My MD fellow music geeks talk about seeing the Dregs at the Wax Museum or the Physcodeli (sp?) back in the late 70's early 80's.....honestly, I would have loved to have grown up in MD in many ways.....
 
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