I WISH IT WAS THE 70s damnit

man it's all coming back to me, poprocks, gi joe,stretcharmstrong, rockem sockem robots and the kiss army, lol, it was a fun time to be a kid in the 70's.

 

Rockem sockem robots. Almost forgot about those. Then there was 'Gunfight at OK Corale'. Not to mentions 'Light Bright' and 'Bowl-a-Matic 300'.

 

light bright! loved the colors, i used to get lost staring at that damn thing.lol they still make those rockem sockem robots. i bought a set for my son about 10 years ago. i think my favorite toy was my big wheel, and ssp's, the super sonic something, you put a toothed cord into a wheel , yank that sucker and let it rip!

 

Lots of mechanical type toys back then, before the computer revolution. Some were very clever.

 

wake up people...THIS IS THE 70'S!!! think about it, a war we shouldnt be in, gas shortages, the fashions, the rise of hippies, the year is different, but its the same era!

 

And someone like Nixon in the White House, not to mention Rumsfeld, another leftover from the Nixon administration.

 

I missed the 70s. I got locked up Feb 73' on illegal drug charges (victimless crime) and got out October 86'. I went in a pot smoking wanna be architect and came out a 245# 6' 3" collector, body-guard, enforcer for coke dealers.

 

I think most young people today would have withdrawal symptoms if they went back to the 70s. There was no internet, no video games (or at least only simple ones), no cell phones, no CD, DVD, or VCRs, no PCs, no cable or satellite TV, etc. People today literally have their ears glued to their cell phones and eyes on their computer games. I wonder how people would cope?

It would be a neat experiment for everyone to give up all of the above for a month.

 

lol. yeah, disco is from hell. and not the kool part of hell with all the murderers, but that gay-ass part where are the really bad accountants live. lol. hyde from that 70s show said that

 

The 70's will probably go down as the golden decade in America. The counter culture was established, the political tone was way relaxed and liberal, the police state had not yet encroached and become technophiled, there was great dope everywhere, there was great music being recorded and the overall vibe was extremely laid back and groovin'.

I came of age in the 70's. I had my first sex, smoked my first joint, dropped my first acid, saw my first concert (Grand Funk Railroad, 1970), had my first wife, had my first child (at home), had my first job. There was an enegry in the air, an electricity, carried over from the 60's, a spirit, a magic. For me personally, it begun dissipating around '76 or so, with the advent of disco.

Sinsemilla started showing up in California, around '74 or '75. Colombian brown, red and gold was prevalent, and thai sticks appeared around '74 also. Thai bud was as tasty and stony as anything I have seen at the cannabis Cup in Amsterdam.

There were hippie camps in the woods, you could still hitch-hike, and there was still an innocence in America that has long since been lost. Yeh man, I pine for the 70's, man. There may never be another time exactly like that on earth.

I am thankful that I was there to experience it. I was just old enough to get in on the end of the 60's, just young enough to get in on the grunge period of the 90's. Now I am getting old. I am amazed that I survived it all to be here to tell my stories. I was so out of control with drugs at times through the 80's, especially. Cocaine almost killed me, and Meth-ampetamine left a permanent mark on my neuro-system. I am thankful for all the acid and mushrooms I took, and I'd love to see the mountain of pot I have smoked in my lifetime. My lungs would probably produce as much resin as the water in Tommy Chong's bong.

The 70's. The movie Dazed and Confused was about my graduating class of 1976. We partied like there was no tomorrow, and here I am, and it IS tomorrow today.

Wow, what a long strange trip it's been!

Peace and love, Viv-

 

Yeah, the fresh air and sunshine would kill 'em
And what's that noise again? - oh yeah...its silence!

 

i wish it were the 60's again

 

The 70's will probably go down as the golden decade in America. The counter culture was established, the political tone was way relaxed and liberal, the police state had not yet encroached and become technophiled, there was great dope everywhere, there was great music being recorded and the overall vibe was extremely laid back and groovin'.

I came of age in the 70's. I had my first sex, smoked my first joint, dropped my first acid, saw my first concert (Grand Funk Railroad, 1970), .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. i agree and had similar experiences but the 70s was over by the 1975 .1970 71 72 73 had lots of carry over from the late 60s the disco was shove down our throat my the movie and tv industry not becouse people really like it by the time people woke up it was way too late only van halen sounded and acted like a real rock band in late 70s and into the early 80s from 80 to 85 we had the MTV it was intresting but most of it was light weight with no real meanings U-2 .STIX , RUSH , and a few more were carry over from the 70s. hip hop and rap did the same thing dico did in mid 70s but much worse and much longer again cable tv+hip hop,rap destroy rock music and metal . metal did not fair well "since metal are nothing but rock bands with difrent twist" the late 80s metal and early 90s was our last straw.

 

dope was cheap, rock concerts "real ones" average ticket prices $6.50 to get in . few cops around, 1 joint did not get you 120 days in jail, street bikes and dirt bikes were dirt cheap, my 125 cc elsinore motocross was $1.000.00 and that was the hottest at the time my street bike a 350 honda twin was only $935.00 gas was 60 cent gallon for premiun ,in south fla an ounce of pot was $25.00 young people still hung around together in rather large groups and share stuff even material ones. we did not need a phone we all meet at specific places "who ever had a large house and parents work" or the woods or fresh water lake. the radio station play good music 24/7 a computer would had come handy for drug deals not much more. by using e-mail you could tell all your customer the next concert and drug prices . this days i spend my time behind this stupid monitor . and talking to my self.

 

I'd say the same, but only because it was easier to find a good chemist back then, the ideals of Albert Hoffmann would seamed to have decayed significantly.

 

I agree with all that too. It was a different world back then.

I think I would miss the internet the most. It's a great tool for getting information. But, young people back in the 70s hung out with each other in the neighborhood more often, since there wasn't really any other good form of group communication like the internet or cell phones. CBs were the closest thing people had back then to internet chat.

 

i might add if we did have pc back then the groups would had gotten bigger since now we knew were the other group hung out .only at concerts or some kind of a popular place we could comunicate like a park, etc but in most places were not ideal since that was one thing the cops did not like and would hassle us for it. how ever if we had a pc we could invent a new place to hung out until the cops found out then we would simply move to a new location so a pc would had come handy on the negative side better computers also would had work against us since law enforcement would had them too making our life more miserable. in that case we rather not have them in the 60s 70s.

 

Tight jeans were one of the best things about the 70's
Other good things included cheap cigarettes (now, I can't smoke anything -COPD) , some good music (although my favorite era in rock was really the late 70's early 90's with bands like the Jam and the Buzzcocks) women tended to have longer hair than they do today , and I had MUCH MORE HAIR than I do today.

 

I was around in the 70s and I loved it.

And it was such a contrast to the 90s and today... I really miss it.

I get all wistful just thinking about it.

 

I was born in the wrong year...wrong decade actually. I should have been alive in the 60's and 70's. It would have been great! I love all music from that time; Tull, Beatles, Zepplin-all of them! So I'm trying to spread the hippie vibe around my school by shouting "Peace!" at everyone. They just get scared!
Peace and love wished to everyone on this site.