Perhaps you were one of the lucky ones to be born in the 60s and had older siblings.
Because back then, they were your connection to new music.
There wasn't any MTV (although Ed Sullivan tried his best to keep America hip) and AM radio was a mess.
No, it was the older children who brought home the vinyl, 45s and albums, that influenced your early musical tastes.
And thank goodness for cool siblings.
Glam Rock, or Glitter Rock, was a mid-70s phenomenon. Lots of makeup, pastel clothing choices. Think futuristic transvestites.
I listened to it, didn't love it.
But hey, it was influential. And looking back, pretty fucking good.
Glam Rock, your Video Friday:
The Sweet, "Barroom Blitz"
Alice Cooper, "School's Out"
Slade, "My Oh My"
T. Rex, "20th Century Boy"
Mott the Hoople, "All the Way from Memphis"
David Bowie, "Starman"
The Tubes, "White Punks on Dope"
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4 comments:
Thanks for the videos.
I'm a 70's baby so i missed a lot of these.
Thanks for including Alice Cooper. People have a tendency to lump his band in with the metal crowd (and maybe he did become that, but that's another story). His early band were one of the best fuckin' garage/glam bands of all time, kind of a cross between the Stooges and David Bowie. Great stuff, a genre I, like you, have only recently come to respect.
Im picking that this might be the place to leave a comment that relates to an earlier post. Im only assuming that is so because if it were me I wouldn't go back and check old posts for new comments. I wanted to say how much I enjoyed the Naisaiku challenge this week. Incredibly evocative. I especially admired it after I went to see how such a piece of verse is to be constructed. I can see that takes some degree of aptitude. Cheers
For a brief moment in time, The Tubes were the greatest band in rock 'n' roll. Their shows were an X-rated circus set to sick music. Gosh, I miss those daze.
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