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Your favorite stuff from the 80s.
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Passinwind
I know nothing.
- Dec 3, 2003
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The mid 80s Seattle music scene, before outsiders knew about it and someone started calling it Grunge. It was nothing like what the later marketing BS portrayed it as being. Living there then was an absolute blast, but as usual it wasn't really sustainable long term.
Music:
Allan Holdsworth, The Pretenders, Talking Heads, Dead Kennedys, FEAR, The Clash, ECM jazz, What Is This, The Fibonaccis, Squeeze, Trouble Funk, 80's Miles Davis, Scott Henderson/Tribal Tech, The Prime Movers, Split Enz/Crowded House, David Torn, 80's King Crimson, Bill Connors, Steve Kahn/Eyewitness, English Beat, The Police , Minutemen among my faves
Allan Holdsworth, The Pretenders, Talking Heads, Dead Kennedys, FEAR, The Clash, ECM jazz, What Is This, The Fibonaccis, Squeeze, Trouble Funk, 80's Miles Davis, Scott Henderson/Tribal Tech, The Prime Movers, Split Enz/Crowded House, David Torn, 80's King Crimson, Bill Connors, Steve Kahn/Eyewitness, English Beat, The Police , Minutemen among my faves
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I read the book & then saw the movie...I did not hate it.
I read Steve Lukather's book last year. He mentioned how Toto picked doing the music for Dune over the music for Footloose. They were huge Lynch fans.
Luke sez they blew it...but at least Toto
doesn't have to play "Footloose" for the duration.
80s Skateboarding and Mike Watt / Firehose.
The old saying was Dean Smith!
I was an NC State Fan when the Cardiac Pack had that incredible run under Jimmy V in '83. How Derick Whittenburg (sp) and Lorenzo Charles didn't go on become marquee NBA players I'll never understand.Man, no sports anywhere held a candle to 80s ACC basketball.
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Queensryche came out of Seattle in the mid 80's. Iirc their first EP was a limited run of 1500 units pressed on a on a label called "206 Records", with 206 being the area code of Bellevue, WA.
I have one of those copies. How it made its way to Western NY, I'll never know.
Please...indulge us.
Its just embarrassing, so...no. I made the mistake of showing it to my cousin and she sent it to everyone she knew. My family had never seen it and they all got a good laugh out of it.
I'm not savvy enough to figure out how to load a pic from my phone...... I'm still stuck in 1985.
Working full time as a musician for a decade and not having to do anything else to make ends meet. That was the best part of the 80's for me.
