Late '70s Music
Rock 'n' Roll in the late seventies was played in huge arenas with shows full of lights and fire. There were only two kinds of music back then: rock and other. None of today's rap/metal, nu-metal (barf), electronica, or boy bands. were even thought up. They were simple times.

Dirty Women. They don't mess around. Black Sabbath was the most important band of the '70s. Without them, there would be no metal, and hippies would rule the Earth (ah, a pun! Ha!). Well, hippies ended up ruling the world anyway. If there was no metal, there would be no Night of the Living '80s.  You know those shirts that only say "Listen to Black Sabbath" on them? Heed their words, my friend. I even went so far as to start a Black Sabbath cover band. What has 50 Cent inspired people to do, buy cartoonishly large wheels for their SUVs? The passion! By the way, the fucker that runs the link to the left knows absolutely everything about Sabbath.

Anybody that goes by the nickname 'Fast Eddie' is cool.

 More speed than a trailer park crystal-meth lab! Motorhead sped up the tempo to paces unheard of in rock music. Lemmy's voice reminds me of smoky ol' grandpa yelling at me to get off the roof of the shed. The constant bass distortion makes them the loudest three-piece ever.

Catch you on the flip side.

 This ol' boy has made some badass tunes in his time.  Jerry Reed, aka The Snowman (you gotta stay up all night to earn a nickname like that) made "Eastbound and Down" and "Westbound and Down" for Smokey and the Bandit.  Both had super shreddy solos and fun songwriting that you just don't get with country today. Today's nu-country sucks major donkey dick. If I hear one more '90s-style weeping steel guitar or song about some fucking mudhole where you learned how to destroy a four wheeler, that fat girls are alright and that school just wasn't for you (basically, how to be a dirty piece of white trash) I'm going to vomit.  Jerry Reed knew what real (pre-'90s) country was about. 

In non-English-speaking countries, the letters UFO mean nothing, so they are called OO-foe. Now, you are smarter.

 UFO is underappreciated by the music community. All rock guitar players must "throw up some respect" to Michael Schnecker and his dizzying solos. "Throwing up some respect" does not involve vomiting up a stomach full of Goofus and Gallant comics, like I thought when I first heard that term.  Wailing leads are good. I currently own one UFO album on vinyl ("No Place to Run"), two on CD ("Walk on Water", "Lights Out"), one on 8-track ("Obsession") and some mp3s. I've got too much shit.

When I saw you coming out of school that day, I knew, I knew that I got to have you- Gene during 'Christine Sixteen'

 Kiss made hard rock party music. If somebody tries to tell you that they are metal, kick them in the nuts! Kiss worshipping was probably the #2 sport of the late '70s (#1 being the ABA).  Kiss worshipping continued through 1983, when Kiss took off their evil makeup and put on women's makeup for the "Lick it Up" album. Luckily, '80s saviors Mercyful Fate and W.A.S.P picked up where Kiss left off, making real metal with evil makeup on. Kiss is one of the few bands out there that is more fun to talk about than they are to listen to.  Here are merely a few topics that can go on for hours: Ace's drinking. Gene & money. Is Paul gay? Their '80s guitar players. '90s biker Kiss. The movie. Can Paul actually play guitar? Gene & women. Frehley's Comet. "I Was Made for Loving You". The Vinnie Vincent Invasion's metamorphosis into Slaughter. "Shock Me (Live)".

 

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