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Muse

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I'm old to remember Bobby "Boris" Pickett doing The Monster Mash. My Dad yelled at me when I played it real loud the morning of my grandmother's funeral. TMI? Of course it is!

Anyway, I just came across this appropriately creepy close-up of Mr. Pickett singing it. Dig it, Daddio!
Boris got a jolt from my electrode.

I had the stitches removed today from my hand surgery session done the day before Halloween. Such fun! This is after the stitches were removed:

 

Muse

Lifer
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Or the…”better” version of the song…


One of the greatest live shows I have ever witnessed in person was The Bonzo Dog Band in L.A. in the late 60's.

Somezing like zis (Video of live performance of Monster Mash done in 1968)


The Bonzo's album version finishes on a high note!

 
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Muse

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I feel like my kids wouldn't listen to me about wearing bike helmets if I didn't wear one, and I really want them to wear them without thinking about it!
Also my wife came off her bike in the frost and landed hard enough to crack the back of her helmet open! Pretty sure she'd have had a life changing injury if she hadn't been wearing one!

I look ridiculous normally so a helmet doesn't make that much difference!
I wear my bike (bicycle) helmet now because my PT told me if I did have a head injury from a bike accident it would change my life forever. Showed her my helmet next time I saw her and have always worn it since on my bike (skates too).
 
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Muse

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I saw The Beatles live in concert at the Montreal Forum as well as Dave Clark Five, Janis Joplin, Steppenwolf, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Johnny Winters And , Gerry and the Pacemakers, Pink Floyd (with Sid Barret), the Original Santana, Led Zepplin (twice) , Jethro Tull (twice)' and Arlo Guthrie. Quite possibly a few others as well that I can't remember.
I saw 5 of those groups (bolded). Janis (in Big Brother and the Holding Company) and Joe Cocker (with the original Grease Band) were nothing short of OMG amazing. Arlo played solo, sitting on a stool with acoustic guitar at The Whiskey A-GoGo on the Sunset strip, singing Alice's Restaurant, extended version.

Dang! I attended The Monterey Pop Festival! Missed Hendrix, though, we drove home that day (Sunday).
 
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DAPUNISHER

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I'm- wore OG checkered Vans and skateboarded - old. I picked up an identical pair to the ones I had in H.S. years back. Rode my longboard up and down our street to break them in. Local rock was WDIZ out of O-town; as soon as I woke up I'd listen on my boom box or Walkman.

I rode a Lighting Bolt Mark Richards twin fin swallow tail and it shredded waves. Yet another part of my yoot that is still going strong - https://markrichardssurfboards.com/products/super-twin-2

Being a teen in the 80s kicked ass.
 
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DAPUNISHER

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It was a wonderful time to be alive. I really miss that era.
My girl and I would go to the movies all the time. Red Dawn, Back to the Future, Terminator, were incredible experiences. We saw them all multiple times. Miami Vice was must watch TV. I remember watching the Star Trek TNG premiere in our first apt. I was a little disappointed, but I knew the show was going to work because Gurney Halleck was the captain. Recorded it on my 4 head HIFI VCR, and played it on my all-in-one audio system (remember those dumb things where everything was integrated in a glass and wood or MDF cabinet?) At least my Cerwin Vega speakers were nice.
 
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My girl and I would go to the movies all the time.
Funny thing, girls would try to chat me up when I was a pre-teen and even as a kid, women liked me a lot. My mom tells me that as a kid, women and even girls would grab me from her arms and hold me like they had never seen a cuter kid. And then puberty happened and suddenly even my own mom was afraid of me!

Recorded it on my 4 head HIFI VCR
The compromises we were willing to accept in those times. Buying cassettes and recording TV shows. Making sure to break the copy protect plastic in the notch to prevent accidental overwriting. Siblings recording their favorite things on my tapes containing my favorite things and the literal World Wars happening as a result. Mom trying to defuse the situation, sometimes with kindness and sometimes with a shoe

Since there was no internet, I must've watched my limited selection of maybe max 40 tapes so many times that I really should be able to create my own 80s show! (Ninja Turtles, Brave Starr, Bionic Six, The land before time, Scruffy, Lion King, it goes on and on!).
 

DaaQ

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I remember my Grandmother taking me to see Jaws at the drive in theater, my Mom took me to see Friday the 13th 3D at the matinee.
My Step dad and Mom took my brother and I to see Ozzy in concert when he was bald headed. Then later on we were taken somewhere to watch Wrestlemania 3.
 
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I'm about to turn 45. I remember when I was 11 going to see Terminator 2: Judgment Day in the theater. What an amazing movie not only at the time but even now it still holds its own.
I vaguely remember seeing that movie as well with my father and his partner at that time.

I know i watched Totall recall a year earlier during school holiday, my mother sponsored the ticket for me .
Went to see the movie at the local town near the camping site, With some friends from the camping site and some very friendly local girls we met in the local town nearby.
 

Charmonium

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Hahaha keep telling yourself that.

One of the attorneys I worked for long ago was into doowop. This is before CDs so he had doowop tapes all over the car (that poor Mercedes).

One time it got broken into and all of the tapes were gone. At least until they looked over a nearby wall and found them scattered on the ground.

Any kind of rejection is cold but that was extra icy.
 

Perknose

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One of the greatest live shows I have ever witnessed in person was The Bonzo Dog Band in L.A. in the late 60's.

Somezing like zis (Video of live performance of Monster Mash done in 1968)


The Bonzo's album version finishes on a high note!

Ah yes, The Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band. Unique and weird. So fine!
 
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