Oh! I remember the RM250! My buddy had one. That bike scared the crap out of me. So much stupid power!
I had a little little Honda Trail 70. I miss that fun little bike!
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I’m totally obsessed with 70’s fashion. The knee-high socks and short-shorts. Roller skates. Those tight t-shirts with the iron-on letters and the “tubing” or whatever it’s called around the sleeves and collar. I was only four in 1979, but it’s like I have some kind of Pavlovian response to any woman wearing 70’s gear. Cowgirl boots and fringes and denim and shit… Love it.
I don’t even think Cher is good-looking, but I fully wanna bang her in that video haha. So glamorous!
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Oh man, it’s so tempting to try and explain the 70’s… it really is. So many others know just what I mean. Acid, Qualudes, concerts, and Thai sticks. Oh and sex was very en vogue. So much in between those lines, ha… peace 
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Only tangentially related, but I just came across this and felt compelled to share.
Biggy Pop…aka Iggy’s cockatoo grooving to 1970
https://www.instagram.com/p/CPLrRo8H35i/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
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Don’t forget those damn Shag Carpets! I lost more bud in them than a little bit! 
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Oh hell yeah last time I saw them in concert was at an outdoor rock show with BOC the gogos joe perry project and cheap trick they were getting hard into it and completely blew up the right side speaker set up I used to have pictures and video of it but they disappear Ed along the way it was in summer 85 up in new hampster when I was on leave from the Marines
Peace and stay safe
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I have many great memories of opening shows like the one you mentioned - those days seemed like they would never end. Music has changed so much since then, not just the sound but the business aspect of it all. Nowadays (covid aside) it is harder and harder for working musicians to make a good living from being in a band. The money from music sales is a joke, and the venues are still paying the same rates that they paid to bands in the 70’s, and many venues are even pay to play for lesser known bands. $100 per musician per night was pretty standard in the 70s and 80s and now local bands are lucky if they can make gas money.
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I can explain the 90s- fucking awesome and the last hoorah before technology enslaved us all!
There’s always been mindless pop bands in the same timeframe as really great bands. Abba and Zeppelin were around at the same time. While Flock of Seagulls was sucking Metallica were thrashing.
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The explanation is cocaine
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Cocaine explains gold lamé MC Hammer pants?
Okay, I can see that…
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Explained:
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the 70’s made the music there still copying
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Still copying you say?
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yup ask them, they went along way got thierselfs known because he sounds like R. Plant, what exactly do you feel the Frankenmuth guys are doing different?
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I’ve heard Zep cover bands playing Zep songs that sound less like Zep than these guys do playing their own originals…
First time I heard Safari Song I thought I was listening to unreleased and just discovered lost zep tapes…lol
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More than just the vocals though, they nailed the Paige sounding guitar and especially the Bonham drum kit sound imo…
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They’ve been groomed to sound as much like Zep as possible. I don’t hate it but it feels like an act vs organic. They aren’t writing their own songs, they’re writing songs in an attempt to sound like Zep. 2:28 he straight rips part of Black Dog and it’s not accidental. I guess my issue is it’s not a band with natural similarities to Zep but one deliberately going out of their way to get that sound. The kid does sound a lot like Plant even if it’s not exact.
As far as I know Plant is the only reason we don’t see a Zep reunion tour. Page and Jones need to grab this kid and Bonham’s son and do it. Don’t bill it as Zep out of respect to Plant and Bonham but go play some shows and perform the Zep catalog.
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Seriously. Think about the 80’s: Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Danzig, Cro-Mags, Nuclear Assault, all kinds of good shit was being created back then. All while fucking Belinda Carlisle was getting played on the radio every hour haha. Some of the best shows I ever saw were in the 80’s. I saw Jane’s Addicition open for Iggy Pop. Opened for him! At a little venue in St. Petersburg FL. Watched Captain Sensible from The Damned pee on somebody in the audience at that same venue haha! You just had to look a little deeper than simply turning on the radio. I admit I had a poster of Samantha Fox on my bedroom wall, though haha. I didn’t even like her music, but holy shit I wanted to fuck her.
The “Imports” section of the record store. Remember that? Where all the “weird” stuff was and you’d buy an album just because the cover looked cool? That’s where I discovered “Psychic, Powerless, Another Man’s Sac” by the Butthole Surfers. Which is still one of my favorite albums ever. And it wasn’t even an “import” haha. What was it doing in the “import” section? They recorded it in Texas! I think. That album was just mind-blowing, listening to it when I was a naive, clueless little thirteen-year-old. Laying on my bedroom floor, obsessively pouring over the liner notes (liner notes!). The packaging smelled like tortilla chips, which I thought was really weird and exotic haha… Shit, man, I miss liner notes…
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Fuck yeah! Even I tend to think of the pop weirdness when thinking of the 80s but there was a ton of good shit going in music. The grunge movement of the 90s doesn’t exist without the 80s and was taking shape before '90.
You ever hear Henry Rollins telling the story of opening for Iggy?
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Uh uh, I don’t think I have. But everybody says I look like Henry Rollins haha. It’s fucking annoying, actually, because that dude is ugly. I’m way better-looking than him. But yeah, seriously, total strangers will stop me on the street and be like,”Has anybody ever told you you look just like Henry Rollins???” I’m like,”Yeah, asshole, every fucking day! Fuck off!” haha.
Still, yeah, Black Flag! Circle Jerks! Goddamn, there really was a lot of good music being made back then. Saw the Circle Jerks in the late-80’s, too. One of their old band members is a friend of mine’s accountant now haha.
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