70s had some great movies and even better movie soundtracks. About two years a go I was looking for samples to use in music and started watching The Rockford Files which I fell in love with. James Garner now a big hero of mine. Love that Bruce Lee’s first scene in a Hollywood movie, he was fighting James Garner (who smoked herb and was a big proponent of it’s benefits as was Bruce - I hope they had a joint together. lol). Anyway, there’s something about the pace of each episode set against perpetual Californian sunshine and the score is a band that plays live to each episode. I watched all fucking six seasons and some had like 20/30 episodes in. If I was younger I’d watch it all again but I feel a little old to devote dwindling time to that now. I must have spent at least a fortnight of my life watching certain movies. Fucking love the French Connection, Taxi Driver, The Godfathers, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, Apocalypse Now, Pelham 1,2,3. The line that always cracks me up in Pelham 123 is when Robert Shaw is sizing up some black guy on the subway and the guy goes to him, something like, “What’s the matter man, aint you never seen the sun set before?”
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Daisy dukes are still out there
Well, the Rockford Files is my favorite TV show from the 1970s.
However I never watched it in the 1970s, as I was too busy carousing throughout the
decade to watch TV. But in the mid 1980s I got hooked on the Rockford reruns.
Very entertaining series, and I really enjoyed the music.
Dude, I’ve got such a thing for those shorts. You don’t see them too much in LA proper, but when that country music bar got shot up in Thousand Oaks a few years back, they were showing the aftermath on the news and there were a bunch of girls in those cutoffs. I was like,”Why haven’t I been going to country music bars…?”
We were out the other night and a brunette about twenty one and around five foot nine was wearing white jeans cut off up to her crotch. My wife was not pleased with my wandering eyes
But I swear her legs were four foot long!
Times have sure changed the men ? are wearing daisy dukes 
Hard to keep your eyes off of four-foot legs…
Who said anything about that? Up until the COVID shit started happening, I’d go out in WeHo all the time. Never saw any dudes wearing Daisy dukes.
I’m stoned but have you ever been to San Francisco ?
Sure, yeah. I love San Francisco. So what? Dudes wanna wear daisy dukes, I don’t give a shit. I’ll be checking out the women in short-shorts, but if guys wanna wear them, who cares?
Chill brother just making a joke about the 70s if you want to wear Daisy Dukes and a cowboy hat that’s your business lol .
Social Distortion are amazing live
Bad Religion created skate punk, I’ve got all their stuff via to stranger than fiction on vinyl. No Control, Suffer, Recipe For Hate…
Descendants rule, their documentary is killa
Minor Threat… got that on vinyl too but Fugazi are better
Danzig is good too but Misfits are my go to
DK’s, soundtrack to my youth
Circle Jerks yes
Subhumans, Black Flag(pre Rollins), The Clash, Radio Birdman, SNFU…
Got to see Iggy and the Stooges a few times but most memorable was the set they did outside on new years eve in 96(I think), played for 3 hours starting at 11pm. I was on half a Bevis and half a Butthead acid tab, best new years I’ll ever have.
Best Stooges story I heard was when they got asked to warm up for Madonna in northern Norway and the boys destroyed all the equipment so by the time their set was finished Madonna couldn’t go on 
Only got to see Social D live once and it was at the first or second Warped Tour. They were fucking awesome. Pennywise killed it too, yup I like Pennywise suck it haters 
Bad Religion was my favorite band for awhile as a teenager and I remember picking up No Substance the day it came out and just going oh no! The album was ok but I sensed a shift that I didn’t like. Bought New America when it came out, listened to it and wanted to cry cause it confirmed what I suspected. Just not the same band anymore IMO.
Minor Threat are legends and deserve to be.
Misfits are from Lodi NJ which is about 40 minutes from me. Someone who my mother works with is Jerry Only’s sister in law or something and she posts pics on her facebook of the family reunions. He shows up in full Misfits mode - outfit and makeup and brings albums and stuff for the kids. Doyle is his brother but doesn’t seem to be around cause my mom had no idea Jerry even had a brother. He’s at least not showing up as Doyle if he’s there.
Man, I totally forgot about them. I used to looooove them, back when I was twelve or thirteen. Same thing I was talking about about the “imports” section of the record store. Cool-looking album cover, so I bought it. And loved it so much, I went back and bought everything else by them.
But not you or anybody else will ever convince me that Descendants/Bad Religion/Social Distortion are good. I can’t stand them. I think the only band from that Orange County scene that I ever got into was Agent Orange. Other than them, they all suck haha!
Shagging wagon you mean the F@#k truck…
You ever hear that story about the deranged Danzig fan who was kind of stalking him? And when the cops arrested him on Danzig’s property, he had a backpack filled with porno mags, but he’d pasted Glenn’s face on all of the women? Haha! That’s some crazy shit. I lived in the same neighborhood when that happened and was like,”Holy shit, there’s some weird motherfuckers around here…” haha.
@Slick1 Pennywise’s first 2 albums where real good especially Unknown Road.
Their early stuff was amazing but unfortunately anything after the mid 90’s was pretty average. Against the Grain is one of the greatest albums of all time
That’s all time, pretty intimating in that get up haha
They had the best album covers, I have all of them on vinyl too. The lead singer Dickie went on to form Citizen Fish which are one of my favourites also, fast ska
Hang on how did the greatest California punk band not get a mention yet?
Operation Ivy
They didn’t last long but their impact on my youth was huge
I despise ska, but I did like how the Subhumans would incorporate some dub elements into some of their tracks. I love dub. There was one song in particular, can’t remember which one now, that was like half-dub, half-punk. Real good track.
I knew a fella who would cruise the local freeways with his CB and all he’d say was “Baaa, all you redneck billy goats, Baaaa” and that would really set them off, all sorts of cursing and death threats.
Don’t know who was weirder, him or the billys.