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Tempus fugit, indeed.
I prefer to think of myself as a fugit from tempus.
Tempus fugit, indeed.
Just why are all the girls jumping up and down..?? ..Don't get it...
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Have you ever found yourself looking through the CD racks to see if there might be a big band compilation album?
You see a modern music CD entitled So & So's Greatest Hits, and you think: "Who?"
Apparently this originated from the fact that when punk started, the bands performed in small clubs/pubs without stages, and the Pogo was started by people jumping up and down to try and see the band.
You know you're getting old when every entertainer you recognize is dead.
(I say "playing" as throughout the show's entire run they refused to allow anyone to perform completely live. Musicians always mimed, while only in latter years were vocalists allowed to sing live rather than lip synch). Additionally, the public area was towards the back, and most of the people you ever saw on camera in the show's heyday were paid dancers. Needless to say, many credible musicians, including the Clash, refused to appear on the programme, though others did and took the opportunity to poke fun at it
Romanticised, but that's pretty much it. Add in the excitement of punk rock in what had become an incredibly stale music scene by late '76, the natural urge to move to music, and how tight packed those crowds were, the only way to dance was to go up... and down. Ahh.... I've pogoed, stage-dived and crowd surfed with the best of 'em, but alas I think it'd kill me now to keep that pace up all night.
They keep telling me age is a tempus in a teapot, but what do they know?
Oh yes, I remember the Sex Pistols performing "Pretty Vacant"
I used to imbibe 4/5 pints of good beer before I felt I was about to over-do anything ... now 2 does it.
:eusa_clapWhen you are young and you hear that someone is giving a party you fear that you won't be invited. When you are old you fear that you will be invited.
You use most of your vacations for Doctors visits.
lol I haven't quite made that transition yet, but the warning signs are visible from here.You know you're getting old the moment you realize you're going to be living the rest of your life in someone else's world.