1981 play-list, Sony Walkman on B-year 'F-bikes - B-movie?

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 11:23 am

Dunno how I somehow forgot to do the play-list for 1981 - Must've gone off on a tangent. Such as....

No really though - you roll off the dealership lot on your new CB750FB, CB900FB, or CB1100RB, CB750KB perhaps - Oh, and the CB750C & CB900C had appeared on the scene right? Well then, wtf were you listening to on your Sony Walkman or battery operated 8-track tape deck with enormous coil-cord stereo headphones - Was the Walkman OUT by then? Ha-ha. Okay so you've got an old military-surplus helmet one of those huge Naval-Gunner's helmets with the huge headphones underneath 'em. How's THAT work? How about a pocket-sized transistor radio, with a hearing-aid cord plugged into it - two of 'em with a stereo splitter so you've got ear-bud headphones years & years before anybody else had heard of 'em....

WTF were you LISTENING to? Even if this didn't actually occur to you - Let's say you could go back in time and do it all over again. Only not literally, 'cause we don't want you parking the bike so you can go fuck highschool girls. ON the bike, WITH the music. No bomb strapped to your chest or anything like that! Or better still - TODAY, with period-correct wardrobe and a mint condition restored bike, period-correct sound equipment and songs limited by a publication date within the year 1981 - could be the last day of December I don't give a shit.

It could even be an illustration of how bad music SUCKED back then. I'm just trying to flesh out the multi-media experience here, to bring us back to 1981 in ways that even the pictures can't do.

I'll throw one off to start your engine - kinda sucks, but it's what I was into back in the '80s - well, maybe later on in the decade, circa 1985 or thereabouts - forgive me, I was in middle-school ha-ha. Yet I felt so ... EXPLOITED

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S.

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 4:23 pm

Well, I was rolling out of the dealership in 1981 on my still-new 1980 KZ1000 MKII. Listening to 38 Special, Cheap Trick, Scorpions, Rush, JP, and even an unknown band called Marseilles.

Around 1985, I was still on the Kawasaki, but had added Dokken, The Romantics, Mr. Mister, White Snake, Bullet Boys, and so on. I really loved the 80s. So much so, that when I decided to get a bike again a few years ago, I started looking at early 80s Kawasakis, Hondas, and Suzukis. I bought my 1982 GS1100G, and while talking to my friend about his 82 900F, the conversation turned to when he bought it (new) and its current condition. He decided I would be the best hope for it living on, so he gave it to me.

Can't figure out how to embed video here, so bummer!

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 5:58 pm

BullittDave wrote:

Well, I was rolling out of the dealership in 1981 on my still-new 1980 KZ1000 MKII. Listening to 38 Special, Cheap Trick, Scorpions, Rush, JP, and even an unknown band called Marseilles.

Around 1985, I was still on the Kawasaki, but had added Dokken, The Romantics, Mr. Mister, White Snake, Bullet Boys, and so on. I really loved the 80s. So much so, that when I decided to get a bike again a few years ago, I started looking at early 80s Kawasakis, Hondas, and Suzukis. I bought my 1982 GS1100G, and while talking to my friend about his 82 900F, the conversation turned to when he bought it (new) and its current condition. He decided I would be the best hope for it living on, so he gave it to me.

Can't figure out how to embed video here, so bummer!

Hit the YouTube tab in the key up top and then paste the link between the brackets...BUT....remove the "s" from https and make it http Wink

Jebby

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2016 9:41 pm

Tried various ways and no joy. I'll keep experimenting.

By the way, I used to work in NB at McKenna hospital from 1999 to 2003. Never went to Schlitterbahn, though.