Another Friday night shot....

[JPhil]

Only a couple more left!

Let me set the stage for this one:

Late late Friday night, way after midnight. You kill the motor & the lights half a block away from home and roll in silently. Mom & Dad are long since asleep, no sound but crickets chirping in the warm summer dark & the engine tink-tinking as it cools, all still but for the bugs flitting around the streetlight.
A good night! A little bit of street racing, flirting with some girls, lots of good cruisin'. No puke down either side of the car from either your buddy or you. That's nice, puke tends to stain primer and there's already six coats on each door. The officer didn't take or even ask about your 3.2 beer, just told you "Look, it's late out. Get your asses home, OK?" "Yessir, officer. Thank you." A good Friday night.
You close the car door very gently, quietly. Take your shoes off at the bottom of the porch steps. Be careful now---step over that third one that creaks so loudly! Slowly open the front door (it's never locked, so no keys to fumble with) and step way to the right of the doorway to miss that floorboard that also creaks.
Tip-toe through the kitchen and down the hall in the darkness touching the walls, not because you don't know the way so well but to keep from stumbling, falling and waking Mom & Dad.
Into the back room, don't turn turn on any lights but you don't need to anyway.
Pull out an album from the end of the stack, put it on the spindle of the stereophonic hi-fi phonograph with fold down turntable and fold out speakers and put the arm over it. Grab the big headphones that weigh about a pound and a half--but these are the new ones with the deep padded earpieces! Unravel the wadded up coil 10-foot cord, plug the jack in, turn the volume up to 10 and the switch to 'play'. AHHHH! QUICK! FLICK THE OTHER SWITCH FROM 'SPEAKERS' TO 'HEADPHONES'!!! Whew, just in time---Sit down in the recliner and kick it out as the record drops down, the arm moves over and sets down, the needle goes scritch scritch scritch scritch and then....



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J01jyVPCPT8[/ame]

 

[69427]

Only a couple more left!

Let me set the stage for this one:

Late late Friday night, way after midnight. You kill the motor & the lights half a block away from home and roll in silently. Mom & Dad are long since asleep, no sound but crickets chirping in the warm summer dark & the engine tink-tinking as it cools, all still but for the bugs flitting around the streetlight.
A good night! A little bit of street racing, flirting with some girls, lots of good cruisin'. No puke down either side of the car from either your buddy or you. That's nice, puke tends to stain primer and there's already six coats on each door. The officer didn't take or even ask about your 3.2 beer, just told you "Look, it's late out. Get your asses home, OK?" "Yessir, officer. Thank you." A good Friday night.
You close the car door very gently, quietly. Take your shoes off at the bottom of the porch steps. Be careful now---step over that third one that creaks so loudly! Slowly open the front door (it's never locked, so no keys to fumble with) and step way to the right of the doorway to miss that floorboard that also creaks.
Tip-toe through the kitchen and down the hall in the darkness touching the walls, not because you don't know the way so well but to keep from stumbling, falling and waking Mom & Dad.
Into the back room, don't turn turn on any lights but you don't need to anyway.
Pull out an album from the end of the stack, put it on the spindle of the stereophonic hi-fi phonograph with fold down turntable and fold out speakers and put the arm over it. Grab the big headphones that weigh about a pound and a half--but these are the new ones with the deep padded earpieces! Unravel the wadded up coil 10-foot cord, plug the jack in, turn the volume up to 10 and the switch to 'play'. AHHHH! QUICK! FLICK THE OTHER SWITCH FROM 'SPEAKERS' TO 'HEADPHONES'!!! Whew, just in time---Sit down in the recliner and kick it out as the record drops down, the arm moves over and sets down, the needle goes scritch scritch scritch scritch and then....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J01jyVPCPT8

The first concert I ever went to was Iron Butterfly.

 

[mrvette]

Even though I had many albums including that one above, I was a Jazz/Blues man, so I can say with all honesty, I have never been to a rock concert of any type......plenty of other groups though, but that was basically in a niteclub setting with tables, and service.....dating, not so loud we couldn't talk.....

:rofl::amazed:

 

[BBShark]

The first big concert I ever went to was in a field at the local zoo.

Iron Butterfly, Grand Funk RR, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Lonnie Mack and a few others. My brother knew Lonnie and he got us backstage. I saw most of the concert sitting on the side of the stage.

 

[SmokinBBC]

Wow..Iron memories

First time I saw them was at an outdoor concert in a suburb of Chgo. I was with a couple of guys that I worked with at the time. Anyhow, we got in free since one of the guys buddies was a roadie...he was also a backup studio drummer.

Anyhow, the concert hadn't started and it was late getting late/crowd restless....then the band started playing and guess who was on the drums? You guessed it...it was that roadie. Anyway, he played about half the set and then you could see him sneak out and the band's drummer slip in.

So this guy makes his way down to us in the crowd(we were by the stage control tent) and says something like wow what a rush...did you see me? We were young punks at the time and were just amazed.