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I spent a lot of time wafting around in a smock, long skirt, headband and beads, reeking of patchouli and other exotic ahem fragrances

I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After

Greatcoats & desert boots was our uniform of choice. I avoided Glam Rock and much of Punk at the time (though I'm partial to both now!) and listened to a wide range of music, from Dylan to Floyd and Lennon to Noakes.

One album I had was not appreciated by many of my pals but I thought it great. Please play the title track from

Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper

DC









Bet it disnae get an airing...

was blessed to be a part of Glam, Punk and New Romanticism during those blessed years ...

'The Six Teens' / 'Teenage Rampage' ~~ Sweet
'Cranked up Really High' ~~ Slaughter & the Dogs (would be amazed/amazing)
'To Cut a Long Story Short' ~~ Spandau Ballet

... memorable times indeed!

Make a cult of yourself.There but for one letter go I!;0)Cheers,Willie Bartke

A colt? Are you a horse?

I still spend time in frilly blouses but only when my wife's out ☺

Teenage years from 1978 to 1984 so covers a multitude of sins. May as well go for one with some credibility...

Magazine - Shot By Both Sides

Still a grayyyyyt record ☺

Theme idea: Conversation.

Talking, speaking, listening (yes men do it!) etc

Probably been suggested before? Gaie??

#1 But did you inhale?

#1 and was there that 'free love' thing - or just naked leap frog and body painting?

He could be a celt. Are you Welsh Willie?

#8 not on The List, Billy. The List only covers last summer though

#9, #10 can't remember



No Sleep Blues - the Incredible String Band

Oh yikes at one point I had a frilly blouse with extra lace that I sewed on the sleeves a pair of velvet pantallon things boots with extra ribbons tied on them my dads old wastcoat and trench coat my hair was long on one side and short on other and I had a beret i thought I was the coolest thing. Music well human league I loved at the time my clothes were all new romantic but I loved punk too!

i think i can safely say withoot irony or argument that my teenage years spanned the golden age of pop culture........... kennedy through watergate..........from charming innocence to organised cynicism and that pretty much reflected the music as well.
we weren't into teenage cults round my scheme. just gangs.
an apprentice wage of about £3 didnae stretch to carnaby street style clothing.
during these times i witnessed live, some cult bands who were a disgrace and embarrassing........'yes' and 'deep purple'........which put me off 'heavy' for life.
so i had pretty mainstream tastes...........barron knights.........scaffold.......sandie shaw.....
but we always bought the beatles albums and for new year......the white heather club....the cult was called 'eclectic'.

the days when radio scotland was indeed radio scotland 242 (...turn your sets to radio scotland radio scotland 2 4 2 ).....and there's no many can remember that and they're near a' deid.

so while there are any number of beatles songs that i could choose, if there was one song that summed up what the eclectic mix of the sixties meant to me then it would have to be that wonderfully idealistic beautifully melodic bombastically naive................

'if you're going to san fransisco'..................scott mckenzie

i've always been a sucker for the mandolin* and it just so happened that just as my teenage years were coming to an end this was released in early autumn so it seemed to strike a chord with the departing teenager...............his best ever song..............

'maggie may'..............rod stewart and the faces

( who can ever forget the fun they had with the impromptu kick-about.......classic)

*historical footnote.i actually had a mandolin and could play "that" bit from the song

cheers frae the dale

I wouldn't say I followed any particular trend in music I just loved loads of it early 70's. However being at that time the smallest boy in the class and the only one without platforms to boot I had to practically beg my mum to let me get platforms which I acquired one day at airdrie market. So I suppose that made me a glam rocker. it wasn't really the music. I just didn't want to be wee.

Children of the revolution / T.Rex
Get down and get with it / Slade
Drive in Saturday / Bowie
Skyline Pigeon / Elton John

Don't Waste My Time - John Mayall
Little Wing - Derek & the Dominos
Knocking on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
Angie - Rolling Stones

and let's have Skyline Pigeon off Rocket Man not the weird harpsichord one, eh?

#14 we had a discussion about the real Radio Scotland a couple o years back DK. I mind spyin at the wee boat wi the big mast through the big binoculars at Fife Ness Coastguard station when I wiz wee.

Another fae my heyday:

Broken down angel - Nazareth

D.C.I'm part German but your right I really want to put aside the James Last cds and the sauerkraut and embrace Runrig and deep fried Mars bars and make a celt of myself,:0)Cheers, Willhelm Von Bartke

#14

Pretty much my experience apart from only taking up the mandolin last year. We had 242's Ugly Bob Spencer at our school dance (no Proms and stretch limos then, eh?). Barbara Wallace's (how I hate that "Miss Babs" nonsense) father Jimmy Mack started on Radio Scotland. It wasn't long before John Peel and Tommy Vance came along with an avalanche of musical treats I'm still listening to but which this programme won't touch with a bargepole.

Nosedive Karma - Gaye Bykers On Acid

#yup
although if it has to be glam rock then i would forego the previous picks for
Angel fingers / wizzard

Youngest of four, I was, vicariously, a devoted Beatles fan by primary school - Miss Johnstone belted me senseless for singing Twist & Shout in class - though I thought the Dave Clark Five and The Searchers were every bit as good as the early Beatles. I remember pleading with my mum to buy me a Searchers album for my ninth or tenth birthday ( she refused). Though we all sleepwalked into prog rock,my personal hero was John Lennon - who was inclined to sudden transformational changes of appearance.

There were regular battles at home over the length of my hair which I won, only to find my hero had chopped all his off. The 'skinhead' style I just didn't get and it seemed malevolent.

And then, Roxy Music turned up and that was that. I remember having the most outrageous 'wet look' platform shoes - the platforms came up in coloured bands, giant flares and the hair had settled into a Mccartney early 70's mullet - esque.

Stylistically, the mixture of all these styles is where it begins and ends: to this day I still wear 'Lennonesque' granny style glasses and wear my hair rather too long at the back - a real Lennon - Mccartney fan.

Either of these sum the times:

Instant Karma - John Lennon

Pyjammarama - Roxy Music

regardez youse

henri

Previously (and currently) on the blog...

I see you got your Squeeze on then DC. Funnily enough they chose the one Squeeze song that doesnt tell a story.
Oh, and pleased to see you rank Blue Peter up there with the Beatles in your teen memories.

I'm not a squeeze fan Adam, hence my plea for none of their predictable work.

Now there's an idea for a theme: Songs they should have sung.

Old Shep - Rab Noakes

Queen amazed SFA

In my very early teenage years, it was short hair and a Harrington. And I'm still a fan of the Modfather.

Has therefore to be
* The Lambrettas - Poison Ivy

Our TEEN cult was de MAMMY NUNS!

Head like a potato . . . Lips like a duck . . . Big ol' hands, puffin' up! big ones! science! me-jev'l re-lij-mus costumery all over yo' body! wit de nakkin' on! yow! oh yeah! mmmm-hmmm!

YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS from THING-FISH by FRANK ZAPPA

On Alison Again...

I see somebody pockled your Kate Bush suggestion Julie!

Queen of Clubs - KC & The Sunshine Band
Show You The Way - Jacksons
Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton
Stargazer - Rainbow
Southbound - Thin Lizzy

#22

that should read: 'any of these sum up the times'

Instant Karma - John Lennon

Pyjammarama - Roxy Music

John I'm Only Dancing - David Bowie

I thought of asking for a prog rock track like 'Harold the Barrel' - which cropped up last night and which I was into about '71 and haven't heard for decades - but I've just listened and it really is best forgotten.

regardez youse

henri

#28. I find increasingly frequently that many oif my ignored suggestions get played for other folk at a later date! Ach weel! At least they're played eventually. Annoying when the comment is "that was great, I'd never heard of that before"!!!

#28 I prefer it when they're poachled....

I only ever did the uniform thing in the mid seventies....platforms, flares and shirts with wee pictures on (planes and trains)....looked like a girl with my long hair!

It's Been So Long - George McCrae


Paul from Ayr

btw....really enjoyed the JAPW gig last night, it got me thinking about a theme, as an antidote to the one we had recently about singers with annoying voices.....

....Songwriters who have a really good voice......

anything by Joan Wasser

#33
Great shout Paul!
Did you used to have the v-neck with 3 stars on the front too?



I've still got mine!

1976 - Dion - 'The Wanderer ' (re-issue)

18th Birthday Parties...everyone up on the dancefloor singing our hearts out along to 'Hi Ho Silver Lining'.

After my embarrassing Bay City Rollers phase I was into Punk/New Wave. Used to have to take in jeans so they were skinny enough. Spent hours searching second-hand shops for unusual clothes...before they got wise, called it 'vintage', 'Mary-Portased' the places and bumped-up the prices!

#33 i have seen you with long hair on the train back from embra.
Heard your wummin on tom morton. Prefer her singing to talking.

Btw what was the difference between parallels and oxford bags

#34 ha ha...no Adam, that would've just been too much!

Meet the Fockers!I'd be an impressionable 15 year old when Bob Dylan ditched his Woodie Guthrie turn and went electric.The result?...the birth of Folk Rock which is as near to a cult as I made of myself.Dress code then was Duffle Coat,black poloneck,College scarf and boots of Spanish Leather(sorry, getting carried way with Dylan mythology now!)Even the Beatles got on the Folk Rock Bandwagon"You've Got to Hide Your Love AAway"Dylan speak!Dylan took his influences from the Beat Poets like Ginsberg and Kerouac and afer that songwriters could write about anything.After Dylan(A.D.!)came Donovan,Simon and Garfunkel,Leonard Cohen,Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell.The new electric troubadours had arrived.Meet the Folk Rockers or the Fockers for short!
Bob Dylan She Belongs to Me
Simon and Garfunkel America
Donovan Catch the Wind
Laura Nyro And When I Die
Leonard Cohen Suzanne
Loving Spoonfull Rain on The Roof
Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now Cheers,Willie Bartke

#36 yeh Paolo no comment on that one

as for JW...well she IS American, but at least her banter was different.....with reference to Edinburgh "....your city has some interesting structures....."

....but more interesting verdicts."

Strive DC

"....couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game...."

Chair Rune

If I wanted to biff, for example, Henri Hannah I would wait until he was on national television (wouldn't be much worse than what's usually on) and give him a sound thrashing.

#36/ 39 you did make a convincing bonny lassie, Paul. Nowt to be ashamed of!

#42 Unless the justice is football related. ;o)

#36
Were parallels what we called skinners?

#43
Rich Rangers