1969

[Robbo]

Great pics Geoff, wish i'd kept a few of mine on the old Velo in 69

Cheers

[Banditbandit]

Hahaha! You REALLY, REALLY don't want to hear me sing!

I really really never want to hear people sing folk songs from 1969 - tho' a good Child ballad now and then ..

[Voltaire]

Errrrrr.... two photos taken in 1969. Both of me and one is bloody excruciating, but never mind - all part of history

One taken at the Isle of Man TT on my 1955 Tiger 100. Cord jeans, suede boots, green cardy and orange T shirt. The world's worst dresser and nothing's changed much

The other taken at Santa Pod dragstrip, UK on my supercharged Triumph. Once a Triumph fan, always a Triumph fan

+ 1 on cool pics, thats a T110 colour scheme init?

[Blackbird]

Great pics Geoff, wish i'd kept a few of mine on the old Velo in 69Cheers

Cheers Robbo - Got quite a few photos from way back but thought the '69 ones were perfect for this thread. Somewhere, I have a box of slides of heaps of racebikes at the '69 TT. It would have been great to see your Velo photos!

+ 1 on cool pics, thats a T110 colour scheme init?

Voltaire, may well have been. I bought the bike in '67 and it had been resprayed with lots of extra chrome by the previous owner and fitted with US-style hi-rise bars. Didn't like the hi-rise so fitted ace bars about a year after buying it. See attached pic as purchased..... was slimmer with more hair then

[Swoop]

See attached pic as purchased..... was slimmer with more hair then

Looks well cleaned and properly maintained!

















The bike, as well!

[Paul in NZ]

+ 1 on cool pics, thats a T110 colour scheme init?

It was also an option on later T100's (towards end of 50's)

I think

[Road kill]

1969 I was 12 years old living in Owairaka boys home while paying for the sins of my parents.

Actually,,1969 sucked big time.

1973 was a much better year.

[scumdog]

Hahaha - thanks. Nope, she was on holiday in the IOM from Scotland (it only lasted a few days-probably appalled by my dress sense).

Pfft! I wish I had such good dress-sense, I'm envious.

[Blackbird]

Pfft! I wish I had such good dress-sense, I'm envious.

Reckon I'd fit in well down south Tom?

[Oakie]

Memory of a nine year old at the time ... only the moon landing

More importantly ... it was the year Monty Python's Flying Circus first aired.

[PrincessBandit]

I was six and cute. What the heck happened to me?

[Paul in NZ]

I was six and cute. What the heck happened to me?

Well - you are not 6 anymore - rest is up to you really ;-)

[tri boy]

69
Building forts in bracken patches and finding out about tetanus injections after diving into box thorn to avoid sling shot stones from the enemy.
Life is/was good.

[HenryDorsetCase]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969:_T...derground_Live

I have this on vinyl. Its interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vel...nd_%28album%29

So this is the first album after Reed wrested control from Cale. Doug Yule plays bass. And it is the beginning of the brutal pop sensibility triumph that the best of Lou's songwriting contains. That of course comes to complete fruition with "Loaded" in 1970.

"What goes on?" "Beginning to see the light" and of course "Pale Blue Eyes" are probably my favourite tracks.

Perhaps a slightly more interesting story is the "lost tracks" from these sessions which appeared on "VU" and various bootlegs: in particular my (current) favourite Velvets track of all "Foggy Notion"

This was what was happening on the East Coast (well on a small part of it). This speaks to me in a way that fucking hippie shit never has. Flowers and psychedelia can get fucked.

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[HenryDorsetCase]

I've done grande dissertations on Easy Rider before.

Minus:
Class A drug dealers.
Those bikes had a range of 60 miles.
Give me a break with the hippies.
Billy is a total putz.
Ends with senseless double murder.

Plus:
The opening Born to be Wild ride sequence. An all-time cinematic highlight. It goes down hill from there.
Nicholson.
The Bikes.
Tits.

I agree with that entirely. My favourite of the bikes is the Billy bike.

I would add to the minuses the sequence shot in the cemetery in New Orleans. Pointless drivel. Dennis sent some of his mates down there to shoot on 16mm cameras he loaned them and they got shitfaced and thats all they came up with. Thats why it looks so grainy and shitty even on my crappy DVD copy.