30 years ago

[Big Dave]

One of the first places I rode that XS1100 was to the Oxford Tavern - Oxford St Sydney. Before it became the center of the mardi gras gay mile it was the cradle of Sydney punk.

Big Al (Now there was a man that could pull a babe! - He got the interest and I did the talking) and I parked our bikes on the footpath (try doing that today - serious hissy fits) and went upstairs to see the Saints.

It was la really early Punk gig. My guitar teacher met us there along with about 30 others.

I didn't buy the morons with mohawks spitting on each other but people like Joey Ramone cited The Saints as an influence.




And I've had a thing for goth chics ever since too.

[Big Dave]

I also note in the premise of the thread 1978 was not a leap year.

Claim 'the mists of time' defence.

[Big Dave]

[Katman]

"London calling" still makes me feel good.Damn you guys have me eyeing the stack of old Cure cds/tapes i have.

Did anyone else go to The Clash at the Logan Concrete Centre?

[scumdog]

Almost married (for the 1st time) and owned a XL350 Honda - and me F100!

[Aiolos]

Beer was 54 cents a jug. For $10 on a Friday evening, a young lad in Palmerston North could get liquored, swap a crate and procure three pieces of fish and chips.

30 years later, one has no knowledge of the relative costs of any of those items, or indeed whether they still exist outside of the provinces (apart from the fish and chips). Is it still possible to buy beer by the jug and to swap crates?

$30 for a crate.

[scumdog]

$30 for a crate.

$24.95 if you shop around.

30+ years ago it was $1.95 for six big bottles of Bavarian Bitter...

[Disco Dan]

30 years ago? Criky.. I wasnt even swimming around in a testicle then!

[Steam]

30 years ago I was pretty obsessed with sucking breasts.
Not much has changed, except whose breasts I am interested in sucking.
These days it tends to be more first-year uni student breasts, and less my mum's.

Is it still possible to buy beer by the jug and to swap crates?

Hitcher! I am shocked! You must reclaim your solid Kiwi-bloke heritage! Go to your local bottle shop (no NOT that one down the way that sells only wine and fancy spirits) or blue-collar pub and re-educate yourself.
Sheesh, outta touch council PR flacks, I dunno.

[terbang]

I was 18, learning to fly on an apprentices wage. Therefore I was broke, single and, having sold my toys, riding an old XL250 that was barely road legal. I was living in the back of a Toyota and couldn't even afford the fish, chips and beer. A great year though...

[Big Dave]

30 years ago? Criky.. I wasnt even swimming around in a testicle then!

Ironic that disco was in it's demise then.
friday nights, late at the Seabreeze Hotel.

[terbang]

Thank god it was in its demise. Remember that disco duck song? (Cringe)

[vifferman]

1978? Met the girl who was to be my wife then - it was the anniversary of that meeting just a few days ago, and it's her birthday today!
Bike? I'd had to sell it, as I'd run out of money (second year as a university student). Had a 1957 Morris Minor (Horris), painted British Racing Green. With a non-racing paintbrush. It had one of those old-fashioned batteries covered with tarry stuff on the sides (bituminous goop?) As unlike the previous owners I didn't have a battery charger to charge it nightly, if I used the headlights I had to crank start or push start it - the latter 'skateboard style' (open the door, paddle with the right foot, drop it into second, and away). Wrote it off later that year, by driving it into the back of a tractor at 2:30am one morning. (No, I wasn't pissed - the tractor had no lights on and was parked on the road).
I listened to all kinds of stuff back then - everything except disco. Allman Brothers, Van Morrison, Eagles, Talking Heads, The Blockheads, The Pretenders, The Cure, The Clash, Bowie, Neil Young, Peter Frampton, Ramones, ELO, blah blah blah.

[scumdog]

1978? I listened to all kinds of stuff back then - everything except disco. Allman Brothers, Van Morrison, Eagles, Talking Heads, The Blockheads, The Pretenders, The Cure, The Clash, Bowie, Neil Young, Peter Frampton, Ramones, ELO, blah blah blah.

Man, your car was oolllddd ... and your music taste was so new!!

I was still stuck in the Radio With Pictures days - and that was if I wanted 'modern' music.

[PrincessBandit]

Wow, '78 i was in fifth form and used to tape songs off American Top 40 onto my folks old reel to reel tape recorder! I was really into ELO back then and Queen, but must admit Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick was pretty cool. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.