« First dance recital | Main | Itching for Harry »
July 4, 2005
Summer Fun - a blast from the past
I was watching Earth, Wind, & Fire on the Today show this morning and it brought back some really great memories from the late 70’s and early 80’s. At that time Funk, R&B, Motown were huge… we were into EWF, The Commodores, Parliament Funkadelic, Bootsy’s Rubber Band etc. It was great stuff for dancing and just generally boogying around, while drinking beer or (for the girls) Malt Duck (I know, I know.. but it was cheap, sweet and tastest like Kool-aid with a kick).
All this reminiscing got me thinking so I decided to unearth the stack of old concert tickets that I have saved over the years. I found one for an all-day ‘Summer Fun’ concert in 1979 that was headlined by The Jacksons (Again, I know…). This was after they quit using The Jackson 5 and right before Michael went out on his own.
Anyway, the fun thing for that day was all of the bands leading up to the headine, which we pretty much ignored at that point :) Watching George Clinton (and others in P Funk) come down to the stage in huge plastic space eggs just cannot be beat. Even back then the boy was on some serious “Adult-type” medications, hehehe
Posted by Susan at July 4, 2005 4:40 PM