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Andreas

Andreas

mjp said:
40 years ago I did this thing with these guys.
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Nice picture, and who are you?
At the age of 16 you are not responsible for your actions. Nobody is. Adolescence, hormones, strange things are going on in your brain. I've been unsuccessfully trying to forget what I was doing when I was sixteen. The pic above painfully reminds me of something: I labeled the name of a band on my satchel. Yeah, the name was KISS. One of the names.
I'm not willing to remember the rest.
 
mjp

mjp

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Well, if you wrote KISS on your bag, then I don't have to tell you who Ace and Gene are. I'm the one standing between them, wearing a leather jacket and a surly expression. And giant satin bellbottoms. Which I thought went well with the bomber jacket at the time, but I know now that a cropped jacket would have been prettier, and made my legs look longer. Win/win.

I don't exactly remain a KISS fan today, but I have no regrets about being one then. I think any rock and roll obsessed 14 year old would have had the same reaction as I did to Hotter Than Hell when it showed up in the bins. How could you not love that? It was the work of the devil all the way, which was exactly what I was in search of.
 
Johannes

Johannes

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mjp said:
40 years ago I did this thing with these guys. Today someone posted it on Facebook, because Facebook never forgets!

I put it here in shits and giggles to preemptively mock myself before one of you can do it. See how that works? It's important to keep the upper hand at all times. But for the 16 year old me, this was pretty much the pinnacle of awesomeness, no matter how corny it may seem now. Rock on, bitches!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=910036039117754
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This is fucking awesome.
 
d gray

d gray

tried to do his best but could not
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mjp said:
I put it here in shits and giggles to preemptively mock myself before one of you can do it.
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that's great! not mockable at all. such a great time capsule of that era. the quality of the photo alone is so retro and cool. not to mention the clothes and mandatory "feathered" centerparted hair. every single person i knew - if they were cool - looked like that.

maybe cause i was going to all those shows at the same time. we used to draw cartoons of the bands on bedsheets and wait by the backstage door and try to meet them and get autographs. there's a photo somewhere of us backstage with rick nielson from that same time.

loved that!
 
mjp

mjp

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d gray said:
we used to draw cartoons of the bands on bedsheets and wait by the backstage door and try to meet them and get autographs. there's a photo somewhere of us backstage with rick nielson from that same time.
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Yeah, but do you still have any of those bedsheets? ;)

The guys from the back of Alive! still have the poster they made:

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d gray

d gray

tried to do his best but could not
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that's hilarious! talk about low-tech DIY.

i wonder which dude has dibs on it going in their "Kiss Kasket" with them...

i think our bedsheet posters actually do still exist somewhere in my friends moms musty basement.
 
mjp

mjp

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So I posted a little...joke, I guess you'd call it, on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/755880349427728384

And Scientology London replied ("I don't see it."). I thought, "Wow, cool, Scientology London - imagine how many people will see that!"

Then I looked at how many followers Scientology London has: 421. Ha ha.

I guess that's not surprising since they discourage their supplicants from using the Internet. Still.
 
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