What were you doing in 1973?

[Steve DeTar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_2rUZWGdfI

[ski]

I was smokin weed at 20 bucks for a four finger bag and listening to that.  I was into dirt bikes then also and in my second year high school.

[70 Dustpan]

Cool. I have Smoke on the water on 8-track. By the way I was only 3 in 73.

[thefastestdodge]

I was watching cartoons.

[NYrr496]

I was 7 and I was probably already building model cars. I was always buzzing around on my Honda 50.

[instrument]

I was still attached to a tet tay... Guess nothings changed

[elliskev2]

I was 11 and loved watching all the muscle cars cruising up n down the streets.   

[wild383]

The last year of high school, working nights in my dads machine shop and beating up on the locals in street races with my '69 Fairlane 428 cobra jet. Ahh! Those where the days.

[elliskev2]

The last year of high school, working nights in my dads machine shop and beating up on the locals in street races with my '69 Fairlane 428 cobra jet. Ahh! Those where the days.

I have some older buddies that tell stories of how they raced around with roadrunners and 340 Dusters....and wrecked them up 

[nothingbutdarts]

Driving my 69 340 Swinger to High School, racing with my buddy on the way home in his 383 Road Runner. The small block ruled in those days against that there 383!

[Steve DeTar]

Ski, those were the days, you must have listened to this also
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1764960675

[440dstr]

born 09/04/1973 cool song still

[urchinhead]

I was -8 years old...

[Ryan (Strange246)]

I was floating through the cosmos, a free radical in the universe, free to roam for yet another 2 years until I was born.    One of the best tunes ever written though! Have this in my truck on cd at all times 

Ryan

[ski]

Ski, those were the days, you must have listened to this also
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1764960675

Steve. Yup, the Doobies were there too.  Funny thing is I listened to my two older kids music all through their lives and ejoyed it. I still listen to new music and love it.  When I really want to be young again I listen to the Led Zeppelin.   When I want to get motivated I listen to old Green day.

[DaBigNuttedMan]

Rockin to Deep Purple how bout a little later Rainbow like "kill the king"  Ritchie Blackmore    kicks ass 73 I was 13 jr high school, but because my brother and sister are 6 +7 years older I had been rockin for years lumbo gold and like aaa wow man    The doobies Bassist has 2 corvettes and a yellow challenger he was a customer in 94. drove him home once to Granada hills ca.

[thebankerstoy]

I graduated from High school in 1973 and was eating lots of Big Mac's and triple ripple ice cream cones at Mickey D's.  My favorite movies that year were American Graffiti and Aloha Bobby & Rose that had my favorite actor Paul LeMat in them. I was planning on going to California with a buddy of mine to try and get a progressive rock / jazz band  similar to Blood, Sweat & Tears together and get into the music business. I was driving a light yellow with black interior 1967 Mustang fastback with a 427 dual carbed Shelby big block engine, 4 speed and a Ford 9" rear end with 4.11 gears. I was into jazz, heavy metal, rock and just about anything but country music. Never did go to CA or get the band together because of medical issues, so I ended up in the banking trade for 32 years until retiring back in 2004. I'm still into fast cars and all kinds of music and my son is now trying to get a band together and get into the music business, so I guess that it's all been good! 

Richard

[69 GTS Clonvertible]

I was 4 and already helping my dad work on cars, I used to get his tools for him while he was under the car changing oil or something. My mom and dad were still in there prime and listened to alot of Led Zep, Deep Purple, Rolling Stones, etc. It's to bad my Dad was killed in Feb. of 1974 while riding his motorcycle on the San Bernadino freeway.

[ski]

I was planning on going to California with a buddy of mine to try and get a progressive rock / jazz band  similar to Blood, Sweat & Tears together and get into the music business.! 

Richard

Jazz Richard. Yes I was into that in the early 80's when fusion Jazz was in.  I ended up liking the old masters such as Grover Washington and Oscar Peterson. (sp)  We all said we were going to get out of town when we were kids.  I did and never looked back until a few years ago.  My short life has moved too quickly and I'm aiming what's left of it to spend time back where I always wanted to leave and dearly miss now. 

[thebankerstoy]

I was planning on going to California with a buddy of mine to try and get a progressive rock / jazz band  similar to Blood, Sweat & Tears together and get into the music business.! 

Richard

Jazz Richard. Yes I was into that in the early 80's when fusion Jazz was in.  I ended up liking the old masters such as Grover Washington and Oscar Peterson. (sp)  We all said we were going to get out of town when we were kids.  I did and never looked back until a few years ago.  My short life has moved too quickly and I'm aiming what's left of it to spend time back where I always wanted to leave and dearly miss now. 

   It is really amazing how a person's perspective on life changes over their life.  Things that were SO important at age 20, don't seem to be nearly as important at age 50. At age 20, YOU have the WORLD by the balls, at age 50, the WORLD has YOU by the balls and you just start thinking about what's left to do that's REALLY important before you run out of time......

Richard

[DaBigNuttedMan]

I was planning on going to California with a buddy of mine to try and get a progressive rock / jazz band  similar to Blood, Sweat & Tears together and get into the music business.! 

Richard

Jazz Richard. Yes I was into that in the early 80's when fusion Jazz was in.  I ended up liking the old masters such as Grover Washington and Oscar Peterson. (sp)  We all said we were going to get out of town when we were kids.  I did and never looked back until a few years ago.  My short life has moved too quickly and I'm aiming what's left of it to spend time back where I always wanted to leave and dearly miss now. 

   It is really amazing how a person's perspective on life changes over their life.  Things that were SO important at age 20, don't seem to be nearly as important at age 50. At age 20, YOU have the WORLD by the balls, at age 50, the WORLD has YOU by the balls and you just start thinking about what's left to do that's REALLY important before you run out of time......

Richard

SO do it Richard, regardless of what happens in life, dieing will be the easiest part of it. I really like the way you put that.

[Pro Street dart]

I was smokin weed at 20 bucks for a four finger bag and listening to that.  I was into dirt bikes then also and in my second year high school.

I can remember a four-finger ounce of weed for $40.

I have that album on 8 Track. Great song.

Here is another GREAT vid from '76. Emerson Lake & Palmer at Olympic Stadium. Fanfare for the common man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGuDqZO_G2E

[Bullit_68]

I was 9 years old i remember playing street hockey alot back then and riding my old orange bike with the bananna seat .I also remember my mom and dad taking me to the show to see American Graffiti i still love that movie.Ya they were really good times.

[Brad4406]

I was watching cartoons.

Me too, I was only 4.  I was most likely watching the Superfriends and all the classic commercials like "I'm only a bill" and "Conjunction Junction".

[chryco]

Very cool  Steve thanks !  I was just starting High School and watching all the cool musclecars of that era wishing I could own or at least get to drive one someday . The street racing here was wild back then !
     Chryco
   

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[71 demon child]

I was 1.Guess i was runn'n around doin the same thing i do now, eat'n and crapp'n.Now i can do both on my own.

[BrianT]

I was 11 years old, but had an older brother.  We wore that Machine Head album out!  I can still hear it popping and crackling.

4 finger bags for $20 that were full of brown Mexican ditch weed.  You used to have to smoke so much you didn't know if you were getting high or just asphyxiated from the lack of oxygen.  Ah, those were the days.

[diesel2005]

I'm not sure but i think it was my last year of high school. runnin roadrunners down Ft lauderdale beach. Praying I didn't get drafted (not a good time). And trying to screw all the girls I Fla, good bad or ugly i didnt care, Mater of fact I still don't But I always seemed to do beter with the ugly ones.

[68Valiant]

I was jumping out of perfectly good airplanes for Uncle Sam.
It was a strange kind of time for me.
Wasn't quite sure if the world would survive.
Never done a drug in my life...
Got high on life.
22years 10 months later, I retired from the Army.
LIFE is good.

Oh yea the world did survive.......

68Valiant

[Bakaruda]

 
I will never tell.

[eldubb440]

got my first black eye........a day or two before class pictures 

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[PinkE]

In March of 73?  Let me see if I can remember....Hummmmm...I was 22 ...I know I was drivin around in my 69 1/2 Cougar Eliminator, I'd been married 2 years, we were building a new garage at the house we bought so the engine assembly could move out of my kitchen and into a place of it's own, He was just getting into building a 67 cuda for the strip, that's when the racing started, then he moved onto his 71 Duster SS/IA car.  I was working as a hair stylist back then, one thing I remember was guys from the airbase where the EX worked were coming to me to get perms, tight ones so they could have Afro hair styles cause afro's as long as they didn't lay on your neck were accepted as military haircuts, the guys were trying to buck the military's rules on proper hair length... ...Whatelse?  Listened to a lot of Credence Clearwater, the Stones, Jethro Tull....etc....I was making Sandcast Candles and leather Peace signs along with some Macrame wall art and selling them at craft shows as a hobby... ...Never smoked weed until I was in my 30's, just wasn't into that scene.  Lots of people were overdosing on drugs, and fleeing to Canada to avoid the draft...Boy, those were some memorable times....