The SFB

Random musings from a Gen X life lived on the edge… of nothing except Lake Erie. 70s and 80s pop culture and music.

1970s

  • WHAT A SHOW! It captured a moment in time and the fun this band was having at the start of their amazing run. I just re-read for the second time the 1997 Goldmine article The Cars: Shake it  Up, Drive It Out by Steve Roeser.  I had read parts of it several months ago but Read more

  • Two things from the 70s I’m really into right now; the word foxy which I shall promptly add to my lexicon, and the shag haircut. Let’s talk  Rock and Roll and Hair.  They go together like peanut butter and jelly. From the Beatles’ mop tops, Elvis and Buddy Holly’s DAs,  Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey’s Read more

  • Do you ever feel like you really belong in a different generation? What if you’re 58 when you finally realize what you should have done with your life? I’ve  always had a feeling that I was born too late and took the wrong path.  As I have written before, I never really knew what I Read more

  • Beautiful Benjamin Orr

    The reel that started it all…. OK, things are gonna get weird here, so beware. I think I’m having a mid-life crisis  (can 58 be mid-life?). Either that or I am having a psychotic episode.  Am I bored? Do I need a distraction? Am I feeling lost/sad because of fairly recent deaths in my immediate Read more