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.

rock-and-roll

  • ROCK STAR STYLE

    Marc Bolan THAT ROCK AND ROLL LOOK PART I David Johansen and Sly Stone.  Icons.  News of their recent passing has lit a fire under me to get going on this piece. I’m merging several different ideas here; fashion and music, jeans and cigarettes, and some other randomness. If you find yourself reading my nonsense, Read more

  • Let’s go back to 1979. Lately, for some reason I’ve been completely taken with the song Candy-O, which surprisingly was never released as a single. I’ve spent a good amount of time watching different live versions of The Cars perform this song. If you’ve read my previous work, or watched my YouTube channel, you know Read more

  • 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

  • And the year I graduated from high school. I followed a thread on Twitter (I still can’t call it X) started by @PreetBharara in which he posed the question “What was the best song of 1984?”. Impossible to choose.  I have been meaning to write about the music of 1984 for a while now in 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