Raise your hands who can remember sitting in line back in the 70s? Oh, yeah. That’s when my Dad bought his one and only Toyota. I drove the transmission off it… literally. I was use to V8’s man, a small 4-cylinder was NOT cutting it with me.
I have put up a nice new Store page full of C2E2 stuff. I also have download versions of the comics now. Each volume holds 100 comics set to a nice rocking soundtrack. These cool little Flash players are executable files in a ZIP file for easy download. Help support the comic in any way you can and get the C2E2 stuff while it’s still around.
“Borrowed Time” from Styx’ 1979 “Cornerstone” was about the only song I could tolerate on the album. It has this long, slow building intro (typical of Styx) that kicks ass one the guitars jump in including once speaker blowing drum riff. Crank it loud and annoy your office mates.
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I kinda do, and Bud didn’t quite get what he proclaimed……………
Me thinks this ironic. It is. It is.
I some odd way I feel responsible Bud’s solar powered dream has not yet come to fruition.
Aw, well solar power can’t help you light a bonfire with fireworks in your backyard. Mmmmmm…big flames.
Cmon…Babe was so good that Tommy Shaw still plays it in the Styx set even though he kicked Dennis out of the band.
Wooden Nickle Records… the label Styx was on when Babe came out. And was almost a non hit…
Byron… Undun is getting ready to start their 2010 season… with a new CD coming out at some point this year. Still writing but hope to hit the recording studio in a few months or so. When are you gonna come down and catch a show???
Pax!
Ziggy
I remember that so well…. and the optimism that we’d soon be off oil dependence. In the meantime, Gasahol was gonna tide us over…. of was that Cornahol?
Nope. Cars still mostly run on gas, and also don’t yet fly.
We’ve had to queue for petrol over here a few times in my past.
And I well remember eeking out the last drops in the tank to get to the next petrol station with stock!
It’s amazing how economically you can drive when you have to. And I had an old Mk1 Ford Cortina 1500 with twin carbs and very wide tyres! 😀 (Boy racer anyone? LOL) Very little in the way of info on how well you were doing with the fuel, and the gauge was notoriously inaccurate, measuring anything from empty to 1/4 full when it got low! 🙁
“Babe” was one of my juke-box fave’s at a local pub we used to frequent when I was a tadpole! 😉 Along with Kansas and “Wayward Son” which is an all-time classic in my eyes.
Ah, memories. Nostalgia just ain’t what it used to be!
😉
Bob
Actually, I have a vague recollection of that.
Sadly, however, after Katrina, I remember being on some pretty huge lines as well… I guess that’d happen when one gas station was charging 20 cents less per gallon than the others.
There were lines. And people sitting on the hoods/trunks of their cars, and socializing. It was like the gas station had become this surreal hangout.
And I wondered . . was it like this in the 1970s?
Some of us were laughing during the so-called shortage. As in ‘ha ha ha, I’ve got a VW Beetle that runs forever on a fiver’ 😛
Some of us also remember an earlier – and far better – song of the same title 😛 😛 😛
I spent years as a VW Beetle owner (half-dozen of ’em, sometimes two at once. Why two at once? Um, because I had this sweet little genius mechanic who specialised in seriously hotting up VW engines, e.g turning a 1600 VW bus block into a high-compression 1750 Beetle engine that went like the clappers – but of course in Hellay’s dry dusty climate, and what with being a foot-to-the-floor petrolhead, each engine tendded to last only 12-18 months. So I always had a spare for those times when the engine blew somewhere out in nowheresville…I’d just ring Jake up from the nearest phone, say ‘the car ___ is at ___, send us a tow truck, there’s a lad’, go home and drive the other one until a new engine happened…)
Our next family car is going to be a Smart. Took me a while to convince Other Half, but he’s all for it now.
I Still have a 1974 Beetle, and sadly the 92 octane non-oxy premium it runs on takes a lot more than a fiver to run for an afternoon let alone all day……….
“Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’, into the future…”
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~remembers when petrol was well under 50p/gallon~
Yeah, rub it in…………..
During most of the 70’s gas crisis, I drove a ’61 Rambler American that my friends used to rib me unmercifully about – a little white cracker box of a car that would do 60 only going downhill & with a strong tail wind – definitely not a chick magnet… It got 30+ mpg, however, so when my buds with their big block muscle cars were broke & out of gas, guess who they called for a ride to school?
Even tho Styx was/is one of my all time favorite bands, I’m with Byron about Babe – I still hit the search button if it comes on the station I’m listening to. Ironically about Babe – it was Shaw & JY who convinced Dennis DeYoung to release it as he didn’t want to originally, & it became their only #1 hit.
Ford Fiesta 1300 Sport. Early run (end of the ’70s vintage), with the twin mini-Webers. Got 45mpg on the open road, even with a more-than-full load of flightcased keyboards, PA, amps, drums…
Just sayin’ 🙂
taffffffffffffffffffffffffffkan!
long time… 😀 (mainly because i’ve been awol…) …
you know, its insane … over here, about a decade ago, people were laughing it up, dumping their 40+mpg 3-cylinder geo metro’s (the fiesta of the 90’s) in piles and buying up big-ass 10-gallons-per-mile-slurping land yacht-stylee meatwagons like ford exploders in droves …
and now, because of the economy being down the toilet and all, those same people are paying EXORBITANT prices for the same geo metro’s that they dumped, and the people selling the metros (and making an absurd profit) are laughing all the way to the bank…
makes me wish i’d bought a stockpile of geo metro’s when they could be had for a laugh and a case of beer…
hope you are well!
–dee!
Wotcha! I tend to wander off now and then too, you know 😀
I had to google on ‘geo metro’, never having heard of ’em. Cute-ish, somewhat Fiesta-looking. I HATE HATE HATE bloatmobiles in general and SUVs in particular – I think anyone buying one should be automatically taken out and shot, unless the buyer is a farmer or lives back of beyond or intends to use it for transporting a small band and their gear 🙁
Down here, bloatmobiles are scarily prevalent. Hot leaden death to the lot of them!
Hell we had dreams about solar powered flying cars in the 80’s, now all we got is hybrids. 🙁
There’s one thing that comes to mind after reading along, that seems to have come true…
If I may quote a lyric from “2000 Man” by M. Jagger & K. Richards…
“2000 Man” As re-recorded by KISS
“You know my wife still respects me, even though I really mis-use her, I am having an affair with a random COMPUTER”
Keep rockin’ & keep ’em coming, Byron and we’ll see you at the top!
Best regards,
Kevin, Command Sergeant Major
The 1977 CORPS
Never forgave ace for leaving the last line out …….
So, Bud’s shirt is white today…
Maybe in the future there’ll be time machines, so he can go back in time and give himself a ride!
Okay, that was stupid.