Looks like one of those silly portrait studio effects they did back in the ’70s & ’80s of having two people in a double exposure in a single shot. You had to be there…
More sketching as I get my muscle-memory back for drawing. It’s like going back to college and taking Drawing 101 over and over until your hand goes “Oh, hey! I remember how to do this!” I’m getting closer to home, as Grand Funk Railroad said.
The Kings came out of nowhere in 1980 with their debut album and every FM station in Chicagoland played “This Beat Goes On/Switchin’ To Glide” in heavy rotation. Many years later, their first (and only I do believe) album finally came out on CD and they added a few new tunes as well, and today’s song being one of those new songs. “Unstoppable” is about that certain woman a few of us have known who just wants to keep going. Made out with a couple of those in my college years and you only stopped necking to pee or come up for air. Lorraine is one of those unstoppable women and in the past she’s been shown to best any man she meets. So, here’s to those unstoppable women, like Lorraine.
Beat goes on and Switching to glide, than and The Cars first album, told me the 70s were over. I had a short cassettes for my boombox that just looped beat goes on and Switching to glide. I was 15 and annoyed as hell that the 70’s were over just as I was getting old enough to really enjoy them.
Having been 18 years old in 1975 when I started college, I got to enjoy the best half of the 1970s getting drunk on my ass every weekend while attempting to take 18 credit hours of college courses per semester. The year I took off from college (1977/78) was one of the best and worst years for me in the 1970s. Best, because I was playing in bar bands; worst because I was living at home with my Dad after having lived away from home for 2 years while at college. But that was a minor inconvenience compared to the experiences I was enjoying.
So, yeah, I get why you were annoyed the decade was over. I tell people it was a great time to be alive. The hell that was to come once the 1980s started makes the ’70s the one truly fun decade with the ’50s being a close second.
The 50’s would have probably been very very bad for me, but for a straight white guy they would have been a blast. Lots of good music, I’ve sung a lot of it in bars at karaoke.
Anything but Elvis. My mom dated an abusive Elvis impersonator. I saw him live, he just never clicked with me.