Which Decade

[carnation]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Rudey
[B]Anything before the 60's and you're just asking to die early and to die a boring life as well.

I wouldn't want to live in any other decade. I'm sorry but the 60's was just dirty. Yeah there was free love, but look at what else there was. People lived in communes, women didn't shave, showering was not a daily task, etc.

In regards to the 70's, I have two keywords for you: Disco and Polyester. I choose to pass on that bad boy.

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Huh? Back then at the SEC schools, and I attended 3, there weren't any hippies, unshaved women, unshowered people, etc.--it was just like today! Maybe they were dirty elsewhere but not there!

Same thing for disco and polyester--they may have made big splashes in the media, but I assure you that most of us were wearing mostly cotton.

[aephi alum]

The '80s

[Tom Earp]

Yes, The 60's! Is that Bad!? I have underwear than most of you!

And Your point is?

If that was the case why was I down for the mentoring Weekend and taklig to the house tonite?

If you are a concerned Alum, Get Off Of Your Butt and get back with them!

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by DeltaSigStan


What kind of jazz do you prefer? I'm more into Count Basie and Charlie Parker, plus some Buddy Rich stuff (Ever heard Channel One Suite? DAMN)

My favorite single CD is Miles Davis, Birth Of The Cool

I'm a Bop, Cool, West Coast, Hard Bop and Soul Jazz person. I'd say I like things from 1945 to 1970. That was the jazz my Dad mainly listened to.

Favorites include Miles Davis, especially with Gil Evans, Charlie Parker, Shorty Rogers, Herbie Mann (I like odd-instrument jazz like flutes, French horns and the like), Modern Jazz Quartet, Dizzy Gillespie in an orchestral context, Wes Montgomery, Bud Shank, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Oliver Nelson. I don't have Buddy Rich in my CD collection, but I like his 50s and 60s work -- and I just heard his West Side Story on www.wbgo.org out of New York. Great stuff.


I'm fortunate to have 200+plus jazz CDs, and to live in two areas where they have good jazz stations: KSDS (which stopped Web casting this year) and KKJZ, formerly KLON and Web casts at www.kkjz.org.

[DeltAlum]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by carnation
[B]

Originally posted by Rudey
Anything before the 60's and you're just asking to die early and to die a boring life as well.

I wouldn't want to live in any other decade. I'm sorry but the 60's was just dirty. Yeah there was free love, but look at what else there was. People lived in communes, women didn't shave, showering was not a daily task, etc.

In regards to the 70's, I have two keywords for you: Disco and Polyester. I choose to pass on that bad boy.

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Huh? Back then at the SEC schools, and I attended 3, there weren't any hippies, unshaved women, unshowered people, etc.--it was just like today! Maybe they were dirty elsewhere but not there!

Same thing for disco and polyester--they may have made big splashes in the media, but I assure you that most of us were wearing mostly cotton.

You talk about stereotypes and urban legends! In Ohio there were a few "hippies" on campus, but the vast majority of people were just pretty typical college students.

You're absolutely right, Carnation.

The fact is that students (not only Greeks) were much more likely to wear the equivalent "pin attire" (as it is called today) on a regular basis than the jeans and tee shirts which are the uniform of today's undergraduate on most of the campuses I visit across the country.

I suspect most of the students of the 60's would be considered "preppy" by today's standards.

As for communes, I wouldn't have known where to look for one.