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jamesg1213

paulo
£3.50 was about a week's wages back then though, so that would be the equivalent of about £1000 now and don't forget that you'd need to get some fish and chips afterwards and have enough left for the bus ride home.

 
My first weekly wage packet in 1979 was about £80. Riches beyond my wildest dreams..3 pints of scrumpy at 27p a go, and I was hammered for less than a quid.

£80 ??? What was your first job...The Queen ?
 
Mine was quite a few years after that and way less than that by the time the taxman had dipped his fingers in. In fact, from my actual first wage packet I got precisely nothing as my car had broken down a few days before and the repair bill which I paid on the way home when I collected it left me with £10. Arriving home, I was then informed by my mum that now that I was working it was time to start paying my way and so starting now I would have to pay £10 a week towards my keep.
 
D'oh !

£80 before tax, yes. 'Drawing office' (just the dusty upstairs room with a drawing board really) in a signmaking company.
 
8 mile round trip on me bike, 7.30am - 5pm Monday to Thursday, finished at 1.30pm Fridays. Stuck it for 8 years. Every day seemed like a week.
 
Tell that to kids today...

Yea Baby! 1979...
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Saad_and_the_Next
 
James Lance
 

jamesg1213

paulo

jamesg1213

paulo
£3.50 was about a week's wages back then though, so that would be the equivalent of about £1000 now and don't forget that you'd need to get some fish and chips afterwards and have enough left for the bus ride home.

 
My first weekly wage packet in 1979 was about £80. Riches beyond my wildest dreams..3 pints of scrumpy at 27p a go, and I was hammered for less than a quid.

£80 ??? What was your first job...The Queen ?
 
Mine was quite a few years after that and way less than that by the time the taxman had dipped his fingers in. In fact, from my actual first wage packet I got precisely nothing as my car had broken down a few days before and the repair bill which I paid on the way home when I collected it left me with £10. Arriving home, I was then informed by my mum that now that I was working it was time to start paying my way and so starting now I would have to pay £10 a week towards my keep.
 
D'oh !

£80 before tax, yes. 'Drawing office' (just the dusty upstairs room with a drawing board really) in a signmaking company.
 
8 mile round trip on me bike, 7.30am - 5pm Monday to Thursday, finished at 1.30pm Fridays. Stuck it for 8 years. Every day seemed like a week.
 
Tell that to kids today...

Damn nippers don't know they're born do they !
 
Wouldn't want their mortgages though

Reading Paul Stanley's biography, it was amazing to read the names of all the bands who opened for them and who would become such giants - Rush, Uriah Heep, BOC, Cheap Trick, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, AC/DC...
 
Combining any two of these on the same bill certainly makes for a huge show.
 
Man, the 70s must have been awesome. Too bad I was just a kid and hardly ever heard anything but Elvis during those years.

In 76/77 I was spending Saturday afternoons at the funky fashion boutique my mother worked at, getting my thrills by sticking my head up the skirts of the mannequins. I think this is circa 1977 or so - I lived in this window display, and the mannequins were definitely my girlfriends at the time. I remember that very clearly. There was also a big stack of Cosmopolitan magazines which I'd flick through when I thought nobody was looking, and strange feelings which I couldn't yet explain would stir within me. In retrospect it was probably a bad idea taking me to work, she should have just sprung for a sitter. 
 

yeah, I remember some of the 70s. I was 17 in 1977 when I started hitting the rock shows. My cherry got picked by Led Zep, and then all the wheels fell off (long hair, weed, shag carpet on the dash of my car). It was such a loose and peaceful scene back then, just a lite sprinkle of security guards (who all seemed pretty stoned), and the shows weren't so scripted as they are now. And no bras. That was nice.

You were one of those kids too, uh Sharke?
 
I can't remember going through what Freud calls the latent period. I was obsessed with girls - and older woman - from as far as I can remember.

jamesg1213

 
1976...£3.50 ($6) per day. What a line up.

From decades long gone by, how many of us played (in a band, live) cover songs from the 1970s?
 
Coincidentally, two of the bands; Status Quo and Bad Company
 

Played covers from a band in the 70's.
I played in a covers band in the 70's
Always just behind the wave and never riding it.

Great nostalgia song for us British
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsW0FuDMiH4