I am a complete and total fraud...

[sidewinder]

One girlfriend in 1976 couldn't believe I didn't even know who Thin Lizzy was!

Wow ! They were 'omnipresent' back then. :rsmile:

[Big Beat Steve]

Reading this thread and bieng of roughly the same age bracket (born in 1960) as quite a few around here when it come to awareness of 70s pop music, I wonder what I am to make of this thread?

Do I have to feel guilty of having been a total outsider back then because I took only a very passing interest in the pop music of the day and otherwise was in the same camp as Ted O'Reilly (the details, histories and trivia of rock music that came AFTER the end of REAL rock'n'roll music in the early 60s were of little interest to me as got into jazz early on and otherwise was/am only interested in the music of the rockabilly era, i.e. music "before my times" in every respect)

or - what might be worse - do I have to feel like a total fraud today because for all I know about jazz and jazz-related music (and I'd claim it is a lot) it is boards like this that make me realize how much I still DON'T know about this music compared to others?

And going by that yardstick, how many "frauds" would there be around here anyway so aren't a lot of us in good company anyway? :D

BTW: WTF were the Starland/Starlight Vocal Band??

[Jazzmoose]

BTW: WTF were the Starland/Starlight Vocal Band??

You don't want to know!

[sidewinder]

BTW: WTF were the Starland/Starlight Vocal Band??

You don't want to know!

Damn. I'd previously managed to erase this band from main brain store for 25+ years - now thanks to this thread I have the goddam tune pounding away in my head 24/7

Edited September 15, 2008 by sidewinder

[Jazzmoose]

...or- what might be worse - do I have to feel like a total fraud today because for all I know about jazz and jazz-related music (and I'd claim it is a lot) it is boards like this that make me realize how much I still DON'T know about this music compared to others?

You know, while I always thought of my 'discovering jazz' as an adult as a drawback, but there is that: I'll never have that "deflated pompous windbag" feeling with jazz...I just automatically assume anyone who's into jazz over 25 knows far more about it than I do!

[papsrus]

Hah! You amuse me with your trivial little worries. I'm still the low score on this IQ test. ... ... The fact that I'm apparently a few points above the average for all the morons who've ever taken it is no solace, and the whole debacle remains a public humiliation from which I'll recover only slowly over time ... or until someone has the guts to admit they got a lower score.

Jesus, you're still moping around over that? Okay, here....3 questions to boost your score 2 points:

1) Dick & Jane play with a dog named :

a) SACD b) Spot c) E. Digby Baltzell

2) George Patton is buried in:

a) Luxembourg b) Luxembourg c) Luxembourg

3) The topless dancers featured at the start of a James Bond film were at:

a) A Dunkin Donuts in Butte, Montana b) The 'Bottoms Up' Club in Hong Kong c) Thursday evening reading at The Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore.

Well, it's a shitty score, but it's my shitty score, so I'll keep it. Wouldn't want to ... you know ... fix the numbers, or anything.