What were the 80s like?

[ruthless rocco]

So jazz had it's peak in one man over one decade..?
Who was the man of rock?
Who was the man of feminism?

Armstrong played for decades dude.
Elvis, duh.
Um Caitlyn Jenner?

So you've chosen a white guy who stole rock and roll from the blacks and turned it into a white commodity, Louis Armstrong who was considered by many blacks to have had pandered to the whites to further his career rather than speaking out against injustices, and a man why transitioned into a woman.

Brilliant!

[El Kabong]

So jazz had it's peak in one man over one decade..?
Who was the man of rock?
Who was the man of feminism?

Armstrong played for decades dude.
Elvis, duh.
Um Caitlyn Jenner?

So you've chosen a white guy who stole rock and roll from the blacks and turned it into a white commodity, Louis Armstrong who was considered by many blacks to have had pandered to the whites to further his career rather than speaking out against injustices, and a man why transitioned into a woman.

Brilliant!

Your idiotic opinion on Elvis is yours to have.....by yourself


Louis Armstrong is the greatest jazz musician to have ever set foot on God's green Earth and I don't give a good God damn what anyone else says about him.


Oh you took the "Caitlyn Jenner" mention seriously....maybe you ARE as dumb as I thought

[SlimTrae]

1980s was a decade of great transition.
Electronics, technology made the greatest leaps for the average citizen.
Analog gave way to digital.
Radio for many was a.m. Mid 80s more music could be heard on f.m.

Americans IMO would lose her dominance of manufacturing to Mexico
Electronics to Asia.
Mom & Pop (family owned) were eviscerated by warehouse-type stores like Sam's Club to Walmart.
1980s IMO was the final decade of soliciting speciality stores like the butcher for meats. Groceries from a local grocer, fish from the fish market.
Medication from your neighborhood pharmacists who knew your whole family, and ailments.
Nick knack & novelty items from small chains known as five & dime stores like Ben Franklins to Woolworth's. By 1990...none of these businesses existed..at least in my home state.
It was the early 1980s ...final time the milk man would drop milk off at the door step next to the juice man's bottles.

Coca cola had glass bottles returnable 10 & 25 cents . I used to make 10 sometimes $20 on returning.
Today I hear 10 bags of aluminium cans won't get you that.

Technology from an optimistic POV- a company called Apple was quickly becoming a household name.
Record's & albums were giving way to cassettes.
Advanced technology was having a cassette deck that change sides without having to physically take the tape out, then flip it around!!!
CDs would come in that same era.

And when the walkman was introduced? A hand carried battery operated cassette deck you could put on your belt buckle while working/jogging? That shit was amazing!!!
I was the sixth grader AV aka audio visual monitor who would leave class to show movies to 1st & 2nd graders. It was a damn reel to reel tape.
By Junior high 7tg grade I saw some shit called a VHS tape. OMG!! No need to run the tape feed through the machine to the empty reel?o Sometimes the tape would jam\crinkle up, so I had to know how to splice.
Shux...not with this small plastic case with a mechanism toforward .. And..get this: Reverse!!!D
History shows microwave ovens for sale in the 70s... Most people didn't start buying them until late 70s early 80s.
Having a microwave oven in 1982...we felt like we were literally on the brink of Star Trek come to life. Then my cousin mid 80s...showed me he bought called a pager, aww shit!!! Next year he had...a (mobile) cell phone. So small..it could fit in a shoe box. Oh yeah...the 80s was a time of transition!!!

[SlimTrae]

Side note on Elvis ...AND advice to the young blood here.


I can kick myself ...if I could. My grandfather told his grandkids on a juke joint in the big town of Tupelo. He lived in Okolona Ms.

On several occasions a young white kid would peer through a side \back window where blues player threw down. The kid named Elvis.

When he moved forward to Milwaukee, he and my grandmother use to babysit a kid to help pay for their one room in the back. He became a great jazz singer named Al Jareau.

Today my grandfather's memory is pretty much history. I wish I could've tape recorded his stories.

Young guys . value your elders. Never know whose paths they may have crossed.