1968

[EasyEd]

Hey All,

1968 - EasyEd was in the eighth grade - Johnny Cash had sung at Folsom Prison, Steppenwolf was Born to be Wild, The Beatles were all about Hey Jude, Otis Redding was sittin on the dock of the bay, Dionne Warwick was tryin to find the Way to San Jose, and the BeeGees were trying to get a message to you. EasyEd had been smitten and this was the song to memorialize it...

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At least until high school started a year later. :d

Anybody else remember the 8th grade?

-Ed-

[Kiwikat]

8th grade? Sure!

Attacked Iraq. Then "mission accomplished!" (...)
Space Shuttle Columbia

Pwned Algebra class


As far as the music...
Music today (and for the last 15-20 years) is simply awful.

[TARPSBird]

Sure, I remember 8th grade - 1962. Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon was checking out the rides at Palisades Park, Mary Wells was The One Who Really Loves You, Shelly Fabares had a thing for Johnny Angel, and Brian Hyland had to say good-bye for the summer but...

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[cheezyflier]

1968 i don't remember, mostly because i was 3. 8th grade i do remember, because of tracy and jessica and tarin. in fact, i still talk to a few of my friends from those days

[txnetcop]

I had a four-man band in high school. We played their 1967 hit Let's Live For Today as an opener at the school dances. All four of us joined the US Army and went through basic and AIT together. Only two came out alive. The Grasshoppers Four...I am the soul surviving member now! They were great guys and we had a lot of fun-would you believe drug-free? True!
Ted

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[Cazzie]

Yeah, also the year that changed me as an American. Assasinations of RFK and MLK, the infamous Democratic Convention in Herr Daley city, getting out of my Jr. year at VT and entering my Sr. year. Thoughts of military service after graduation ( entered Nany in late 69), distancing myself from many old friends that went the other way. POT! Yeah, can't forget pot, smoked it for the first time in October 67 when a bud brought some Thai Stick back from Nam.

Music: not much of a Beatles fan, but I did like Sgt, Peppers, though that was 67. I was a folkie, a protester you might say. I have always had folk music roots from bluegrass on up. I hated government and the uber-rich then as much as I despise them now. Some things never change, I guess in another life I was a Marxist!

Caz

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[txnetcop]

Cazzie I never met a successful Marxist...they all like luxuries of one kind or another when subjected to them, ie Red China and the old USSR...but let's stick to the topic Ed had in mind before this thread turns into a brawl and jmig has to close it.
Ted

[Cazzie]

Topic at hand is 1968 Ted, I wasn't waxing political to my mind's eye. Just recalling events and how things were for me way back then. Song was recorded in 1973, but written and first done by Tom Paxton in 1968. I may have been a protester to the war, but I wore the uniform and served nonetheless.

Caz

[txnetcop]

No problem Cazzie I wasn't really referring to your recollections I was worried about who else might cause a ruckus! We don't need any problems in newshawks it has been polite for a change. LOL
Ted

[Rami]

I remember too!

It was the Fall of 1991 through the spring of 1992. I got heavily into "grunge," (plaid shirts, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Alice 'n' Chains, the whole bit) and thought Kurt Cobain was god. I also got into Metallica's "Black" album.

Major events?

I witnessed the dissolvement of the Soviet Union.

The first Gulf War.

The allowing of North Korea into the United Nations. (think they regret that now...hehe?)

Leningrad being restored to Saint Petersburg. (had to go out and get a new map...darn!)

Bill Clinton ran for president.

Anita Hill accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.

Free elections in Poland.

The Oakland Hills wildfire that was so devastating to that city.

Magic Johnson announced he had HIV (He was and still is one of my favorite basketball players)

The Minnesota Twins beat the Atlanta Braves in an epic seven-game World Series.

The UN Security Council took the first step toward Yugoslavian peace-keeping operations.

Pan American Airways is no more.

Freddy Mercury, one of the greatest rock vocalists of all time, died of AIDS-related complications.

George Bush Sr. threw up into the lap of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyzawa.

In Super Bowl XXVI, my Buffalo Bills lost again, this time to the Washington Redskins.

The European Union was founded, and EuroDisney is opened. (Kind of a double whammy if you ask me...)

The 1992 Winter Olympics were held at Albertville, France.

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer got lift in prison, and so did John Gotti.

Microsoft releases Windows 3.1!

The four Police officers who attacked Rodney King were acquitted, sparking the 1992 LA riots.

Johnny Carson retires after nearly 30 years hosting "The Tonight Show."

Amy Fisher shot Joey Buttafuoco, and Dan Quayle criticizes Murphy Brown. (In June, Quayle would infamously correct the girl at the spelling bee in Trenton, NJ, insisting that potato ends with an "e")

How's that for memory lane?

[txnetcop]

I'm impressed Rami!!!! LOL
Ted

[safn1949]

1968,I was also in 8th grade.That's the year I started wearing glasses,now trifocals.I was also on the football team that year.The only time I tried a season of sports,lets just say I'm not very graceful on my feet.:d

[Bjoern]

No mention of those who "saved 1968"? A weak performance, guys! ;P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlV2YtCUnpg
(Nearly the best series ever.)

Attacked Iraq.

I was all like "Woooooooo, WAR!!!!!"

Changed my mind a bit since then though.

As far as the music...

Further Seems Forever - How To Start A Fire
AFI - Sing The Sorrow
Anberlin - Blueprints For The Black Market
NOFX - The War On Errorism
Deftones - Deftones
Blackmail - Friend Or Foe
Finger Eleven - Finger Eleven
Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo Of Bliss
Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
Billy Talent - I (!!!!!!!!!!)
Muse - Absolution (!!!!!!)
Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 (!!!!!)
Static-X - Shadow Zone
Anathema - A Natural Desaster
Oceansize - Effloresce (One of the best albums of all time. OF ALL TIME!)
Thursday - War All The Time (!!!!!)

Come on...it was a brilliant year for music!

2003 got me into heavier, modern, alternative guitar music for good.

Although my first concert on my own (with innocent 17) was Bon Jovi in june or july 2003 or so.

Anybody else remember the 8th grade?

Let's see, err...

- Milennium
- My first own PC (AMD K6/2 300Mhz, 64Mb Ram, ATI Rage II Pro)
- Bought Falcon 4.0 for 60 DM, read the manual during a class road trip (with 14...lol)
- Developed the hots for Lena, never got the courage for asking her out though
- Got teased and mobbed by others which made school slightly hellish
- Spent summer holidays in mediterranean France (got ruined a bit though because my grandfather died during that)
- Started playing CounterStrike (take *that*, n00bs!)
- Got internet thanks to ISDN (woooo, 8 KBytes/Sec!)