/\ nice idea Bop old buddy
I loved More Songs About Buildings and Food, and Fear of Music, and Crosseyed and Painless and Once in a Lifetime ..... saw them in the preppiest imaginable places too, on each of those three Eno-era tours ....
saw them one more time too, on the Speaking In Tongues tour, good but quite not the same inspired level as the '78-'80 Eno years .....
also remember great parties fueled by Genius of Love when it was brand-new, that lick was devastating ....
but: just like David Byrne himself, the preppies' choice during this time and the preceding decade was
the Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, Skull & Roses, Garcia, Europe '72, Wake of the Flood, Mars Hotel, Franklin's Tower, Reflections
and bunches of live shows on Maxell UD XLII cassettes and TDK too if the Maxells weren't available
I could name some names but just remember Heavy Tweed Jacket's old site, he'd actually post Dead YouTube links at the end of his articles and rhapsodize about certain live shows
we listened to the Dead, the Stones, Marley, Zappa, Allmans, Dylan, solo Jerry, J. J. Cale, Clapton, and more Dead
(I personally also listened massively to P-Funk and Neil Young then and now ....)
it was the groovy art students at our schools that were listening to Bowie, Eno, Talking Heads, Clash, Ramones, B-52's .....
but by a long shot the standard-issue Late '70s preps listened the most to the Grateful Dead
if you have any doubt about this ask Trey what people were listening to at Taft and why he started out playing Dead covers
/\ good to know Beebs, good to know!
I'm old enough to have been to a few Dead shows in the 90s
It was always my impression that 80s college preps dug the Dead ... bear stickers on beemers etc
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A+, Ox, very much welcome here and I would say very much at home as well... You rock the Wallabees really well, I think you're the only one here who has them... Excellent work, as always you do a great job making these clothes look organic and casual, never like a costume (speaking of Halloween...)
Jealous of your weather as well...
Ox, I saw the coolest vintage Abercrombie & Fitch puffy down coat yesterday at the thrift store. Olive green, size small. Not sure the age, but probably '70s, no later than the 1980s. Made in USA. I instantly thought of you. I would have definitely grabbed it but upon inspection I found a quarter-size hole in the back with white feathers coming out.
Worried Man, Sounds like an awesome jacket. I appreciate you thinking of me!
Ok, true. 1977 they started with mocs... probably more of an 80s phenomenon than 70s?
But I read somewhere they produced mocs and yellow boots for Bean, which they sold under their own brand name. The Abington shoe company was there since the early 60s but started their own shoe business in 1972 with the Timberland yellow boot model. Do you know about that?
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Very popular with the Paninari, that and the six inches boot
My main reason for not liking timberland is that the logo typically appears on the shoe, and the fact my dad lives in the 3 eye boat shoe you posted.. it's already bad enough I wear a barn coat style jacket, his other staple wardrobe classic. .
Anyway nice bit from the article...
"In the early 1970's, in an effort to cut costs, the Swartzes switched to injection molding, a technique that chemically bonds the rubber sole to the leather without stitching. In the process, they discovered that without the stitching holes, the shoes were more waterproof. They then persuaded their father, who had retired, to come back and design a big leather waterproof boot.
''It was dumb luck, we didn't plan it,'' recalled Sidney Swartz. But they had stumbled into the beginning of a major fashion trend - the survival look of the 1970's, replete with corduroy pants, flannel shirts, down parkas and rugged boots.
The Swartz brothers set up a subsidiary to make the new boots in 1973, and searched for a brand name. A neighbor suggested the name Timberland and designed the emblem they still use, a circle with a multi-branched tree.
The next step marked a revolution. They had been selling their boots in Army-Navy stores (as well as to L. L. Bean, which marketed them under the L. L. Bean name) and advertising occasionally in hunting and outdoor magazines. But then Leonard Kanzer, president of Marvin & Leonard Advertising in Boston, ''told us we were doing everything wrong,'' Herman Swartz said.
He told them to market their boot as a fashion item for affluent urban backpackers. Advertise it in the New Yorker, he urged. Sell it in Saks and Bloomingdale's. Raise the price above the competition's - and use the money to pay for advertising."
/\ I do have a specific recollection that only one of my uber-preppy buddies freshman year had the yellowish classic Timberland round-toed boot, whereas everybody had Bean blucher mocs, canvas Sperry deck sneakers, Jack Purcells, and N!ke canvas tennis sneakers with rubber toe bumper and blue swoosh a la McEnroe .....
of course people had Top-Siders and Bean camp mocs too .....
but I never had a pair of Timberlands, they were not to my recollection sold at the Co-Op, and the hippie leathery/boot shop next to the record shop I basically hung out at every day was a Red Wing dealer, so that was what I got .......
but there was no dissing of Timberland that was going on back then ... unlike say the insults that we heaped on two-tone Top-Siders .........
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