/\  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!

Last edited by oxford cloth button down (2017-10-29 11:22:22)

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.

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?

Last edited by Leer R. (2017-11-22 08:26:01)

/\  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 .........

Last edited by Leer R. (2017-11-22 11:35:43)