Back To The 70's

[sally bogna mathay]

Yeah, pare! AQUALUNG! CROSS-EYED MARY! Great group, that....

aqualung is one of my all-time favorite albums. ditto with led zep 4. steely dan's aja, and jimmy hendrix's are you experienced. it's sad we (and the younger generation) can't listen to any of their songs on radio. they don't know what they're missing. keep on rockin'!!! question, 'tol, yung bang maskara album ng juan de la cruz may cd na?

[storm]

kasabayan nya nuon sina Margaret Court, Virginia Wade....then came Chris Evert.

The 70's was the time of the 3 great Australian tennis players - John Newcombe, Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. After them came the era of Bjorn Borg, Ilie Nastase, Stan Smith...great players all!

The third great Australian player from the 70s was a woman. Evonne Goolagong-Cawley. She won the Wimbledon in 1971.

[storm]

5. Sunkist - in a pyramidal shape packaging (tetra pack na ngayon)

That pyramidal shape is what makes it a tetra-pack.

[sally bogna mathay]

more on tennis in the 70s. nastase and mcenroe were great touch tennis players. they never stayed rooted to the baseline, like most of today's players who just try to outhit each other. the two could mix their game; they could hit line winners in one game and shift to drop shots and lobs in the next, keeping their opponent confused. ngayon kasi, the likes of coria and safin, and even sampras and agassi in their prime, bira lang ng bira at nagihintay ka magkamali. walang finesse, it's all about power. mcenroe and nastase also had charisma despite their tempers. in fact, i read na mcenroe saying he used his anger against linesmen and cameramen to fuel his desire to play better. he also admits having "experimented" with social drugs (read: he also smokes dope, like many in my generation). today, only sina kuerten, moya and a few others have a sense of humor. i also enjoyed watching guillermo vilas. di ba kay connors na uso yung unang nike with the sky blue colored swish logo? some trivia: gerulaitis never won a match against borg, borg never won a us open, mcenroe never won the french open, connors never won the aussie open, but all won at wimbledon.

[storm]

I could still remember how I had to save just to buy the FILA shirt worn by Borg which cost around P300 then, double the price of a lacoste shirt. Pero ganda ng fit, talagang additional pogi points.

[storm]

You're not from the 70's if you haven't seen an easy rider bike in real life.

[jt2003]

You're not from the 70's if you haven't seen an easy rider bike in real life.

Pareng storm, yun ba yung gamit ng Hell's Angels? Yung parang naksandal ang nakasakay?

[Anaheim]

That pyramidal shape is what makes it a tetra-pack.

ok, what I meant was the sunkist pyramidal shaped tetrapack is now a rectangular shaped tetrapack.

[jologsparin]

Martiallaw memories: isa lang ang dyaryo, Daily Express and all the news were favorable to the Marcos administration, curfew at 12 mn., the main newscast was Newswatch ("the news that is not slanted") with Harry Gasser.

[storm]

Pareng storm, yun ba yung gamit ng Hell's Angels? Yung parang naksandal ang nakasakay?

In a way yes. But to be more specific, I'm referring to the easy rider bicycle. Uso yun nung 70s.

[bods1000]

yup, bobby has a great collection. he can get you almost anything. i did not know may shop na rin pala si greg (eto ba si greg tangkad?). mostly rock ang collection niya. kay manny ko nabili yung unang album ng earth, wind and fire. ronald used to be the partner of bobby. the two probably have the most extensive collection of lps in rp.

now I remember Ronald - he was this tall thin guy who hangs around a lot in Bobby's store. Haven't seen him in a long while. I'm not sure if it was Greg's store - baka tambay din lang siya duon pero when I'm there sya nag-aalok sa akin ng plaka. Yup he's the tall mestizo guy with prematurely graying hair. He's actually the brother of the actress Barbara Perez. Sabi ni Bob, sometimes get-together pa din sila ni Greg. Si Manny naman yan yung kinaiinisan nila kasi mayabang. He had this store Skidrow - remember that?

[bods1000]

aqualung is one of my all-time favorite albums. ditto with led zep 4. steely dan's aja, and jimmy hendrix's are you experienced. it's sad we (and the younger generation) can't listen to any of their songs on radio. they don't know what they're missing. keep on rockin'!!! question, 'tol, yung bang maskara album ng juan de la cruz may cd na?

I love all of Steely Dan's albums - ginawa ko ngang member title yun isang song nila eh and my very first avatar here was that of Donald Fagen hahaha. Yeah it's sad that nowhere on radio now can you hear music like that kaya kailangan kumpleto na lang yung mga CD natin at plaka ng mga yun.

Dunno if Mascara is available on CD. But I saw an LP of that in Bobby's store a few months back and it has become so expensive - naging collector's item na - kahit wasak na yung cover! Madaming naghahanap dun ng mga 70's pinoy rock kaya kung meron kayo you can sell it to them.

[bods1000]

The third great Australian player from the 70s was a woman. Evonne Goolagong-Cawley. She won the Wimbledon in 1971.

yeah Evonne Goolagong! How can I forget that player! There were a lot of great players then....

[bods1000]

In a way yes. But to be more specific, I'm referring to the easy rider bicycle. Uso yun nung 70s.

I think these were the bikes ridden by Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper in their cult 70's film EASY RIDER....

[jt2003]

In a way yes. But to be more specific, I'm referring to the easy rider bicycle. Uso yun nung 70s.

I wish I could remember that, pareng storm But during the 70s, I was really crazy about bikes. One of my happiest moments was getting a racer bike as a gift from my grandmother. I followed the Tour of Luzon news religiously. Samson Etrata was my favorite. In my neighborhood, we would race around a couple of blocks. I was always the last to start because I had the racer. Handicap ba. But those were great times. Except for the occasional semplangs! Aray!