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Stumbled across two astounding books at the library that were annual installments in some of rockological talent directory and guide -- most of it is listings of bands and their managers, agencies, ticketers, promoters, instrument suppliers, etc. It's the total antithesis to the 'Book Your Own Tour' lifestyle, and while most of these images are too big to post on the thread, I happily provide you with some links:

'Do you know why these people are aurally excited?'

Studio goof in sweater = stud for D'Addario guitars

Disco technology comes of age!

Drumsets!

KC (of the Sunshine Band) is very fly

LASERMATION!

The dude playing these early electronic drums is my new nerdcore hero

I can't help but guess that the ultimate noise dude show would sorta look like this (the drummer and the saxophonist are my faves)

THE PIMPBUS

Sure, Truck-a-dub-tub is a fine company, but it can't touch...

VIVA LA SPA!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

these are amazing, ned!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

KC's chest hair looks GRATE.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

these are great. love "lasermation."

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

no wait, i just saw the pimpbus.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It really only scratches the surface. I'll scan and post some more next week -- they're ad images that would so rarely be seen and/or be aimed at such a specific market that they become all the more weird and alien.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the truck-a-dub-tub ad looks like the moosewood cookbook.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

when i saw those i thought "i hope jody clicks on this thread"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

:-)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

omg we need the Pimpbus for the ILX road trip

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yes we do

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The pimpbus is the one that I stared at for awhile.

I think my parents knew the couple in the hot tub. They stopped coming around circa. 1981.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"knew"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

C'mon, I'm still blocking.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm bumping this up 'cause I wanna.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 November 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

that electronic drum is my new nerdcore hero.
filter knobs on the side of the heads, i want to play this thing with my bare hands

― ke[hm, Saturday, 27 November 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm obliged to mention that the Aphex ad uses the same font as all the Spectrum/Experimental Audio Research albums.

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 28 November 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

These are good. Some of them great even, however I have to mention that "Gourmet's Choice - A Menu Tour Of Denver's Distinctive Restaurants" from 1978 outdoes some of these for pure wretched excess.

Case in point: the front and back covers.

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 28 November 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

And another example that may sound familiar

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 28 November 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Wretched excess? Rick Moranis isn't even eating a real salad!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 November 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

But mmmmmm...menus with the Hobo font. That says "late seventies" more effectively than coke 'n' polyester does, lemme tell ya.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 November 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the corpselike look of the woman on the cover...

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Scans of period ads from High Times magazine would go nicely here, too.

― briania (briania), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the salad on the back cover looks awful! i know it's denver in the late '70s, but they could at least try to make the food look appetizing.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I'm a freak because these ads all look perfectly normal to me. This is what I get for growing up in the 70s and 80s.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i know, it's a shame the rest of us were all born in 1995.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Were you born in 1964?

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what? The tone of that really pisses me off. There was nothing in my post that suggested that I thought I was the oldest or the only.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I'm a freak because these ads all look perfectly normal to me. This is what I get for growing up in the 70s and 80s.

So you're either implying that we're all freaks or that we don't know who Louise Lasser is.

Is there really a drink on that Gator Magoon menu that mixes rum with sour cream?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

heeheeee twentysomethings are dumm

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I said I FEEL A FREAK. What is the MATTER with you people?

PS to Jody-fuck off, you cunt

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 28 November 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Or does the FREAK FEEL YOU?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, finally, some more here:

Boutwell/Nicoua gets trippy, man

COUNTRY PORN STUD

The majesty of ELO, part 1 and part 2

HEAVY ORGAN

KNAC -- yeah heavy metal! Oh wait...

Pink Lady -- the one and only

Play the Summit!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Great pics, Ned.

Everytime I see that ELO cover, I immediately think of this:

http://www.bigredtoybox.com/articles/simon.jpg

They don't look exactly the same, but my mind has been making that connection since 1978.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Those ads are great!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I still think the Pimpbus is the ad of ads but they have some competition.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, if you want I can scan and send you TONS of ads like that.

I have shitloads of old sound and video mags from the 70s around and they are filled with those (and oddly they all have soft core ads in the back)

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

and you've been holding out on us all this time?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ts: boutwell/niocua vs

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f108/f10815w9hct.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned you have made my feverish, dreary work day bearable. Muchas gracias.

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 2 December 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

God these take me back. I had a roomate circa 1977-78 whose prize possesion was a king-size waterbed. He hauled it upstairs to the second-floor bedroom of our dinky off-campus house and did whatever it was you were supposed to do on those things. Jiggle. Until our landlord came by one day and pointed out that the bed was so heavy that the floor was on the verge of collapsing. Guess he should've put it in the back of a van or pickup truck. Ah, the late 70s.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread needs more Tommy Seebach

― TITS.JPG (ex machina), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, if you want I can scan and send you TONS of ads like that.

I DO BELIEVE YOU SHOULD. Thanks!

Ned you have made my feverish, dreary work day bearable. Muchas gracias.

Yay! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how the Summit logo looks like a 69.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 2 December 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

How annoyed am I that Chris V aka B.B. Bingo has not posted on this thread yet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/cmvenuti/discotechnology.jpg

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 2 December 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't worry baby thats just the jets.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 2 December 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Beautiful and throbbing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 December 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Does that say "Dildo's" or am I reading that wrong?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the magic of Big Baby Bingo's photoshopping (compare to the original).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Reviving because it's been a few years, and because I finally put all these ads on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedraggett/sets/72157625135588507/

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 October 2010 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

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