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Marion B Bastle

Oh Michelle, The Cowsills??? Really? When rummaging thru old gradeschool  momentos years ago my welcoming postcard to the Cowsills Fan Club. Maybe around 3rd or 4th grade age? Very young I liked HR Puffinstuff and had a crush on Jack Wilde. Boy time flies. I had a magical "Ozzie and Harriet", "Father Knows Best"  childhood, so it disappoints me that my niave belief in humanity that  every kid back then had a perfect life too is Dashed. Awww

Marion B Bastle

gosh I should really use spell check when I type quickly at work LOL so disregard the errors folks.

Robert Cole

Michelle... REALLY? The Cowsills?

Sorry, I was never a teeny-bopper. I went directly from nursery rhymes to Frank Zappa. 
Although, I do admit to being a closet Monkees fan.
No Captain and Toenail (Muskrat Love) for me.

When I lived out near Woodstock, NY it was nirvana for me! Used to hang out at the local FM station, WDST. Thier motto was "We'll play anything, as long as it's not Top 40's."
Was a great location for getting big talent at local clubs. Folk music was big. Used to catch Leon Redbone, Arlo Guthrie and Louden Wainwright III. And, a lot of big name musicians used to play anonomously at small local clubs to try out new material. Just look for ads like "Live. One night only. At the Chatterbox... JOHN SMITH." Used to regularly see solo Peter Frampton or Eric Clapton acoustic at small clubs.. 

Andrew Flor

You can give me this https://youtu.be/Qt_yKPNORLM?feature=shared or you can give me that https://youtu.be/k-WSbMW7BPc?feature=shared or..... https://youtu.be/pwDo0JUeKqM?feature=shared

Michelle Milkovic (Weiner)

Oh c'mon Bob... You were probably a big Bobby Sherman fan.  Here Come the Brides? Those twinkly baby-blues. SO DREAMY!  

Robert Cole

Now... THAT was a concert!
I'll bet my man Frank was never on the cover of Tiger Beat!

John Bliss

I REFUSE to mock The Cowsills. Indian Lake is a scene you should make with your little one. A song about skinny dipping and farking in the woods, something I didn't realze when I was 10 years old, and I'm sure Mommy and Daddy Cowsill didn't either. If you watched The Partridge Family -- which I didn't, though I was happy when David Cassidy posed nude for Rolling Stone -- you were a Cowsills fan. 

Zappa didn't go solo until LONG after the Cowsills ended their career, and even The Mothers of Invention didn't take off until 1968. I had room for both The Cowsills and Ruben & the Jets -- and the Stones and many more -- in my little brain. 

Bob forgets that we remember him from high school, when he was as big a dork as the rest of us. 

Michelle Milkovic (Weiner)

Oh snap John Bliss!

I will say this about music in the late 60s and 70s... it was the best and most diverse ever. I remember the first 33 I ever owned was a gift from my 7th grade bestie (Jackie Miyake), The 5th Dimension, "Wedding Bell Blues" and the first I ever bought for myself was Crosby Stills & Nash "Marrekesh Express" and "Helplessly Hoping".

Last week I toured the Class of '73 through Lane for their 50th reunion. They were the last all-male class and I went to their prom.  Like many kids in the day, after the prom, we went to the London House and heard Ramsey Lewis. That was a real epiphany for me and began a life-long love of jazz... but I still like me some Monkees and Hermans Hermits every once in a while!

I remember Chris Pagano running into Division with an album in his hands saying, "You have to listen to this... it's this song called 'Daniel' from this new guy named Elton John". 

Rock, soul, funk, jazz, glam, punk... we had it all!

Robert Cole

Robert Cole

Janet Peterson (Ingraffia)

Ok, true confessions here. I was never one of the cool kids in high school. Big surprise, I know. My 14 year old mind was madly in love with Michael Cole from the Mod Squad. Any magazine that had large pictures of him, like the one Michelle posted, got bought and proudly hung up on my bedroom wall. His eyes were the last ones I wanted to see before I drifted off to sleep. A couple years ago for Christmas, my wonderful hubby, Pete, bought me a multi season DVD set of the Mod Squad. Well we watched some episodes until we couldn't suffer anymore! I don't know how I watched them back then and even looked forward to them.

As far as music, we still have an old stereo system that plays cassettes and albums. Yellow Brick Road is one of only about 50 albums that we still have and listen to from time to time. Pete and I had duplicates of so many albums so we did a major purge before moving to Florida. I think I'll have to pull out a few and listen again. 

Love the wonderful memories this page stirs up! Thanks to all! 

Peter Ingraffia

Definitely enjoying this walk down memory lane. Like many, going to concerts was the thing we did in those years. Great memories of some great concerts. Camped out overnight at the stadium waiting for Who tickets to go on sale while my parents were out of town. Good times. Here's a fraction of the ticket stubs I still have from back then. Hard to believe that groups like the Stones, Who, Elton John, etc only cost $6 or $7.  The most expensive concert was Pink Floyd at Soldier Field. Those were way expensive at $10! 

Robert Cole

One time, when I started a new job, at a team meeting the manager asked an icebreaker... "Name the first concert you ever went to and the most recent."

My answers... "Three Dog Night and One Direction." Now, THAT raised some eyebrows from the young folks in the room! Three Dog Night was for me. And, I had recently spent Fathers Day taking my teen daughter to a One Direction concert.  Me and 14,000 screaming teen girls! I put in my earlplugs, read my paperback novel and tried to ignore the whole thing. 

Oh, and I was at that Soldier Field Pink Floyd Concert, too. Also saw ELP at Soldier Field as the headliner in an all-day rock festival. HUGE crowd. Shoulder-to-shoulder all day.

Spent years chasing Grateful Dead around. My son may be one of the few kids his age who can say he's actually BEEN to a Dead concert. When he was 18-months old I took him here in Indianapolis. Didn't care about the music, but loved the drum circles and twirly dancing! And... the Deadheads loved him! "Come here and dance with me little dude!"

John Bliss

For Bob Cole: These are some album covers (mostly recreations) I used for a play I directed which takes place in the early 80s. 

Robert Cole

John Simmers

Bob Cole -- your posts always seem to stir up something for me to share. This one is that -- I've  gotten high just one-time in my life, and that happened on July 1, 1982 -- with Jerry Garcia. 

Edward Mc Carthy

This is all very nostalgic.  And albums are coming back!  LP's, 45's.  Anyway, I'm waiting for the proliferator of prose....aka....Mr. Ortiz to weigh in here.  I imagine his grand babies jamming to the Bay City Rollers, falling asleep to Bread, Chicago and Simon and Garfunkel.

As I watch the Bears game, It is better to look away and reply to email and texts rather than accept what I am seeing on the field.  Bears vs. Vikings.   We are up in the nose bleed seats.....SE side....section 429!  Any higher up and we would need oxygen.  Nice view of the city though. 

Be well all.  Can you believe it, post pandemic and 2023 nearly done.  I still recall all the brew hah ha like it was yesterday when we hit the year 2000!  Oh, to go back 20+ years..    

Michelle Milkovic (Weiner)

For all our esoteric rock fans out there.  I was just contacted by a writer doing a biography for one of the founding fathers of American Folk and Rock looking for some background.  Bob Dylan's manager, Inventor of Peter, Paul & Mary, Janis Joplin's manager, the Band, Todd Rundgren, Woodstock, Co-Founder of the Newport Folk Festival and much more.  Albert Grossman, Lane Tech, Class of 1944!  He's the guy in the white shirt sitting in the back of the studio looking bored at the recording of a little anthem called, "Like a Rolling Stone".

And with Janis...

Maja Wiesinger (Ramirez)

 Belated thanks to Andrew and all for Medicare tips'n'clues...

Andrew Flor

You're welcome Maja. I registered online for Medicare and spoke to our insurance rep and am waiting for further notice from Medicare/SSA. It was relatively easy I must say and got a confirmation email almost immediately after signing up. Once I here back from them on approval, the next step is to call our insurance rep back to set up the supplemental insurance.

Andrew Flor

Thanks for enlightening us esoteric folk. We thrive on useful, useless information. Mindboggling to think that a Lane grad was a key player in the midst of some of the most influential rockstars of a generation but then again not. In reading more on his bio, it appears that he was a pretty ruthless, shrewd guy who made his mark on the music industry while seemingly not well liked. 

Andrew Flor

Some habits are hard to break. Got tired of the computer and decided go old school this week. 

Andrew Flor

Attention all Lane Hockey Alumni. There will be a Lane Hockey reunion at Moretti's in Edison Park on Friday November 24th @ 12 noon. $30 per person. We're looking to get at least 25 guys together so we can get our own room upstairs. Come out and have some pizza, pasta and salad. Open bar. 

Edward Mc Carthy

Congratulations to the girls of Lane Tech's flag football team.  They won the state championship today.  Well done ladies!

Now, can ya help..... da Bears?

Robert Cole

Da Bears are playing girls flag football, aren't they?