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https://www.facebook.com/1283406756/posts/10227528950431062/?d=n A celebration of the music of our youth. DON'T YOU forget about the 80's! WHO CAN IT BE NOW?
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A chance to reunite with old friends and make new friends. Our event is open to any and all, especially those who graduated high school between the late 70's and early 90's. LET'S DANCE with an annual event in an inviting little village along the Lower Niagara River. We bring together a variety of bands to GET INTO THE GROOVE and play the music we loved to listen to on cassette tapes in our boom b

oxes, along with local musicians and reunited basement bands. Our goals are to keep the spirit of the 80's ALIVE AND KICKING, to have a totally epic and really, really fun weekend, and to raise money. Proceeds of this event have been used to establish a scholarship fund for students furthering their music education. We strive to generate enough funding to sustain an annual event, continue our scholarship fund and support music programs in Niagara county. JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH

Since 2012, we have brought The Spoons, Images in Vogue, Forgotten Rebels, Stan Ridgway, The Toasters and The English Beat to the beautiful historic village of Lewiston, NY. Each and every show has been fantastic. Everyone has a terrific weekend, enjoying not just the music, but the company of friends, the incredible local food, and other area attractions. (The Forgotten Rebels enjoyed our renowned Lewiston Art Festival and the famous Haystack hot dog at The Silo; The English Beat had a wet and wild ride aboard the Niagara Jet Adventures jet-boat ride!) Folks are planning their vacations to come back in time for this event. We've brought old friends back "home" and attracted new friends from all over the country - across the globe, even! At the end of our first year we found we had unexpectedly brought in some money. Proceeds were donated to our Alumni Association and Music Boosters. Since then, our committee has worked to set up a Spirit of the Eighties Scholarship Fund, and we now consider our event a fundraiser. SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS

The Spirit of the Eighties is organized by a handful of dedicated volunteers who were in junior and senior high school in the 1980's. We are amateur concert promoters, event coordinators, publicists and 80's Pop Culture Enthusiasts. We grew up on the US-Canadian border just a few miles north of Niagara Falls. We loved the music of our youth, listening to 102.1 CFNY The Spirit of Radio out of Toronto and later, 97.7 Hitz FM out of Saint Catherines. We saw live music weekly, piling into vans and great big cars from the 70's, traveling all over western New York, southern Ontario, eastern Ohio and northern Pennsylvania. We really LOVED the music. We called the radio stations, befriended the deejays, hung out by tour buses and waited for autographs. We had the t-shirts, the buttons, the stickers on our cars. We had our checkered shoes, skinny ties, safety pins and copious amounts of Dippity-Do. We WERE the Spirit of the Eighties! When planning future events, first we talk about the bands we haven't heard from in a while, who we'd love to see come out of the woodwork - bands like The Fixx, The Box, Platinum Blonde. We also discuss bands some of us have forgotten about like The Pursuit of Happiness and Living Color, and bands we know will draw a crowd like 54-40 and The Violent Femmes. We start looking into where they are now and what they've been doing. We typically look for a band that plays venues with a capacity between 300 - 1200. These are the bands that might be in our price range. It also helps if they going to be within a few hundred miles of WNY and they are already have the documents needed to work in the US, but this isn't always a deal-breaker. Stan Ridgway rarely plays anywhere in the east but he flew all the way from California especially for our event last year. LIVIN ON A PRAYER

We need supporters! Like and follow us on Facebook. Share our website. Tells your friends about us. Know any 80's music fans? Know anyone who likes the music we like? Know anyone who might want to invest in our project? Introduce us!!! We need volunteers! We do all of this ourselves - even the dirty work. We plan the event which means searching for investors, backers and sponsors. We promote it by hanging posters, contacting media, networking. We attend other area events wearing our t-shirt and handing out flyers. We hold smaller scale fundraiser parties in the months before the event. We prepare the park, set up tents and tables and pound fence posts. We man the stations and work all night. We pick up bottles and take out the trash. Then we show up in the morning and tear it all down. We do it because we love it and believe in it. If you do to, perhaps you'd like to help. We need backers! Having some money left over after our first event got us thinking that this could be a wonderful fundraiser, but as our event has grown, so have our production costs. We work really hard to raise the money needed to put on our event and we're proud to say we have been able to at least break even each year and we have gotten some donors to help us keep the scholarship alive. We still need to raise money to get the next event rolling. If you love the music of the 80's.....
if you want to keep the Spirit of the 80's alive.....
if you want to support live music in a small town.....
if you would like to see our scholarship fund grow.....
please consider backing our project. MONEY FOR NOTHING

Actually, money for all this stuff:
Band fees & costs - We'd love to get Echo & the Bunnymen or The Cure, but that's going to take a LOT of backing! We try to hire bands based on our projected crowd. Light & Sound Engineer - Our guy is good and he's reasonable, but the time, skill and equipment needed to put on such an event does come with a price tag. Stage, tents, tables, fence & potties - We try to keep these costs as low as possible, but they do add up. Advertising, posters, printing - The greatest show on earth isn't going to get a crowd if no one knows about it. Tickets - We could make you print your own "tickets" on full sheets of paper, but how could we claim to keep the spirit of the 80's alive if we didn't give you a ticket stub?!

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This week in 1981, the U2 LP “Boy” debuted on the UK Albums Chart at #71 (August 29)

The raw Irish combo chose experienced producer Steve Lillywhite to guide them through the process of coming up with their first full-length LP.
Lillywhite had previously produced albums for the likes of Peter Gabriel, the Psychedelic Furs and XTC.

After visiting Ireland to attend a concert of theirs at a small school hall, Lillywhite was convinced to come on board, thinking, "Oh my God, there's something about this".

The band found Lillywhite to be very encouraging and creative, and he subsequently produced their next two brilliant albums “October” and “War”.

Bono called him "such a breath of fresh air", while guitarist the Edge said he "had a great way of pulling the best out of everybody".

The group's rhythm section Adam Clayton (bass) and Larry Mullen Jr. (drums) struggled to keep time at that stage in their career, forcing Lillywhite to spend extensive amounts of time at night splicing tape of the multi-track recordings to create drum loops that would be in time.
Lillywhite also recorded several of Clayton’s bass parts in order to teach Clayton the bassline that he ultimately wanted to be played, which resulted in Clayton having to record numerous overdubs.

Bono was displeased with the vocal performances that he gave in the studio when wearing headphones, and as a result, he changed his approach to sing into a handheld microphone in the control room while listening to playback of the music at high volume.

After about six takes of each song, Lillywhite would edit together a composite vocal track of the best parts, after which Bono would listen back and replicate the results by singing another six takes.

Many people still prefer this version of U2 to the polished megaband that they morphed into, and songs from the album such as the single “I Will Follow” are still favourites.

In 2017, Newsweek called it "a U2 album without the ego" and the "preaching or presumptions of saving the world" that plagued them in the future.

The album peaked at #12 in Canada, #13 in Ireland and New Zealand, #29 in the Netherlands, #35 in Australia, #36 in Italy, #38 in Sweden, #52 in the UK, and #63 in the US.

The model boy on the cover Peter Rowen, photographer, Hugo McGuiness, and the sleeve designer, Steve Averill (a friend of bass player Adam Clayton), went on to do several more U2 album covers.

In 2003, Boy was ranked 417th on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

In 2020, Rolling Stone included “Boy” in their "80 Greatest albums of 1980" list.

Click on the link below to watch “I Will Follow”:

https://youtu.be/-sLzV00gNUo

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I used to tale late night Doctor Demento late at nights

On This Day (Earache My Eye (Song) Cheech and Chong (July 1974)

https://youtu.be/VJW67QN24SA - (Video)
https://youtu.be/9bwEy8BQBfk - (Earache My Eye) Live 1978
https://youtu.be/XqyegIAGlmk - (Earache My Eye) (Audio)

"Earache My Eye" is a comedy routine and song by Cheech and Chong from their 1974 album Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album.

The skit is about a teenager (played by Tommy Chong) who wakes up and listens to a song by "Alice Bowie" (Cheech Marin), while his father (also played by Marin) yells at him to get ready for school.

The song, unnamed in the skit, was released as a single under the name "Earache My Eye" and gained surprising popularity, reaching the top 10 on the charts in the United States and Canada.

It has since been covered by many artists most notably Widespread Panic, Korn and Soundgarden.

The song had its music written by Gaye Delorme and was performed by session musicians including Delorme on guitar and Airto Moreira on drums. It is best known for its guitar riff.

History;
The routine first appeared on Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album (1974). It was later included on the greatest hits collections Cheech & Chong's Greatest Hit (1981) and Where There's Smoke There's Cheech & Chong, the latter a double-CD anthology from 2002.

Cheech and Chong lip sync to the recording (with Chong behind the drum kit) in their first movie Up in Smoke (1978).

The song has been featured repeatedly on the Dr. Demento radio show, and it is included on the Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection.

According to Tommy Chong's autobiography, the famous guitar riff is played by Gaye Delorme, who also composed the music for the song.

Additionally, Chong states that drums on the song are played by famed international percussionist Airto Moreira.

The song was released as a single in 1974 and reached #9 on the Billboard charts and #4 in Canada.

In Chicago, it topped the charts at the powerful and influential Top 40 radio station WLS (AM), holding the #1 position for one week in September 1974, in the middle of an eleven-week run on the station's top 40 airplay charts.

The song also reached the top spot for one week on the West Coast's biggest Top 40 radio station, Los Angeles' KHJ-AM.

The B-side, "Turn That Thing Down", features the remainder of the musical track from the point of Marin's monologue about his wealth, without the actual dialogue, complete to its conclusion.

It is possible to assemble the full-length version of the song by editing the two sections together.

The version featured on Cheech & Chong's Greatest Hit fades out before reaching the skit as it appears on the single and the Wedding Album LP.

Once the song hit its peak on the charts, radio station managers and owners, especially the AM stations, pulled the song off the air following multiple complaints.

Phone calls and angry letters came from parents, teachers, psychologists, clergy, principals, school administrators and counselors.

Complaints stated that this song mostly appealed to junkies, dropouts, drug addicts and drunkards as well as students playing hooky from class, giving them a bad model for their behavior.

Those who opposed the track threatened to boycott the stations unless the song was permanently withdrawn.

"Oldies" station AM 1110 KRLA banned the track, and some radio managers threatened to fire any disc jockey who played it.

Sponsors threatened to pull their advertisements unless the song was completely removed from playlists.

The AM stations threatened to fire any radio station employees who accepted requests or discussed the track on the air.

http://www.cheechandchong.com/

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On this day in 1982, The Psychedelic Furs released “Love My Way” - the lead single from their third studio album “Forever Now”

Also one of the greatest songs to come out of the ‘80s bar none.

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40 years ago today, Sire Records released the Depeche Mode compilation “People Are People”

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June 30, 1992, Epic Soundtrax releases 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙨: 𝙊𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠. Featuring contributions from such artists as Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Screaming Trees, and The Smashing Pumpkins, the album earns 2x platinum certification in the United States.

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Damned
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A celebration of the music of our youth. A chance to reunite with old friends and make new friends. Our event is open to any and all, especially those who graduated high school between the late 70's and early 90's.

DON'T YOU forget about the 80's! LET'S DANCE with an annual event in an inviting little village along the Lower Niagara River. We bring together a variety of bands to GET INTO THE GROOVE and play the music we loved to listen to on cassette tapes in our boom boxes, along with local musicians and reunited basement bands. Our goals are to keep the spirit of the 80's ALIVE AND KICKING, to have a totally epic and really, really fun weekend, and to raise money. Proceeds of this event have been used to establish a scholarship fund for students furthering their music education. We strive to generate enough funding to sustain an annual event, continue our scholarship fund and support music programs in Niagara county. JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH Since 2012, we have brought The Spoons, Images in Vogue, Forgotten Rebels, Stan Ridgway, The Toasters and The English Beat to the beautiful historic village of Lewiston, NY. Each and every show has been fantastic. Everyone has a terrific weekend, enjoying not just the music, but the company of friends, the incredible local food, and other area attractions. (The Forgotten Rebels enjoyed our renowned Lewiston Art Festival and the famous Haystack hot dog at The Silo; The English Beat had a wet and wild ride aboard the Niagara Jet Adventures jet-boat ride!) Folks are planning their vacations to come back in time for this event. We've brought old friends back "home" and attracted new friends from all over the country - across the globe, even! At the end of our first year we found we had unexpectedly brought in some money. Proceeds were donated to our Alumni Association and Music Boosters. Since then, our committee has worked to set up a Spirit of the Eighties Scholarship Fund, and we now consider our event a fundraiser. SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS The Spirit of the Eighties is organized by a handful of dedicated volunteers who were in junior and senior high school in the 1980's. We are amateur concert promoters, event coordinators, publicists and 80's Pop Culture Enthusiasts. We grew up on the US-Canadian border just a few miles north of Niagara Falls. We loved the music of our youth, listening to 102.1 CFNY The Spirit of Radio out of Toronto and later, 97.7 Hitz FM out of Saint Catherines. We saw live music weekly, piling into vans and great big cars from the 70's, traveling all over western New York, southern Ontario, eastern Ohio and northern Pennsylvania. We really LOVED the music. We called the radio stations, befriended the deejays, hung out by tour buses and waited for autographs. We had the t-shirts, the buttons, the stickers on our cars. We had our checkered shoes, skinny ties, safety pins and copious amounts of Dippity-Do. We WERE the Spirit of the Eighties! WHO CAN IT BE NOW? When planning future events, first we talk about the bands we haven't heard from in a while, who we'd love to see come out of the woodwork - bands like The Fixx, The Box, Platinum Blonde. We also discuss bands some of us have forgotten about like The Pursuit of Happiness and Living Color, and bands we know will draw a crowd like 54-40 and The Violent Femmes. We start looking into where they are now and what they've been doing. We typically look for a band that plays venues with a capacity between 300 - 1200. These are the bands that might be in our price range. It also helps if they going to be within a few hundred miles of WNY and they are already have the documents needed to work in the US, but this isn't always a deal-breaker. Stan Ridgway rarely plays anywhere in the east but he flew all the way from California especially for our event last year. LIVIN ON A PRAYER We need supporters! Like and follow us on Facebook. Share our website. Tells your friends about us. Know any 80's music fans? Know anyone who likes the music we like? Know anyone who might want to invest in our project? Introduce us!!! We need volunteers! We do all of this ourselves - even the dirty work. We plan the event which means searching for investors, backers and sponsors. We promote it by hanging posters, contacting media, networking. We attend other area events wearing our t-shirt and handing out flyers. We hold smaller scale fundraiser parties in the months before the event. We prepare the park, set up tents and tables and pound fence posts. We man the stations and work all night. We pick up bottles and take out the trash. Then we show up in the morning and tear it all down. We do it because we love it and believe in it. If you do to, perhaps you'd like to help. We need backers! Having some money left over after our first event got us thinking that this could be a wonderful fundraiser, but as our event has grown, so have our production costs. We work really hard to raise the money needed to put on our event and we're proud to say we have been able to at least break even each year and we have gotten some donors to help us keep the scholarship alive. We still need to raise money to get the next event rolling. If you love the music of the 80's..... if you want to keep the Spirit of the 80's alive..... if you want to support live music in a small town..... if you would like to see our scholarship fund grow..... please consider backing our project. MONEY FOR NOTHING Actually, money for all this stuff: Band fees & costs - We'd love to get Echo & the Bunnymen or The Cure, but that's going to take a LOT of backing! We try to hire bands based on our projected crowd. Light & Sound Engineer - Our guy is good and he's reasonable, but the time, skill and equipment needed to put on such an event does come with a price tag. Stage, tents, tables, fence & potties - We try to keep these costs as low as possible, but they do add up. Advertising, posters, printing - The greatest show on earth isn't going to get a crowd if no one knows about it. Tickets - We could make you print your own "tickets" on full sheets of paper, but how could we claim to keep the spirit of the 80's alive if we didn't give you a ticket stub?!