Having Trouble Selling Your Product? Naked Hippie Chicks Work Everytime

It’s true. If it wasn’t for Ace Combs, we wouldn’t be able to rock the Fu Manchu ‘tache, cover our Bristols with nothing but hair, enjoy our four foot long combover or… Wait… There’s no way Foxy Brown used that comb to frizz out her afro. It would take her all day and hurt like a mofo! What were they thinking?

Listen Foxy, forget Ace Combs, and those hippies to your right. They’re no good to you. They don’t know you like I know you. You need to get your bad self one of these:

You’re damn right.

Barack Obama – 1979

Here’s a fun, late disco-era yearbook picture of Illinois Senator and 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama, taken in 1979. Nice wing collar, nice white suit, nice tight fro.

See? Even future politicians were cooler in 70s.

It’s That Shirt

As a fan of the funky jazz techno group, I was chuffed to find this, the That Shirt commercial from 1971, along with others from that time, as sampled in the Brainwashed This Way/Zombie/That Shirt track from Meat Beat Manifesto. All a little before my time, but they’re a good indicator of what my experience of growing up in the 70s was like. Richard Burton growling about shirts, DJ Jimmy Saville telling us to Clunk-Click every trip, and sexy secretaries in round-the-clock tights. And who could resist wearing a tie that comes in both terylene and crimplene?

Ah yes, the brown 70s of my youth. Just wanted to remind you all why I’m more fond of the California truckin’ 70s than the real one I actually lived through. Shudder!