Yes, without a doubt the '70s should be kept alive!  

It was a full-force menu of musical tastes, mixed with ideological illogics: hippies & punks; war & peace; polyester & leather; me & we; Bradys & Blondie & yesterday and forever. We saw Elvis, Jimi, Jim & Janis for the last time & Debbie, Joey, Sid, & Elvis C. for the first.  

Who the hell knew what we were doing then? It was like a last hurrah & a  twisted waltz, fluffed up in a swirl of  marshmellow lights and sticky floors. It was the lost and dazed generation that played fake war with their big brothers' real guns from The War, starting out in 1970 with a medallion of peace and love 'round their neck singing 'bout God love & rock 'n' roll & ending the decade clutching a spiked upside down cross singing "I am  the Anti-Christ !". Squeeky didn't mean clean. Watergate wasn't just a hotel. Nixon was really the one. Saturday night came alive. Ayds was a diet candy. And punks were anti-cool cool like James Dean--except the girls carried switchblades and the boys didn't cry.  

There was a space for everybody. It was a decade in search of itself. No more follow-the-leader. A hyper-view of what was yet to come and a super-fast wind-down of what was just done. I don't think we slept one second 'cause we still got the scars to prove it. We knew that was it, we were done and served ! We didn't want to leave it because we knew if we somehow survived there would be hell to pay for all the excess. 

Now,our nose drips, our feet ache, there's no Top 40 radio, and Y2K means we never intended to last this long anyway ! We are purged, packaged and sold in box sets in Cyberspace ! K-Tel meets 2001 at last ! 

Yeah, I want the '70s alive so I can see what went by me in a flash just one more time. This time, I'm asking questions!  

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