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What was the best decade to go to LSU ever?

Posted on 8/9/10 at 8:52 pm
Posted by xiv
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 8:52 pm
I'm going with the 1970's. Sure, football was on its way down, and basketball hadn't really happened yet, and college baseball was years away from mattering, but....

Zeppelin.
Floyd.
Stones.
Bowie.
Elton.
Queen.
Dead.
Bruce.
Skynyrd if they didn't crash on the way.

The best concert at the PMAC while I was at LSU was the Goo Goo Dolls. Even though Johnny Reznik actually handed me his Strat from the stage at the end of the show, I'd've still preferred to see Pink Floyd rock out with an inflatable pig floating around while I tripped balls.

Damn, I was born 25 years too late.
Posted by VOR
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 8:54 pm to
I was around. It was pretty sweet. A lot of bad hair, though.
Posted by tiger81
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 8:56 pm to
Class of 77-81. Basketball was definitely " happening " during the last part of the 70's. '77 thru '79 were great years. Baseball not happening yet.
Posted by Doc Fenton
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 8:57 pm to
Gotta be the 80's. That decade was just non-stop insanity from start to finish. Bernie Moore trophies. Some of the most exciting moments in all 3 major sports. Track dominance. Dekes getting out of control. Murphy's in full effect. Chris Jackson, Tommy Hodson, Joey Belle, Ben McDonald, Jose Vargas. Tito Horford, Bobby Knight, Jimmy Swaggart, Bob Brodhead. Just insanity I tell ya...
This post was edited on 8/9/10 at 8:58 pm
Posted by VOR
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:00 pm to
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Class of 77-81. Basketball was definitely " happening " during the last part of the 70's. '77 thru '79 were great years. Baseball not happening yet.


Ethan E
Astronaut
Rudy
Wilie "The Jet"
Greg "Cookieman" Cook.

Was in the student section for almost every game.

LSU was the first team to bring "showtime" to the SEC. Spotlights, etc, when announcing the lineup.
This post was edited on 8/9/10 at 9:02 pm
Posted by xiv
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:01 pm to
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Gotta be the 80's. That decade was just non-stop insanity from start to finish. Bernie Moore trophies. Some of the most exciting moments in all 3 major sports. Track dominance. Dekes getting out of control. Murphy's in full effect. Chris Jackson, Tommy Hodson, Joey Belle, Ben McDonald, Jose Vargas. Tito Horford, Bobby Knight, Jimmy Swaggart, Bob Brodhead. Just insanity I tell ya...
Ok, fine. I'll give you that. But...

R.E.M.
U2.
Duran Duran.
Fleetwood Mac. (and not Rumours Fleetwood Mac--Tango in the Night Fleetwood Mac.)
Bon Jovi.
Def Leppard.
GNR. (ok, that one's pretty cool)

I think even Rick Springfield played the PMAC. What a huge drop off. It's as if we traded moderate-to-great athletic success at the cost of the Power of Rock. I don't think it was worth it.
Posted by Doc Fenton
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:03 pm to
Yeah, but students in the 80's had these cool things called music CDs...
Posted by VOR
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:04 pm to
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It's as if we traded moderate-to-great athletic success at the cost of the Power of Rock. I don't think it was worth it.


Stones at the PMAC were great. The first two shows of their American tour. One show in the afternoon and one at night. Keith Richards hadn't had his teeth fixed yet, was clearly loaded and his pants almost fell off at one point. Sounded great though.

They also had the giant inflatable cock that came up through a trap door for "Starfricker".
Posted by VOR
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:04 pm to
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CDs


vinyl > cd's
Posted by LSUwag
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:05 pm to
quote:

Gotta be the 80's. That decade was just non-stop insanity from start to finish. Bernie Moore trophies. Some of the most exciting moments in all 3 major sports. Track dominance. Dekes getting out of control. Murphy's in full effect. Chris Jackson, Tommy Hodson, Joey Belle, Ben McDonald, Jose Vargas. Tito Horford, Bobby Knight, Jimmy Swaggart, Bob Brodhead. Just insanity I tell ya...


80's for sure. Good times
Posted by LSUSOBEAST1
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:06 pm to
If you are talking about championships, then its either the 90s or the 2000s.

You seem to be talking about the best decade to be in college period.
Posted by Doc Fenton
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:08 pm to
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vinyl > cd's


hopeless romantic...
Posted by JaxTigah
Jackson, MS
Member since Dec 2009
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:10 pm to
For me, the 70's because I was there.

No tickets, your ID got you in.
Student section ran all the way to the 50.
Football could have been better. Basketball just getting started. Baseball, not so much.
Great concerts at the Assembly Center (no PMAC yet)
Freshmen year in the asbestos riddled stadium dorms.
Tiger Rag and "A-HA-HA-HA-HA" after the Tigers scored (then some moron started the a-hole thing and they quit playing it).

The 80's should have been pretty good. The 90's, well thank God for Skip for and Womens Track. The '00's should have been fun. Here is to the teens being the best ever!!!!

This post was edited on 8/9/10 at 9:11 pm
Posted by xiv
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:12 pm to
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Stones at the PMAC were great. The first two shows of their American tour. One show in the afternoon and one at night. Keith Richards hadn't had his teeth fixed yet, was clearly loaded and his pants almost fell off at one point. Sounded great though.

They also had the giant inflatable cock that came up through a trap door for "Starfricker".
I have the bootleg. Keith sounds like [B][U][I]shite[/I][/U][/B] when he sings "Happy." My dad was there.

Confirm this story for me: My dad says that Mick had made a habit of entering the stage in innovative ways (helicopter for some tours of outdoor stadiums, zip line, etc....), and everybody in the LSUAC was anxious to see how Mick would make his entrance. Keith, Bill, Charlie, and Ronnie (birthday boy that day, 6/1) started vamping "Honkey Tonk Women," and they did so for about two straight minutes, just riding that simple, repetitive G...and then Mick rose from the stage, having been lying behind an amp the whole time.

Is this at all true?
Posted by VOR
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:12 pm to
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Football could have been better.


Although the LSU-USC game was great. I lost my voice for days.
This post was edited on 8/9/10 at 9:13 pm
Posted by xiv
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:14 pm to
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Although the LSU-USC game was great. I lost my voice for days.
I was a 6-day-old embryo at that game, having been conceived hours after the LSU/Rice game the week before.

My bad.
Posted by CAD703X
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:14 pm to
80s!

you forgot to add jerry (shumaker's) kids, mark tullis beating the greeks to win student body president then taking the entire salary and turning it into $1s and throwing it up in the air at free speech alley (huey long would have been proud) and ronald reagan speaking at my commencement in tiger stadium.

eta and dennis quad picking up sorority chicks at murphys during the filming of everybody's all american and the big snow-making machine they turned on over by broussard hall and let us all go out and have a snowball fight.
This post was edited on 8/9/10 at 9:16 pm
Posted by GoldenTiger85
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:17 pm to
and Dylan
Posted by rickyh
Positiger Nation
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:18 pm to
The 70s'. LSU and A&M, Alabama and the BEAR, USC, Notre Dame, Charlie Mac and Daddy Dale. The football team was supported in a crazy way. The stadium was alive. Not always the best teams but teams that would let the other team know that they had been in a game. Fans weren't spoiled.
Posted by xiv
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Posted on 8/9/10 at 9:18 pm to
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and Dylan
Good Dylan or Jesus Dylan?
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