Think he was that young banjo player in the film deliverance.
2 Likes
For me it was probably the mid seventies. Not so much for the music although I liked that. For me it was getting out into the huge wide world. Different countries, different cultures, different languages, different climates…a real learning curve.
3 Likes
It was called Big Brother, and they had already formed before I joined them.
Only among ourselves.
The guitar.
Yes, immense trouble. We gave up trying to get any in the end. 
5 Likes
hilarious
2 Likes
I could never sing to save my life. Mind you, none of us were much good at playing our instruments, either. 
3 Likes
So, you couldn’t pull a ‘Tommy’ eh…
3 Likes
Oops, sorry Angel.
Surely I didn’t mean to make you feel old!
Realistically, I believe you’re probably younger than me.
2 Likes
Do you mean little Tommy Tucker, who, unlike me, was able to sing for his supper? 
Or do you mean something else? I think you probably do. 
2 Likes
Yes, I meant Tommy Tucker 
Why, I outta…. 
3 Likes
Whatever that’s for, I didn’t do it. 
If it was something to do with rhyming slang, it never occurred to me at the time.
2 Likes
Mine was the 70’s. I had left school in 72. I loved the clothes, the music, seeing all the top groups of the time, having loads of friends and being able to walk in and out of jobs.
3 Likes
Flowerpower, Definitely, walking out of jobs! You could leave one on a Friday and walk into another on a Monday!
No recruitment agencies and no endless interviews either.
1 Like
The 80s … rubbish music-wise compared to the 60s, 70s & 90s. The only good 80s band I can think of is The Smiths.
The 80s was my decade: I was young but not too young, I was successful but not too successful, I was in love.
2 Likes
The 80s and 90s when my children were growing up, loved it! 
3 Likes
There were recruitment agencies …. Remember Alfred Marks Bureau? I temped with them for about a year and it was brilliant. Different workplaces, good money and if you didn’t like it you just did a couple of days and moved on.
1 Like
I did not get married until I was in my late 30’s. And it was mostly significant for me.
1 Like
That is still the case with some jobs, even today. A few years ago, a friend fired one of his coach drivers on a Saturday & on the Monday that driver was doing a school run for another company. I used to have several numbers for companies who would give me a job HGV driving “anytime.”
And about 10 years ago a Nurse friend walked out of a job managing a few care homes, on the advice of her professional body (the Nursing & Midwifery Council, or NMC.) And she was back in work within a couple of days.
1 Like
Like you @Artangel, the 60s and 70s. The 60s when I was in my teens, loving all the freedom of leaving school and earning money, money I could spend on whatever I chose and not have to be accountable to anyone! My dad used to try to encourage me to save, but my mum (wise lady) used to say, leave her, let her enjoy her money - God knows she’ll only have a few years of it before she’s married with kids and struggling. How right she was!
But the 70s, struggling or not, were wonderful, the decade when I married and had two children. The decade where I moved 300 miles away from my family and felt ‘properly grown up’ for the first time in my life! God how I missed my family though. It was hard for a few years, and I went back often to stay with my mum in school holidays. But they were good times and I’d go back in a heartbeat!
3 Likes
I don’t want to be in my teens and twenties again because of all the pressure and trouble I was having but I wish I could turn back time and enjoy my life in the 90s again and forever when I was in my forties. My window of time. Everything new, so exciting, lots of opportunities, no ailments, a hassle-free and varied life lived to the full. Yet going back is impossible. The noughties were also OK but at the end of the second decade the trouble began.
3 Likes
Flowerpower, No l don’t, as l lived in a small, sleepy town. I do remember that other well known, famous recruitment agency… The Labour Exchange! 