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mimi85

(1,805 posts)

9. We saw them in 1980.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #5)

Wed Feb 25, 2015, 04:48 AM

Feb 2015

Should have stayed home and listened to the CDs. Just the same as Steely Dan. Awful in concert. Millions of records sold shouldn't have the criteria for the HOF at all.

Wait - CDs didn't come out commercially til 1982. I meant vinyl - still have them. I loved the Cars - they just sucked live.

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This guy is so far off base [View all] mimi85 Dec 2014 OP

Never heard of Kraftwerk, Chic or, say, the Germs or Black Flag. Scuba Dec 2014 #1

Kraftwerk -- probably the most commercially successful early 70's German band dogknob Sep 2015 #12

Paul Butterfield Band were fantastic bluesmen. Nitram Dec 2014 #2

SRV should've been in the first vote taken. mimi85 Dec 2014 #3

Chicago should be in demtenjeep Dec 2014 #4

For Me It's The Cars ProfessorGAC Jan 2015 #5

We saw them in 1980. mimi85 Feb 2015 #9

I Saw Them Twice ProfessorGAC Mar 2015 #10

Chic? Weren't they like a one hit wonder from the disco era? WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2015 #6

NOT in R&R hall of fame: Moody Blues, Kansas, Doobie Bros... Number9Dream Jan 2015 #7

The Butterfield Band brought the 'extended jam' to rock music. greendog Jan 2015 #8

Butterfield Band is pretty good leftofkant May 2015 #11

Paul Butterfield was popular in the late sixties ... Trajan Sep 2015 #13