Pot was Cheap. How cheap was pot way back? Well when I was a pup, an old saw said he got Three pound coffee cans full for just $5. For sure that was nothing I ever saw, but in my day pot was still cheap. We got it for $10 a three and a half finger ounce. There were rumors of the Holy Grail four finger ounce, but those finds were rare and usually ditch/dirt weed. (Not really worth a $5 three pound coffee can) Back about then with this cheap pot, we'd go to concerts and people actually passed ENTIRE JOINTS down the row and away from them. Sometimes never to be seen again. Of course there were no worries because a joint was usually headed your way (and sometimes from three different directions).
One of the bands I saw during this time was a short period wonder. For the driving music they had, I thought they'd for sure last longer than they did. The song is titled, "Blinding Light Show" by Triumph. The stage show was much more intense when I saw them and the lights were so numerous and bright that when they turned them on, the first three rows of revelers were instantly burned crisp and turned to ashes. I think Milwaukee suffered a brown out that night.
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Styx was my first concert at Memorial Hall. I do remember the doobies being passed from all directions, from who knows who. That was when you didn't need to worry about what was in it. I was amazed that it was right out in the open and no one was doing anything about it. I was so naive. ;>
I was also at the Pink Floyd Animals concert at County Stadium in Milwaukee when the pig blew up. I swear I could feel my giant leg bellbottom pants blow backward with the explosion. I believe they were sued for that...blew out windows a couple miles away.
Oh my gosh Huck, you do bring back memories. Although I surely (cough) did not participate in such things, the passing of the joint at a concert was a given.
Those were the times when there were different types of pot going around. Mexican, Hawaiian, Acapulco gold. Happy pot, horny pot, giggly pot. Almost an entire baggy for $5 to $10.
Excuse me, I think I need to go get a tissue......
Cheapest "lid" I ever bought was $7. Back then, there was some Colombian going for $45 an ounce - outrageous!
Passing a joint? How unsanitary.
Hooker Lake Inn. As the joynts passed thru the band each musician in turn would stop playing and take a hit. These days the pot is to potant to roll into joynts. But it's still cheap.
I remember seeing Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in Chicago in '95. The air was so thick with pot smoke that you could cut it a knife. Doobies were passed around openly. I swear that the cops there got a contact buzz! What a great show!
BTW Triumph rocks!
I remember when you could buy a pound of gold, good giggle pot for $40.
Then Ronny Regan’s wife came out with that “Just Say No Shit” and the price of pot escalated and the price of cocaine came down.
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