tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613246782430587999.post5632445357777031762..comments2021-12-09T02:24:07.554-08:00Comments on The Interregnum Navigation Bureau: From Suez to the Falklands - Part 3Phil Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16214245608032305452noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613246782430587999.post-61643470222955990522021-02-18T02:11:15.174-08:002021-02-18T02:11:15.174-08:00I probably became conscious of TV as a thing aroun...I probably became conscious of TV as a thing around 1973-74, when I was four years old. We never owned a TV, but always hired one, because they were so unreliable in those days - if you hired one you could get an immediate replacement, rather than having to wait for the TV repair man (remember them?). As such we intermittently had b&w and colour, but mainly colour. We used to get all sorts of contraptions - I remember one TV we had came with cabinet-style doors, although that only lasted about a week.<br /><br />Me and my brother would always groan when a black and white set arrived, and then we would acclimatise to it almost instantly. It was a strange thing how when colour was there you felt that you couldn't miss it, but when it was gone you could so easily do without it.<br /><br />Good to see that Sukarno and Walter Walker were essentially on the same side!Phil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16214245608032305452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8613246782430587999.post-36252875535811409322021-02-17T13:35:50.033-08:002021-02-17T13:35:50.033-08:00another great post
a niggle - although colour TV...another great post<br /><br />a niggle - although colour TV started to creep in towards the end of the Sixties, it didn't become widespread on the consumer level until much later, so during glam-era something like 70 percent of households still watched Top of the Popson a black and white TV. (Also, psychedelia era pop was pretty garish sartorially, but virtually all TV was still black-and-white). Probably more significant to glam's impact was a surge in the number and the circulation of kid's magazines that were pop oriented, highly pictorial and in full colour (albeit often with the balance really off so lots of with lots of hideous flesh pinks etc) <br /><br />re Sukarno versus Suharto - Sukarno had been very anti Western pop culture decadence and promoted traditional musics, but Suharto actively encouraged rock music as part of the country's reorientation to America / the West. There is a great compilation of Indonesian hard 'n' heavy rock from that era https://nowagainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/va-those-shocking-shaking-daysSIMON REYNOLDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.com