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Just noticed this would be my 1972nd post....there was a lot'a good Rock 'N Roll put out in 1972.....

What I period in our lives! Changed some things forever, it did.

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1972

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T Rex, Elvis, Commander Cody and Dr Hook and the Medicine Show.

omg he was actually married? Well no more after 1972!

Hmmmm...1972. I recall the motorcycle I had back then. And, if I recall correctly, the number one hit song of that year went somethin' like...

A long long time ago
I can still remember that Beezer
I used to own

And I knew if I had the chance
I would make that Rocket 3 dance
And I'd be happy for a while

I was always into British bikes
There was something about them that I liked
The rumble of their engines
The style of their flanks

I can't remember if I tried
To wheelie it while I'd ride
But something down there deep inside
Would make me smile really wide

(chorus)

Now I ride this Bonnie America bike
But spending way too much time on this little website
Fracturing lyrics so I make 'em about my ride
And I'll do this 'til the day that I die
Yep, most likely 'til the day that I die

(...with, of course, in THIS case my apologies to Mr. McLean)

Just to make all of you feel OLD, I wasn't even concevied til 4 years later.

PUPPY!!!

Columbus sailed the ocean blue
in nineteen hundred seventy-two.

Wait now Wade! I always thought it was:

In nineteen hundred seventy-THREE
Columbus sailed the deep blue sea.

???

If you have a car or bike etc in the UK that was manufactured in '72 or before, it's free road tax

Joined the USAF in 1972, sold my last Hodaka that year.

I was going to say two of my favorite albums from 1972 were Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" and Golden Earring "Moontan", but it turns out they both came out in 73. For years I thought they were both released in 72......

Saw Zeppelin somewhere in SoCal in summer of 1972......

That's the year I graduated from High School.

In 1972 I was still mourning the fact that I missed Woodstock.

I was four years old.

Well said Keith.These young wipper snappers Eh?

Just kidding.

In 1972 was tryng, not completely sucessfully,to get over a broken leg after getting T-boned by a car on my 1971 Triumph Tiger 650.The worst model Triumph ever made IMO!

I scored my first home run that year.

To keep this MC related, I rode my bike to the rendevous.

I had my Moto Morini Super America in 72.

This isn't the bike but very close, I think it may have been a rebadged Ducati with some cosmetic changes or vice versa.
The 2nd pic is the Moto Morini and is almost the bike I had, same colors and all.

What a year! I spent that year working at the beer store at Hickham Air Force base and ripping around Oahu on my first motorcycle, a Kawasaki H1 500cc two stroke rocket of a bike. Met a lot of guys coming home from Nam and chased a few wahines :-)

I don't think anyone here who was around in '72 is gonna top THAT, Ed!!!

Yep John! Memories usually get better as we age, alright!

(...OR as they say: "The older I get, the faster I was!")

Great Year, spent the first half in Garmisch hanging out with Americans both in and out of military service then the second was spent on a Montessa King Scorpion and going to school (skiing) in Grenoble. Like a fine wine that one will be fondly remembered.

I was already back from the Nam and out of the army (the first time) back then. Sharing an apartment in Hawthorne, CA with a battle buddy, getting stoned as much as possible, and trying to eek out a living and figure out what to do with the next phase of my life. My first job out of the service was sanding down shells at McCall Helmets, which was a Bell knockoff. For me, it was really kind of a lost year.