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If Willy Wonka made leather jackets...

Foster

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That hurts my brain; it keeps telling me it should be brown or black!
 

schitzo

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I think it's high time aero opened a London branch! :eusa_doh:

Or if not another branch then at least a flagship store there that stocks all the styles. Any possibility of that happening Sloan?
 

Sloan1874

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Ha, Mr S, you'll need to ask Holly. I'm just a fan. But as far as that fetching blue hide goes, I'm not sure if it's quite 30s or 40s fit...
 

Sloan1874

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Personally, I think the likes of Aero, ELC and LW could make a bomb just bottling and selling the air from the workshops: Eau de Hide.:D
 

wdw

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Showing my age, but I had the great pleasure of seeing them at probably their peak in Glasgow in I'm sure 1977, not long after the live album, and just before the plane crash. That was one of their new songs that night, but the overall performance of all the classics was outstanding.
 

Sir Jacket

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Actually, guys, that image is (also) from one of the early paper catalogues that Aero used to put out. This was when they sold shoes and all sorts of other beautiful things.

My god, am I the longest-standing Aero buyer here?

SJ
 

Sloan1874

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Damn, somebody's had the idea already.

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Retails at a mere $200 for the brave man who can wear this with a straight face!

Was the Barrowlands you saw LS at? You would've got a prime slice of Old Glasgow back in those days, but also the chance to enjoy Free Bird without a trace irony! :D
 
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Showing my age, but I had the great pleasure of seeing them at probably their peak in Glasgow in I'm sure 1977, not long after the live album, and just before the plane crash. That was one of their new songs that night, but the overall performance of all the classics was outstanding.
Jealous. My friend enfineered that last album. We grew up partying to LS. Too bad we didn't have cool jackets back then lol
 
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wdw

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Sloan, it was the Apollo. Just checked Wiki and it was Feb 9 1977. It really doesn't seem that long ago, but it was a great night. According to Wiki, it was the Street Survivors tour, but the posters and programmes called it One More for the British Road, after the big US tour of the previous year. I still play that live album.

Butte, to my shame, I was probably wearing a patched up Levi denim jacket, and I certainly had a lot more hair. My musical tastes virtually ended in the 70s and I have a lot of that era and before on mp3 in my car. Even my kids like Sweet Home Alabama, but they think that's a modern song cos it's on film and tv so often.
 
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Sloan, it was the Apollo. Just checked Wiki and it was Feb 9 1977. It really doesn't seem that long ago, but it was a great night. According to Wiki, it was the Street Survivors tour, but the posters and programmes called it One More for the British Road, after the big US tour of the previous year. I still play that live album.
Here's Barry's story on the album. Good stuff. Like many rockers. It ended too soon...Apologies for the detour. I'll stop. http://www.barryrudolph.com/stories/skynyrd.html
 

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Showing my age, but I had the great pleasure of seeing them at probably their peak in Glasgow in I'm sure 1977, not long after the live album, and just before the plane crash. That was one of their new songs that night, but the overall performance of all the classics was outstanding.

Sadly, the knocked down the old Paramount theatre/cinema in Glasgow at the weekend. Stones, Beatles, Duke Ellington all played there. In its pomp, it was a fantastic looking place:

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Tried to help save it, but too late I'm afraid. They're sticking a glass office block in its place:eeek:
 

wdw

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Sadly, the knocked down the old Paramount theatre/cinema in Glasgow at the weekend

I can't place that at all, despite living there for years. Maybe the name changed. Just found out it changed to the Odeon.
I went to many a film there.

Here's Barry's story on the album.

Interesting link. It's good to get a side view from someone who was there.


Back to the original topic - Sloan, I take it you're on a news blackout until the official public release of the new designs?
 
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Sloan1874

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Perhaps, dragging back this thread that I've derailed myself, we should run a book on what we expect/want to see next week. I think, and I may be wrong, there's something like 16 new designs on the slate. :D
 

Ishmael

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I clipped that graphic out of an old Sears and Roebuck catalog...My Rainbow Country is a repro of the Hercules pictured in the ad.
Appropriate choice since I think one of Aero's new models is a repro of that jacket, right?
 

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