Saturday, January 24, 2015

Bardot Flood-Harley Davidson

My friend, the esteemed Andy P of Made For Walking, recently devoted a post to one of the original boot icons, Brigitte Bardot. I knew I had uploaded a number of Bardot clips and was eager to show-off share them. Imagine my shock to discover that the 5 Bardot related clips had never received the "full blog treatment." I had uploaded them before I started blogging regularly(full disclosure, the clip from Gainsbrough was in fact the very first test post on this blog back in June). So thanks to Andy's nudge, we're all treated to some magnificent bootage(which some of you may have seen before).


A friend's older brother had "THAT" poster hung in the storage shed he used as a hang-out room. I was mesmerized. I think that prior to 1990 it might have been the single most popular thigh boot picture in popular culture. Then Pretty Woman came out and ruined the 90's.
   
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All boot hobbyists should be able to identify "Harley Davidson" from Special Bardot.

Looks like they've disabled embedding for this one, here's the direct link-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIA2N7XxRJw


Sorry, if this flood might be a little......messy. I've been distracted by a youtube clip of a full concert from Danish TV of Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe and Rockpile, my favorite "super-group" from 1979.  I saw them at the Whisky A Go Go (or the Roxy?) just a few months prior in the winter of '78.  You know I love boots, but there's a strong magical pull to the music you loved when you were 17.
THEY CALL IT ROCK!
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2015 at 1:41 PM

    You're entitled to your own opinion of course, Bruce. But Rockpile were a bit lame by 1978/79 standards. Most of us were punks by then?

    Keep up the good work. Any more Keshia Chanté?
    DACRA

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    1. Bruce's Boot BlogJanuary 24, 2015 at 2:30 PM

      Rockpile was NEVER lame, but yeah, I saw The Clash at the Santa Monica Civic a few weeks later and that shit blew my mind. I had been on the fence between that kind of new-y pub rock/retro stuff and punk. Seeing The Clash pushed me over the fence. To a 17 year old that full-on adreno-aggression was what I needed.

      And yeah, there's some more Keshia in the pipeline.

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  2. Jim-BobJanuary 24, 2015 at 2:12 PM

    Ahh..the Harley scene with Bardot. That and Nancy´s boots are strong influences in the forming of my preferences. My visit to Britain as a Young teen Learning English in 1974 and the boots i saw then is the third.

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