[UA] Circle of Friends -- Sounds of 70s Campaign Ideas

[Cassady Toles]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:31:23 -0400, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  Hey --
      Does anyone have any thoughts on running a circle of friends campaign
  focusing on a rock band trying to make it in early 70s?  Specifially:
      1) What books would be the best source material for what the rock
scene
  was like on a day to day (night to night?) basis in the 70s for up and
  coming bands?

Hunter S. Thompson has written on the topic (I believe).  I'd look up
biography works on people from the genre and period you're interested in
(early 70's rock as distinct from british as distinct from mid-to-late
seventies disco, as opposed to late 70's punk).  

      2) What avatars and dukes would be particularly drawn to the music
  scene?

Doctor Hook and the Medicine show had three "spiritual advisors" on staff at
different points.  Also look for people who write appropriately themed
music.  If you wanted to go crazy, John Constantine (the main character of
the comic hellblazer) was about in the 70's and had a punk band called mucus
membrane.  I think the character fits nicely into the genre.

      3) What would be a good over arcing story-line for such campaign.
  Selling your soul to the devil is obvious; what would be the UA twist on
it?
  What would be a better, more novel story-line?

Merchandising was beginning to get big, as were rock and roll collectibles. 
The following were all collected, in order of least to most ridiculous: 
T-shirts, posters, bootlegged recordings, drumsticks and guitar picks used
by the band during a show, lighters used to call for encores, acid (there
was a guy whose name was I think Dr. John who would make LSD in tablet forms
changing colors every few weeks):  collectors were crazy for the stuff. 
Some of it could gain mystic oomph, especially stuff related to a band's
last show.  What about road crews, crew members who are "lucky"

      5) Any other ideas or thoughts on the premise?

The allure of the scene in the 70's is that everything is dangerous and no
one realizes it.  It should totally have an atmosphere of a small child
playing with dynamite.  I'd start with magic being pure easy, and suddenly
it becomes dangerous and no one expects it...
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