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

[Stuart Anderson]

Eric 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:

We had what I remember being a pretty cool discussion of this before, with a
sort of Occult Underground/Velvet Underground crossover. I don't know how that
would be listed in the archives, but there was some good stuff.

>     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?

I guess they weren't up&coming in the time your talking about, but the Led
Zepplin story Hammer of the Gods is a good, goofy UA source in general.

>     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?

George RR Martin wrote The Armageddon Rag as sort of a spin on the whole
'selling your soul' thing. I thought it was pretty good. There's a recurrent
thread about different versions of the battle between Elvis and Jim Morrison for
the True King. I think more relevant figures would be Dr. John or Captain
Beefheart. If you get a story in mind, it's not hard to UAify it.

>     4) Besides the Naked Goddess Tape becoming the Naked Goddess Film, are
> there any other big changes that have to be made in the UAverse for it to
> fit the 70s?

I ran a long 70s arc and didn't have any translation problems. Only a part of it
was about music. It peaked in a Day of the Jackal type story about Evel
Knievel's jump over Snake River. The seventies were so weird and tacky--with all
the TM and Von Daniken books and 'In Search Of' and all that--that I almost
think they reflect the OU better than the 00s (the aughts?)
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