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Subject: Tell Us About...

Author:
Mary F

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Date Posted: 13:28:38 06/29/06 Thu

I'm curious to hear about everyone's "first" Roller moment. That moment when you first discovered them - what were your thoughts, feelings? What drew you to your 'favorite' BCR?

For me, it was, as many, when SATURDAY NIGHT hit the U.S. charts. I had never seen them, just heard the song. BEGGED for the album & immediately fell in love when I got it and flipped it over to see them! Always had a thing for the fair haired types so of course, was drawn to Derek...

Years later 'the other' fair haired Roller - the other "D" Man, also stole my heart. At a time when 'Rollermania' seemed to wane for others - it only picked up speed for me as the Longmuir /Longmuir / Wood / Faulkner / Faure line up was by far my favorite.

Fianlly, just a few short years after that, met my third and final fair haired cutie - a guy who at the time I felt had a strange resemblence to the blond drummer w/ the toothy grin - 'stole' him from my best friend (though to this day she says I got her 'left overs'!) and married him. 21 years later he simply chuckles at my strange and wonderful "obsession." I am so blessed to have been a fan all these years. Have met some of the most amazing people, some of the best friends I've ever had are a direct result of these guys. Short of my wedding day and the birth of my kids, some of my best adult memories are of the friends i've met over the years in 'Rollerworld'

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[> Subject: Good post by the way Mary it's along way to think back lol, but my first real memory of the Rollers was listening to my sister who was into them before me telling me to watch theTV show Shang a Lang and she was an Eric fan so i watched it and i was hooked and I always had a soft spot for the Longmuir men as they looked so nice and well Alan looked like a real comic full of fun look at me now still hooked lol and in later years now i find myself meeting likeminded lovely ladies like you guys this is wonderful and all thanks to these great guys and we all have alot to thank them for eh !

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LinH
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Date Posted: 02:12:04 06/30/06 Fri

>I'm curious to hear about everyone's "first" Roller
>moment. That moment when you first discovered them -
>what were your thoughts, feelings? What drew you to
>your 'favorite' BCR?
>
>For me, it was, as many, when SATURDAY NIGHT hit the
>U.S. charts. I had never seen them, just heard the
>song. BEGGED for the album & immediately fell in love
>when I got it and flipped it over to see them! Always
>had a thing for the fair haired types so of course,
>was drawn to Derek...
>
>Years later 'the other' fair haired Roller - the other
>"D" Man, also stole my heart. At a time when
>'Rollermania' seemed to wane for others - it only
>picked up speed for me as the Longmuir /Longmuir /
>Wood / Faulkner / Faure line up was by far my
>favorite.
>
>Fianlly, just a few short years after that, met my
>third and final fair haired cutie - a guy who at the
>time I felt had a strange resemblence to the blond
>drummer w/ the toothy grin - 'stole' him from my best
>friend (though to this day she says I got her 'left
>overs'!) and married him. 21 years later he simply
>chuckles at my strange and wonderful "obsession." I
>am so blessed to have been a fan all these years.
>Have met some of the most amazing people, some of the
>best friends I've ever had are a direct result of
>these guys. Short of my wedding day and the birth of
>my kids, some of my best adult memories are of the
>friends i've met over the years in 'Rollerworld'

[> Subject: Like Lin, my big sis pulled me in when she brought home one of their albums. I loved hearing WLS (as Tom mentioned on the Alan board) play Saturday Night and listened to the countdown to find where it was each week. I have a thing for guitarists, especially those who look like they have a wicked sense of humor. ;-) But I'm also drawn to sweet, genuine guys.
Author: Loraine [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 07:37:08 06/30/06 Fri

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The first time I saw them was in a pic in Tiger Beat. They had on their short trousers and high platform shoes and sweaters. I am totally ashamed to say that I laughed. I could not imagine why they were dressed like that (something I would later do myself!) and when I saw they were going to be on Howard Cosell I phoned my best friend to tell her so we could watch them and see who these funny looking fellas were and what they did. My mouth hit the floor and it's been there pretty much since. In the space of a few seconds I was hooked and I fell for Leslie Richard in an instant. Of course since then I've had crushes on all of them at one point or another. However, I confess I am Al's Gal, Derry's Darling, and Eric's Everlasting! Hm-m-m-m.... does that make me 'Roller tart'? LOL!!!

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Tanya
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Date Posted: 13:44:31 06/30/06 Fri

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Well my first hit of the Rollers was at a JR High school hang out with a friend where I heard SATURDAY NIGHT and was hooked my mom then got me hooked on Tiger Beat . I got a summer Job and never missed buying there albums or anything with there picture to go on my wall. It was great!!

Author:
Zany
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Date Posted: 08:40:05 07/01/06 Sat

[> Subject: Cant exactly remember it was in 1974 sometime when I opened a magazine page and saw these great pics of this fab new Scottish band Life was never quite the same after that! Bought every magazine I could find on them after that and watched them on Supersonic or any other tv show I could find! I was definitely hooked!!

Author:
Anne
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Date Posted: 10:14:18 07/03/06 Mon