Life *before* unicyclung and Pianos...

[MuniAddict]

My brother brought me an old photo album that I hadn't seen for a really long time. These pics are ancient, lol! They date mostly from around 1982, when i was 26, or about half my current age haha. The caricature is from when I was a DJ at a local club.

Notice the record I'm breaking! The others are from my ventriloquist days, wth the oldest one from 1974. Like unicycling, I always seemed to had ave knack for getting publicity. :p Btw, I went my Terry "Miller" back then. Used it also in radio announcing.

Dj Days. 1985
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First newspaper writeup, 1974 (Worked at shoe store!)
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At the Laugh Factory
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Last publicity still, 1990
with "Jack Squat", "Little John" and "Hilda"
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[Michaelgoround]

That explains a lot.

[MuniAddict]

That explains a lot. Fits right in since it's all non-mainstream stuff, like unicycling! Be unique, and proud of it! :D

[uni57]

Which one's the dummy? :)



(yes, not original. Is that like our "where's your other wheel?"?)

[MuniAddict]

Which one's the dummy? :)

The answer might be in this book! :eek:

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[uni57]

The answer might be in this book [Ventriloquism for Dummies]! :eek:LOL!!!!!!!! You are brilliant! And quick. Touché!

[Peripatet]

I just wish I could get away with rocking some of those sweet 70's haircuts and that leisure suit from picture #2. . .

I was definitely born ~30 years too late. . .

[MuniAddict]

LOL!!!!!!!! You are brilliant! And quick. Touché!Haha it just popped into my head. that's an actual book I just pasted a different pic into it since there was just a pic of some guy but no dummy.:o

I just wish I could get away with rocking some of those sweet 70's haircuts and that leisure suit from picture #2. . .

I was definitely born ~30 years too late. . .Lol, I remember "Leisure" suits (https://www.dressthatman.com/pics/suit/suit678.jpg), but I never owned one. That was just a leather jacket I had on, but I guess it did kinda have that style. I remember I was so excited when I bought it from my first check from my job at the time! I did wear platform shoes for a time and flaired dress pants. But also I had a hippy streak with tie-died shirts and HUGE bell bottom jeans and flip flops.

Btw, I almost went to Woodstock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPUQTi0y3Do&feature=related), (1969) but my parents were too scared to let me go with my friends. I was almost 14 then, but they were just way too over protective! :(

[Wheel Rider]

Lol, I remember "Leisure" suits but I never owned one. ... I did wear platform shoes for a time and flaired dress pants. But also I had a hippy streak with tie-died shirts and HUGE bell bottom jeans and flip flops.


But, did you ever wear Earth Shoes?

BTW, I think I see your lips moving in one of these pictures. :p

[MuniAddict]

But, did you ever wear Earth Shoes?

BTW, I think I see your lips moving in one of these pictures. :pHaha! But YES, I not only wore them, but sold them for a while! :D

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[Biggestbtc]

Another astonishing view of Mt. Terry!

[cbs]

lol, guess it helps being eccentric if you're gonna be a unicyclist!

[uni57]

I just wish I could get away with rocking some of those sweet 70's haircuts and that leisure suit from picture #2. . .

I was definitely born ~30 years too late. . .You don't want to live through the 70s. The shorts were embarrassingly short. People today (especially kids) wouldn't be caught dead in them. They think above-the-knee is short (evidenced by this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax2QrdMBhqU&feature=related) and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=884LJAbpf1E&feature=related)). Try a one-inch inseam.

[MuniAddict]

You don't want to live through the 70s. The shorts were embarrassingly short. Yep, I remember the infamous cutoff jeans made into SHORT shorts that [straight] guys wore then! But that was considered cool and an every day thing to wear back then, but if a guy wore them today, he would be thought of as gay... but Seinfeld would say, "Not that there's anything wrong with that", haha. :p

[Michaelgoround]

Who wears short shorts?

[MuniAddict]

Who wears short shorts?
Yes, on his day off. Sometimes his wife wears the same kind.
Who's wife?
yes. :p

[johnfoss]

I loved the toilet puppet, and am surprised nobody mentioned it yet!

And yes to the shorts-of-old. I started riding unicycles in the fall of 1979. The first few years of unicycle meets I went to, that's what we all wore. Imagine riding a unicycle all day in cut-off jeans shorts. Ouch! And they thought we were nerds when we started wearing bike shorts.... :p
Who wears short shorts?
If you dare wear short shorts Nair for short shorts.
(yes, we're old)

[uni57]

(yes, we're old)Sometimes I can't believe how old I am. Like when I catch myself saying something like "I did that 30 years ago" or "wow, I haven't seen this person in over 25 years." But I don't feel or look old.

[MuniAddict]

I loved the toilet puppet, and am surprised nobody mentioned it yet!

Yeah I created "little John" (I thought that was such a clever name for it haha!) and the other characters. One of my favorite things was writing all the material for my act, but many times I would ad lib with the audience and that was really working without a net! I had lots of fun performing and doing cruise ships, corporate shows and even played the Tropicana in Vegas. :D

[Wheel Rider]

You don't want to live through the 70s. The shorts were embarrassingly short. People today (especially kids) wouldn't be caught dead in them. ...Try a one-inch inseam.

The kids will be wearing those shorts again in a few years and they will think how cool they look. Afterall, shorts cannot get much longer than they are now. They can only go up.

If they were not short enough you could always roll the leg up as far as it would go. I remember shorts so short our pockets would hang out. I think we were lucky the only thing hanging out was the pockets.

[Peripatet]

I think we were lucky the only thing hanging out was the pockets.

I just got a nasty visual reminiscent of the last time my shoelace got caught in my wheel, except this time: it wasn't a shoelace.:eek::eek:

What *WERE* you guys thinking?

[uni57]

The kids will be wearing those shorts again in a few years and they will think how cool they look.I think that will NEVER happen. No force on Earth could convince today's or tomorrow's kids that embarrassingly short shorts is in any way cool. Long shorts are here to stay. I'd bet money on it, if I had any.

Well, if the Earth became an unbearable hot-house, then maybe practical reasons would triumph over fashion and modesty. But only then.

[Michaelgoround]

I too do not see short shorts coming back. They are way to impractical.

[Peripatet]

They are way too impractical.

Yes. But then again: super tight, bulge-enhancing pants have come back in and those are much less practical and much less comfortable than their looser counterparts.

[Michaelgoround]

Yes. But then again: super tight, bulge-enhancing pants have come back in and those are much less practical and much less comfortable than their looser counterparts.
You do have a good point here.

[MuniAddict]

I could post a pic (of a pic) I found from way back, of me in a pair of cutoff jean shorts standing on the porch at my parents house...but I'll spare y'all! It's pretty disturbing haha. But yeah, they were commonplace back then. And what about the polyester period when disco was the big thing! :eek:

YouTube - KC & The Sunshine Band - That's the way I like it (1974)

[Gadge]

I too do not see short shorts coming back. They are way to impractical.

Since when did practical enter into style?

Can short shorts be any more impractical than jeans halfway between knee and hip?
:rolleyes:

[uni57]

Wow, I seem to have gotten the thread permanently off-topic. Oops. Terry, THANK YOU for NOT posting that picture. Bell bottoms! Disco! Polyester! Anything is better than talking about guys in short shorts. I knew a guy whose initials were KC. Sometimes I would ask him where his Sunshine Band was.

[Gadge]

Yeah - sorry for perpetuating the threadjack - back to Terry's entertaining;) life.

My thanks too for not posting the short shorts pic!

No video of Little John in action?

[Bondo]

Cool Photos Terry.

Is this the official "Post your 1970's Ventriloquist Newspaper Clipping Thread?"

This is from 1972, I believe. Check out the paisley bell-bottoms!


http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/Telehoar/StarsOfTomorrow.jpg

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/Telehoar/StarsOfTomorrow2.jpg

[MuniAddict]

Cool Photos Terry.

Is this the official "Post your 1970's Ventriloquist Newspaper Clipping Thread?"

This is from 1972, I believe. Check out the paisley bell-bottoms!




That's very cool! Here are a few more. These are the vent figures I currently own, including an exact replica of Jerry Mahoney. I sold my Toilet puppet years ago to another ventriloquist. The others are the old juro models sold in stores in the 60's and today are worth several hundred dollars each. the replica is valued at about $1,200.

Also pics of me with Willy Tyler & lester (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXm9HilxC5g), and me with Jay Johnson (http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwDbd4jQpkA&feature=related) backstage at the Comedy & magic club. Jay Leno still performs there every Sunday.

The last pic is my prized letter from 1967, about the school talent show I was in. I was 11 at the time and I did win! Second place went to a 7th grade band doing "House of the rising sun".

PS: Sorry about the pic quality-they are pics of the pics!

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[Peripatet]

Living in a house with all those doll heads would seriously freak me out.

Actually, just visiting somebody's house who had a cupboard full of doll woulds would probably give me the willies.

[1-wheeled-grape]

ok then terry, can you combine ventriloquism, DJing and unicycling! That would be another interesting vid lol

[rob.northcott]

just visiting somebody's house who had a cupboard full of doll woulds would probably give me the willies.
I don't think they're that anatomically accurate ;)

[Bondo]

Actually, just visiting somebody's house who had a cupboard full of doll woulds would probably give me the willies.

You mean they would give you the Willie Tylers.

I've seen your collection before Terry, I'm jealous. I collected a bunch of the Danny O'Day dolls to use as a prop in my juggling act. One by one they met with a horrific demise as they broke apart. I still have one left, but not in very good condition, I'm afraid..

I used the torn up seat of my Giraffe as a "puppet" and would make it talk, as part of my act. I always wanted to rig it up with a more obvious mouth and string to make it appear more like a vent-puppet...Talking Giraffe Uni-Puppet anyone?

[MuniAddict]

...Talking Giraffe Uni-Puppet anyone?I don't know, that's a "tall" order! Haha, sounds interesting, go for it! :D

[Michaelgoround]

Living in a house with all those doll heads would seriously freak me out.

Actually, just visiting somebody's house who had a cupboard full of doll woulds would probably give me the willies.
They kinda freak me out to, just not as badly as you.

[MuniAddict]

They kinda freak me out to, just not as badly as you.

well if that would freak you out, then you better not watch this! :p

YouTube - Magic 1978 Movie Trailer

[monocyclism]

Not so much ventriloquism more a punch in the eye,
The naked guy on my arm is Mr Punch himself. That is, his costume is off for cleaning but I don't think he cares about being seen without his clothes on. In the 80's I did a little with a Punch and Judy show. Mr Punch and his wife judy are elaborate with ornate costumes and the Baby is just basic for throwing around. Other characters included The Policeman and the Crocodile.
The voice of Punch is made with a 'swazzle' (a kind of reed) dangling in the back of the throat. I used to tie cotton around it to prevent me from swallowing it. Maybe I'll put it up again when Mr Punch gets dressed.

[Michaelgoround]

well if that would freak you out, then you better not watch this! :p


That wasn't so much scary as it was funny.:p
I just noticed that the thread title was misspelled. Did you mean to do that?

[MuniAddict]

Not so much ventriloquism more a punch in the eye,
The naked guy on my arm is Mr Punch himself. That is, his costume is off for cleaning but I don't think he cares about being seen without his clothes on. In the 80's I did a little with a Punch and Judy show. Mr Punch and his wife judy are elaborate with ornate costumes and the Baby is just basic for throwing around. Other characters included The Policeman and the Crocodile.
The voice of Punch is made with a 'swazzle' (a kind of reed) dangling in the back of the throat. I used to tie cotton around it to prevent me from swallowing it. Maybe I'll put it up again when Mr Punch gets dressed.Punch & Judy, that's a trip down memory lane! Here's a demonstration (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v_5POyoVl8&feature=related) of how that voice is made.
That wasn't so much scary as it was funny.:p
I just noticed that the thread title was misspelled. Did you mean to do that?
Haha, I was wondering when someone might mention that! No, it was a typo, and of ALL words, I shouldn't have misspelled that one! :o
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[Wheel Rider]

....I just noticed that the thread title was misspelled. Did you mean to do that?

When I first saw the title I wondered if it was about some respiratory disease.