Raise Your Glasses to the Card-Carrying Members of D.R.E.A.D!

In 1980, you had to make the ultimate choice. You either sided with the rockers, or hung with the disco bunnies. Try as you might, you just could not find a station that played both Rose Royce and Pink Floyd. The battle lines were drawn, and back then we were all quickly choosing sides.

It was around this time that WRIF, the rockingest radio station in the Motor City, came up with the idea of the D.R.E.A.D. card. If you had one of these in your back pocket (and a big orange comb in the other), there was no mistaking the fact that you rocked hard. Now mind you, using the term "abolition" in the same breath as "disco" adds a vaguely racist tint to this whole image, but those types of things were tolerated back then I guess.

The best thing about the D.R.E.A.D. card was that it got you 10% off records at Harmony House. Have to see if this still works next time I am in town...

BONUS TRACK: The intro to The Electrifying Mojo's "Midnight Funk Association." Mojo was a groundbreaking DJ who moved around from station to station in Detroit playing the greatest funk jams ever known to man...

Can I get a "Triple-Whammy Whoa?" Didn't think so.



Regarding nostalgia and the fact that it ain't what it used to be...