by weedavie » Tue Feb 23, 2021 11:10 am
In the early 70s there was an hour of Peel a week on BBC and an album cost half a day's wage. So in a student flat there was only so much music and you heard all your mates' stuff you didn't like - Dark Side of the Moon or Second Hand's Death may be your Santa Claus. All that stuck in your head, leading to earworms on a hill half a century later. Meanwhile I was inflicting Rory Gallagher and the Incredible String Band on them, so we'd all something to complain about.
Hill access was similarly limited. I'd a good knowledge of the Luss hills, I'd hitched to Glencoe but I'd never been over the Great Glen or the A9. I knew what a Munro was, but it was as an answer to a quiz question, rather than a way of choosing hills. It was a different world and death by hypothermia was common - in Glasgow student flats.