Comments on: Retro 80s Casio Keyboard Ad from Allmusic

By: JDSampo

JDSampo — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:02:51 +0000

Yikes! I remember when that ad ran. At least the keyboard player is getting the girls for once. Or maybe I’m the only one who had that problem…

By: Reverb Rick

Reverb Rick — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:24:58 +0000

Great one…I’ve just bought one few months ago in pawnshop for about 17EUR :)

By: BirdFLU

BirdFLU — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:32:40 +0000

I was there in the 80’s and that’s exactly how it was for me! Too bad if you all missed out on it.

By: cloudburst

cloudburst — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:45:57 +0000

‘dude’, this looks like portland, oregon on any given night. spandex included.

By: Mr. Tunes

Mr. Tunes — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:17:03 +0000

no keith - i actually learned a lot about all the different types of sounds and rhythms from those keyboards. i was a little kid back then- you had the rhumba to disco and beyond lol. the one in the ad is more basic than the ones i’m thinking of but same idea. and gotta love that cop!

By: Robotkid

Robotkid — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:39:35 +0000

If you need to know how to play your new Casio keyboard, here’s some instructions! I found this tape in a junk store in Vermont last year…good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTWJKfqsEMs

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:50:45 +0000

k1Ru — right on, man. Glad *someone* said it. :)

No need to get caught up in nostalgia, but there was some great musical and cultural stuff happening in the 80s … those who fail to learn from history are doomed not to repeat its greatest parties.

By: k1Ru

k1Ru — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:47:05 +0000

fashinn’ aside…
i think the 80’s had to have been the musical peak in contemporary american history…analogous heaven, the keyboards! nobodies being somebodies with overly melodramatic music, but it certainly hit the spot…the era of the drum machine, man…phil collins, herbie hancock, depeche! nin! maybe a little afx? salt n peppa?..come on..that little keyboard the guy’s playing in that urine stained subway train, it’s a keyboard we all want..haha!

By: DJ Peter Parker(chief exec./Marketing-Promotions)

DJ Peter Parker(chief exec./Marketing-Promotions) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:16:40 +0000

THE 80′S WERE CRAZY!

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By: Keith Handy

Keith Handy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:11:21 +0000

Andrew Stone: you don’t have to move back and forth in time for fashion to look pathetic (as you prove yourself by commenting on how today’s fashions will look in 50 years, without actually needing to wait 50 years to make the observation). Most people dress in a relatively neutral way, though, no matter what decade it is, so I think the mini-Madonnas in the above ad are fair game for a healthy round of ridicule.

Mr. Tunes: your comment is not meant to be facetious? I’m not passing judgement, I just want to make sure I’m reading you right…