So, what were you doing 30 years ago?

[VolverseLoco]

Although this is not something like, where were you when Elvis died, it does have signifigance to people who were really into music and for those people, like myself, we knew where we were. So back in the day, I was part of the whole hair metal scene. When we were out at the rock clubs watching live bands, we would be recording Headbangers Ball on the VCR those Saturday nights so we could catch up on Sunday what new music was out in the metal scene. Thats the first time I got an earful of the Nirvana band, one video on Headbangers Ball of them on a Sunday afternoon pre-recorded from the night before, and WHAMMO! I knew things were changing. It was that pronounced and effective. Then thats exactly what happened, things changed drastcially as if overnight.

 

[Iristone]

I was not born

 

[dangevans]

Finishing my freshman year of HS, LOL. And hating the current music...which I love now, BTW.

 

[Ostie]

Breastfeeding in the Castro

Brief and direct. I respect that.

 

[bombpop14]

Right in the middle of a tour in an orange 70s van up to Seattle playing a Guild Pilot, GK 800rb, and a Peavey 215 cab..I'm 2nd from right

 

[BunchyMutt]

Brief and direct. I respect that.

also leaves you wondering whether I was the giver or receiver. Given the Castro at the end of the 80s, could have been both

 

[VolverseLoco]

Anybody asked this guy what he was up to 30 years ago?


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Im really bad with photos identifications. Who is this young looking boy?

 

[versalog]

I got out of the French Foreign Legion and returned to the U.S., which had changed little compared to me. I married my wife. She saved my life and continues to do so every day. I did not have a bass guitar at that time, though appreciated it. I was not attracted to Grunge. I have a bass guitar now, but do not practice as I should.

 

[mellowgerman]

I was a 2.5 year old German toddler, probably bopping around in my onesie to one of my parents' Bob Marley records in the living room with our big Newfoundland, Tommy.

 

[TinIndian]

30 years ago I had put bass guitar down and given up on music entirely. I had moved up to Atlanta with who would become my ex wife a few years later. I met some great players while I was there and started plinking in guitar a little. It wasn't for nearly another 20 years that I would pick up a bass again. When Nevermind broke I wished I was still playing because I connected with that far more than the last few years of awful hair metal.

 

[makz]

I was in kindergarten and had no idea what a bass was

 

[carrythatweight]

Finishing up the second grade. Hanging out with my brother and enjoying the Ninja Turtles. Getting the paper every day to read Calvin and Hobbes. Afraid for the troops and the kids in the Gulf. Thankful for my teacher that year, who was much nicer than the teacher I had previously.

This almost directly mirrors my story. Add in too much time playing Final Fantasy games on my old Nintendos, and that's my story. I was a few short months from my first exposure to Nirvana and Pearl Jam, changing much about my life forever.

 

[fig]

Was in the Navy - stationed in San Diego. Sonar technician. Our ship was doing drills to prepare for gulf deployment.

Had a bass and amp on the ship...

May 1991, I was still in the Navy, too. Aircraft electrician in an anti-submarine warfare helo (SH-60B's) squadron in Mayport, Florida. Finished one 6 month Gulf cruise, one more coming up starting 3 weeks before Christmas. Christmas and New Years ain't so bad in Barcelona, Spain LOL.

Yep, brought a bass and amp on one of those cruises, too.

 

[eddybuzzard]

I was in Texas, fixing beat up C-130s, used (and sandblasted) in Saudi Arabia

 

[packhowitzer]

getting my first bass and an amp. i sold my dirt bike and bought a samick p bass and a matrix 1 x 8 amp. never looked back.

 

[fig]

I was in Texas, fixing beat up C-130s, used (and sandblasted) in Saudi Arabia

Kind of related, I lived in Saudi as a teen (8th thru 11th grade). Dad was a flight engineer in the Air Force on C-130's. Retired, worked for Lockheed in Saudi (Jeddah) teaching heavy maintenance on C-130's to the Saudi military. This was early to mid '70's.

Yeah...lotsa sand available for blasting LOL. When I was in the Gulf and at sea, sand didn't really effect our helo's. But...the abrasive dust in the air wore out our engines rather frequently LOL.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Im really bad with photos identifications. Who is this young looking boy?

I'll give you a clue :

publicly exposing himself...

 

[getBAK]

I was in Jr High and really wanted to see a tit. It would be another 2 long years...

 

[WorkingClass]

I was deployed overseas in the army, awaiting the day and making the best of it.

 

[CGramazio]

I was 21, playing The Chance in Poughkeepsie with my then band World on Fire with my old mates - Todd Mihan on guitar/vocals and Dave Reuter on drums. The 90's were about to become the best time of my life . . .

Great thread by the way . . . so cool to see what everyone was doing. Time flies.