I was 7 so probably watching WWF. I was ate up with it......
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So, what were you doing 30 years ago?
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I notice you're in Houston so maybe haven't kept in touch. He's still playing in town, working at the local GC last I saw him. He's like Kevin Bacon, nobody's ever more than a few people away from Cardel in this town.
Getting ready to go to elementary school....and 8 years later other kids my age would act like he was a golden god and the voice of our generation. *rolleyes*
It is absolutely unfathomable that was thirty years ago… thirty? Like 3-0?!
Working in a record shop wondering what I was going to do with the rest of my life. That summer I saw Nirvana at Reading Festival. Nevermind hadn't been released in the UK yet so they were playing Bleach. Honestly, at the time I preferred Swervedriver but what did I know, eh?
In 1991 I had my bass, but no amp and, with 3 kids scraping by in the SF Bay area (truly one of the THE most expensive places to live), I was getting my music fix by playing my 12-string guitar and singing at wedding, birthdays, etc. It wasn't until 1997 that I had an amp and started gigging again.
So, in 1991 I was the Schools Coordinator for the Orvis West Coast Fly-Fishing schools based out of San Francisco, CA. That meant I handled all the arrangements and details for the locations we taught our schools, and any time a second instructor was needed, I would help teach the school. As a result I typically spent about 220 to 240-days a year in the field teaching fly-fishing. When I wasn't teaching a Fly-Fishing school I was mangling (managing) the Fishing Department at the Orvis San Francisco store and teaching Sunday afternoon fly-casting clinics in Oakland. After fishing season finished with a Steelhead Fly-Fishing School in October or November, I taught 6-week Fly-Tying sessions once a week until mid or late March. Then we would start off our schools season with a Fly-Fishing for Bass School. Did that from 1987 through Sept. of 1997. Was a great time!
Moved from San Mateo up to Lake Shastina (Just north of Mt. Shasta and 10-miles east of Weed, CA) in 1997 and opened the Mt. Shasta Fly-Fishing Schools. Managed to get a few students before the season closed. I took my bass into Mt Shasta City one day to see about getting the neck on my bass adjusted, and the fellow there told me about the Siskiyou BLues Society and their Wednesday night Jams at "The Gold Room" a local bar in town. Told him I didn't have an amp or even a cord and he looked me in the eye and said, "we got those, just show up". So I did that every Wednesday night and it really felt good to be playing again. Then one of the regulars at the jams asked me to play in a group he was putting together. My son had an amp he wasn't using and gave that to me. Next thing you know...I'm gigging again!
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Thirty years ago, I was still three years away from picking up the bass again after a long layoff—and a brief flirtation with drums—and never letting it go.
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Interesting how many people don't seem to like grunge. I liked Nirvana and yes I'm gonna say it I like Hole as well. On the other hand when English punk came along I hated it and still do. Love the Detroit punk rock thing though. But then I like Pig Will Not by PJ Harvey so may not have traditional tastes. What we call "indie" in the UK seems like grunge to me.
The 90's started out with move to Maui. In 91 I was a bartender at Village Pizzeria in Lahaina on Front Street having the time of my life. When Nirvana broke Vanilla Ice's lame hit was in full play from every other car driving by on Front Street... tourists and locals alike. The music scene in Maui at that time wasn't so memorable. More drunk newlyweds from Japan belting out Sinatra karaoke than anyone should have to hear and the Hamburgers in Paradise Jimmy Buffett one man cover band on repeat all day. I thanked the heavens for Social Distortion and Nirvana CD's when I got home. BTW - Until Santana played the tennis courts (yep) the only big name I saw on Maui were the Judds at the fore mentioned tennis courts. Ironically in 1994 I living in Las Vegas installing green privacy inserts in a community tennis court when the radio DJ broke the news that Kurt had ended his life. Perhaps a link to a suicide hotline would be appropriate in the OP's post. Chris Cornell had mentioned during an interview with Howard Stern "if Kurt could have held on for six months, maybe things would have turned out differently".
I had graduated college and was working for Glaxo Smith Kline as a biomedical engineer in Chicago. I went to a lot of Cubs games, and was still figuring out the guitar.
I was a 32 year old Seattleite at that time and worked as a caretaker/gardener on a 5 acre estate for a pair of wacky millionaires who owned a couple tv stations, a chain of banks etc.
I was haunting the local pawn shops and music stores and attending the Warmoth garage sales which lead to a house full of antique synths, high end reel to reels and such.
I soon quit the wacky millionaires and worked in a Seattle used musical instrument store where members of TAD, Screaming Trees, Nirvana and Pearl Jam shopped along with their millions of followers who flocked to Seattle from all over.
Wild times from long ago.
I was haunting the local pawn shops and music stores and attending the Warmoth garage sales which lead to a house full of antique synths, high end reel to reels and such.
I soon quit the wacky millionaires and worked in a Seattle used musical instrument store where members of TAD, Screaming Trees, Nirvana and Pearl Jam shopped along with their millions of followers who flocked to Seattle from all over.
Wild times from long ago.
I like grunge, but it's not "my" music. My music sucked by and large—Nickelback, Nu Metal, boy bands—but that's my generation. I have no special emotional affinity for it. When people my age claim(Ed) it did, it tees me off.
I clearly remember unplugging the TV from the one AC jack on the wall so the whole band could have power, the night of the first Gulf War. We were playing a dive that was so divey I doubt you can top it.
I was 15. Dreaming about the equipment I have now," not exactly obviously" but, I always hoped to have pro gear. And be almost good enough to use it.
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There are so many things that I like, and so many things that I don't like. When people ask me what I like I say, anything that's done well. And by done well I don't mean polished, though it can be. I mean it carries the spirit it's intended to carry. I like the rough edges.
Usually in music this spirit is found in the early representatives of a genre, before other people and executives come along trying to copy the essence of it. So I like a lot of early stuff in different genres.
There wasn't a whole lot going on in the 80's that floated my boat and I pretty much stopped listening to much radio once my favorite underground stations decided to start formally programming playlists from the then-new AOR charts rather than just playing new music from anyone they liked. Then in the 90's bands like Nirvana at least came along and did something with spirit, technically brilliant or not. Some other bands came along and did more with that. It wasn't my favorite era of music but at least in the early to mid 90s I could once again find music on the radio that I liked and wasn't the same old crap I'd been hearing for 20 years.
I was working as an electrician in a small construction company, barely keeping afloat in a collapsing economy of Soviet Union falling apart. It wasn't easy, especially with 2 y.o. son and elderly parents who lost all their savings in this collapse. The band I was in at the time was also falling apart which only added insult to injury.
But I remember seeing "Smells like teen spirit" for the first time. I was thinking "well, a handsome singer, nice video, catchy melody... this is definitely going to be a hit".
But I remember seeing "Smells like teen spirit" for the first time. I was thinking "well, a handsome singer, nice video, catchy melody... this is definitely going to be a hit".
Same thing I'm doing now... playing in honky tonks and dive bars. (only with better stuff) 
