What do you remember about the 90's??

[atomic charvel guy]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

bill,

it's wednesday. i'm gonna get you high today. you ain't got no work, and you ain't got nothing to do. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[lerxstcat]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

[ QUOTE ]
I so high right now ...I forgot to stop my ramblins at 2000 [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[/ QUOTE ]Nah, you're just up to 1990-14 now is all! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] It's good!

[Newc]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

1989 - Moved with the folks from New Orleans to Tennessee
1990 - Had a pissy little day-laborer job for about 2 months gutting the house next door (hey, I could walk to work in a minute [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]), Iraq invaded Kuwait, we rearranged their assholes.
1991 - My mom slipped on some shampoo or whatever that leaked out of a display rack of whatever it was at K-Mart and crushed her tailbone. She was ok at first because she was in such good physical shape (she and I moved all the furniture from N.O. to TN - 6 loads in our own cargo-type truck), but after a few months she went to the doctor to see if she was developing cancer, cuz she was feeling weak all the time and her back hurt, but she went to the chiropractor first, and he X-rayed her and that's when we found out she crushed her tailbone in the fall at K-Mart. She filed a suit on the advice of her chiropractor.
1991 - K-Mart's lawyers wanted to settle out of court, and the deal with her chiro and her lawyer was $5000, with doctor fees up to that point being $2000, and legal fees being $3000 [img]/images/graemlins/bs.gif[/img]
Shortly thereafter, the chiro lost both his practice AND his brand new restaurant to "sudden financial troubles" and the lawyer was disbarred by the State of TN because he was doing dirty deals as a part-time Juvie Court Judge in Memphis. K-Mart's financial troubles keep coming [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Karma? Coincidence? Wrath Of God? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Anyhoo, for the rest of the year I did all the cooking and cleaning and helped my Mom.
1992 - I got my GED and had the highest State Standard Score for both Writing and Science - still waiting on the certificate they said they'd send me. Had a couple of "here and there" temp jobs. Worked in an asphalt factory. Ya wanna talk about heat? Try working in a dust-filled room smelling molten vulcanized rubber in 120 degrees. I worked there for 3 months (June-August), and was laid off. Then they called me to come back, and I said "Not 'No', but 'HELL NO!'" [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Had a coupla more small temp jobs, but mostly I was still helping my Mom out. We sat around playing Nintendo for hours on end [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Bought my used GSP-21 Pro and then a Legend upgrade chip for it. Ditched all my pedals.
1993 - Traded a pair of Acoustic Research speakers that I paid $7 for to a local music store for a Vantage FV575 Flying V (got the ARs in New Orleans at my first job in 88 - collecting donations of physical goods (appliances, furniture, etc) for the Vietnam Veterans Association of America, to be sold through their discount Red, White, and Blue store. The speakers were from the '50s, and they just GAVE them away. I also had a Fender Musicmaster shortscale bass with a crappy home-brew refin - I pulled the frets off to make a fretless, then threw it in the trash when we left N.O. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]). I looked the speakers up on Ebay in '97 and I coulda sold 'em for $800 [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I still have the V, though [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Also got my first "band" - some guy and his brother and sister came in the local music store as I was ripping out some old Metallica on an Ibenhad and asked if I wanted to be in a band. To make a dull story short - they sucked, I rocked, we split [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Then I got in a band with their cousin and a REAL drummer, and we were together for 3 months. We formed on Halloween, and rehearsed at the drummer's house out in the boonies. He had no TV other than for the VCR and Nintendo, so we didn't find out a tornado had passed through until about 2 am when I got home [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
The band was named Willow, by the singer, since, as he said, there were Willow trees all over the area where we all 3 lived (I had one in our front yard, the singer's house had one in the yard, and the drummer had one in his yard). When I got home, the one in our yard had been blown over completely - roots and all [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Karma? Coincidence? Wrath Of God? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Anyhoo, we wrote 30 songs in 3 months (or at least started them, we only finished maybe 10) before we split due to the singer being run out of town by his Mudder-in-law. Couldn't find a singer, so me and the drummer split. Went to the singer's house further out in the sticks a few months later and we worked on the old songs and wrote more new ones.
The long drive to his house got real old so we split again.

1994 - Worked for a grocery store stocking shelves at night for $4.90 an hour (Union gig - losers) and then got called to interview for a book distributor (Penguin Books) in the warehouse for $6.50 an hour. I bailed on the losers at the grocery store with no ceremony [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Bought an Ibanez EX350 and Fender Mexican P-Bass that year. Hooked up with the singer again in another band ("Splitfyre" - can ya believe that?). My singer was the bassist, and there was gonna be two guitarists. The other guy was shred-happy. I mean, get-on-your-nerves-shred-happy. He could, however, read tablature once and nail a song he'd never heard. Unfortunately, he was not much use otherwise [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] The singer was a scrawny little guy who was deep into 80s Hair Bands and wanted to be those bands. I wanted something with a bit more musical integrity, so I split.
1995 - Worked on my own stuff and some of the old Willow tracks at home, bought an Alesis SR16 and learned how to do convincing drums. Got heavily into Playstation games [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Bought a crappy little 2-track recorder.
1996 - Just didn't give a **** about anything, really. Bought my Les Paul Standard.
1997 - Got my first computer since my first one in 1980 [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Times sure did change - a little [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Then we got Windows 95 on it and got online. Suddenly there was something to do [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Bought a Yamaha MT4X recorder and hooked up with the singer and drummer from Willow (singer moved back to town - his Mudder-in-law missed their kid [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img])
We wrote more new songs, rehashed the old songs, improved 'em a bit, recorded them to tape, then split again for whatever reason [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I worked on music a bit then got more into vidiot games and computers.
1998 - Penguin closed and moved to New York, I went to another factory, then quit after 3 months because it sucked total ass. Wandered the wasteland of the unemployed for 6 months into 1999 going for various interviews at places that weren't hiring me, but they'd hire every dumbass who couldn't pass a drug test, then complain publicly in a Letter To The Editor about not finding drug-free employees [img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img] I almost went for the Corrections Officer job (made a 98% on the test), but to put me in GenPop without a loaded gun in my hand ready to fire for only $1500 a month didn't sound too pleasing.
Luckily, there was a better interview for a factory coming up the day I would have started the Corrections Officer job, so I called and bailed [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
I didn't get the better-paying, less-dangerous factory job [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
Then in December of 99 I FINALLY got hired in as a temp at Firestone (where I am now). I worked there 3 months and they offered me full-time because I brought in a wondrous little gadget that improved productivity on one particular part by at least 200% [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
2000 - Got back together with the same singer and drummer [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Had to order a new trem for my Ibanez, since after 5 years of abuse it finally died. Three months later, the trem came in. 2 days earlier, I had traded the guitar AND my Ibenhad acoustic for my first Jackson - A KX10D [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
We kept the band for about a year or so, then split again for the same old reasons.

Newc

[JacksonConcept]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

I remember hating Grunge especially Nirvana, and I played in 3 different 80's Metal Cover bands & 1 Classic rock/Original band, lots of gigs, girls, and guitars.

Now There's no band, no gigs, no girls, most of my guitars are gone, my hair is falling out, My belly is protruding, I can't stop the ear hair from growing, I still hate Grunge, and I record 80's Metal covers on my PC.

[pro-fusion]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

1990: I move to L.A. to become the next shred guitar phenom. My prized Jackson Soloist promptly gets stolen from my apartment...

1991: The year of a zillion guitars. Being young, single, and living on a diet of Top Ramen and Big Gulps, I spend all my money on geetars--PRS, Ibanez Universe, Steinberger...good ****. Discover that the music industry, having decided that talentless grunge hacks are The Thing, doesn't need or want another shred guitar phenom, so I move back in with my parents and decide what to do with that college degree I got a couple of years prior.

1992: Decide, "hey I'm gonna go to law school, because I'm good at arguing with my parents!" Cut my hair off. Work in a series of shitty industrial temp jobs having just missed the cutoff to take the LSAT exam and apply for the 92-93 school year. Guitars--Fender HM Strat, Yamaha Weddington Custom.

1993--Move to Washington DC to go to law school along with all the other young liberal arts majors who can't figure out anything better to do. Discover that I seem to be the only recovering metal musician amongst the preppy law students. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] But at least I can shock them with some of my stories...that's fun!

1994--Lots of costly long-distance calls and plane trips to see my co-dependent girlfriend. Not studying enough to get good enough grades to get a decent job after law school. Largely abandon metal music for prog rock. Main guitar--Ibanez Sabre.

1995--Get engaged. Get unengaged. Meet Future Wife. Get a much-beloved Les Paul Custom Black Beauty.

1996--Graduate from law school to greet future of underemployment and crushing school loan debt due to previously mentioned failure to study enough. Start dating Future Wife. Work for conservative activist group--fun work, but not paying bills...no new fun guitars.

1997--Move into cheap apartment in neighborhood composed almost entirely of illegal immigrants. Have to sell beloved LP Custom to pay rent one month. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Shitty year, except for following the band Yes up and down the east coast--one of the side benefits of working at a nonprofit run by a Deadhead! Main guitar--Warmoth strat

1998--Get formally engaged to Future Wife, who moves into my apartment overlooking Little El Salvador. Move into digital age by purchasing both PC and digital recorder. Main guitar: Warmoth EB/MM EVH copy--one of the 'biggest' sounding guitars I've ever owned.

1999--Get married. Move into rental house in neighborhood full of Americans. Totally blind to imminent financial troubles that would result over the next couple of years from moving out of cheap apartment without dramatic increase in salary. Start getting into '70s funk music. Rapidly losing interest or awareness in current pop/rock music--not yet aware of metal underground. Main guitars--PRS CE-24, Jackson Ltd. Ed. '88.

[LesPaulCustom]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

Damn yall remember EVERYTHING about the 90's....I can sum it up in 2 lines..

Got married, had babies, hated my husband, husband cheated, I cheated, discovered internet chatrooms, hated husband even more, tried to kill husband, left his sorry ass...moved on....Mr LPC comes in during Dec of 2000...

Mrs LPC

[Tekky]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

Awww, I love a good luv story... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[fuel0707]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

1989-1995 - worked for Boeing. During this time scored several guitars including a Valley Arts that I worked a ton of O/T to afford. Also got a Lee Jackson/Ampeg half-stack that I've still got. Even got a Taylor 710.

1995-2000 - moved to Dallas/Fort Worth and worked for American Airlines. Scored a Grosh and my wife got me a PRS McCarty for a surprise birthday gift. Also snagged two Rivera amps and my first Jackson, a strat-head in a snakeskin finish.

I remember seeing lots of great concerts: Ozzy (on his first retirement tour), Rush with Primus, Robert Plant with the Black Crowes, Eric Johnson a few times, Living Colour and even Pride and Glory (Zakk Wylde's much-missed band project). My wife and I even got to see Spinal Tap on their "Break like the Wind" tour, too.

[Cleveland Metal]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

Umm, yeah... The 90s.. Umm... Yeah... Was that what happened right after the 80s? Umm, right... Let me get back with you...

Seemed pretty uneventful as I remember...

I think we blew some **** up in the Middle East, and I forget the rest.

[lerxstcat]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

Actually that was Jimmy Page touring with the Black Crowes, not Plant. Chris Robinson wouldn't have had much to do on that tour otherwise.

[ABSOLUT CHARVEL]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

1990: My first born (daughter)
1992: My second child born (daughter)
1994: My third child born (son)
1994&a half: snipped

[mudkicker]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

1989 to 1994 Served in the U.S. Navy, I was a Inflight Ordnanceman on the Lockheed P-3C sub hunter killer. When I separated from the Navy I was the last enlisted flyer in that squadron who had flown against real Russian subs.
1995 bought my first house, missed the Loretta Lynn amateur national motocross race by one place. worked for the Veterans administration.
1996 Raced Budds Creek amateur day. Traded away my 1977 strat for a Charvel model 375, it was cool then because the strat wasn't worth the price of fire wood. But now it's worth something and the Charvel ain't worth the price of firewood. I have only played this Charvel maybe 3 times.
1997 Quit the government( what was i thinking) and started working for Norfolk Southern railroad as a freight conductor. played a lot of softball in my off time.
1998 worked a ton. Sold my first house purchased my second.
1999 Turned 30 and told my wife i was grown up and was ready for kids. The bitch went and got pregnant with triplets in 2000.
I guess I might have had something to do with that, I should blame her for everything. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
2001 The triplets were born, sold off my dirt bike.
2002 I was loosing my sanity as a stay at home dad, when i stumbled across the JCF. Since joining I need to be committed. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[JacksonJuiceBox]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

89- got born
90-98 - grew up
99-started playing guitar

[RacerX]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

Somebody on this thread is writing a book! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Newc]

Re: What do you remember about the 90\'s??

Who me? Well, hey, I did get that Writing citation [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Newc