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no need to talk about how great life was before the internet fat skis and cell phone cameras in the heroin thread
ski town life peaked in the 80's and some of us got the left overs in the 90's
I have a faded b&w photo on my desk from 1993 circa in Arizona blazed out of my mind camping/road trip
the glory days
No fat skis but we were all 30 years younger.Quote:
Originally Posted by fastfred
I'd take that.
See avatar.
Yep... finishing college, moving out west, discovering skiing, discovering powder skiing, traveling... the 90's were a fine time, from a personal standpoint.
Lived in Hermosa Beach 90-97, a little 1 bed, 1 bath 800 sq foot bungalow 3 blocks to the beach with a yard and a model T sized garage. Rent was $850 a month and roommate was a hot redhead girlfriend/wife. Someone was always bringing by a shark or yellow tail or bag full of lobsters or summer shrimp depending on the season and a BBQ party would break out in the back alley with all the neighbors. Surfing, skating on the strand, fishing, blowing the fuck out of the world on July 4th, we looked good and we're having a great life. It was an amazing time and place.
I always tell kids, at some point in your young lives, go live at the beach.
Seeing Phish and Pearl Jam in bars and clubs, GD Spring tour in 1990, moving to Seattle 3 weeks before Smells Like Teen Spirit broke, skiing the volcanos before AT gear was widespread, getting married, having kids, ….
The ‘90s were a great decade.
When listening to some of the great music of the 90s I'm transported back to hanging out with my friends, at that stage where you feel invincible and the world is full of exciting possibilities. I read recently that we should not get annoyed by the music of today. We should feel sorry for the teenagers that are growing with it and for whom it will become the soundtrack of their lives.
And yeah, I'm so happy that there were no phones to record for posterity that stupid things that I said or did when I was younger! And that I didn't have to worry to maintain a good, perfectly curated online presence.
Some things were worse, for sure (trying to figure out how to get to a new place with only a vague description of the route, for example), but I'm happy that when people got together they were not also checking their phones to find out what someone they met in passing a few years ago and who lives 1000 miles away is having for lunch, but now this is considered normal.
There was great music in the 90s?
Musta missed it.
Heh, saw Phish on "$2 Tuesdays" at the 23 East in Ardmore, PA, but that was December 1989. Saw them many times in the early 90s, until the scene became too Grateful Dead like (I retired as a Deadhead in 1990). I wish I had gone to see Nirvana and Pearl Jam (Mookie Blaylock) before they became big. The early 90s in Seattle did introduce me to great beer and coffee, two things that were fairly exclusive to the NW back then. Fuck, Pike Place Pale Ale was goddam nectar of the gods, until the brewery got bought and they changed it.
Became a ski bum in the 90s. That was a good thing.
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Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
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My gateway beer, from the *very* early 90's:Quote:
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GTFOQuote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
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A great car, a hot girlfriend, endless opportunity ahead, cheap cold beer in an igloo playmate cooler in the cargo area, bubblegum weed in the hidden compartment, lifeguarding at a second-tier waterpark, never missing a ski day at the local bump, out-fucking standing music, skis on the roof in the winter, windows and roof open in the summer, no where to go and everywhere to go and all the time in the world to get there.
The 90s were a great fucking time.
GET OUT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...t=twenty+years
Someone forgot about Dre
Wifey and I saw the Breeders and Mazzy Star on back to back nights at the Hollywood Palace c. '93, those were fantastic shows. I'd do anything for Hope Sandoval.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
I grew up skiing a small mountain in VT that no longer exists (Ascutney)
Stopped for a while when we moved to the south coast of MA
College friend got me back into skiing
He moved out west after graduating to work at WP as an instructor
I went to visit, it snowed a foot while I was there, I moved out to Boulder in 2000
Put some yellow XScreams on layaway at Boulder Ski Deals
Went to the Matchstick premiere for Ski Movie
Seth Morrison was in the box office selling tickets
Lights went down
Opening riff from "Barracuda" started playing
Good times
Holy shit. We probably bumped into each other and didn't know it. Spring tour '90 was off the hook. I stumbled out of The Front after Phish's last show with about a dozen pint glasses under my jacket. Well, I had more but I dropped a handful on the sidewalk in front of the bouncers who were telling us all to go the fuck away. Amy's farm was about when my Phish experience ended.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
So much more to the 90s than GD and Phish.
Finished high school, went to college, lived in Florence Italy, then NYC. Loved the rock and rap of the 90s…still do. Didn’t ski much, worked my ass off in college and in NYC. Met my future wife mid 90s. Remember thinking I was the shit in ‘99 walking around Manhattan with a cell phone the size of a small brick. Would like to slap that douche [emoji23]
Excellent reference... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AdironRider
Going from 80s to 90s music was sooooo refreshing
Will never forget the first time I heard Nirvana, Pearl Jam, so much energy. The PJ movie "Twenty" really captured it well I thought.
Listening to the local high school radio station and hearing this awesome guitar tone, "that was this new band, Phish"
Was talking to friends in the neighborhood we live in now, turns out we were all at the same Phish show at Sugarbush in 1994 lol
Seeing RATM at UMass in 1993
Taking the bus from UMass to Northampton and seeing shows at Pearl Street
How long did you live in Florence? I should have done that in the early 90's...Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
I'm convinced that Peruvian and I must have shared a joint in some parking lot (or maybe a beer at the Comet or the Buckaroo) many years before we met on TTips.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Relax..... its not that the time was so awesome or the music was so great.
That there is the key, you were young.Quote:
A great car, a hot girlfriend, endless opportunity ahead
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Never got too deep into Mazzy Star, but Fade Into You on the radio, driving on warm summer night with windows down is a memory I can practically tasteQuote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain