Where were You in 1996
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mcblink
Ambassador of Riffs & Spliffs
96 was a decent year for heavy music.
Where was I?
I was still a teenager, and in 1996 I was still locking myself in my bedroom for hours and hours and grinding away at guitar. Looking back, if I saw my own son put the kind of time into it as I did back then, I'd be very concerned about him. I didn't care about social interaction, friends, chasing girls, likewise, my grades, attendance and education, or anything usually considered "important" in life. All I cared about was playing that damn guitar. Still, to a degree, that's all I actually really care about. Sometimes to my own detriment.
1996 gave us The Great Southern Trendkill but it also gave us Load. We got Opeth's Morningstar that year, Sepultura's Roots, Iced Earth's The Dark Saga, and a bunch of others.
Anyway, 1996
Where was I?
I was still a teenager, and in 1996 I was still locking myself in my bedroom for hours and hours and grinding away at guitar. Looking back, if I saw my own son put the kind of time into it as I did back then, I'd be very concerned about him. I didn't care about social interaction, friends, chasing girls, likewise, my grades, attendance and education, or anything usually considered "important" in life. All I cared about was playing that damn guitar. Still, to a degree, that's all I actually really care about. Sometimes to my own detriment.
1996 gave us The Great Southern Trendkill but it also gave us Load. We got Opeth's Morningstar that year, Sepultura's Roots, Iced Earth's The Dark Saga, and a bunch of others.
Anyway, 1996
Amp Mad Scientist
Ambassador of Heresy
If I recall correctly, I was living in Poipu. Ah yes the sound of lapping waves sings me to sleep.
Good dive spot above average.
In fact, this very building Kuhio Shores.
Good dive spot above average.
In fact, this very building Kuhio Shores.
Let’s see. 1996. Took the kids on an East Coast trip. Pennsylvania. Boston. (Took in a Sox game). New York. Niagara Falls. My eldest started his senior year in HS. I got my AA degree from the local community college. Something I’d been doing evening classes since back in the 80s to achieve.
jtcnj
Ambassador of the Crossroad
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time..." 
I was married a few years, with 2 small children, (conceived AFTER marriage). Had just bought our second "starter home" (a step up in sq ft. from a tiny renovated bungalow), which we are still in.
It is paid off though, except for some equity loan debt.
I was married a few years, with 2 small children, (conceived AFTER marriage). Had just bought our second "starter home" (a step up in sq ft. from a tiny renovated bungalow), which we are still in.
It is paid off though, except for some equity loan debt.
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Ghostman
Ambassador of the SuperNatural
I remember that song "Pepper" mostly from a skiing video. I have no idea what movie it was, but that song was in the documentary. Loved it when I heard it.
1996 I was adrift. My Dad passed away at the end of 1995 and I had a LOT happen in 1996 that a younging had no way to know how to handle. Got my ass kicked into "Life" real quick.
1996 I was adrift. My Dad passed away at the end of 1995 and I had a LOT happen in 1996 that a younging had no way to know how to handle. Got my ass kicked into "Life" real quick.
DirtySteve
Ambassador of Hold My Beer
I was in San Jose California serving my last year in the military.
Recording things like this and working full time in a bar band...
Listen to Can't Get You Off My Mind - Lenny Kravitz Cover - Demo From 1996 by Von Herndon on #SoundCloud
Listen to Can't Get You Off My Mind - Lenny Kravitz Cover - Demo From 1996 by Von Herndon on #SoundCloud
Clockworkmike
Ambassador of STACKS in WV SHACKS
Holy poop that is almost note for note exactly what I was doing too lol pretty cool to know I wasn't alone out there.
I was 13, a year into guitar and obsessed. Summertime, I would mow lawns and help dad rewire houses for some spending money and blow all of it on cds, Guitar World and Guitar Player Magazines and actually scored my first Gibson and Marshall that year when I wasnt pissing away the rest of what I made lol
I would go hang with my buddy, but only after spending morning to later afternoon playing on days off. Rest of the time, as soon as I got off the bus I was in my room until dad would yell at me to shut the hell up because he had work in the morning lol.
Like any teen, I definitely WOULD'VE chased after girls but they weren't interested in me, so guitar got even more attention: call it "frustration" lol. But school grades began dropping quick because I was more interested in talking about music than paying attention to some BS algebra ( which I STILL have yet to use in my daily life, though I always loved literature and history especially and still did good there). I didn't have a lot of friends to begin with and the one I usually hung out with began flaking on me, so I found a few new ones who were just like me and that was due to us talking about music and guitar (namely that would be @froman5150 actually lol)
Musically speaking? Of course I saw Butthole Surfers "Pepper" all the time on MTV and my other friend had bought their album and we'd listen to it. But the big albums I remember the most were Pantera "The Great Southern Trendkill", TOOL "Aenima", Slayer "Undisputed Attitude", Van Halen "Best Of Volume 1" and Metallica "Load"...that one didn't stick around for me though lol
Playing original gigs in any dive that would have us….writing some of the most fun music of my life…felt fairly lucky.
C-Grin
Ambassador of Wonderland
I was doing a bit of reminiscing about the bamd and I ran across this comment and thought it was funny.
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2 years agoPepper came out when I was in high school and I remember thinking at the time, "Man, this band is strange!" Little did I know then that THAT was their LEAST strange song!
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Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
96 I wasn’t playing at all, I had put it down in 93. And I was struggling to stay busy, but getting enough to get by. Had just finished a huge Mormon church in Thousand Oaks and had to do a lot of piece work, for pennies just to eat, and pay the bills.
But it did get better.
Cheers
But it did get better.
Cheers
Sapient
Ambassador of Vocal Inspiration
I won't accept the '90s, then or now. 
era that tilted America to nothing but doom and gloom. Never has really changed since then either.
For those that remember, the party was over the 1st moment after the '80s when the cultural torch was passed over to Nirvana to bring us meth, school shootings, suicide, cultural depression, desexing, and about every other culture raping downward spiral element that America had once never known or could have even fathomed.
Sorry, unfortunately no happy go lucky words on this topic from me. We might as well discuss the birth of the end of the world.
era that tilted America to nothing but doom and gloom. Never has really changed since then either.For those that remember, the party was over the 1st moment after the '80s when the cultural torch was passed over to Nirvana to bring us meth, school shootings, suicide, cultural depression, desexing, and about every other culture raping downward spiral element that America had once never known or could have even fathomed.
Sorry, unfortunately no happy go lucky words on this topic from me. We might as well discuss the birth of the end of the world.
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ibmorjamn
Ambassador of Moar Jammin
It is what it is. I was focused on making money. I will agree with you but I did start travel to Hawaii in early 90's and that began a long journey of travel that I don't have any regrets over. We have been to the four most popular Hawaiian islands and 2 of them twice or more.I won't accept the '90s, then or now.
For those that remember, the party was over the 1st moment after the '80s when the cultural torch was passed over to Nirvana to bring us meth, school shootings, suicide, cultural depression, desexing, and about every other culture raping downward spiral element that America had once never known or could have even fathomed.
Sorry, unfortunately no happy go lucky words on this topic from me. We might as well discuss the birth of the end of the world.
Even took the kids one year around 92.
We went to the Pyramid's in Mexico,Jamaica, Bahama's twice. So on an so forth. Times were good and times were bad. Sometimes are just "time "
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I can see/appreciate a lot of what Sapient mentioned during that period, but ive always survived by creating a bubble for myself.
Like, in my car, there's nothing butc1970's & 1980's music. Its like a time machine..
Summer of 1990 was probably the most fun i ever had with my little group of friends.
In December 1989, I had just moved back to the Central Valley after failing to "make it" on the Sunset Strip and doing guitar tech work. It was a tough time for me.
I hooked up with my only constant chum from my youth and we started cruising Visalia every weekend looking for street races. He introduced me to some of his friends (he was a few years younger than me) and we created this crazy little clique that all liked beer, fast cars and cruising.
I raced a guy one night, (on Avenue 272 in Visalia just east of Highway 99) betting a $100 bill against his GF spending the rest of the night cruising with me. My 429 SCJ killed his 454 Camaro and i got the girl on the spot.
The girl left him that night and her and I dated for three years. She took me home to meet her parents that night and her mom just liked me right from the get-go. The girl (Monica) and i are still friends on Facebook. We likely would have stayed together long term, but she had a scholarship opportunity and i encouraged her to take it, even though it meant her going far, far away.
She told me a couple of years ago that i was the only person in her life that encouraged her and made her feel empowered...like she could do anything, and she said that kept her going through the dark times.
She also told me that she still has my class ring and still wears it on a pendant.
I still have Kodak Disc negatives (remember those???) With pics from that time period, but dont know how we would ever get them developed.
We had so much fun that summer....
The local drive in had recently gone bankrupt and the elevated projector room was our favorite hideaway.
A mutual friend had worked there and had keys, so we turned it into a private hideout. We had lava lamps and black light posters, plus beads we gleaned from some friends. It was a very cool place with a great view looking north.
Monica told me one afternoon that she was the only one of her GF's that had never had a 'real sexual experience,' other than just fooling around and she said she wanted to 'go all the way.'
I told her that i really liked her and was wildly attracted to her, but cautioned her that this was a big step and suggested she think about it and discuss it with her Mom.
The Mom asked to meet with us both (Monica wasn't quite 18 yet) and she told me how happy she was that i had so much respect for her daughter and the mom told Monica (right there) that she was giving her permission to do what she wanted too, as long as we were "responsible."
So, when i say this was a "great summer," it was great on just so many levels.
Today, all that remains is the Theatre sign...
Like, in my car, there's nothing butc1970's & 1980's music. Its like a time machine..
Summer of 1990 was probably the most fun i ever had with my little group of friends.
In December 1989, I had just moved back to the Central Valley after failing to "make it" on the Sunset Strip and doing guitar tech work. It was a tough time for me.
I hooked up with my only constant chum from my youth and we started cruising Visalia every weekend looking for street races. He introduced me to some of his friends (he was a few years younger than me) and we created this crazy little clique that all liked beer, fast cars and cruising.
I raced a guy one night, (on Avenue 272 in Visalia just east of Highway 99) betting a $100 bill against his GF spending the rest of the night cruising with me. My 429 SCJ killed his 454 Camaro and i got the girl on the spot.
The girl left him that night and her and I dated for three years. She took me home to meet her parents that night and her mom just liked me right from the get-go. The girl (Monica) and i are still friends on Facebook. We likely would have stayed together long term, but she had a scholarship opportunity and i encouraged her to take it, even though it meant her going far, far away.
She told me a couple of years ago that i was the only person in her life that encouraged her and made her feel empowered...like she could do anything, and she said that kept her going through the dark times.
She also told me that she still has my class ring and still wears it on a pendant.
I still have Kodak Disc negatives (remember those???) With pics from that time period, but dont know how we would ever get them developed.
We had so much fun that summer....
The local drive in had recently gone bankrupt and the elevated projector room was our favorite hideaway.
A mutual friend had worked there and had keys, so we turned it into a private hideout. We had lava lamps and black light posters, plus beads we gleaned from some friends. It was a very cool place with a great view looking north.
Monica told me one afternoon that she was the only one of her GF's that had never had a 'real sexual experience,' other than just fooling around and she said she wanted to 'go all the way.'
I told her that i really liked her and was wildly attracted to her, but cautioned her that this was a big step and suggested she think about it and discuss it with her Mom.
The Mom asked to meet with us both (Monica wasn't quite 18 yet) and she told me how happy she was that i had so much respect for her daughter and the mom told Monica (right there) that she was giving her permission to do what she wanted too, as long as we were "responsible."
So, when i say this was a "great summer," it was great on just so many levels.
Today, all that remains is the Theatre sign...
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1996?
I was married by that point and had three children. I wasn't playing any music at all, and my guitar was in it's case. I had only one guitar at the time: my 1974 Gibson SG. I was barely paying attention to any music except for what was being played at work.
In some ways, I miss that time. Things were a little simpler for me, personally. Though I have no actual regrets, there are times I wish I could revisit some things and make some minor tweaks.
I was married by that point and had three children. I wasn't playing any music at all, and my guitar was in it's case. I had only one guitar at the time: my 1974 Gibson SG. I was barely paying attention to any music except for what was being played at work.
In some ways, I miss that time. Things were a little simpler for me, personally. Though I have no actual regrets, there are times I wish I could revisit some things and make some minor tweaks.