
goldwing68nv
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so we've pretty much decided
1. The 80's were awesome if you were there![]()
2. The 80's would have been fucking awesome if you would have been there.![]()
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so we've pretty much decided
1. The 80's were awesome if you were there![]()
2. The 80's would have been fucking awesome if you would have been there.![]()
ShaneV":3leo7ujw said:Dude, my fifth birthday party in 1988 was off the CHAIN! Clowns all up in this bitch.
ShaneV":iih4tpjv said:Dude, my fifth birthday party in 1988 was off the CHAIN! Clowns all up in this bitch.
Chubtone":1e8foez8 said:ShaneV":1e8foez8 said:Dude, my fifth birthday party in 1988 was off the CHAIN! Clowns all up in this bitch.
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AMENracerevlon":30t0fwey said:The Sunset Strip was THE place to be in the 80's. Was like a blank check for drugs, booze, and some of the hottest women on the planet willing to compete to see who could get more of what was left on the deli tray up their ass for a chance to get on the bus...
The 80's were all about having a good time, then came the 90's, "I hate my life," and Generation Apathy...
Never been a party like that since, and I doubt there ever will be...
ejecta":svw50zir said:.....I loved a lot of the 90's music because IMHO some of the bands had much better written songs and I welcomed those bands killing what was becoming a laughable trend in the music of 80's.
TeleBlaster":2262gmro said:Ahhh the 80's.
I grew up in the rust belt in the 80's. My Dad lost his job as Production Manager of the world's largest heat treating company when they shut the doors.
Unemployment in the area I lived in broke 18%. Many large manufacturing and heavy industry companies disappeared. Home values plummeted and foreclosures were rampant, sorta like the times we live in now, but at the time it was fortunately limited to the rust belt area. Very intense era, watched my parents file for bankruptcy and lose their life savings and our family home, foreclosure, etc. Dad got a job managing a small foundry and bought another house, but they closed up a year later and we were out on the street again. I started working full time nights at a restaurant when I was 15, and going to high school during the day, giving everything except gas money to my parents. I somehow managed to graduate a year early but could not afford to take the time off for commencement lest I lose my job, so I got my diploma in the mail. I did the best I could to help out my parents until I turned 20 in 1985, and by then I couldn't take it anymore and had to live my own life so I moved to Arizona. I went 8 weeks before I could find any work. I lived in a house with smashed out windows and no hot water with a bunch of guys I didn't know. I slept in a sleeping bag, on an old mattress I found in the back alley that I dragged into "my" room. I had my wallet stolen, in it my last $42.00 and my ID. I finally found a job five miles away and walked back and forth to work until I saved up enough to buy a car at auction. I had sold my car in Milwaukee before I moved, to buy a one way plane ticket to Phoenix. I somehow managed to get an apartment and make some headway in life and got married in 1986. We fought almost daily for about two years. My wife was a cop. I got pistol whipped a few times, seriously. Didn't think we would make it but last May we celebrated our 25th Anniversary. Things got better in 1988 when my son was born and we managed to buy a house, but in early '89 because of the owner's shenanigans, my company got raided by the Feds and shut down. While unemployed, I got mixed up in a high speed chase ending in a shooting... too long to tell the details here, but I was in serious trouble for a few months until I was cleared, really just in the wrong place at the wrong time!
SO anyways, the 80's weren't all parties and good times for everyone. They kinda sucked for me and I'm glad they're gone forever.
THIS^MisterBulbous":3ezs5jv7 said:Chubtone":3ezs5jv7 said:I moved to LA in 1985. How fun was it? How ridiculous was the partying? Use your imagination and be very creative.The band I moved to LA with at the Troubador in Hollywood. Rocking the '84 Charvel San Dimas
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Chubtone; that picture is wild.![]()
I graduated HS in 1985 and the 80's were pure magic for guitar-oriented music. Everything from Pat Travers, to Yngwie, to Satriani, to Gary Moore, and probably 1000 other examples - or course kicked-off by Van Halen. I've always had mixed feelings on the term "hair metal" as in the 80's and early '90's there was no such term. I think that word originated in the 1997 time frame and has a lot of inaccurate references. The glammish stuff like Poison, Warrant, Cinderalla, was not considered "metal" at the time because that space was occupied by Iron Maiden, Saxon, JP, Metallica, etc.
racerevlon":1zlm4snh said:The Sunset Strip was THE place to be in the 80's. Was like a blank check for drugs, booze, and some of the hottest women on the planet willing to compete to see who could get more of what was left on the deli tray up their ass for a chance to get on the bus...
The 80's were all about having a good time, then came the 90's, "I hate my life," and Generation Apathy...
Never been a party like that since, and I doubt there ever will be...
Chubtone":f0ayua49 said:That was one of the main things I didn't get about the 90's. What good was it to be in a band if you weren't enjoying yourself? Why were those guys so miserable and WHY did they get even more miserable when they made it huge and became filthy rich?Plus girls didn't wash their hair and dressed like slobs and ate way too many cheeseburgers if you know what I mean. The guy who works for me is 31 and has been working here for 16 years. He loved the cheesy, glam bands as a kid and their videos. He complained through the whole 90's about why the chicks tried to look hot and dress hot in the 80's and how women in the 90's were the laziest, most boring decade and that was HIS glory days.