What were YOU doing in 1990?

Quakindude · December 11th, 2006

On another forum I frequent, the subject of a band called Temple of the Dog was brought up. That took me down memory lane and I'm now going to call my sister to ask for a couple of records I let her "borrow" ten years ago.

Anyway, here's my mental Van Gogh from that time period.

I was stationed at Fort Ord, CA in November of 1990. I was roaring up on one year since Operation Just Cause in Panama. Since I didn't have the fare to fly home for Thanksgiving, and my wife was in New York visiting her soon to be deceased grandmother, I took some friends up on an invite to go on a Motorcycling journey up to Washington to go to the Backstage Tavern to see Nirvana on the 24th or 25th, can't recall exactly. We made it up there, with no small amount of weather bruising due to the time of year, and ended up getting snowed in at one of my buddy's parents house. Just a couple hours south of Seattle. That was on the 18th. One of Max's cousins had heard of a new Band Tribute called Temple of the Dog and wanted to know if we wanted to go. It was at the Off Road Cafe...or Off Range Cafe, something like that. Well, circumstances being what the were, it was a 2 hour drive and we were too drunk to go anyway, we never made it to see them.

We did make it to see Nirvana though. It was about a year later, while stationed in Korea, that Chris Maxwell showed up over there, newly divorced and missing a large part of his left calf due to a motorcycling accident, that I found out the whole deal behind the Temple of the Dog. I still have that album on vinyl somewhere, probably my sisters house.

Man, it was an awesome time to be stationed in Cali. The Seattle band scene was just getting into full swing and I saw Nirvana once more in San Fransisco in 1991 while home on leave from Korea. It was the first time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. Back then, we called it Garage Grunge music. My buddies and I followed the music all up and down the West Coast on our motorcycles. A rag-tag collection of naked racers, full on sporties and even a Harley in our midsts. I was on my like new Honda Interceptor 750, on my way back from San Loius Obisbo with three others when I had my first accident due to wind blown sand across the coastal highway. That little incident cost me a stripe and some money. I was the highest ranking guy, an E-3, and we were all a little hung over and hauling ass back to Salinas to grab a quick nap before having to be at work in 7 hours. Wind blown sand and our bad condition cost one guy his ability to walk for the rest of his life.

If I could change anything about those couple of years I spent in California, it would be my buddy, who's name I've forgotten, riding his motorcycle so late into the night with us. We all knew he shouldn't have been riding, but we were 10 foot tall and bullet proof.

Man, we rode all over the damned place. From Seattle, down through Oregon and into California in the winter time to Las Vegas, Arizona and Mexico in the Summer time. In those two years, I put over 100,000 miles on two bikes. 25k on the Interceptor and over 80k on one of the first Katana's I could get my hands on.

Memory lane. Ain't she a b!tch?

Tyreal · December 11th, 2006

Well if you really want to know, I was being born.

polobunny · December 11th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Tyreal

Well if you really want to know, I was being born.

You were also sucking on them, you sly dog.

**Hitman** · December 12th, 2006

In 1990 I started the year as a Junior in HS and Ended the year as a Senior in HS. I joined the National Guard my Junior Year, and in the summer between my Junior and Senior year I went to Basic Training for the Army. My Senior year I ran track and Cross Country, and went to State for both sports.

onebxr · December 12th, 2006

1st year of college, so I was probably drunk that year.
-1

pc_guy · December 12th, 2006

Playing with my new, state of the art Pentium computer -
90Mhz Pentium
8MB of Ram
1.2 GB HDD
28.8k modem
4x cd-rom
256KB of secondary cache (Later stolen when at FutureShop for service)
IR port with remote (this is the only thing I would have liked every computer to have as a standard feature)
$4000!

EDIT:
Just read the thread title again, I though you wanted the whole 1990's.
1990, I was on a plane over the Atlantic on my way to Canada for the first time.

Dread · December 12th, 2006

In 1990 I was wrapping up my tour as a DS at Jackson and preparing to deploy to the sandbox. Nothing memorable.

Sovereign · December 12th, 2006

Let's see, I was two years old.

Panda Man · December 12th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Sovereign

Let's see, I was two years old.

ditto.

Mithosphere · December 12th, 2006

lol i was just turning three, and sometime between me turning two and then three i drank a can of beer, ate pinecones, and was playing with Transformers, i think i could be wrong, i have not much memory of anything past 2-3 years ago

December 11th, 2006	#1
Quakindude I'm Diggin it! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Fort Rucker, AL. Posts: 2,757 Blog Entries: 7	What were YOU doing in 1990? On another forum I frequent, the subject of a band called Temple of the Dog was brought up. That took me down memory lane and I'm now going to call my sister to ask for a couple of records I let her "borrow" ten years ago. Anyway, here's my mental Van Gogh from that time period. I was stationed at Fort Ord, CA in November of 1990. I was roaring up on one year since Operation Just Cause in Panama. Since I didn't have the fare to fly home for Thanksgiving, and my wife was in New York visiting her soon to be deceased grandmother, I took some friends up on an invite to go on a Motorcycling journey up to Washington to go to the Backstage Tavern to see Nirvana on the 24th or 25th, can't recall exactly. We made it up there, with no small amount of weather bruising due to the time of year, and ended up getting snowed in at one of my buddy's parents house. Just a couple hours south of Seattle. That was on the 18th. One of Max's cousins had heard of a new Band Tribute called Temple of the Dog and wanted to know if we wanted to go. It was at the Off Road Cafe...or Off Range Cafe, something like that. Well, circumstances being what the were, it was a 2 hour drive and we were too drunk to go anyway, we never made it to see them. We did make it to see Nirvana though. It was about a year later, while stationed in Korea, that Chris Maxwell showed up over there, newly divorced and missing a large part of his left calf due to a motorcycling accident, that I found out the whole deal behind the Temple of the Dog. I still have that album on vinyl somewhere, probably my sisters house. Man, it was an awesome time to be stationed in Cali. The Seattle band scene was just getting into full swing and I saw Nirvana once more in San Fransisco in 1991 while home on leave from Korea. It was the first time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. Back then, we called it Garage Grunge music. My buddies and I followed the music all up and down the West Coast on our motorcycles. A rag-tag collection of naked racers, full on sporties and even a Harley in our midsts. I was on my like new Honda Interceptor 750, on my way back from San Loius Obisbo with three others when I had my first accident due to wind blown sand across the coastal highway. That little incident cost me a stripe and some money. I was the highest ranking guy, an E-3, and we were all a little hung over and hauling ass back to Salinas to grab a quick nap before having to be at work in 7 hours. Wind blown sand and our bad condition cost one guy his ability to walk for the rest of his life. If I could change anything about those couple of years I spent in California, it would be my buddy, who's name I've forgotten, riding his motorcycle so late into the night with us. We all knew he shouldn't have been riding, but we were 10 foot tall and bullet proof. Man, we rode all over the damned place. From Seattle, down through Oregon and into California in the winter time to Las Vegas, Arizona and Mexico in the Summer time. In those two years, I put over 100,000 miles on two bikes. 25k on the Interceptor and over 80k on one of the first Katana's I could get my hands on. Memory lane. Ain't she a b!tch? Q6600@ 3.2GHz w/ CNPS9700 \| EVGA 780i \| 2Gb Corsair DDR2-800 \| EVGA GTX 280 1Gb Video \| 1x WD 640Gb HDD, 2x Seagate 400Gb HDD, 1x250Gb WD \| 2x Samsung SH-203B Opticals \| Antec 900 \| ABS/Tagan BZ700 700W PSU

December 11th, 2006	#2
Tyreal Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 2,557	Re: What were YOU doing in 1990? Well if you really want to know, I was being born. I Like Watercooling. D-Tek Fuzion, MCP655, MCR220

December 12th, 2006	#4
Hitman Functional Alcoholic Join Date: May 2006 Location: 14S E:561116 N:3830189 Posts: 4,569 Blog Entries: 2	Re: What were YOU doing in 1990? In 1990 I started the year as a Junior in HS and Ended the year as a Senior in HS. I joined the National Guard my Junior Year, and in the summer between my Junior and Senior year I went to Basic Training for the Army. My Senior year I ran track and Cross Country, and went to State for both sports.

December 12th, 2006	#5
onebxr BAM-BAM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Frisco, TX Posts: 1,262 Blog Entries: 3	Re: What were YOU doing in 1990? 1st year of college, so I was probably drunk that year. -1

December 12th, 2006	#6
pc_guy Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Inside an igloo, Canada Posts: 313	Re: What were YOU doing in 1990? Playing with my new, state of the art Pentium computer - 90Mhz Pentium 8MB of Ram 1.2 GB HDD 28.8k modem 4x cd-rom 256KB of secondary cache (Later stolen when at FutureShop for service) IR port with remote (this is the only thing I would have liked every computer to have as a standard feature) $4000! EDIT: Just read the thread title again, I though you wanted the whole 1990's. 1990, I was on a plane over the Atlantic on my way to Canada for the first time. \|\| AMD Athlon64 3800+ Venice \| Asus A8N5X s939 \| OCZ Premier PC3200 Du-Ch 1GB \| Sapphire X1600Pro 512MB PCI-e \| 1xWD 80Gb & 1xWD 250Gb Sata(s) \| Antec SLK3800B Case \| Enermax NoiseTaker 485W \|\| Last edited by pc_guy; December 12th, 2006 at 06:21.

December 12th, 2006	#7
Dread Jumpmaster Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lansing, KS Posts: 673	Re: What were YOU doing in 1990? In 1990 I was wrapping up my tour as a DS at Jackson and preparing to deploy to the sandbox. Nothing memorable. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo @2211.3 MHz MS-7125 Rev 1.0 nForce4 K8N-Neo4 Plat Phoenix 6.00 PG 05/22/2006 BIOS 2 x OCZ4001024PF 1 GB PC3200/400 3-3-3-8 2T nVidia XFX GF8800GT 512 DX9c Samsung SyncMaster 930B 1 x WD800JB / 2 x WD2000JD HP DVD640 OCZ 520ADJ SLI PSU

December 12th, 2006	#8
Sovereign Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 74	Re: What were YOU doing in 1990? Let's see, I was two years old.

December 12th, 2006	#10
Mithosphere Yeah, so are your pants! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Cherry Capital of the World Posts: 564	Re: What were YOU doing in 1990? lol i was just turning three, and sometime between me turning two and then three i drank a can of beer, ate pinecones, and was playing with Transformers, i think i could be wrong, i have not much memory of anything past 2-3 years ago Pentium D 915\|EVGA 7050 mATX\|OCZ XTC 2GB\|XFX 7900GS XT\|Hyper Type-R 580W\|Qmicra 2 Case