Kriss Kross were dope!
Douching my Simuloid
Kriss Kross were dope!
The metal is always nude.
1982 - I was 12 and got my first motorcycle - a 1980 CR80RA Elsinore. Perfect learner's bike........
1992 - I had a break from riding (briefly) until the following year when I bought a 1984 Yamaha FJ1100. At the time, I had a gas-guzzling 1974 BMW 3.0SA. It could honk along though !!
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
Anarchic Wild Child
In 1982 I was 27 ... and living in Wellington
I think that was the year I owned a Morrie Thou - split windscreen job .. sold it shortly after to a guy who drove it from Wgtn to Orcland ..
I also had a Triumph 650 (Meridan Triumph) and a couple of BSA Bantams ...
1992 - 37 years old ... living in Hawke's Bay ... with a Holden Ute - classic hoon car and ...
The same Triumph, one BSA Bantam, a BSA B33, a BSA C15 and a BSA A7, a 1937 Triumph 500cc single (5H), a Honda FT400 (commuter scooter) and a Honda CB250R (project to build a racing bike - never happened), as well as two Triumph Tiger Cubs in my garage ...
10 years later I was down to the FT400, one BSA Bantam and a BMW R100GS Paris Dakar ... (and the Nissan Terrano).
Now I have a pair of Bandits (and the Terrano) - I'm not sure if that is progress ...
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Den tha thriamvéf̱sei páno̱
Interesting BD!!
82': 8ish lol, with a suitcase record player with only two 45's. "Come on baby lay your love on me" and "Do ya think I'm sexy", scratching around. Roaming the neighbourhood with the local boys on my three speed something or rather, digging out the backyard making huts, sniffing round the dump and cleaning things up or fixing things to add to the dugouts! Bullrush and playing in bare feet until the street lights came on.
92: 18ish, flatting for two years already, rockin the Datsun 180B or perhaps had moved onto the XY Ute.. first festival Duddings Lake and AC/DC concerts possibly Pantera and RHCP? under my belt.
Sitting on all sorts of bikes, might have had my first xr250 after near killing myself on my then partners TT600? Hmmmm..
ter·ra in·cog·ni·taAchievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
One hell of a ride.
82 - Living in Hobart and riding an XS1100.
The popular music coming out of Aus and NZ at the time was some of the best ever. Glory days.
92 - Living in Newcastle NSW. No bike - Gig and kids meant a Falcon XR6.
It took me a while to find anything from '92 that has stood musically since - but there are some gems:
Anarchic Wild Child
"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Big Dave again"Originally Posted by Big Dave
I loved Cold Chisel - saw them live a few times ... Brilliant ... I still play tracks like Khe San and Flame Trees while driving ..
But yeah .. 1992 was the year Billy Ray did Acky Breaky Heart .. not a great year . but it was the year Eric Clapton released his Unplugged album
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
NEDWN VIII
So is it 20 years and 1 day now?....
One hell of a ride.
So is it 20 years and 1 day now?....
It started when I noted the MCMXCII at the end of Bottom - which I had recorded on Foxtel - and thought
as you do.
ArseBiscuit
82 - sniffing glue
92 - in the pooh
(edit: that's not true)
"channellling the Pleideans"
Who's throwing who's leg over where?
In 82 I had just started my first job at the end of that year I had my GSX400 (bought from Wellington Motorcycles).
in 92 I was bikeless. Last year of university and poor as a poor thing. the dark years.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
"channellling the Pleideans"
Ministry Psalm 69 was 1992, plus Sugar "File Under easy listening".
and of course White Zombie's first record.
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I LOVE this guitar riff, and the way the bass lopes along.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
one placenta
...i missed all of the good shit to come out of NZ/OZ over that whole period...heard the odd strains of our music in eurolands but 5/8ths of fa...got to see all the seventies monsters though...sabbath, hawkwind, whitesnake, thin lizzy, suzy q, stranglers, joe lloyd, genesis, yes, and many more that my tortured braincells cant pull out of the mist...I do feel like I missed something musically that was happening here, back then...
One hell of a ride.
OT but I still have scars (literally) from a Thin Lizzy concert.
This one:
Over here in 82 we had INXS, AC/DC, Chisels, Angels, Radiators and the likes blowing the doors off the pub rock circuit. We used to go out riding our bikes to gigs or the pubs every night of the week in those halcyon Sydney summers.
The airwaves were full of Split Enz, Mi-Sex - they were much bigger is Aus than home - Dragon and Dave Dobbyn (maybe a bit later).
Hardcore Biker
Great idea for a thread BD.
In 82 I was 21 y.o. living in London and riding a Yamaha XS650 Custom. Best beers in the world so I can't remember all that much.
Fav music of that year was Altered Images (actually just the hot chicky babe Clare Grogin) , Jam, Clash, XTC, Tom Robinson Band, Pretenders, NOT UB40, NOT the Police, NOT WHAM etc
92- Living in Wellytown. Dull music so who cares. Bike was somewhere between the Harley 1200 Sporter or the GS500? Odd companions I know.
Happiness is a means of travel, not a destination
Hardcore Punk
82 I was 16, had a foot high green mowhawk, rode like a fuckwit, drove like a fuckwit,and consumed as much alcohol and drugs as possible. 92 had a shorter uncoloured mohawk, rode like a fuckwit,drove like a fuckwit, was about to have a second kid, had given up the piss for more drugs.
For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.Keep an open mind, just dont let your brains fall out.
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