Your 90s nostalgia (Bar's open).

[vixen1700]

W124 said:

Serious question though - given the opportunity to trip or pill on the drugs that were available then, would you do it now in the environment you are currently in?

I don't think I would.

Good question. Hardly touch anything these days apart from sipping on decent single malts, but back in the 90s it was a different story.

Spent 1996 at this mind-blowing place at the age of 29. http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/meir-turnia...



Serious amounts of weed and LSD were administered. Minds were seriously blown.

[W124]

It's a bit like the teenage driving thread... I look back and think that it's pure, pure luck that I'm still relatively together. I did OD once - nearly died. Didn't slow me down one bit. I was a total idiot, an absolute fool. We come from a generation who look at the opening page of 'Fear and Loathing...' and think - "well, that's barely a weekends worth" - kids these days are total lightweights.

What I have learned though - is that a good single malt is the best drug. By miles. Give me a Yamazaki any day and I'm smiling.

[Asterix]

W124 said:

It's a bit like the teenage driving thread... I look back and think that it's pure, pure luck that I'm still relatively together. I did OD once - nearly died. Didn't slow me down one bit. I was a total idiot, an absolute fool. We come from a generation who look at the opening page of 'Fear and Loathing...' and think - "well, that's barely a weekends worth" - kids these days are total lightweights.

What I have learned though - is that a good single malt is the best drug. By miles. Give me a Yamazaki any day and I'm smiling.

Fully agree.

A fine wine is my opium now, so to speak.

Just pleased I'm still around to enjoy it. Been a few times in the past where I haven't been confident I'd wake up the next morning.

[Tophatron]

[Steamer]

Tophatron said:

We had that stair carpet too - but in brown

[Blueprint]

Ellessee canvas trainers
Hubba Bubba
Zig n Zag
Baggies
Bomber Jackets
Technics SL1200's
Cafe Del Mar
Wonderwall
Parklife
Crapston Villas
The 11 O'Clock Show (Ali G and Gevais)
Brass Eye
Hearing The Prodigy play at Glastonbury from my house which was 3-4 miles away (the only band I ever clearly heard)
Minidisc
CRT TV's
Marathon bars
The best BTCC years
AIWA Hifi with 5-disc cd deck
Etc!

And a defining musical moment for me - Hearing Underworld's Rez on Pete Tong's end of '92 essential selection

[80quattro]

Passing my driving test and driving my Mums '86 Fiesta 1.0 Popular
Shagging some bird from Bath in a tent at Glastonbury after The Shamen's set in '92.
Stone Roses T-shirts
4 star petrol and it costing £6 to fill up my Mini
Weed
The Sanctuary in Milton Keynes
Casio F91-W
DVLA Private number plates coming out starting with H prefix

[vrooom]

[andymc]

Went to Ibiza quite a few times and never really got it although the amount of drugs readily available was mental

[GSE]

MTV "120 minutes" on analogue satellite TV in Wegner stereo, Christiana Backer, Pip Dann. I have case of VHS tapes with hundreds of music videos recordings from 1989 - 1995, I still watch them now and again.

[Tophatron]

MTV's Most Wanted with Ray Cokes.

Used to love watching that and other MTV Europe shows before it became MTV UK and went ste.

[Silvs]

"Kick, punch, it's all in the mind"

Good times.

[humpbackmaniac]

joe_90 said:

The best set ever, Top Buzz 1992 New Years Eve..

Just fantastic.. every time this takes me back.

Click and listen....

Thank you for that! Afternoon of headphones on "working" ahead!

[clarkmagpie]

Atlantic 252

Going with my dad to the pub on my 18th for my first pint!
Well first he'd bought me and first I'd bought him.
Local pub (The Coach House at Heads Nook - Outskirts of Carlisle) which I'd drank in since 16, I knew the bar staff better than my dad did.

Jack Wolfskin jackets
Joe bloggs jeans
Adidas Gazelles
Nike air 180's
White jeans

Went to Paris for the World Cup in 1998
Saw Oasis for the first time in Sheffield in 97 I think it was

Newcastle almost winning the league
Football away days - basically getting chased round whatever town by the local nutters the moment we arrived

Fond memories

[AstonZagato]

80quattro said:

Shagging some bird from Bath in a tent at Glastonbury after The Shamen's set in '92.

OMG! Mum always said I'd find my father one day.

[Crafty_]

AstonZagato said:

80quattro said:

Shagging some bird from Bath in a tent at Glastonbury after The Shamen's set in '92.

OMG! Mum always said I'd find my father one day.

Pretty sure that 80quattro will not be too impressed to realise he could have a 21 year old son/daughter

[MarshPhantom]

Screamadelica - Primal Scream

Blue Lines - Massive Attack

Check Your Head - Beastie Boys

[Willy Nilly]

clarkmagpie said:

Newcastle almost winning the league

I'd have loved it if they'd won that.

[hman]

Hot hatches
3 nights clubbing a week
Cheap petrol
Nicky blackmarket
ratpack
Peasey and Blocko
The rave scene and all that went with it
having a foursome
not remembering whole weekends
comedown tuesdays
Not being a student when all my mates were
being the most loaded amongst my mates
not having to eat baked beans
modifying cars in a max power stylee
JBL Subwoofers
6x9's
thinking 16" wheels were huge
TSW venoms
TSW wheels
Peco big bore exhausts
being let off some ridiculous speeds by the police
wrecking a gear box snapping 1st to 2nd in a wheelspin and the synchro giving out
smashing up sooo many cars
My dad dying of a brain tumour
Looking forward to the millenium
Getting my first flat
Getting questioned by a college tutor as to why I had so much cash and a brand spanking car (they thought I was dealing drugs - I wasnt)
Driving a sierra cosworth aged 18.
Having my own business aged 18

[tvrforever]

W124 said:

I played on TFI Friday. With Finley Quaye - it was live! Properly live in those days - absolutely terrifying.

Which bands did you play in? What instruments?