January 12, 20196 yr On 1/11/2019 at 10:06 AM, GCrites80s said: Well, dressing like it's 2003 in 2019 certainly isn't as shocking as dressing like 1978 in 1986, that's for sure. That was a huge change...I was born in 63 so I remember it well. Things are a bit more diverse now with a number of trends and anti-trends going on at the same time. A good thing really. From Travolta Disco suits to Miami Vice linen jackets lol. (I bought one of those Don Johnson linen jackets at Northland Mall...and actually wore it around *so ashamed*) Edited January 12, 20196 yr by Toddguy
January 12, 20196 yr At my high school a history teacher staged "Leisure Suit Day" beginning sometime in the late 80s. You got extra credit if you wore a thrift store leisure suit to school. It got cancelled when I was a freshman because it had gotten so out-of-hand the year prior. Speaking of the 80s, I watched a Huey Lewis & the News documentary earlier this week. Somebody was the first guy in LA to wear a sport coat over a t-shirt, and it's sort-of been the backbone of men's fashion in LA ever since. Yeah, this video's in San Francisco, but if anything that illustrates how few bands that came out of the Bay were actually stereotypical "San Francisco" Bands. Grateful Dead? Yeah. Metallica? No. Huey Lewis & The News? No. Primus? No. Dead Kennedys? Hell no. That just made me think about how many big bands came out of SF Bay -- WAY more than Nashville, but hey, Nashville is "Music City" because they said they are. Edited January 12, 20196 yr by jmecklenborg
January 12, 20196 yr Huey sure had that 1950s to 1980s bridge thing going. Doo wop harmonies and a look like they could be extras on Happy Days, save for the red parachute pants.
January 12, 20196 yr ^yeah, in the 80s, there was a vague but very real 1950s revival, to the detriment of the 60s and 70s. The famous Weezer video was a spoof on a late 1970s show about the 1950s. The means at some point we're going to get a revival of the That 70s Show.
January 13, 20196 yr 7 hours ago, jmecklenborg said: At my high school a history teacher staged "Leisure Suit Day" beginning sometime in the late 80s. You got extra credit if you wore a thrift store leisure suit to school. It got cancelled when I was a freshman because it had gotten so out-of-hand the year prior. Speaking of the 80s, I watched a Huey Lewis & the News documentary earlier this week. Somebody was the first guy in LA to wear a sport coat over a t-shirt, and it's sort-of been the backbone of men's fashion in LA ever since. Yeah, this video's in San Francisco, but if anything that illustrates how few bands that came out of the Bay were actually stereotypical "San Francisco" Bands. Grateful Dead? Yeah. Metallica? No. Huey Lewis & The News? No. Primus? No. Dead Kennedys? Hell no. That just made me think about how many big bands came out of SF Bay -- WAY more than Nashville, but hey, Nashville is "Music City" because they said they are. Metallica wasn't a true San Francisco band having formed in L.A. They didn't get far with L.A. crowds in 1982 since they wanted Ratt, Steeler, Bitch, Van Halen and other more visual bands. Cliff Burton issued the San Francisco Ultimatum (move up here or I'm not in) which ended up working out very well for Metallica as far as crowd response goes. The East Bay punk/thrash movement was much more receptive especially once punk and metal made up around 1986 on both coasts. Testament, Vio-Lence and Heathen all came out of this scene. Megadeth and Slayer were all L.A. though, once people got used to metal bands not wearing makeup. pssst... Slayer wore makeup too.
January 16, 20196 yr I like visiting Nashville. Broadway is awesome and theres plenty to do. The traffic was surprisingly very bad in my experience however. Horrendous compared to similar sized metros I've been in such as Indy and Columbus, and its not like its got the excuse of being a coastal city where access can only come from one direction. Not sure I'd enjoy living there because I spent significant time in commuter filled traffic jams.
February 18, 20196 yr well this seals the deal. nashville is the new seattle/portland/austin. i saw it in the sketchbook library in williamsburg on saturday.
February 18, 20196 yr On 1/12/2019 at 10:58 PM, GCrites80s said: Metallica wasn't a true San Francisco band having formed in L.A. They didn't get far with L.A. crowds in 1982 since they wanted Ratt, Steeler, Bitch, Van Halen and other more visual bands. Cliff Burton issued the San Francisco Ultimatum (move up here or I'm not in) which ended up working out very well for Metallica as far as crowd response goes. The East Bay punk/thrash movement was much more receptive especially once punk and metal made up around 1986 on both coasts. Testament, Vio-Lence and Heathen all came out of this scene. Megadeth and Slayer were all L.A. though, once people got used to metal bands not wearing makeup. pssst... Slayer wore makeup too. yep, metallica came east, lived in the infamous music building warehouse in jamaica, queens, had adventures and recorded kill'em all up in rochester. The Music Building, formerly at Union Hall Street and Archer Avenue, Jamaica, Queens: “Bands weren’t allowed to live in [the rehearsal spaces at] the Music Building, but Metallica were put up there anyway. Interesting stories went down there, including the dismissal of Dave Mustaine from Metallica. Dave would get s – – tfaced, and he was a mean, obnoxious drunk. Scott Ian of Anthrax said he would take full garbage cans and dump them in front of the practice spaces of bands he didn’t like. That caused a lot of friction.”
February 18, 20196 yr They say the most popular meal in there was called "Baloney on Hand" since there wasn't any money for bread
April 26, 20196 yr Nashville is still a tier 2 city as far as I'm concerned. The city relies too heavily on broadway street as it's main attraction. If your not into drinking or country music there is very little to do in Nashville. I don't even understand why there are giant city double decker bus tours of the city. Nashville is literally acting so pretencious as it's some massive top tier city like NYC, Hong Kong, London, like wtf lol... Whats worse is that Broadway Street is essentially a district that is compiled of a few blocks. I get that if it was like the French Quarters, or OTR where it is this giant historic district for you to explore and be immersed in, but it's not. It's literally like a small town college street on steroids that blasts country music daily till 3am. I'm just frusterated, because there are people who are from cincinnati and trash cincinnati and say how great nashville is, but when you ask them what's so great about nashville they mention broadway street...and only broadway street...and all I can do is shake my head. Like really? Are you that obsessed with country music and a block full of party bars?
April 26, 20196 yr Nashville? A second-tier city? Atlanta is a second-tier city. Miami is a second-tier city. Nashville isn't even close to a second-tier city. It's probably fourth-tier as far as cultural and economic output goes (to be fair, the 3C's probably also fall somewhere in this tier too). “To an Ohio resident - wherever he lives - some other part of his state seems unreal.”
April 27, 20196 yr Careful, someone is gonna have to break out that chart of Alpha, Beta, and Gamma cities now!
April 27, 20196 yr Well, you asked for it... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 27, 20196 yr Nashville is now Gamma-! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 27, 20196 yr The NFL Draft is going on in Nashville (kind of an insult to NE Ohio, especially since we're not getting it next year either). Apparently, it's become a very common destination for bachelorette parties (presumably when the ladies in question don't want any possible chance of their behavior at same leaking out LOL) and some of the brides to be are quite irked at their fiances for not warning them of this. The obvious question, of course, is would they have listened.
April 29, 20196 yr they could not even bother to alphabetize the ranked cities? ie., is oslo supposed to be thee most beta city (harhar) and cape town the least?
April 29, 20196 yr 3 minutes ago, mrnyc said: they could not even bother to alphabetize the ranked cities? ie., is oslo supposed to be thee most beta city (harhar) and cape town the least? They also could not even bother to spell Cincinnati correctly.
April 29, 20196 yr 20 minutes ago, Ram23 said: They also could not even bother to spell Cincinnati correctly. Eh I think the spelling is “sufficient”
April 29, 20196 yr ^Well played. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 1, 20196 yr Seen recently in one of the Broadway bars: Pay a bunch of money to go out on Broadway in Nashville and you get music as bad or worse than you'd expect in some dying Ohio hamlet. Edited May 1, 20196 yr by jmecklenborg
May 1, 20196 yr 3 minutes ago, GCrites80s said: I can hear Staind and Nickelback anywhere for free or nearly free any time I want. That's true about almost any recorded or remotely known band, on Youtube.
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