Why go skiing?

[Timberridge]

I fear Popper wouldn't do well on the skin track.

[BmillsSkier]

He’s more of a bowler.

[BmillsSkier]

For the glory.

[Crock]

Skiing quiets the voices
Gets rid of the yuck in my head
Makes me feel like I'm good at something
Shows me I can always be better

[iamTRuTH]

Skiing quiets the voices

Well said. I came to post this exact thing.

It centers me and brings calm

[beer30]

What the fawk else is there to do in the mountains in winter?

[Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo]

Check out the run this place had. Again, tiny room:

January 5, 1987	The Replacements
August 1, 1987	Red Hot Chili Peppers
November 15, 1987	Ramones
January 20, 1988	Sonic Youth
June 19, 1988	The Flaming Lips
December 10, 1988	Soul Asylum
January 28, 1989	Indecision
January 31, 1989	The Fleshtones
February 8, 1989	Love Tractor
February 11, 1989	Taj Mahal
February 17, 1989	Code Blue
January 1, 1990	Blues Traveler
January 20, 1990	The Hooters
February 28, 1990	Blues Traveler
February 28, 1990	The Black Crowes
April 2, 1990	Nine Inch Nails
April 20, 1990	The Jesus and Mary Chain
June 15, 1990	Widespread Panic
July 20, 1990	Warren Zevon
July 21, 1990	Widespread Panic
July 21, 1990	NRBQ
October 5, 1990	Bob Mould
October 10, 1990	Widespread Panic
November 15, 1990	Sonic Youth
November 15, 1990	The Jesus Lizard
December 5, 1990	Phish
December 7, 1990	They Might Be Giants
January 16, 1991	Widespread Panic
January 30, 1991	Blues Traveler
February 20, 1991	Arlo Guthrie
February 21, 1991	Phish
March 14, 1991	Dave Matthews Band
March 18, 1991	Uncle Tupelo
March 19, 1991	Fishbone
April 3, 1991	Dave Matthews Band
April 18, 1991	Uncle Tupelo
April 23, 1991	Cracker
April 25, 1991	Spin Doctors

Trax!!! The UVA Med School stands on it now, and it was a before my time. But my older brother and sister saw shows there in HS and college. DMB had a weekly show there when they first started out.

[BmillsSkier]

Trax!!! The UVA Med School stands on it now, and it was a before my time. But my older brother and sister saw shows there in HS and college. DMB had a weekly show there when they first started out.

Oh shit, this is the famous Trax? That list makes a lot of sense now.

Would’ve loved to have seen some shows there.

[BCMtnHound]

If ya gotta ask....

[Timberridge]

What the fawk else is there to do in the mountains in winter?

I dunno but fastfred said there's like orgies and stuff.

[east or bust]

^This is a prime thread for another FF monologue

[whipski]

ummm 16" at Silverton this am??

[EWG]

Oh shit, this is the famous Trax? That list makes a lot of sense now.

Would’ve loved to have seen some shows there.

Yup. Trax. Place was legend.

I knew Dave only as a fellow bartender. There was a group of guys that all worked at different places that would get together some nights after hours at one of the places we all bartended at and keep going till daylight. I knew him from that.

First time I saw him play was definitely a surprise. “Ohhhhh - THAT guy.”

Also, it was definitely a fucked up thing that you had to be 21 to drink but nobody cared if you were younger than that tending bar. Let’s just say I started very early.

[BmillsSkier]

Yup. Trax. Place was legend.

I knew Dave only as a fellow bartender. There was a group of guys that all worked at different places that would get together some nights after hours at one of the places we all bartended at and keep going till daylight. I knew him from that.

First time I saw him play was definitely a surprise. “Ohhhhh - THAT guy.”

Also, it was definitely a fucked up thing that you had to be 21 to drink but nobody cared if you were younger than that tending bar. Let’s just say I started very early.

Ho-lee-shit, that’s awesome. Beers on me if you tell the stories.

DMB played my high school festival in 91 and I got hooked. Off and on relationship with the band over the years but some of my best times were seeing them at concerts and festivals around the country.

[singlecross]

This Blues Traveller talk got me to dig into the wayback drawer and pull out some hazy memories... one of my roommates up in Winter Park had a connection with Popper from high school, probably sold him weed as that’s what’s my roommate did, other than fail out of CU. Anyway, whenever the band would come to Colorado we’d take a week off and hang out/sell merch/ whatever with them. In ‘91 they just gave us tickets out of pocket but by ‘93 we needed backstage passes and be on a list and shit. The ‘93 show in Vail we ended up playing cards and cavorting in their hotel room after the show with the band. We were going to dirtbag it and sleep on their floor. At some point I took these dogs out for a bathroom walk which turned into a several hour wandering blackout in the middle of the night that ended up with me coming to in Denny’s with a waitress screaming at me that I couldn’t sit in the booth with the dogs. Apparently a search party had been formed as the band was worried about the dogs. My brush with rock greatness... having Popper kick my ass at cards and drink me into oblivion.

[Kinnikinnick]

Because there are two kinds of days:

1)days skiing

2)days not skiing





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[Jax]

Why not?


edit; late to the party

[MakersTeleMark]

Why not?

Because it's Saturday and I value my sanity.

[BmillsSkier]

This Blues Traveller talk got me to dig into the wayback drawer and pull out some hazy memories... one of my roommates up in Winter Park had a connection with Popper from high school, probably sold him weed as that’s what’s my roommate did, other than fail out of CU. Anyway, whenever the band would come to Colorado we’d take a week off and hang out/sell merch/ whatever with them. In ‘91 they just gave us tickets out of pocket but by ‘93 we needed backstage passes and be on a list and shit. The ‘93 show in Vail we ended up playing cards and cavorting in their hotel room after the show with the band. We were going to dirtbag it and sleep on their floor. At some point I took these dogs out for a bathroom walk which turned into a several hour wandering blackout in the middle of the night that ended up with me coming to in Denny’s with a waitress screaming at me that I couldn’t sit in the booth with the dogs. Apparently a search party had been formed as the band was worried about the dogs. My brush with rock greatness... having Popper kick my ass at cards and drink me into oblivion.

That’s awesome.

Someone here knows him from Princeton, and told some good stories too. I think in the 90s music thread.

[Core Shot]

Ya know
Deeeeeep days makes the passion

But in covid times, just sliding on snow, no matter how small the hill, makes you a kid again.
And if the hill is too small, learn to tele. Or snowboard. Or snow blade.

Be as a child

[Jax]

[EWG]

This Blues Traveller talk got me to dig into the wayback drawer and pull out some hazy memories... one of my roommates up in Winter Park had a connection with Popper from high school, probably sold him weed as that’s what’s my roommate did, other than fail out of CU. Anyway, whenever the band would come to Colorado we’d take a week off and hang out/sell merch/ whatever with them. In ‘91 they just gave us tickets out of pocket but by ‘93 we needed backstage passes and be on a list and shit. The ‘93 show in Vail we ended up playing cards and cavorting in their hotel room after the show with the band. We were going to dirtbag it and sleep on their floor. At some point I took these dogs out for a bathroom walk which turned into a several hour wandering blackout in the middle of the night that ended up with me coming to in Denny’s with a waitress screaming at me that I couldn’t sit in the booth with the dogs. Apparently a search party had been formed as the band was worried about the dogs. My brush with rock greatness... having Popper kick my ass at cards and drink me into oblivion.

Reminds me of:
https://youtu.be/HQj6UHTyFis

I have a friend who’s in a touring band. He’s still at it all night. I’m astonished he can still do it a hundred nights a year. It’s impressive. Fuckers start playing at 10pm then have a days worth from that point on.

When he comes to town it’s rough sledding for me for sure. I’m out of practice.

[BmillsSkier]

I let Blues Travelers' Travelers and Thieves spin all the way through this evening;

nice trip down memory lane.