1988
in 1987 i started racing Radio controlled cars at a track in Mana... bout 10km north of Tawa. In 1988 i was entering several events including the nationals in Lower Hutt. RC car racing was huge back then and it was now a family affair with my brother and Dad both racing too. It was so cool. Mum would come along and chat to everyone and make usre there were heaps of cups of lemonade and plenty of biscuits... everything was so Kiwi... it was really cool. i loved racing RC cars.... the comps got quite tense sometimes... remember i was 12 years old and racing against grown men. i wasn't the only grom though... plenty of us young little upstarts all eager to beat these old guys haha. but at club level it was just plain fun.
At skool i was behaving myself way more this year... getting all my homework done and doing better at sports etc. Infact 1988 was a very good year for me. I started getting more into rap and metal... back then rap metal was popular.... rap bands like beastie boys and run DMC had guitars in their rhymes and metal bands like Anthrax did a rap song called "i'm da man"... yes it had plenty of guitars as well hehe. I was slowly but surely changing my music taste from 80s pop to 80s rock and 80s rap. Beastie Boys quickly became my favourite band but i also enjoyed Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and the other 2 of the pop metal "big 4" bands Guns n Roses and Poison. This "big 4" is not to be confused with the thrash metal "big 4" that i got into at a later date.
1988 was a great year. We finished it up in Auckland. One last thing... guyfawks... back then guyfawks was HUGE. All backyard shows too... none of this PC crap we have now. Double Happys, Skyrockets...... oh i yearn for the good old days :). We were in a valley surrounded by bush and Wellington often got quite dry so def quite a few fires on guyfawks nite.... but fires were normal things back then... its natures way of shedding skin
At skool i was behaving myself way more this year... getting all my homework done and doing better at sports etc. Infact 1988 was a very good year for me. I started getting more into rap and metal... back then rap metal was popular.... rap bands like beastie boys and run DMC had guitars in their rhymes and metal bands like Anthrax did a rap song called "i'm da man"... yes it had plenty of guitars as well hehe. I was slowly but surely changing my music taste from 80s pop to 80s rock and 80s rap. Beastie Boys quickly became my favourite band but i also enjoyed Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and the other 2 of the pop metal "big 4" bands Guns n Roses and Poison. This "big 4" is not to be confused with the thrash metal "big 4" that i got into at a later date.
1988 was a great year. We finished it up in Auckland. One last thing... guyfawks... back then guyfawks was HUGE. All backyard shows too... none of this PC crap we have now. Double Happys, Skyrockets...... oh i yearn for the good old days :). We were in a valley surrounded by bush and Wellington often got quite dry so def quite a few fires on guyfawks nite.... but fires were normal things back then... its natures way of shedding skin
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