1991
This year things really started to happen.... but it started good enuf. I got into ACDC... expecting them to be genuine heavy metal like Iron Maiden etc but they are more Hard Rock than Metal. This year was important for me as it was Skool Cert and being in Nerd Wars i was hitting the books before the skool year had even begun! I was however to take on a subject that i had never done before... Metalwork. totally different to the exam subjects like Science and Maths... this was all internal. But i knew nothing about genuine metalwork working with lathes, milling machines etc... and of course my favourite... welding haha. But our teacher was cool.... i remember in all other classes the teachers would teel you off for swearing but nah not in metal work... every second work was an f word and Lindgreen was the coolest teacher ever. Him and I got on really well and even now 18 years later we still chat on the odd occasions. However i did struggle and if it wasn't for him and Dad helping me out then i prob wouldn't have passed. But anyway 1991 was the year of skoolwork for me and i did really well in my exams at the end of the year... passing all of them... including english lol.
I went to quite a few RC races too... still heavily into that and went out Racing most sundays. RC cars and Skoolwork dominated my life in 1991.... to the tunes of Metallica, Motley crue etc.... well at the start they did. At the end of 1990 i got into other metal groups like GNR and Faith no More. This would all last up until April of 1991... then things changed..... more on that later. But anyway it wasn't only RC cars that i was driving.... at the end of the year i would also get inot fullsize cars.... yep the minute i finsihed skool i got my learners and mum was teaching me how to drive.... um yeah she quickly realised that i should go to a driving skool.
This was at the end of the year. In April the shit hit the fan bigtime. Huge argument with dad about my homework... i was in a mood so didn't go to RC cars with him and Paul... instead me and mum argued the while time... i think the climax was when i threw all my heavy metal tapes away and sed that was to blame for my anger problems.... it wasn't but at the time it seemed the right thing to do in such a tense situation.
A week passed with me not listening to heavy metal... i still had beastie boys and thought that rap music was a better way to go... maybe get into bands like NWA, Public Enemy etc. These bands were just as frowned upon as the heavy metal guys but instead of killing ourselves we shot at police instead.... yep much better lol. speaking of which just a sidenote... btw i'm joking bout that last statement.... i don't have problems with cops at all. they do their job well especially in NZ and if you don't wanna get in trouble with them then don't be naughty. Back then NWA was just as bad as Judas Priest was in the medias eyes but the two bands have alot in common... i've allways seen rap and metal as similiar in many ways and i like both rap and metal. nowadays i can listen to metal and rap and punk and know that its the MEDIA that is evil and corrupt... not the artists. So yeah i like cops but i also like NWA cos i know what bands like NWA and Metallica are really singing about. And the road to this sorta realisation started about a week after i had that huge breakdown at home on that day in April 1991.
On one Friday afternoon i was hanging with my mate Peter Lowden and he asked me if i wanted to go to youth group. now for me christianity was allways something that i was loosely associated with but the thought of going to church and organise religion sorta baffled me and i never really gave much though. we went to heaps of cathedrals and churches on our tour of Europe and mum especially was a religious person even though she didn't go to church. heck even back in 1989 and 1990 i allways thought how cool it would be to talk to God and be friends with him. So i sed aw yip i come along.
Youth group was pretty cool, met totally new ppl and yeah definately had the christian theme to it... these guys were serious about what they believed in but at the same time did fun things just like anyone else... but a nice refreshing approach to life which i thought was cool. So yeah in short i became a christian on that very nite and things immediately changed inside... but i was i dreamland if i thought it was gonna be all fine and plain sailing in life.
Thnings were still tough as i still had homeowrk to do but now i had that change inside and of course had a new group of friends and a sense of belonging. Contrary to what often happens... my classmates at skool were very happy that i "got saved" (church terminology for becoming a xtian). like beforehand i was very unpopular so any change in me was obviously seen as a good thing. It wouldn't be long however before this new aspect of my life would complately dominate me and in later on could have been responsible for my failing grades at skool and tech?
I had now returned to heavy metal music but the bands were different...instead of motley crue, gnr, metallica I was now listening to bands like stryper, petra, one bad pig and a lovely band called VENGENCE.... wow this the heaviest music i had ever heard up until then... i still rate them as the heaviest thrash band EVER. But the lyrics are all about christianity in all these bands... hahaha it didn't take me long before i got into christian heavy metal and i was likeing it... alot.
However another tragedy occured in the middle of that year. Was woken up by dad in the very early hours of the morning and he told us that our Uncle (Ed) had just had a huge heart attack. This is less than a year after mum's dad passed away from the same illness... and now her brother had only just survived one thanx to hitting the ground, waking my aunty up in da process, who called 111. We visited him in the hospitial afterwards, his eyes were bloodshot... dunno if that was due to the heart attack itself or from the skull fracture caused by his head striking the doorway on the way down but the bottomline was that he was ok. But he had to make some drastic changes in his lifestyle.... which he did... no more smoking woop woop.
So yeah an eventful year.... and by the and of the year reality had sorta returned to skool in terms of popularity... was unpopular again. But hey thats ok cos that was nothing compared to what was happening at church lol. But despite me once again being unpopular, i don't think being a christian was the reason. not that year anyway... the following years when i started being more militant about da religion... for sure :)
I went to quite a few RC races too... still heavily into that and went out Racing most sundays. RC cars and Skoolwork dominated my life in 1991.... to the tunes of Metallica, Motley crue etc.... well at the start they did. At the end of 1990 i got into other metal groups like GNR and Faith no More. This would all last up until April of 1991... then things changed..... more on that later. But anyway it wasn't only RC cars that i was driving.... at the end of the year i would also get inot fullsize cars.... yep the minute i finsihed skool i got my learners and mum was teaching me how to drive.... um yeah she quickly realised that i should go to a driving skool.
This was at the end of the year. In April the shit hit the fan bigtime. Huge argument with dad about my homework... i was in a mood so didn't go to RC cars with him and Paul... instead me and mum argued the while time... i think the climax was when i threw all my heavy metal tapes away and sed that was to blame for my anger problems.... it wasn't but at the time it seemed the right thing to do in such a tense situation.
A week passed with me not listening to heavy metal... i still had beastie boys and thought that rap music was a better way to go... maybe get into bands like NWA, Public Enemy etc. These bands were just as frowned upon as the heavy metal guys but instead of killing ourselves we shot at police instead.... yep much better lol. speaking of which just a sidenote... btw i'm joking bout that last statement.... i don't have problems with cops at all. they do their job well especially in NZ and if you don't wanna get in trouble with them then don't be naughty. Back then NWA was just as bad as Judas Priest was in the medias eyes but the two bands have alot in common... i've allways seen rap and metal as similiar in many ways and i like both rap and metal. nowadays i can listen to metal and rap and punk and know that its the MEDIA that is evil and corrupt... not the artists. So yeah i like cops but i also like NWA cos i know what bands like NWA and Metallica are really singing about. And the road to this sorta realisation started about a week after i had that huge breakdown at home on that day in April 1991.
On one Friday afternoon i was hanging with my mate Peter Lowden and he asked me if i wanted to go to youth group. now for me christianity was allways something that i was loosely associated with but the thought of going to church and organise religion sorta baffled me and i never really gave much though. we went to heaps of cathedrals and churches on our tour of Europe and mum especially was a religious person even though she didn't go to church. heck even back in 1989 and 1990 i allways thought how cool it would be to talk to God and be friends with him. So i sed aw yip i come along.
Youth group was pretty cool, met totally new ppl and yeah definately had the christian theme to it... these guys were serious about what they believed in but at the same time did fun things just like anyone else... but a nice refreshing approach to life which i thought was cool. So yeah in short i became a christian on that very nite and things immediately changed inside... but i was i dreamland if i thought it was gonna be all fine and plain sailing in life.
Thnings were still tough as i still had homeowrk to do but now i had that change inside and of course had a new group of friends and a sense of belonging. Contrary to what often happens... my classmates at skool were very happy that i "got saved" (church terminology for becoming a xtian). like beforehand i was very unpopular so any change in me was obviously seen as a good thing. It wouldn't be long however before this new aspect of my life would complately dominate me and in later on could have been responsible for my failing grades at skool and tech?
I had now returned to heavy metal music but the bands were different...instead of motley crue, gnr, metallica I was now listening to bands like stryper, petra, one bad pig and a lovely band called VENGENCE.... wow this the heaviest music i had ever heard up until then... i still rate them as the heaviest thrash band EVER. But the lyrics are all about christianity in all these bands... hahaha it didn't take me long before i got into christian heavy metal and i was likeing it... alot.
However another tragedy occured in the middle of that year. Was woken up by dad in the very early hours of the morning and he told us that our Uncle (Ed) had just had a huge heart attack. This is less than a year after mum's dad passed away from the same illness... and now her brother had only just survived one thanx to hitting the ground, waking my aunty up in da process, who called 111. We visited him in the hospitial afterwards, his eyes were bloodshot... dunno if that was due to the heart attack itself or from the skull fracture caused by his head striking the doorway on the way down but the bottomline was that he was ok. But he had to make some drastic changes in his lifestyle.... which he did... no more smoking woop woop.
So yeah an eventful year.... and by the and of the year reality had sorta returned to skool in terms of popularity... was unpopular again. But hey thats ok cos that was nothing compared to what was happening at church lol. But despite me once again being unpopular, i don't think being a christian was the reason. not that year anyway... the following years when i started being more militant about da religion... for sure :)
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