Where Were You When Goodie Got Married?

Gary Sisco · June-8th-2008, 10:59 AM

I was burning off GI Bill benefits, playing a few gigs, saving up some cash to go to Nicaragua the following year. Citizen Nick Velvet and I had quarters in a penthouse apartment in wonderful downtown Morrisville, Vt. Every early evening M-F we could be found watching reruns of "WKRP Cincinnati" on a black and white portable with coathanger antennae, looking for fashion tips from Johnny Fever.

Scott Dolan · June-8th-2008, 01:46 PM

I'd rather not say...

Pete C · June-8th-2008, 02:06 PM

Possibly performing "It's Uncle!" at some downtown dive.

Ron Thorne · June-8th-2008, 03:54 PM

Working on-air and in management at KRKN'-FM in Anchorage and helping raise three children, ages 12, 16 & 18.

June 4, 1983 was a Saturday, so I would have been broadcasting my weekly radio show from 6pm-midnight on 102.1.

Jazzooo · June-8th-2008, 04:28 PM

I was living in Houston, creating marketing campaigns for hospitals and blood banks, and trying to figure out how every single time I asked for directions, no matter where I was going it always involved a street named "Defeater Road" that I could never find. For a month I figured it was the longest road in town, until I heard someone without a Houston accent translate it into its original meaning: "the feeder road," or a frontage road as I would have called it.

Gordon B · June-8th-2008, 05:00 PM

I was rooting for the Mets to fire George Bamberger. They finished the day 17-31, in last place in the NL East. I was a single New Yorker, working for a boutique investment bank on Wall Street.

BFrank · June-8th-2008, 05:11 PM

I was between concerts:
5/29/83 - V.V., NYC: Mal Waldron, Charlie Rouse, Woody Shaw, Reggie Workman, Eddie Moore
6/14/83 - Old Waldorf, SF: R.E.M. (first tour, I assume)

GoodSpeak · June-8th-2008, 05:14 PM

I was getting hitched

shrugs · June-8th-2008, 05:16 PM

Hopefully in a swimming pool since I was 10 and it was prolly hot as fuck outside.

Il Anto · June-8th-2008, 06:14 PM

My ass was parked in front of a TV while I watched MTV and a real mediocre Yankees team - not unlike the mediocre Yankees of 2008!

My favorite videos were After The Fire's "Der Kommissar," The Clash's "Rock the Casbah" and anything by Duran Duran.

Jazzooo · June-8th-2008, 07:04 PM

Whoa--it was June? Then I was probably exactly where I said, except that I was in agony from sitting on top of a fire ant hill. That was one bad month for me!

Gordon B · June-8th-2008, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by BFrank

I was between concerts:
5/29/83 - V.V., NYC: Mal Waldron, Charlie Rouse, Woody Shaw, Reggie Workman, Eddie Moore
6/14/83 - Old Waldorf, SF: R.E.M. (first tour, I assume)

I may have been to the Vanguard that week. I saw Woody whenever I could.

BFrank · June-8th-2008, 08:29 PM

Oh, yeah, that's right, Gordon. I remember seeing you sitting near the 2nd post by the wall, right?

jesus marion joseph · June-8th-2008, 10:26 PM

Graduating from high school.

GoodSpeak · June-8th-2008, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by jesus marion joseph

Graduating from high school.

Yer killin' me, JMJ.

Jazzzoline · June-9th-2008, 10:12 AM

I was myself a new bride.
Brand new home, sport car, motorcycles. Fulltime job, went to university the evening, spent the nights in nightclubs with my friend.

That was the good life.

Chris D · June-9th-2008, 10:15 AM

Working the copy desk, playing ball four nights a week and falling in love with the woman I've spent my life with since.

Kevin Bresnahan · June-9th-2008, 10:16 AM

I'm sure I was in a drunken stupor somewhere. June 4th in 1983 puts me between sophomore and junior year in college. Back in those days, we never missed a chance to be in a drunken stupor. It was either that or ringing a cash register at Stop&Shop.

jesus marion joseph · June-9th-2008, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by GoodSpeak

Yer killin' me, JMJ.

Afraid it's true, Goody. Wachusett Regional High School (we thought of it as a "regional high"), class of 83.

Al in NYC · June-9th-2008, 10:53 AM

That was my graduation day from Michigan State University. So I was sitting in 88 degree heat on the worn astroturf of Spartan Stadium in a bright green shiny gown listening to a very boring graduation address from doomed governor Jim Blanchard (who mysteriously reappeared recently as Hillary Clinton's Michigan spokesperson in front of the Democratic rules committee).

I also weighed a little over 300 lbs., had a beard that went down nearly to my navel, and hair that went halfway down my back. Which I would cut off in the next week before I started my job as a community liaison and analyst for the City of Detroit.

GoodSpeak · June-9th-2008, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by jesus marion joseph

Afraid it's true, Goody. Wachusett Regional High School (we thought of it as a "regional high"), class of 83.

[ugh]

I suddenly feel really old right now.

sheesh

Gary Sisco · June-9th-2008, 11:55 AM

Hard to be young *and* married for 25 years, Goods. :-0

GoodSpeak · June-9th-2008, 11:56 AM

Good point.

clinthopson · June-9th-2008, 01:44 PM

I was working in retirement plans with a couple of kids, a mortgage and a commute.

First marriage, 21 years. This one, 26 and going strong.

Gary Sisco · June-9th-2008, 01:47 PM

I knew I was in trouble when I met Bronwyn. She was drinking a pitcher of margaritas, holding her own very well, and smart and funny on top.

clinthopson · June-9th-2008, 01:54 PM

Correction:

25 years ago I was married to Donna, acquired two more kids, was sending one of mine and one of hers to college, owned a business, still had a mortgage and had cut my commute to one mile.

Gary Sisco · June-9th-2008, 01:56 PM

Phew. I'm tired just reading it, Clint.

Monte Smith · June-9th-2008, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jesus marion joseph

Graduating from high school.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Al in NYC

That was my graduation day from Michigan State University.

I had just graduated from elementary school and was either at the pool or chilling at home reading DC Comics and watching bad reruns.

jazzy mary · June-9th-2008, 03:15 PM

Hmmm, lemme see. I was a newly wed of almost one year. Even though we had lived together for 4 years prior to marriage (something I don't think is a good idea now) We had moved to NYC about 3 years before. We were living in a walk-up (first floor) tenement, RENT STABILIZED, 4 room ralilroad flat on 92nd & First in Manhattan. The building has been torn down & a high rise is in its place now. It was a cute apt. but the bldg. was certainly a tenement.

I do remember during those first couple of summers in NYC, we would take off and travel like crazy---for some reason we never worried about $--now I worry all the time. We may have been on our way out west to live in Seattle for a summer or maybe we stayed in New York? Wait, we may have gone to Europe. I dunno. Maybe I was working at another law firm. I would work ALL THE TIME. Hey, plus ca change...

I was happily married though and then, about 10 years ago, everything changed so much and my marriage started a rapid, yet painfully slow and tortured, decline. Like most marriages, it's personal and complicated. Anyway, man, things have changed now. Now we have 2 kids, are divorced and I am, at last, free. Things are better now. And I'm in love too--so that's cool.

tippy · June-9th-2008, 03:16 PM

I am pretty sure I was teaching ballet to 3 year olds in my first job that wasn't babysitting. I had no idea what I was doing - I knew what to teach them but no one explained to me that if 3 year olds are just following you and moving their limbs in the general direction that is enough. I believe I was trying to make each one point their toes, shape their arms and at that point, personal attention to one, the others without direction, class fell apart. I think that job lasted like 3 Saturdays. LOL