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Nice Rick. My old man was feeling nostalgic and bought a record player. I'm not quite sure how much he actually uses the thing. I know he and my mom have a shit ton of vinyl.
 
pooriggy said:
^ I had that on vinyl, my mom threw that out too. Good memories of that album. My favorite was side 3; In the Light, Bron ur aur(or whatever the fuck it was), Down by the Seaside, Ten Years Gone. Also had to flip the record to play Boogie with Stu on the other side.

I'll have to see if Rick has this one too.
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The Kalmyk said:
If it comes out on vinyl are you going to pick it up Iggs?
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They did some 2015 repressings of this. Double LP 180 gram.
 
rick81721 said:
I was in the basement looking for a small space heater for wifey and found one bin half full of albums. I know I had more - gotta look more this weekend. Unless she sold some at garage sales! Did find Houses of the Holy
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That, along with Coming to America, was 1 of my first...8 track tapes.
 
Norm said:
That, along with Coming to America, was 1 of my first...8 track tapes.
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wow that's a good question - I have no idea what my first album was. But I'm ashamed to remember buying a tiny tim "tiptoe through the tulips" 45 when I was pre-teen. Why I remember that I have no idea, tho pre high school extracurricular activities is a possible explaination
 
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This thread has not gone off in the direction that I had hoped it would. But then nothing ever does. I think it's safe to say that things often start grand in the mind, but then in reality they are a fraction of what you had imagined. At least most of the time I imagine this is the case. But you know, you have to keep dreaming or else nothing ever gets done. I think aspiring is what doers do. I don't like the word "dreaming" really. It's not like I sit at home with my head in the clouds thinking of some Utopia where everyone is shoving roses up each other's ass and singing Hallelujah. Usually I think, "I should do that," then I do it. Or I don't. I don't tell someone else to do it.

I think doing is begat by aspiring, or really just wanting shit to get done. There is an adage that says to do something right, you need to do it yourself. To that I more or less call bullshit. But I think there is a lot more merit in the adage that you lead by example. This short track race series is a prime example of that. When we needed to get it done, I got out there and led by example because in the end it was my hair-brained idea to put all the hours in to make it happen. And Jake, Utah, Matty, 26er, Kirt, Patty, Mitch, Iggy, Schilling, Clapper, Jeremy, & Kristine all followed me into oblivion and made it happen. This is because one day Jake and I just started digging the shit out of the course. Then Matty helped when Jake left. Then we came back the next day. Then we all bombed it on Friday and just dug it out. And we had a race.

If I hadn't done what I wanted to do, nobody would have gone out and done it for me. When people sit and tell others what to do, it's hard to get motivated to want to do it. Even if you get paid, it's hard to follow someone who does something they don't want to do yourself.

So fuck it, let's get it done. For the 3rd week in a row we got it done and pumped out a great race. I'm tempted to call out the 2 people who openly wanted this to fail but I won't. Basically that would be catering to their shitty attitudes and I want to focus on what we've done as a team. I think we've set the bar pretty high on this thing. Right now, there simply is nowhere else to ride in north jersey besides the BSA camp. There's 1 reason for that. That starts & ends with our team.

I'm really happy to be part of this and to have such awesome teammates. People use the expression "in the trenches" but hell, we were literally in the trenches for this one. This morning, we got there and dug out an alternate line which was really wet. Me, Mitch, & Schilling started, then Bard, Iggy, Pearl, Lou, and several others stepped in to make it right. In the end it turns out that we were pissing on a house fire and it was going to be Mud-topia 2015. But we did what we thought we needed to do. And nobody avoided work. We all just got to it and made it happen.

The only thing that I dislike about today is that I never get to talk to anyone during the race. At the end everyone filters away without saying goodbye because they all go back to their cars to clean up and get changed. Then you turn around and everyone has left. I guess the guy who shuts down Radio City must feel like this every night. What was an explosion of madness 30 minutes earlier is now an veritable ghost town. Such is the way of things.

That's all for now. I see some big things happening in 2015 in a lot of different areas. I'm pretty excited for all of them to come together. Let's hope it's a fun ride one way or another.
 
Sorry if I didn't say goodbye. I'm bad at that. I was going to go back up up to tent but you had already packed up and then YOU rushed away while we we just starting to gather together.;^)
Im gonna be sad come next Sunday with nothing to do.. ;(

Another great Event, Much Success...
 
Best norm shit I have read in a long time. You guys really impress me, and this winter is a damn good example why.
 
I think everybody was in line at Mudwash 2015. Good read, good work, and looking forward to more hopefully beginner friendly things in the future!
 
I was hoping you guys were getting my subliminal "your brand is in a dig or die situation" message as I was lolling about at the start finish line. Anyway great job. I've never really heard of anyone else experiencing that post event thing. Being behind so many events, I often stumble out of the woods completely exhausted to a ghost town scene. Later you read all the accounts of the day and can't fathom the detachment from your experience and theirs. So ,yeah, good stuff McCheese.
 
You can call me out, it's ok, but I never want things to fail and I think you know that. I just take opposition to painting a picture that doesn't exist, which really only happened the first week. After that, you guys did a shit ton of work that is nothing short of commendable. Hell, eventually I may line up at another Mtbnj event, yous never know.
 
Did I come off as I wanted it to fail? I know I was pretty pessimistic about the snowblower. I really thought it would just eat rocks and be crazy difficult. But I'm really glad it did work. I was actually really nervous about the whole operation turning into a giant ice luge. But again, I'm glad it worked out great. I hope I didn't come off like I didn't WANT it to work.
What I'm most glad about is that that board upgrade coincided with the Big Dig 2015® so I didn't even have to come up with an excuse to why I couldn't destroy my back in the 5 deg weather 😉
 
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