Things just aren't like they used to be. Its unfortunate but true. Always hear parents refer to this saying when talking about kids going outside to play. Its not like it used to be. You can't just let the kids out and roam around freely like back in the day because now its just too dangerous. 

 

20 years ago when I got my drivers license at the age of 16 the first thing I did was buy a ticket to a Bengals game.  Living in Louisville I was close to the games but not close enough. So when I got my license I was like I can go to games now because I'll just drive myself. It's crazy to think now about back then. How my mom just let her 16 year old son drive a hour and half away to some strange enormous city all by himself. But that was 20 years ago. Things were different. My nephew is 17 now and their is no way anyone would let him do something like that today.  

That first season that I had my drivers license I bought a single game ticket to every home game. Sunday morning I would drive up there all by myself and be there all day alone. Well with 50k+ other people who I didn't know one of.  Sometimes I'd go up there without a ticket and get one from a scalper.   I always parked for free on the Kentucky side by the Burger King. In that big vacant lot by the bridge. These days if you parked there your catalytic converter would be gone when you got back.  Sometimes I would get 2 tickets to a game so I could take a buddy but that was rare. Being a millennial, most of my friends didn't even have a job much less the money to pay for a ticket to Bengals game. Back then I was on the football team, had a job bussing tables and in the summers I worked full time landscaping. I did this for 3 seasons. Then I went off to Paris Island. Only been back a few times since. 

I know what you mean. I just read an article where a mom in Georgia was recently arrested because she let her 10 year old son go to a store by himself. We started letting our son roam the neighborhood and walk home from school by himself when he was about 8 years old. (He’s 28 now) .  We also let him go to an all day rock festival with friends when he was 14. If I was a parent now, I would still probably let him do that stuff, but I know a lot of parents who wouldn’t. When I was growing up, our parents would drop us off at Riverfront Stadium to watch the Reds and pick us up later. I was probably 13 at the time. I would leave the house in the morning or after and my parents wouldn’t know where I was until I showed up for a meal. 
 

Truth is, kids don’t have time to just play outside these days because they’re too busy with structured activities like sports, academic stuff, music, etc. They don’t have down time to just be kids. It’s sad. 

I used to bike about a mile to the store by myself to buy my Dad cigs.  Not exactly condoning it, but it was never a problem. 

On 11/28/2024 at 3:42 PM, Catfish Bob said:

Things just aren't like they used to be. Its unfortunate but true. Always hear parents refer to this saying when talking about kids going outside to play. Its not like it used to be. You can't just let the kids out and roam around freely like back in the day because now its just too dangerous. 

 

20 years ago when I got my drivers license at the age of 16 the first thing I did was buy a ticket to a Bengals game.  Living in Louisville I was close to the games but not close enough. So when I got my license I was like I can go to games now because I'll just drive myself. It's crazy to think now about back then. How my mom just let her 16 year old son drive a hour and half away to some strange enormous city all by himself. But that was 20 years ago. Things were different. My nephew is 17 now and their is no way anyone would let him do something like that today.  

That first season that I had my drivers license I bought a single game ticket to every home game. Sunday morning I would drive up there all by myself and be there all day alone. Well with 50k+ other people who I didn't know one of.  Sometimes I'd go up there without a ticket and get one from a scalper.   I always parked for free on the Kentucky side by the Burger King. In that big vacant lot by the bridge. These days if you parked there your catalytic converter would be gone when you got back.  Sometimes I would get 2 tickets to a game so I could take a buddy but that was rare. Being a millennial, most of my friends didn't even have a job much less the money to pay for a ticket to Bengals game. Back then I was on the football team, had a job bussing tables and in the summers I worked full time landscaping. I did this for 3 seasons. Then I went off to Paris Island. Only been back a few times since. 

 

man tell me about it. when i was 18/19 i was managing a record label out of detroit and going on tour around the midwest on my own, now i watch my 19 yr old on apple find my friends app drive to and from school, and check on him on friday/saturday nights, making sure he is cool, he knows and he knows i dont care what he is doing, but he goes to school in the country fields of nebraska, and country folk dont fuck around, so i wanna make sure he doesnt get into some shit and left in a field. 

6 hours ago, GoBengals said:

 

man tell me about it. when i was 18/19 i was managing a record label out of detroit and going on tour around the midwest on my own, now i watch my 19 yr old on apple find my friends app drive to and from school, and check on him on friday/saturday nights, making sure he is cool, he knows and he knows i dont care what he is doing, but he goes to school in the country fields of nebraska, and country folk dont fuck around, so i wanna make sure he doesnt get into some shit and left in a field. 

 

What record label? I've followed a lot of Detroit music over the years so now I'm curious.  Feel free to DM it if you prefer, or not, but that's pretty cool.  Detroit has/had a great music scene.  People are scared to death of that city but I've had some really good times there and met some great locals I still keep up with now.

On 12/9/2024 at 10:26 PM, T-Dub said:

 

What record label? I've followed a lot of Detroit music over the years so now I'm curious.  Feel free to DM it if you prefer, or not, but that's pretty cool.  Detroit has/had a great music scene.  People are scared to death of that city but I've had some really good times there and met some great locals I still keep up with now.

 

I worked for a Label called Virus Independant from detroit, and owned two others in cincinnati.

On 12/13/2024 at 1:36 AM, GoBengals said:

 

I worked for a Label called Virus Independant from detroit, and owned two others in cincinnati.

 

Checked it out on Discogs, pretty sure I know of Level Jumpers from flyers or something like that. Was in & out of Detroit record stores a lot around that time. Record Time, M&M, Submerge..

Things are more "moderner"than before.  Bigger, and yet... smaller!

It's computers.

 

San Dimas High School Football RULES!!

 

On 12/14/2024 at 12:54 PM, T-Dub said:

 

Checked it out on Discogs, pretty sure I know of Level Jumpers from flyers or something like that. Was in & out of Detroit record stores a lot around that time. Record Time, M&M, Submerge..

 

they would have had flyers everywhere, especially hot hits, rock of ages, etc. Level Jumpers was a trio group album as i headed out the door, i was around for all of the Halfbreed stuff, and i put out 5 albums/compilations on my own label, and 3 album on the other cincinnati label i partially owned. I think in total, maybe 10-13 albums i had a part in putting out. I am on the cover of one of them. The Detroit dudes were getting older (one still does music went back to his old friends label, one designs custom horror masks, and the associated act makes electronic music) so i decided to bounce as the fun was over(and the money). Did well with my compilations, hit events, sold 3000-10,000 units of each, had the teen club going, cash flow was fantastic at 18-21-ish, then local cincinnati artists because a pain in the ass, dudes with grudges against other members, producer mad people miss studio time, then he withholds beats for sessions, so we dropped them all, got in a huge physical fight at the studio as they tried to steal equipment and masters, all parted ways. Signed another dude from Dayton, he began to flake out, then ended up being jumped and beat into a coma, died after being in coma for months, the two that jumped him were found dead shortly after. I figured that was about the end of the line for me. Local authorities all thought we were drug dealers or organized crime, had MPRINC license plates for the local record label, were being followed by the police, they were coming into the studio when we were gone, shit was getting out of hand for some white dudes in Warren County. couple years later i dove my free time into following the bengals, the creative outlet turned into this place. 20 years passes and here we are.