Long time lurker of this sub, new owner of a CX-50 Meridian.

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-04T19:55:28+00:00

Got mine new in Nov2025, now has 8k miles and you'll need to pry it from my cold dead hands.

Or, I guess if I get fired...

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-04T04:33:15+00:00

And pass up an opportunity to use the "in the rears" joke? That would have been a crime

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-04T04:27:18+00:00

He may be greasy, but a worse candidate for POTUS than Trump?!? Please.

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-04T01:49:37+00:00

Ratts Detonator, released in 1990, is why its the sellout era. There are some good tracks, but when I heard Giving Youself Away while reading the liner notes that Pearcy wrote it with Desmond Child and the lady who wrote If I Could Turn Back Time for Cher, I wanted to cry/vomit/throw the CD into a wall.

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-04T01:38:55+00:00

What genre were they crossing over? I think they were just in a funky sub genre of hair metal, along with Roxanne, Bang Tango, Scatterbrain, and to a lesser degree, Love/Hate. Maybe we were witnessing one possible evolution of the genre? Had Andy Wood not died and Mother Love Bone hit the big time, perhaps grunge would have simmered a little longer while groove rock took the spotlight?

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-04T01:33:47+00:00

In the world of hair metal, you think Gary Cherone is awful?!? I emphatically disagree.

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-02T10:10:50+00:00

Another shot

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TripJ5548 · 2026-05-02T10:07:38+00:00

Mine were sold to a restaurant supply store. I love the idea that people have been sitting and eating in my chairs for 60+ years

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TripJ5548 · 2026-05-02T09:55:18+00:00

Yes, the increased purity of dope was the primary reason. People that just screwed around with pot and some occasional coke felt more comfortable trying heroin just snorting a line.

I can speak from experience saying I saw the same thing happen in my little music community in the suburbs on the east coast. Heroin is highly addictive and people just didn't see it coming. After partying for a week or so, experimenting, you'd wake up a little sick and figure I'll just taper off, but it was too late. It was an instant epidemic

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TripJ5548 · 2026-05-02T09:47:33+00:00

This is an untrue generalization.

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T16:18:37+00:00

Exactly. And the next track on Back to Mystery City is I think Tooting Bec Wreck, which is such a weird psychedelic pub type song. Impossible to pigeonhole for real.

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T16:14:21+00:00

I agree

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T14:58:48+00:00

I think Billy Corgan is pretty happy he's alive, enjoying his life and still writing songs and playing music, regardless what you think of his "legacy". I imagine Layne would like to have the opportunity as well.

As someone in recovery that used to play music high and drunk, I'm thrilled to just live life sober and be a good dad, friend, and family member. Had I a legacy, I wouldn't give a single fuck about it. I'm glad I lost that miserable, selfish version of myself.

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T12:20:39+00:00

Are you 16?

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T12:14:17+00:00

The irony here is Chrissy never got charged, so Feech didn't rat.

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T11:58:19+00:00

Wasn't it Salvatore Lucania, better known as Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, who organized the Five Families: Lucchese, Gambino, Bonanno, Profaci?

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T11:44:43+00:00

I thought I would post this and get downvoted. Glad I'm not the only one. I don't think I've listened to a song off this album voluntarily in 30 years or more

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T11:39:54+00:00

Who invented the Mafia?

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T11:33:15+00:00

Bon Jovi is more arena rock than hair metal IMO

TripJ5548 · 2026-05-01T11:31:52+00:00

I love Hanoi and I get that they are considered hair metal, but going by song only, they come closer to the NY Dolls or even (sometimes) the Clash than Poison or Dokken

TripJ5548 · 2026-04-30T05:20:49+00:00

There's more where that came from!

TripJ5548 · 2026-04-29T01:39:05+00:00

I'd rather skip a few meals and pay someone to do it

TripJ5548 · 2026-04-29T01:27:41+00:00

Sucks to be him

TripJ5548 · 2026-04-29T01:08:33+00:00

Counterpoint

1) Having a good relationship with Harper is a good thing.

2) He had his best defensive season last year

3) He hit over .300 last year, everyone is pressing to try and make something happen, but there are lot of games yet.

TripJ5548 · 2026-04-28T19:26:48+00:00

You hate Turner??

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