Summer Time Moments (1696 views, 171 replies)

We all have them, past and present. Some of them might be here ...




Are you a fan of summer time?
Do you have a favourite summer time moment to share (childhood, adolescence or adulthood)?
Was it good or bad?
Did the moment have a soundtrack?

Mine is an Irish summer camp, coming in contact with the opposite sex, first kiss/love, buying beers, cigarettes, music, escaping from the monitors, staying out all night, getting caught.

And this was the soundtrack to that summer … it couldn’t have been better.



[SPOILER](BTW her name wasn’t Eileen nor Mrs. Box)

1976. I was 15, hottest UK summer on record.
Bunking off school every day and going to the beach.
A boy.

And these two songs on the radio.

Great forum Box! I'm going to think on this one a bit and add something tomorrow. Loved your share!💘
Teeny💋💋

My fav summer moment? when my bare tits bounced in the sunshine for the first time all year!

Mmmm, summer of '76 when I met my 1st real love, Terri. Spent the whole summer in each others arms :>)

Although shagging is mentioned a number of times in the diagram, the Summer Moments can be other things. I have glorious memories of lake fishing with the brothers and my reward was not the number of fish I caught as I was the only one not to catch a thing. Even today I can't stand the sight of fish and only eat it out of a duty to show the kids "the right things to eat"

Best summer moment
I met my husband in the summer of 2010. I had a year sober at that time and we meet at an outpatient clinic. We would stand in the hot sun smoking our cigarettes and getting to know each other. We both ended up working at that treatment center as well. You can find your soulmate in the strangest places!
We also married in the summer (not the same year) at St. George Island,Fl. We had dolphins jumping in and out of the ocean right after our vows and we ended up having a huge rainbow as well. If those aren't good omens I don't know what is.
This summer I have 10 years of sobriety so that's another one!

Sorry box,I left my wild youthful Summers out
Teeny💋💋💋💋

The song that was popular and the reason my husband first talked to me was to ask what song was my ringtone
Kings of Leon, Closer
Teeny 💋
Still my favorite song

This was one of the buzzed songs we all loved and still do. Lots of summertime memories with this particular song, but we won't go there....

@mrkim56 -

Been having a think about the songs available that year in your part of the world, and I came up with a possible Summer Romance Soundtrack for 1976 from beginning to end.

See what you think (you may need youtube to refresh the old gray cells) ...

when I was a child I got to go to the beach every summer and go sight seeing to .I got to see sea world and Bush gardens in Tamp Florida . There was a song that stuck in my head ,when the summer time came around. youtu.be/USvMWm-ZqvQ

Mine is bittersweet. My sister and I spent many years in different states. We phoned a lot but never got to see each other. Then one day she phoned and said that she would be moving back to IL. My heart just leaped. We are four years apart and I was finally going to be close to my one and only sister. She moved back and we had some riotous times. We bar hopped together and went to the beach. We took road trips, had cookouts, we would try to outdo each other with our food choices. Then she became ill. It started with a broken ankle(another story)she got an infection at the hospital later ended up losing her leg. Infection moved up and infected her heart. She died at 52 years old. Broke me in so many ways I still cannot think of her without crying. I have the same relationship with my little brother. He lives in WI. He now has less than three months to live. He has inoperable liver cancer with tumors between the nodes. I still have my mom, I was hoping my brother could be here to help me through her passing. I know how selfish that sounds but I cannot help the feeling. He got married after the death of his wife of 35 years. He was on the edge of drinking himself to death when he found his Linda. I will always be thankful she saved his life, made him want to live again.I'm going to post pictures. My sister is in the Red shirt I'm in the blue one. This was a basement bar night so much fun. My brother, is from his wedding at Lam-beau field we had the reception in the owners sky box. It was an AWESOME NIGHT. This might not be what you anted for memories, If it's to morbid you have full permission without hard feelings to delete. It's your thread.
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Summer of 2014 on the Tombigbee River in Vienna, Alabama. My vision is severely impaired, so I am unable to drive. On this day though, my husband and I had the whole river to ourselves for miles, so I got to drive our boat for a few minutes. This screenshot is from the video he took of me driving.


And this is the song that was playing on the boat's stereo in the video.



This is by far my favorite summertime moment.

I have so many good memories, but going to my first proper concert at Wembley Arena to see the Michael Jackson Bad tour in July 1988 is a great one. My parents had bought me tickets for Christmas and jokingly bickered about which one was going to take me for months – My father won. We caught the train and London underground. It rained. We got soaked and cold.

Having drank a large Pepsi – something my parents never let me drink at home – I was bursting for a wee! I left to find a loo just before Thriller started and I missed the werewolf opening and zombie dance!

The month before was the Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday concert at Wembley. Tracy Chapman was catapulted into the charts after she stood in for Stevie Wonder, with about 10 minutes notice, poor girl. I can’t begin to imagine how she must have been feeling standing in for such a big name.

My first kiss in a teen party, when I was 15. We were playing "spin the bottle and kiss to whoever points". Usually we were kissing doing stupid faces or yelling. I had a kiss by a girl that made me for first time in my life feel that a woman also has needs like mine and I felt her trembling on me. We were listening to songs like:






The second short romance I can share is when I was 17. She was German, older than me, around 21. she had visited Greece with her mother. I already knew how to play the guitar but this summer for the first time i started to sing. We were around a fire on the beach, a hot august night with full moon. I played couple romantic greek tunes and this one:




She told me "U the king of this night". We kissed, we had a sweet romance like 2 young ppl would have. It was bitter when she had to leave. Now as I remember her, I wish she is healthy, happy and with a family and good friends around her

One moment I remember is going to LA (my aunt lives there) in 2000 and seeing the house my parents and I lived in when I was 2 and 3.

Going to fort Walton Beach Florida every summer to soak up the rays. The time I went for my honeymoon I actually had sting rays come up to me in 4 inches of water next to the beach I was sitting on. I played with those for a while and that was probably the highlight of that trip. Lol

I was forgetting the best of summer in 70's San Francisco,they had "street fairs" at least several times.I bought a real Panama hat for $30.--kept it for years.Pottery was easier to find then,at a street fair.--but mostly I went with a girlfriend, and we loved it.--Those were really the high points of San Francisco, summer and street fairs.--They had real,independent artists selling.--little ceramic pins,I still have a "Cloud" and a little heart with gold wings.--I used to have a ceramic "fried egg" pin,hah!!Rock bands sometimes played. I doubt they still have them in 2019.The billionaires wouldn't be interested.---"too hippie" for them.

What a wonderful thread, Box! great stories and great music! everybody!
my story is not from teeny times, but certainly from another planet.

End of 2015 i planned to go to Koh Samui Thailand with my best friend, we have been there many times. I knew he had not seen his girl there for months and told him:" You fly 5 days before me, i have to close some work projects und you need time to make love and be alone. Pick me up at the airport, we will go straight to the ferry to Koh Phangang (neighbour island) to relax there for some days. I will be in need of a pool and many cocktails"

So i flew a bit later. The night before the flight i had a really really bad fight with my business partner about money and the projects, it was really bad.(4 years before that we were crazy in love but it ended up only business)

So without any sleep and totally stressed and many Gin Tonics in the air i landed on Samui.
(worlds GREATEST airport)my friend called and said "we will be there in 10 mins. haha i have a surprise for you" I was expecting our traditional welcome bottle of CHANG beer.
...
so the car showed up. instantly i knew something is not right, it was a super luxury Pick Up (tuned in that Asien style, if you think they have big trucks in the US, you have never been to Asia) I knew my friends girlfriend was not rich at all, so i thought my friend rented it.

My friend+girl jumped off the car and welcome/big hugging/ big hello. When we sat in the car i asked who is gonna drive? then the door opened and THIS got in.



MY friend said with a satanic smile: " May i introduce to Tija? She was so kind to drive us today, She is honeys best friend"

My heart missed the beat and (as it is the rule in those situations) the world turned the
miliionth part of a millionth milimeter to the left.AND: (no joke) the radio played "China Girl" , David Bowie. All time fav of mine.



On the way to ferry port (like 10 miles) i tried to look not as stupid as i felt.
Everybody was chatting loudly and laughing, cant relly remember.

As we had to wait for the ferry an hour or so we sat down for coffe and beer.
My friend and his girl (they are now happily married)were simply HORRIBLY in love.
You know that? They were sitting there in the Cafe, two bodies constantly hugging, kissing, smiling stupidly at each other. IT WAS TERRIBLE! (i mean that funny of course)

When Tija went to restroom, Nok turned to me and said with serious voice:"Adrian, she not normal Thai, she very rich and from upper class. she very sensitive, you can not use bad word or make bad joke with her. I know u like her. i fear she like you"

I said: " well no problem. Gentleman is my second name"
"hahahaha THAT what i fear"

Then they went on hugging unbearably. As Tija returned i said: " You cant leave me alone with these two for 5 days. Please join us for the Phangan trip. please feel invited. Please come with us!" i tried to look BEGGING.

There are very few sentences in life, that are engraved in your brain 4ever. Her answer was one of them: (she hesitated a bit)" hmmm,I like to, but I have to ask my mommy first"

I was stunned. WHAT??? (she was 39)

Ok we left with the ferry and she stayed on Samui and promised to call. We went to our resort. Here is a lil impression.

(i obviously loaded that up to make ya jaleaous )

we moved in our bungalows, then Nok ran to me " She called, she called she is on ferry already. Her mommy liked pic of you and said yes" (!)

Again heart miss beat. Then i had the best idea of my life. I went to Landlord of the resort, a cool Thai guy. i said:
" You have bungalows left to rent ?"
"Yes Sir , i have two left"
"No you dont"
"?"
"Look, in 20 minutes a Bangkok Lady will show up and ask for a bungalow (the term Bangkok Lady is a Thai equivalent for upper class). you will easily recognize her. Here is 10000 Baht. Please tell her no room left."
He understood and smiled. "Very well Sir!" ( and took the money of course)

She arrived and was wondering why there was no room left (it was off season).
I invited her to my bungalow and assured her of my gentleman attitudes.

We rented some motorbikes and went out in the evening to Thong Sala.
She said:" Adrian you not drive! Drive with me, you too tired! Sit behind me on motobike!"

I would have been a fool to deny that offer.

So i found myself after 50 hours without sleep and a lot of stress under the tropical sky
on a motorbike behind the most beautiful island princess you can imagine. Her hair with the wind in my face (maaaan i will never forget that smell)and her buttocks between my legs.
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(I am really sorry for beeing extensive.)
After many cocktails we found ourselves in the bungalow. I tried to be a gentleman as promised. I really really tried. Of course i failed.

What followed was a 6 week long (I postponed the flight 3 times), delirious, rush from outta space. A day in night out trip consistent of white satin, hotel hopping, sunsets, talking, falling falling falling deeper deeper. Time of a life.

This lil vid will give you an impression of Love & tropics ( music : Royksöpp)



18 long months before i was lonely after a depressing relationship, just refusing anything and fleeing into work.

Sooo if you are out there lonely or in the wrong relationship:
The universe will provide you with all possibilities. All you have to do is move and show life some contact surface.

Oh and BTW: MONTHS later i found out what happened before I arrived. My friend and the two girls went to a buddhist temple for praying. In Thai buddhist temples you shake a wooden
... mug with many many wooden sticks. Each stick has a number. You pray a while, then pull a stick + number. Then you go to an enourmous bookshelf. u look for your numbers shelfspace.
Then you pull a lil slip of paper that tells you your future.

That was Tijas paper 3 days before i arrived:(true story i swear)
"a tall stranger will come from far away and you will both fall in Love"

I am basically an atheist but sometimes......
Cheers
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wow that is some island tale!!I am burning up with jealousy, hah hah!--what a resort too,what a vacation!!I'm not so sophisticated, we went to Napa Valley,in California, years before problems.One time we found a cheese shop,in little town,-hard to find cheese--but my roommates and me had one really good time in Napa Valley,went to wineries,(before I quit drinking)great sipping!!(the driver abstained.) The driver found the little lane,that lead to the 3-story family house of the movie director of the Godfather movies--he was crazy about them. --It was their family big house, right next to a neglected grape-yard.--their grapes.NO ONE was around.But my friend got SUCH A KICK out of discovering their family home,and land,stuck away from everything.--so Hollywood people were already living there. hah hah what a joke!!

Our real highlight was finding a near-by town with a huge restaurant-bar,that served 7 dollar steak dinners--and they were nice & big.Wonderful meal.--And you could order from the bar.The restaurant window looked out on a garden, filled with PEACOCKS and big birds. ... (??)bizarre,"the entertainment"! hee hee.I'm glad we did that, cause we never were able to go back.--but our driver was tickled pink, he found the famous movie directors' family home.--He was such a FAN!!--Francis Ford Coppola.yeah. What a trip!!sigh. :)
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For some reason that's not exactly clear to me 2 songs that seem ideally suited to a Texas summer are Wall Of Voodoo - "Mexican Radio"

And Guadalcanal Diary- "Watusi Rodeo"

Maybe it 'cause it's Frydee evenin and the rum's already on the loose

No thread about summertime without THIS. that song perfectly captures late summer sadness
summer over, summer romance over, The Unbearable Lightness of Being--OVER


Kiss me hard, before you go

a truely eternal line. What a woman what a voice

what about the summer of '91 when Bryan Adams & Robin Hood Prince of Thieves ruled the world.

It spent 16 (SIXTEEN) consecutive weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart from July to October 1991. By week 3 I was ready to jump off a bridge.

Here's Stewie doing. I refuse to click a link to listen to Bryan lol.

It really is amazing how memories of one person evoke memories in another. The name Koh Samui brought back memories of a 5 week honeymoon travelling around the country of Thailand, totally disconnected from the outside world and arriving back the day Princess Diana and her boyfriend and driver died in Paris. I suppose this was the song that marked the end of the honeymoon and the start of the mourning process in UK.



And the sand on the beaches in Koh Samui really is special.

hehe NOPE.
Paris , August 31st 1997 .
The sadest summer time story ever, i promise. (NOT Diana) interested?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfw...
Girls in cut off jean shorts and tube tops. Those were the days.

There are plenty of summertime moments that I can recall. My favorite one would be my husband asking me out back in 08. It was my first date. My second favorite one would be spending time with him all day at the beach at 09. 3rd would be the long drive with him and friends the same year. Those were the days. No worries, no tensions. Just free. My all-time favorite moment would he proposing back in 2017. And getting married that summer.

Everyone posted a lot of songs.

We used to listen to this when we were teenagers.

I dared to hope so
I will try to concentrate to the essence.
Ok, in the late 90s i lived & worked in London (Battersea). On wednesday 27th 1997 an old friend of mine called from Paris and said " i found him. can you come?"
Her name is Vicky (a true London girl) and she grew up without knowing her father. She was working in Paris in the Hopital Pitié-Salpêtrière at that time as a surgical nurse.
For all of her life she spent a fortune to find her father , spending it to detectives, research, even spiritual idiots. Mommy refused to help , maybe not even remembering much of him.(Well i dont know that precisly)
Ok, with the help of the company i worked for in London i could help a lil and it turned out he lived like only 40 km away from Paris. She did not want to be alone when meeting him first time, so i was kind of a back up.
I flew to Paris friday afternoon 29 th. Contrary to my insistent advice, she decided to confront him by assault. My suggestions of writing a letter or similar were simply rejected.
... So she took a cab on saturday evening to Coulommiers. I stayed in her Paris appartment, had a beer and watched some funnies,(actually REALLY funny if you hear the Simpsons in French)
i fell asleep on the couch.
around 2 am she returned. She was in a horrible condition. I jumped up and asked:"Hey you allright? whats up???"
She turned her had to the TV, in a hypnotised kind a way. around that time TV stations started flooding news with the death of Diana and Dody. She made a funny sound that i cannot desribe and..fainted. I called an ambulance and they took her to hospital for two days.
What happened was (i found that out the week after): Daddy was not at home, so after asking a few neighbours she found him in a local pub. (Well it was a saturday)
After talking like two hours that "man" approached her sexually, in a very disgusting way.
Can you imagine? you spend your whole live dreaming and searching for your father and then that someone ...horrible.
She ran out in the night to the next pub and had LOTS of booze, then returned home.
Today i think that Diana news were just the last straw that broke the camel's back.

We spent the whole next week in an extraordinary abuse of drugs and booze.
Its hard to make summer Paris the court of hell. I assure you though its possible.
we took anything listening to songs like this:




(The first PLACEBO album was just released in 1996)
or:



Vicky commited suicide in 2001. Useless to mention that the hospital she worked in was exactly the hospital Diana died in. She missed the shift.

Now , that is the thing about summer times: autumn is lurking and winters death is for sure
CHEERS

Oh. before we get to far with sad stuff: summer is like this:

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ayyy and hey , things can even go worse in summer..
especially if you enter a US southern swamp at night!!

love it love it

Summer of '96, senior class trip to Myrtle Beach, SC. A week of drinking, smoking, tripping, xing, total debauchery...I believe there was some shagging in there too, of course Anyhow, the soundtrack would include Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Doors, Janis Joplin. We were young but listened to mostly classic rock. The two songs I remember most though weren't from the actual vacation but the ride there and back. We only had 2 tapes (yes cassette tapes) and they each only had a couple songs on them. One was The Doors, the other was Oasis. Here are the 2 songs we listened to for nearly the whole 12 hour drive.

I WAS ONLY SIXTEEN do you know what I mean, the music I loved was the CARS, and I drove a Pontiac Lemans to Florida that summer with a friend and we hustled pool in the bars off the boardwalk of Daytona Beach, no sh*te. Let the good times ROLL....

I had a walkman with cassette tapes.I was 14.I had the def lepard cassete,Hysteria.I had my headphones on and a blue plastic skateboard...lol

Frank Zappa was just as comfortable with Thelonious Monk, as he he was with Howlin' Wolf. But it pissed him off that he was most famous for the song "Dinah-Moe Humm" It earned him the nickname "the "godfather" of comedy rock. He felt underappreciated for his more esoteric works. They didn't get any airplay. Zappa was a staunch supporter of freedom. In music, and in personal matters. On September 19, 1985, Zappa testified before the United States Senate on the matter of censorship, and labelling of music. "Zappa set excerpts from the PMRC [Parents Music Resource Center] hearings to Synclavier music in his composition "Porn Wars" on the 1985 album Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, and the full recording was released in 2010 as Congress Shall Make No Law... Zappa is heard interacting with Senators Fritz Hollings, Slade Gorton and Al Gore.[116]" Wikipedia. Zappa hated consorship of any kind, and would have been appalled by the censorship of conservatives by Youtube, and other social media. "In a 1991 interview, Zappa reported that he was a registered Democrat but added "that might not last long—I'm going to shred that".[100] Describing his political views, Zappa categorized himself as a "practical conservative".[nb 13] He favored limited government and low taxes; he also stated that he approved of national defense, social security, and other federal programs, but only if recipients of such programs are willing and able to pay for them.[1]:315–16, 323–24; 329–30 He favored capitalism, entrepreneurship, and independent business, stating that musicians could make more from owning their own businesses than from collecting royalties.[101] He opposed communism, stating, "A system that doesn't allow ownership ... has—to put it mildly—a fatal design flaw." [Wikipedia]. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 71 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[129]
... In 2011, he was ranked at No. 22 on the list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by the same magazine.[130]
The street of Partinico where his father lived at number 13, Via Zammatà, has been renamed to Via Frank Zappa. And so, from the summer of 1973, I give you...
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And one more, because for a change its summer thats coming , not winter anymore (GOT over, har har)I alwas loved Brit Pop and Indie, but PULP was just---over the top.
Most of the video is Glastonbury Summer 1995, maaan we loved it.
"...and this holy feeling just grows and grows.."
"...just tell me when the spaceship lands.."
Never before the festival feeling was nailed like this,CHEERS

Babybird:
"You said I wasn't cheap
You paid me twenty pounds
You promised to put me in a magazine
On every table, in every lounge
Because you're gorgeous, I'd do anything for you
Because you're gorgeous, I know you'll get me through"

why this never works with me . again

I got your message and came to deliver. I had to think waaaaay back for a summer memory because nothing really ever happens in the summer with me anymore. This was probably early 90s, 1990 most likely. Every year after school let out, my dad would take me to this water park called Wild World (It was later renamed Adventure World, and then later turned into Six Flags America). It's a 15 minute trip from our house. Anyway, I just remember having so much fun with my dad those times. This particular time, I remember I was in the wild waves, riding a yellow donut floaty and my dad had gone off to get us some drinks. The park had giant speakers and played music all day, the song that was playing at this time was "More Than Words" by Extreme. I remember it made me sad because I was thinking about in the future I might not have my dad anymore, like my mom who passed away when I was 3. My dad passed in 2007 and I still can't really listen to More Than Words without crying even though I really like the song. It just makes me remember. My dad always spoiled me, got me everything I needed and most of everything I wanted, he was cool, funny and always encouraged me to be the best me I could be.
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Summer 2010 I fell super hard for someone who totally betrayed me.

1994 was my year of rediscovering music and pointing my nose and car in the direction of Co. Tipperary, and a two day music festival called Féile. The line up was perfect for me and my tastes at the time and between summer showers we managed to bop till we dropped.



But the highlight (still burned into my brain 25 years later) was this one ...