Memories of Mayhem

I was thinking over yesterday's posts and I realized what I wrote may not be entirely 100% accurate. My earliest Tremblant memory is actually of crafting the very first soundtrack.

I created the soundtrack on my very first Dell computer on an ultra-slow 2x speed CD burner. Now, back in the day, CD burners weren't what they are today. They were these big boxes that plugged into the back of the computer and required a "CD caddy" to put the CD in and take it out. Not only did it take over a half an hour to burn a CD, but it also was a crap shoot over whether or not the CD would fail completely and you would have to start over. ...and start over I did. Many times. Given that there were three of us and I wanted everyone to have copies, I think I may have attempted to burn over 15 CDs in the last 24 hours before the trip. I didn't finish until right before my ride showed up.

The soundtrack ended up being 3 full discs of classic songs, humor, TV theme songs, current music, and Jerky Boys. At the very last minute, a half-length 4th disc would be added that would contain such PQ Ski Team classics as Vixen's "Edge of a Broken Heart", Reel Big Fish's version of A Ha's "Take on Me", and Lock Up's anthem from the movie "Ski School"... "Punch Drunk".

Little did I know at the time that this 4th CD would be the most played CD of the trip. My intention was simply to get the recently downloaded "Punch Drunk" on to the soundtrack somehow, but we ended up using this 4th CD as our morning anthem.

Every morning, we would drive the short distance from the condo to the mountain in Scotty's Ford Expedition. We would then start the CD to hear the first track of Vixen and put on our gear in the parking lot as the song slowly built to a crescendo. By the time the song has crested in emotion, we were pumped up and ready to dominate the mountain. Blasting this music certainly got us some odd looks from other skiers.

I know this seems corny now. In fact, it seemed corny at the time. Vixen was never cool and it represented all about what was wrong with 80's hair metal... Okay, that was really Britny Fox and the Bullet Boys, but stay with me here.

The point is that we didn't care. There was just something about this music that made us want to get up and made us want to dominate no matter how hung over we were or how much non-dancing we did at Le Petit Caribou the night before.

That is my earliest Tremblant memory (as far as I recall today) and that is why you will be seeing a return of Vixen to the PQ soundtrack this year.