My Musical Evolution – Part 112 Academy Days My Clone Sleeps Alone

I liked this album so much that I actually bought the cassette twice. I got my first one from Columbia House and played in until it met an untimely end. As I think about trying to fix it by pulling most of the magentic tape out of the cassette then gently and carefully spooling it back up while cringing at the creases, it reminds me that my children never experienced any of that. It was a part of life. I think that the factory cassettes were more prone to thebeing eaten phenomenon. A couple of years later, I would be using loads of Maxell, Memorex and TDK tapes and never had problems of this level. Perhaps it had something to do with improvements in my cassette decks. What I can tell you is that I have in my possession hundreds of mix tapes that I produced from the mid 1980’s to the late 1990’s and they have survived un eaten. We’ll discuss the mix tape era soon. It takes off around 1984. My use of mix tapes might have been a result of the fail rate of my factory cassettes and thus the temporary regret of going that way in the first place. It would shape my attitude about protecting my source material.

After the unrevocerable demise of my In The Heat Of The Night tape. I went to some record store in Bennington, VT. Adam and I were in town and I bought it again.

As with Crimes Of Passion, I found myself drawn to Pat Benatar’s softer more melodic songs. She would probably be disappointed with me. I think she wanted to be known as a hard driving rocker. At first anyway.

Heartbeaker

I Need A Lover

A few years later, here in Indiana, just a couple hours north of Seymour, I heard a version of this song by some guy named John Cougar. I really liked the extended guitar intro. I didn’t realize that Pat Benatar did a cover of that song and not the other way around.