Mapping Influences Over Time
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 …
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We talked about the movie Grease and the soundtrack. It was a couple of years earlier but that faux 1950’s theme seemed to get people’s attention. When my friend Dave shared Stray Cats with me, it seemed like a continuation of that theme. Looking at the cover of Built For Speed it looks like Stray …
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Before we get started, I want to draw your attention to the Tag Cloud at the bottom of the page. While not scientific, I think it is an interesting display. It makes me wish I would have developed some system at the beginning and followed it all the way, then the Tag Cloud could be …
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The first spin off from the Heavy Metal Soundtrack was Devo. I had heard Whip It and new about the flower pot hats. Working In A Coal Mine helped me decide to check them out further. I picked up their newest New Traditionalists and Freedom Of Choice at the same time. The New album had …
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I can’t remember which came first, the Heavy Metal Magazine or the Heavy Metal movie Soundtrack. For a long time I was getting the magazine, at least a year. I had a pretty good stack of them. If you’ve never seen Heavy Metal magazine, it is basically a sci-fi fantasy comic book that targets 16 …
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The Weekly schedule at prep school was a little different. We had half days on Wednesdays. To make up for it, we had classes on Saturday mornings. Yes everybody had to do sports or activities which I ended up liking very much. Due to the population and geography of the Lakes Region Conference it meant …
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After my freshman year at Hogwarts, I went back to Fort Wayne for the summer. That summer I would meet Cedar Point, REO Speedwagon and a girl named Dawn all at the same time. Dawn was a couple years older than me. She drove a sharp looking 1971 Camaro that was red with black racing stripes. …
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There is no doubt that I picked up Squeeze’s Argybargy after hearing my friend Adam’s copy. I’ll have to ask him how he got into Squeeze. Argybargy is one of those albums that I rarely listened to after the end of The Academy Days. I can’t say why for sure considering how much I liked …
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I think I might have seen part of the Alice’s Restaurant movie as the entrance into Arlo Guthrie. Maybe it was on a radio station on Thanksgiving one year. I wish I would have taken better care to recall some of these things. Particularly in a case like Alice’s Restaurant. The album was released in …
Let me begin by saying that I have not yet purchased News Of The World as pictured here. My Columbia House cassettte was Queen’s Greatest Hits. I added this album cover because I wanted to take a moment to discuss album covers. As I rummaged through the racks of records and cassettes at local record …
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