Mapping Influences Over Time
Another of my cousin’s albums that I had the great fortune of sampling was The Grand Illusion by Styx. Like Kansas, Styx seemed to be very melodic and symphonic with so many layers of sound and instruments to explore and immerse myself in. I don’t think that I was as enraptured by Styx as I …
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At some point during my middle school years, my cousin bought a few albums that would be among my all time favorites. Two of them were Kansas albums. Leftoverture, and Point Of Know Return I think we talked a little bit about Leftoverture a while back. The first Kansas song I can remember hearing was Magnum Opus. My …
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I can’t understand why there ended up being such an anti-disco movement. I thought some of it was rather clever. You know taking the Star Wars theme or classics like Beethoven’s 5th and discofying them. I feel fortunate to be able to look back at this time in My Musical Evolution and find these great …
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In the 7th Grade, a classmate of mine named Danny discovered, The Marx Brothers. He had a big book called “Why A Duck” which essentially is a a few Marx Brothers movies presented in comic book format using stills from the films above the typed out dialogue. It didn’t take me long to be hooked …
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Did the films Grease and Sgt Pepper come out in the same year? It feels that but if I give it a second though, Grease was first then Sgt Pepper. Hang on, I’ll check. Both 1978 according to imdb.com. I remember having the stylized Sgt Pepper Logo T-shirts. Even though Frampton Comes Alive had been …
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As I was listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, I realized that I never have seen that movie. I guess at some point in the 1990’s I saw a good chunk of it on TV. For me, Saturday Night Fever was just a double album of really great dance music. My cousin had the …
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It wasn’t really a dance hall. It was the gym at Bellows Falls Middle School. Looking at it from a parent’s or administrators point of view, the middle school dance seems even more awkward than it felt when I was in 7th grade. I can’t shake this notion of it being a primitive rite as a …
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Earlier, I began to explain why I have such trouble keeping the music of the BFMS era clearly defined. When I purchase music, I can usually remember more details about where I was when I bought it and it makes it easier to say “This song belongs to that era!” With BFMS, I was listening …
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The BFMS era is one that seems the most fuzzy, grey or undefined. the Scratchy 45 Days had fairly distinct borders. The KISS Age was also fairly precise. BFMS is the era that my memory questions the most. There are some distinct areas but much of the time i find myself thinking “Hang on was …
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As we discussed in the previous post, while jogging on one of Vermont’s Country Roads just north of Saxton’s River, I found a box that among other things contained some 8-Track Tapes. Of the half a dozen or so tapes, I kept 3. I’m pretty sure that I listen to all of them at first …
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