Mapping Influences Over Time
Was MTV really as big as I remembered it was back then? Even though our house didn’t have cable, MTV was still on our minds and we hungered for music videos. We never missed Friday Night Videos. It was the closest we could get to the MTV experience in our house. I think that MTV …
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I don’t know why but for a 4 year period starting that autumn, I paid attention to radio and music videos more intently than I ever had. I still maintain that it was a ripple effect from MTV. Even on our 4 and half channels we had Friday Night Videos. Perhaps it was just a …
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After leaving Space Mountain, I slept for most of 3 full days. I felt exhausted but I’m sure that some level of depression was to blame as well. I moved back into mom’s house. Grandpa and I constructed a nice little bedroom in the basement. It had my old captains bed (which would be my …
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I have been having a blast “forcing” myself to listen to all these old albums start to finish like we did back in the day. Sitting, contemplating, trying to remember. Some things are absolutely clear others not so much and the rest lost to the fabric of time. It can be intoxicating. I find that …
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My last night on Space Mountain was extraordinarily busy in the bar. The place was packed. The Movie Midnight Express was on the small screen and everybody had gotten into it. I was in a hurry to get our party started. All summer long I had gotten into the habit of creating an experimental drink …
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Late in the summer, Adam and I made our last hitch hiking trip to Burlington. It seemed that everywhere we went, Madness Our House was being played as well as Naked Eyes Always Something There To Remind Me. When we got back, we spent the night in his room in Snafu Hollow. His radio was …
Although living on top of Mount Equinox was amazing good fun and staggeringly beautiful, we were more or less cut off from civilization. As a result, there wasn’t much in the way of new music being added to my collection. At this point I had 2 cassette carrying cases that held 24 cassettes each and …
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Tom Lehrer’s That Was The Year That Was is a good example of why I wish I would have spent more time in researching and organizing before I started this project in January. I almost completely forgot about this record. I was just kind of reflecting on Space Mountain and suddenly it popped into my …
I got my first glimpse of MTV in the summer of 1983. It had been on the air and running since August 1st of 1981 so it was almost 2 years old already. As you know during my entire time in Vermont TV basically did not exist. Nobody I knew had access to MTV. I …
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You know guys know how to party when they break out the Songs Of The Humpack Whale album. It has been discussed in earlier posts that I have a certain fascination with Sound Effects. I had collected a couple albums that I may or may not have mentioned. If I didn’t, it was merely due …
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