Mapping Influences Over Time
The White Zone is for loading and unloading only! If you gotta load or if you you gotta unload, go to the White Zone. Senior year, I found my Columbia House catalog had the conclusion to Joe’s Garage. Back in those days the physical limitations of a vinyl record or cassette meant that Frank Zappa …
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Before we proceed I want to make it perfectly clear that I really don’t like Alvin & The Chipmunks. They show again on my Time-Like Treasury Of Christmas and I hate that song. I find the chipmunks the epitomy of annoying. The high pitched squealing and the dreadful behavior. There is nothing remotely cute or entertaining …
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In 1980, Adam, Carolyn and I took the movie trip bus to Keene, New Hampshire to see Flash Gordon. My mom used to go to the Saturday Matinee to see Flash Gordon when she was a kid. I had a history of liking science fiction. I had a history of liking Queen. It was awesome. It …
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Did I mention that back even before the Scratchy 45 Days that I was a fan of The Monkees? I wasn’t quite interested in their music at that time but I was an avid viewer of their quirky TV show. I had just turned 3 years old when the show was cancelled but even at …
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There was no doubt that Adam and I were enjoying Jake and Elwood. Briefcase Full Of Blues was such a cool album. It left us wanting more. Being fans of the movie, The Blues Brothers Soundtrack was a natural next step. It has some great pieces by The Blues Brothers as well as some other …
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Although I prefer Don’t Look Back, Boston is a great album as well. I love the tonal quality of the guitars in Boston. I also appreciate the precise arrangments. These guys are air tight. Pay close attention to the bass line sometime. They certainly aren’t thumping out repetitive E notes. They melodically pirouette all over …
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The summer of 1982 was a blast. Instead of going back to Fort Wayne, for the summer, I stayed on campus and worked. Vermont Academy would host these big science or language conferences in the summer. About a dozen of us students stayed on and worked as waiters and waitresses or in the kitchen. The …
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My cousin Jamie hadDamn The Torpedoesand I was really into it for a while. There was something really addicting about it. It was one of those records that I played intensely for a few months then put away. When Tom Petty goit even bigger in the mid-late 80’s I listened but to me this was …
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Chuck Mangione’s Feels So Good album is different from most of the albums of the Academy Days era in that it has traveled with me through all the subsequent eras. Feels So Good has always been there on Stand-By even during the Metal Years. Whenever I wanted to slow down and mellow out, Chuck was …
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My introduction to The Policecame courtesy of a gift of The Ghost In The Machine album. Sadly I don’t recall who actually gave it to me. I remember being in Alumni Hall, affectionately dubbed Slum with the approprate floor appended as in Slum 3 or Slum 2. One of the guys had the album and …
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