Mapping Influences Over Time
If you went to some metal concerts in the 80’s or listened to Metal Shop on WXKE or hung around with some metal head, you were bound to hear some Judas Priest. I was familiar with the name and some of their more radio-ready songs like You Got Another Thing Coming. For some reason, Judas …
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September 6th, 1985 was payday. Aric and I put up our rent. It would be the last time we saw that security deposit. We moved into this duplex on Goshen Avenue. It was duplex by design not one of those big old houses that was awkwardly split into two homes. Our portion was in the …
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At some point that summer Aric and I came to the realization that getting an apartment together would be just like driving around in my car with the addition of a refigerator and a bathroom. So we decided to start looking. We would scan the classifieds in the paper as we drank mutliple pots of …
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VCR’s both VHS and Betamax were starting to become more and more common in homes across America. Columbia House saw this as an opportunity. The Columbia House Catalog suddenly had a music video section. I found Iron Maiden’s Video Pieces there. I bought this only mine was the Betamax version. I had a really nice …
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I have long forgotten why I skipped Killers in my pursuit of Iron Maiden albums. Maybe Wooden Nickel didn’t have it when I went o but it. Maybe I just thought the cover of Iron Maiden looked cooler than Killers. Perhaps I just wanted to get to their very first ablum and experience where it all …
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Here is another cover that belongs in the gallery of iconic album art. I had seen this album cover numerouas times before I was an Iron Maiden fan. I wondered about the music inside that album cover. I wondered if it would be a source of contention between me and my religeously sensitive mother. I weighed …
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Having really gone mad for for Iron Maiden’s Powerslave. I went back to Wooden Nickel and bought a couple more Iron Maiden albums. Working my way backward through time, my next stop was Piece OF Mind. The music had the same high energy and subject matter that I hoped it would. Iron Maiden was well …
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I can tell you exactly where I was at 10:00 am on June 21st, 1985. I was standing outside Wooden Nickel Records waiting for them to open so I could buy Mötley Crüe’s new album Theatre Of Pain which was coming out that day. This was the first time that I ever stood outside a …
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Aric and I hung out together all summer long. Did a lot of parties and country cruises. Listened to a lot of Heavy Metal. We also did a Free Coffee experiment. There was on old guy afffectionately called Pops that used to come in for coffee every day. He was really old but always in …
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I turned 20 in February of 1985. I still can’t help but think of Al when he turned 20 on Mount Equinox in 1983. He seemed to grown up and everybody else seems too young. I’m intrigued by things like numbers and coincidence. I bring this up because this is post 220 and I’m talking …
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