Mapping Influences Over Time
Penny and I lasted until the end of the year with the last month being more off than on. Again I felt the stinging numbness of heartbreak and loss. Looking back on it decades later, I wonder if I was really broken up over Penny or just at the idea of breaking up. Were those …
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Was Penny a rebound girlfriend? If she was, I wasn’t conscious of it at the time. With almost 30 years of hindsight, I can’t see how she couldn’t have been. The timing for one thing. I had to be searching for somebody to fill that gaping hole in my life. To patch that wound. It was …
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I don’t ever recall Dio saying anything that could even accidentally suggest an allegiance to dark forces of any kind but his album covers weren’t helping me convince my mother of that. In fact, I think she might even have thrown away my Dio concert shirt. The Last In Line may not have recognizable songs …
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It seemed that Billy Squier was everywhere for a while in 1983-84. His songs were all over the radio. Just about everybody I knew had at least oneBilly Squier record. I didn’t. I liked what I was hearing well enough to enjoy it but it didn’t grab me for whatever reason. For sentimental purposes, I …
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One day I had some time before my english class in the CM building. I sat in a lounge type area where there was a television. There were a few other students present, seated or milling about. On the TV was this program about billiards. These guys were making these really cool trick shots to …
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I had seen Iron Maiden albums in the record store. I had even seen the Flight Of Icarus video on MTV at Brian’s house. I just didn’t seem ready to buy something called Number Of The Beast. Iron Maiden’s album Powerslave hit stores in September. I can recall it being displayed proudly in the new …
We are the sum of the choices we make and the experiences we have had. In 1984, The Rise was incredible, The Fall was devastating. Did it change me? It had to, right? I didn’t dress differently. I might have partied harder. I might have been more focused on the Heavy Metal Music. Enter Dio. …
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I don’t know when or how I decided that I had to do something else but finally I did. I wrote a note to Lisa and went to the restaurant where she was working as a waitress. They called her to the counter where I was waiting, She smiled at me. I took the Cross …
To this day my advice to anybody who has just been through a break-up is to avoid Pink Floyd’s The Wall for a few months. It was weird, like the album and I were swirling downa drain together. It never left my turntable for weeks. I even recorded it onto a blank 8-Track. Remember my …
She agreed to meet me one last time. I had one last chance to convince her that it was a mistake. In the parking lot of Hardy’s over spilled Diet Coke and tears we closed the door on what could have been. It wasn’t the last time that I would see her. Over the next …
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