Mapping Influences Over Time
I sometimes wonder if the Metal side of me made surviving The Rise & Fall Of ’84 any easier. The Metal music and accompanying persona was more rebelious and driven to party. Krokus was another one of those bands to come out of frozen Europe. The Germans, the Swiss, the Norwegians, they all had this …
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Even during the Rise part of The Rise & Fall Of ’84, there recurring issues with Lisa’s ex. The wooly cotton brains of memory seemed to have smoothed it over but if I look deeper into it, it was a frequent problem. Did I not see it? Did I bet too many chips on hope? …
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On May 27th, 1984, Brian and I were at the American Rock Festival at the Timber Ridge Ski Resort in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was an all day show. The concert goers were spread out all over the ski slope and the stage was set up in front the base lodge. It was certainly a festival …
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I met Aric that spring. He was kind of seeing my sister at the time. He was just finishing up his senior year at North Side High School. Aric and I would eventually start hanging out together and we would even share a house. That was still a over a year away but we’ll get there. …
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I liked Black Sabbath but I was hardly what you would consider a true fan. To me a fan, a true fan , will seek out more. I knew a lot more about Mötley Crüe than I cared to find out about Black Sabbath. I had Master Of Reality and now, Paranoid but I couldn’t …
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In the summer, a temp agency placed me in a factory that made truck parts. Using an array of hydraulic presses, tourches and stamping devices, they turned flat pieces of metal in various thickness and density in to all manner of things that are used in building trucks. It was here that I discovered how labor unions …
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I’m struggling with where to place Van Halen’s 1984 album. I’ve put it in The Rise & Fall Of ’84 mostly because Lisa and I saw Van Halen at the Coliseum in July of 1984. I actually bought this album before I met Lisa and as such many of the songs are not really attached …
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Lisa and I made our way to the movies several times during The Rise & Fall Of ’84. We saw Finders Keeprs, Ghostbusters, Footloose and more. Footloose was a big deal that summer mostly because of all the music that came out of that soundtrack. You already know that I liked movie soundtracks. This one …
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The memory is a strange thing. How does it decide what to hold close and what to let go. How is it possible that something that seems so vividly remembered can often be skewed or altered over time. My inital look back to The Rise & Fall Of ’84 was filled with innocent images of …
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I came to the realization that this project will not end with the closing of 2012 like I originally planned. That is because My Musical Evolution will continue. I do foresee that it will change. Instead of being a retrospective, it will be a live feed as I report in real time the latest influences …
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