Mapping Influences Over Time
Gambling on new music had become a way of life in The 90’s. The Jazz Cafe series started with a guess. It was the same place that I had picked up the Relaxation: A Time To Dream double disc New Age album. Meijer had a music department and like most department store music departments, it focused …
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One of my favorite TV shows of all time is Northern Exposure. Mary started watching it from the beginning. I got hooked somewhere around the 2nd or 3rd episode. It is hard to explain why I like it so much. I’m sure part of it was because of my time in the wooded mountains of …
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Sometimes the spreading of musical influence is like a virus that infects a person who then passes it along to the next. We’ve talked about how My Musical Evolution has been nudged into different directions by seemingly small pebbles in the road. Here is another example. My love of Loreena McKennitt’s music is due to bagel crumbs in a …
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In 1997, I got my first Windows 95 computer and it was just a matter of time before I took one of the 3,264 AOL CD’sthat I got in the mail every week and tried it out. That was way back when computers had dial-up modems in them. It has been so long ago and not worth remembering …
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You might be wondering how Windows 95 plays into My Musical Evolution. Well it does for a couple of different reasons the smaller and more direct of those is the Windows 95 install CD. Most people install, wait let me back up. Back in 1997 most people we very new to Windows based computers. Doesn’t …
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So I am at the point in My Musical Evolution where we are approaching another big technology change. Before I get to that I thought I’d take a moment to reflect and summarize a little. All year long, I’ve been concerned about how the last couple of months would play out. I feel like this …
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Like just about everybody else in the 90’s, I got drawn intoThe X-Files. How could I not? It was designed for me to watch. Paranormal, Extra-terrestrial, Supernatural, Conspiratorial? These are a few of my favorite things. The theme song was eerie and haunting too. I had to have it. I found Songs In The Key …
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These days, just about every department store has that little rack of Compact Discs that are not included with the rest of the music section. It is tucked away, usually closer to the greeting cards or scented candles. The display will have a backlit collage of all the album covers and you can sample a …
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Another winner from my Columbia House Roulette Game was Smash Mouth. It is hard to be objective having listened to this album for the last 15 years. Would I have eventually bought it anyway? Hard to say. I think I probably would have but getting by surprise was a good experience. Can you remember the first time you heard …
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Remember Aric from The Roach Motel? Well a few years later I ended up working with his little sister Tiffani. At some point along the way, Tiffani won a stack of Compact Discs in a contest sponsored by some local radio station. Since I had a reputation for a rather large and unusual music collection, …
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