Mapping Influences Over Time
During The Roach Days, a guy named Chuck who used to play drums for us, introduced us to some good music. Billy Thorpe’s Children Of The Sun was among them. There was an allure to Children Of The Sun it might have been the story. It could have been the music. It might even have …
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Those of you that have been following along know that up to this point, my Pink Floyd experience has been Dark Side Of The Moon courtesy of a guy named Chip from The Academy Days and The Wall which was a devastatingly poignant punctuation at the end of The Rise & Fall Of ’84. I …
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I met Scott in September of 1984 in Calculus. Arica and Scott had gone to high school together. It wasn’t untilThe Roach Days that we really started to hang out together. 30 years later and we still hang out together. We have weekly coffee sessions. I’ve been to the boundaries with him. He’s been on …
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What comes to mind when you look at the image over there –>? I have over 100 of these. Some look exactly like this one. Over the years, I’ve made mix tapes mostly on TDK, Maxell, and Memorex cassettes. I eventually settled into Maxell MX 110 as my cassette of choice. At just shy of …
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Aric picked up Accept’s follow up to Balls To The Wall. It was called Metal Heart and it picked up where Balls To The Wall left off. The opening track appealed to my love for classical music. Here in the intro of Metal Heart was the fusion of classical and metal. How cool was that. …
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Living at The Roach Motel with Aric was a blast. I couldn’t have asked for a better house mate. I hope I was as courteous and supportive to him as he was to me. I almost said that I was at the perfect age again but that really doesn’t cover it. It was a great …
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Mötley Crüe’s success with Shout At The Devil and Theatre Of Pain led to a reissue of their debut album Too Fast For Love. It started to show up in records stores. So we did what we had to do as Mötley Crüe fans. We bough it. I can’t say that I didn”t like it. …
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You might recall that I had bought a guitar from the pawn shop and struggled to get anything but pain from it. I also bought a Fender Dual Showman Tube Bass Amp from Brian with a big Woodson cabinet sporting dual 15″ speakers. I don’t know why I bought a Bass amp for my guitat. …
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You might have noticed a few photos of Madonna attached to some of these posts. Part of it is because I was trying to visually express the look and style of the girls of the 80’s. Madonna was the Queen of style back in 1985. Sometimes the style got a little over the top but …
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As I post this photo of the Bark At The Moon album cover, a thought occured to me that I had not considered before. Who had the idea to dress Ozzy up as a werewolf? Did Ozzy approach the record label and say “I’d like to be a werewolf on the cover of the next …
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