Mapping Influences Over Time
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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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 …