Mapping Influences Over Time
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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Suddenly, the music turned sad and soulful. Suddenly all the songs were about heartbreak and loss. Were they always there? I spent my days in a fog. Trying to figure out what could have happened. Trying to get her to talk to me. Trying to negotiate a return to how things were just a couple …
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If I had to graph my relationship with Lisa during The Rise & Fall Of ’84, I feel it would look like this. It was a steady climb that suddenly reached the stratosphere only to instantly come crashing back to earth in flames. So I go on that church weekend and after it was over …
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So has the braiding of College Intermission, The Rise & Fall Of ’84, and The Metal Years been OK to follow? Do you see why I think it is important to represent them as three simultaneously occuring but yet separate threads? I guess it could have been less emotional and more chronological. I’m just giving …
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Up until the summer of 1984, Pink Floyd was synonymous with Dark Side Of The Moon for me. I knew that they were more than that. I had even heard Confortably Numb at Chip’s house way back in the Academy Days. In August if 1984, my concept of Pink Floyd would be expanded and The …
The Blackout album cover belongs on my list of iconic album covers. That is to say that I had seen this cover numerous times before I knew anything about Scorpions. It always drew my curious attention. Look at it. How couldn’t it. I, like most American teens in 1984, was just discovering Scorpions music. Again, …
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am I the only one that keeps accidentally calling this album 90210? It wasn’t always that way. 90125 refers to the catalog number of the album not a zip code. By the time 90125 was getting air play, I had heard a few of the classicYes songs. This album although quite good didn’t sound much like …
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