Mapping Influences Over Time
Oh look. Another band that has a song named after the previous album. That was a coincidence unless subliminally, I had it planned all along and just was not consciously aware. After completely enjoying Def Leppard’s Pyromania I had to get more. At that time more meant On Through The Night or High ‘N’ Dry. I …
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Helix? What? Are they Canadian? Of course I had to by Helix’s No Rest For The Wicked. They were the Heavy Metal Love guys fromt he radio. Maybe No Rest For The Wixked wasn’t the heaviest or the metalist but the album had a few good cranker-up-ers. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Helix …
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With all the great Scorpions music out there, I’m almost ashamed to admit that my entry point was Rock You Like A Hurricane. Sure, that is a good song too but I tend to skip over that one most of the time. Maybe it is just a victim of being played to death. This album …
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In August, Lisa had encouraged me to take part in some church weekend for teens. She was a Catholic girl but in the style of Biily Joel and not Frank Zappa. How could I refuse her. So I went to Our Lady Of Good Hope and actively participated. I wanted her to know that I …
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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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