Mapping Influences Over Time
Brian was the one to introduce me to Black Sabbath. We were cruising around in his big old car one afternoon listening to our favorite metal music when all of a sudden the speaker on the floor at my feet began to ooze this black syrupy molasses type of music all over my shoes. It …
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Lisa was an uptown girl living on the reasonably affluent northeast side of town. It was a fairly modern sub-division where all the streets either end in cul-de-sacs or have gently sweeping curves. Her parents were very nice and she had a little brother that was just waiting for somebody to teach him about Heavy …
What do you think the odds are that these guys were KISS fans before they started their own band? The music scene in the 80’s used to be a spectacle. It was larger than life. It was music and performance art. Nirvana ruined this be being the poster child for the grunge movement. Up to …
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So now My Musical Evolution is rumbling along in the three simultaneous threads. The Metal Years deals with all that Heavy Metal music that I was so fond of. The Rise & Fall Of ’84 was all the music surrounding my relationship with Lisa and College Intermission is the music of the day as delivered …
It is here that My Musical Evolution forks again into a third thread. On February 3rd, 1984 I ran into a guy that went to school with at Franke Park Elementary. Bob was going to IPFW as well. I hadn’t seem him since second or third grade. We chatted a bit and discovered that we both …
Looking at these old videos and other 80’s related stuff, I’m reminded just how colorful the middle of the 80’s were. Maybe it was just the change of moving back to the city but it seemed like it happened very fast. It seemed to start in the fall of 1983 and last until some time …
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The Metal Years continue with Accept who were a little heavier than Mötley Crüe. Coming out of Germany, they brought with them a certain sense of mechanical industry. With guys with names like Udo Dirkschneider screeching those lyrics in a German accent, how could it not be metal. The only thing they were missing was the …
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The Devil seemed to be getting some attention during this period. We were Shouting at him one minute then Running with him the next. Contrary to what people may have assumed based on my musical tastes, I have never been involved in anything remotely Devil-ly. No rituals, no sacrifices, no dark robes etc. By the …
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Mötley Crüe, another metal band suffering from diaeresis. I really did escalate into what was known then as Heavy Metal. It didn’t have anything to do with the magazine, movie or soundtrack that I loved so much. Mötley Crüe was a little faster and more edgy than Def Leppard. I was quietly building up a …
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I never bought any Hall & Oates records until just a few years ago I bought a Greatest Hits CD. I wasn’t too crazy about them but I felt that I had to get their Greatest Hits because there were so many on the radio during the College Intermission. It seemed like they had a …
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