Mapping Influences Over Time
What kind name is Def Leppard anyway. Is this another one of the Cum On Feel The Noize Moments. Did they mean Deaf Leopard or something more sinister? My Def Leppard connection begins in Franke Park on the radio in mom’s Granada. It was a warm Autumn afternoon and I had gone to the park …
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Since I enjoyed Billy Idol’s previous record, I had to pick up Rebel Yell. It was full of stuff that was getting time on the radio and the music video shows. Like Culture Club, this record gave me the impression that the record company was giving Billy Idol more attention. The difference being that where …
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My first car was a blue 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 very similar to the one pictured here. It was originally my Grandpa’s and he bought it new. It had some miles on it and it didn’t have power steering or seat belts but the body was in excellent shape. No seat belts. That seems like such …
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OK so this is where My Musical Evolution splits into two parallel lines. It isn’t really the first time this has happened but the previous time during The KISS Age it was more of an overlap. This time, The Metal Years would plow along beside College Intermission, The Rise And Fall Of ’84, and into Roach …
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At least in the song Karma Chameleon Boy George declares himself “a man” putting that debate to rest. I liked Culture Club well enough to buy Colour By Numbers. It has some good songs but I can see that while they gained support at the studio, they lost some of the magic. I just just …
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Have I suggested that you keep a Music Journal? I’ve been tracing My Musical Evolution for 7 full months now. It has been more fun than it probably sounds. This isn’t the first time that I wished for documentation. I really wish that when I was just beginning to get into music that I would …
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I have to laugh because at the time, I thought (You Can Still) Rock In America was a really heavy hard driving guitar song. Don’t misunderstand, I think it is a great song and Midnight Madness was a good album. It was certainly much more crunchy guitar oriented than the stuff I was listening to. …
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As you already know. I had Cargo back on Space Mountain. It was still fairly new when I got back to Indiana. Listening to Blue For You or Settle Down My Boy would make me sad and miss my friends in Vermont. Other tracks were starting to get airplay on the local radio stations. It …
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When I play back these MTV/Radio hits of the College Intermission, I keep getting flashes of cruising around in mom’s Granada. Perhaps that says more than I first realized. Mom’s car had AM/FM but no cassette option. That would mean that riding around in mom’s car was a radio only affair. Makes sense. i can’t imagine …
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I have the North Side High School girls volleyball team from the fall of 1983 to blame for my owning American Fool by the artist formerly known as John Cougar. I’ve tagged him as John Cougar Mellencamp so that it covers all the bases. As you know i have two younger sisters. Barb is almost 3 …
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