As we discussed, my introduction to Pat Benatar was Crimes Of Passion that I received as a Christmas gift. I back filled with In The Heat Of The Night, then went forward with Precious Time. This album was good but didn’t quite reach me like her previous two. In fact, it seems that I liked …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 112 Academy Days My Clone Sleeps Alone
I liked this album so much that I actually bought the cassette twice. I got my first one from Columbia House and played in until it met an untimely end. As I think about trying to fix it by pulling most of the magentic tape out of the cassette then gently and carefully spooling it …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 111 Academy Days Stray Cats
We talked about the movie Grease and the soundtrack. It was a couple of years earlier but that faux 1950’s theme seemed to get people’s attention. When my friend Dave shared Stray Cats with me, it seemed like a continuation of that theme. Looking at the cover of Built For Speed it looks like Stray …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 110 Academy Days On Planet Earth, I’ll Probably Stay
Before we get started, I want to draw your attention to the Tag Cloud at the bottom of the page. While not scientific, I think it is an interesting display. It makes me wish I would have developed some system at the beginning and followed it all the way, then the Tag Cloud could be …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 109 Academy Days New Traditionalists
The first spin off from the Heavy Metal Soundtrack was Devo. I had heard Whip It and new about the flower pot hats. Working In A Coal Mine helped me decide to check them out further. I picked up their newest New Traditionalists and Freedom Of Choice at the same time. The New album had …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 108 Academy Days Heavy Metal
I can’t remember which came first, the Heavy Metal Magazine or the Heavy Metal movie Soundtrack. For a long time I was getting the magazine, at least a year. I had a pretty good stack of them. If you’ve never seen Heavy Metal magazine, it is basically a sci-fi fantasy comic book that targets 16 …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 107 Academy Days On The Bus
The Weekly schedule at prep school was a little different. We had half days on Wednesdays. To make up for it, we had classes on Saturday mornings. Yes everybody had to do sports or activities which I ended up liking very much. Due to the population and geography of the Lakes Region Conference it meant …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 106 Academy Days Taking It On The Run
After my freshman year at Hogwarts, I went back to Fort Wayne for the summer. That summer I would meet Cedar Point, REO Speedwagon and a girl named Dawn all at the same time. Dawn was a couple years older than me. She drove a sharp looking 1971 Camaro that was red with black racing stripes. …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 105 Academy Days Argybargy
There is no doubt that I picked up Squeeze’s Argybargy after hearing my friend Adam’s copy. I’ll have to ask him how he got into Squeeze. Argybargy is one of those albums that I rarely listened to after the end of The Academy Days. I can’t say why for sure considering how much I liked …
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My Musical Evolution – Part 104 Academy Days Remember Alice? It’s A Song About Alice
I think I might have seen part of the Alice’s Restaurant movie as the entrance into Arlo Guthrie. Maybe it was on a radio station on Thanksgiving one year. I wish I would have taken better care to recall some of these things. Particularly in a case like Alice’s Restaurant. The album was released in …