Mapping Influences Over Time
If I try to not overthink it and just go with my gut, I’d have to say that campus wide, there were a few musical groups that everybody seemed to be into. The Doors and The Grateful Dead would have to be the most universal. What I mean by that is those bands appeared in …
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That title makes it sound dramatic. In reality, I really only regretted it from late 1982 to late 1985. To understand the original motivation, I need to explain the technological change that happened around 1980-81. The desire to make music portable had created a couple of new devices. On the highly mobile but less sharable …
Sophomore year, I had a girlfriend for a few months. she was a sophomore too but was new to the school. That was how we met initially. As a returning student, I volunteered to help the new students as an orienation leader. Vermont Academy new student orientation was a pretty cool concept that gathered all the …
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One of my friends from the Academy was a guy from Long Island named Andy. He had every Jimmy Buffett album there was. Coconut Telegraph had just come out and he played it quite a bit. I think I might have been able to make the Margaritaville connection but apart from that, I had never heard of …
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I find it quite interesting to consider how changes in technology and the medium on which my music resides has changed how I listen to it. Today I listen to my music collection almost exclusively on my computer or digital media players. Occasionally, I’ll burn a mix CD for a road trip. These methods usually …
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So here we are in the aptly named Academy Days era. The era names still maintaining that epic stylized quality. As before with the BFMS era, I’m going apologize for any chronological inconsistencies. The Academy Days officially covered the Autumn of 1979 through Spring of 1983. As we saw in the last post, Heart Of …
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It happened so fast. Like a flip of a switch, it seemed that Disco was gone. One moment I was in 8th grade Boogie-oogie-oogie-ing the next, I was in high school. I just realized that I left out a peculiar detail about myself. I had not grown even half an inch since third grade. I …
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Well, we’re about to wrap up the era known as BFMS. Maybe we should do an little recap. What have we learned so far? I liked what I felt was a wide variety of musical flavors. Pop music, Folk music, Disco, Rock and Roll, Classical, Show tunes, and Soundtracks just about anything except for country. For …
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My middle school years were dominated by radio. I wasn’t listening to my KISS records as much and I wasn’t able to really buy anything new. So the radio was it. I’m really surprised that I can’t recall the 2 or 3 stations that I would listen to. I know that they were broadcasting from New …
Was I getting more sophisticated in my middle school age? A year or two ago, I came to Vermont armed with a stack of KISS records. now with each passing day, KISS became a smaller and smaller piece of my life. The KISS solo albums came out and Ace, being my favorite member of KISS, …
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