Mapping Influences Over Time
After my initial score on Columbia House Roulette with Tragic Kingdom, I had to get more No Doubt. As new releases came out, I’d snap them up. I even picked up a couple of Gwen Stefani’s solo efforts. They all have good stuff to offer but none of them seemed to be that complete knock …
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Your peers are always going to be an influential force in you Musical Evolution. Aric, Scott and I began our journeys in different places. We converged for a few years in the mid 80’s then we each took separate paths again. At the end of The Roach Days, the three of us drifted apart. I …
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The first time I played Zork it wasn’t even called Zork. It was called Dungeon and it was 1979. It was a text adventure that was wildly immersive even though all the details were products of my imagination. Back in The Academy Days we played it on a Digital PDP 11/34. No DEC system should be …
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I guess my interest in the far east began in middle school while watching Kung Fu on TV. I wasn’t down for monk training or dragon shaped scars caused by intense heat but I did like the serenity of the gardens and the music. I’m sure that these factors are what led me to gamble on The Source by …
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If I was only writing one post per day this year, this would the be the last one. On one of our early cultural fishing weekends on Strawberry, Aric brought up a pair of Greatest Hits volumes by Stevie Ray Vaughan. I was familiar with the name and even a couple of the more radio …
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It was only a matter of time before my pursuit of beats, sampling, electronics and such would put me in the same room with The Art Of Noise. I think my first taste of The Art Of Noise came from their video for Close (To The Edit)Like some of the Information Society stuff, it seemed that much of the …
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I’m not certain what triggered my turn towards easy listening and lounge music. Is it a by product of aging? I had been a fan of guys like Dean Martin and Andy Williams for most of my life even if they were absent for most of it. It seems unlikely that a guy that was …
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I have been a fan of Spinal Tap ever since I found out that you can’t dust for vomit. The first time I heard of Spinal Tap, it was on TV at The Roach Motel. I tuned in early in the film not knowing what I was watching. They were talking about how their previous …
This really belongs in the 90’s but I spaced it so what can you do? Information Society’s second album took another step away from conventional pop music and embraced even more movie dialog samples and electronic and digital sound manipulations. The result really appeals to me on multiple levels. First, they music is good. Next, I admire and …
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I told my children at a very early age to be free to like the music that they like and not to be pressured into liking or not liking something because of their peers. Music is a both a collective and solitary thing. It is cool to like something that a lot of your friends …
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