Mapping Influences Over Time
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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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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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 …
Let me begin by saying that I have not yet purchased News Of The World as pictured here. My Columbia House cassettte was Queen’s Greatest Hits. I added this album cover because I wanted to take a moment to discuss album covers. As I rummaged through the racks of records and cassettes at local record …
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You might recall that I became a Monty Python fan by accident back in the third grade. Here at the Academy, Monty Python resurfaced. It had been years since I had seen or heard anything regarding Monty Python. I don’t even know how it came up. Somehow, a guy named Mark and I figured out …
Going to school at Vermont Academy was an amazing experience. First off, the location, Saxtons River, a tiny hamlet in southeast Vermont. The town’s population falling under 700 people. Joe Walsh lived there while I was in school. I saw him at the village market one day. I was still a few months away from …
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My Blondie 45’s weren’t needed long. I snapped The Best Of Blondie out of the Columbia House catalog. I had Heart Of Glass and The Tide Is High and a whole bunch more that would become beloved Blondie favorites. Here again is a mystery. I really liked Blondie, why did I not have the urge to collect their …
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Back in the Scratchy 45 Days, Mom had the single In My Room. We liked it as kids but it was one of those songs that we like to make fun of. I don’t recall exactly now. It may have been the lyrics or the delivery. It was OK but not a dear to heart …
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How could I have missed the J. Geils Band for all these years. I had no idea that the band started in 1967. When Freeze Frame blew it up they seemed to be a sudden sensation. The first J. Geils Band song that I heard was No Anchovies, Please. It seemed to make it on …
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A few posts back I told you about how my cousin Flavia would give me an album for Christmas every year. Pat Benatar’s Crimes Of Passion was one of those albums. I feel like I had never heard of Pat Benatar prior to that Christmas. I suppose I could have gotten to Hit Me With …
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