Mapping Influences Over Time
It wasn’t really a dance hall. It was the gym at Bellows Falls Middle School. Looking at it from a parent’s or administrators point of view, the middle school dance seems even more awkward than it felt when I was in 7th grade. I can’t shake this notion of it being a primitive rite as a …
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Earlier, I began to explain why I have such trouble keeping the music of the BFMS era clearly defined. When I purchase music, I can usually remember more details about where I was when I bought it and it makes it easier to say “This song belongs to that era!” With BFMS, I was listening …
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The BFMS era is one that seems the most fuzzy, grey or undefined. the Scratchy 45 Days had fairly distinct borders. The KISS Age was also fairly precise. BFMS is the era that my memory questions the most. There are some distinct areas but much of the time i find myself thinking “Hang on was …
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As we discussed in the previous post, while jogging on one of Vermont’s Country Roads just north of Saxton’s River, I found a box that among other things contained some 8-Track Tapes. Of the half a dozen or so tapes, I kept 3. I’m pretty sure that I listen to all of them at first …
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So what can you do when you are a middle school aged boy living in the foothills of the Green Mountains in a town that would make Cicely, Alaska look like a booming metropolis? You ride your bike and run on the miles and miles of hidden trails and old dusty roads. Exploring. One day …
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Where do these often lame titles for my musical eras come from? In my mind, my less than perfect memory and desire to categorize and organize has always had these “groupings” for the music that I have collected over the years. There are maybe half a dozen main categories. You’ve already been through The Scratchy …