Mapping Influences Over Time
Have I suggested that you keep a Music Journal? I’ve been tracing My Musical Evolution for 7 full months now. It has been more fun than it probably sounds. This isn’t the first time that I wished for documentation. I really wish that when I was just beginning to get into music that I would …
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I have to laugh because at the time, I thought (You Can Still) Rock In America was a really heavy hard driving guitar song. Don’t misunderstand, I think it is a great song and Midnight Madness was a good album. It was certainly much more crunchy guitar oriented than the stuff I was listening to. …
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As you already know. I had Cargo back on Space Mountain. It was still fairly new when I got back to Indiana. Listening to Blue For You or Settle Down My Boy would make me sad and miss my friends in Vermont. Other tracks were starting to get airplay on the local radio stations. It …
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When I play back these MTV/Radio hits of the College Intermission, I keep getting flashes of cruising around in mom’s Granada. Perhaps that says more than I first realized. Mom’s car had AM/FM but no cassette option. That would mean that riding around in mom’s car was a radio only affair. Makes sense. i can’t imagine …
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I have the North Side High School girls volleyball team from the fall of 1983 to blame for my owning American Fool by the artist formerly known as John Cougar. I’ve tagged him as John Cougar Mellencamp so that it covers all the bases. As you know i have two younger sisters. Barb is almost 3 …
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I call this era College Intermission because my heart wasn’t in it and it felt like I was just waiting around for my life to resume. I would make a bunch of friends at college and all that but I never did get into a single computer class. Something a computer science major probably should …
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That first semester I had developed a routine. I’d drive to class which was an alien activity. I’d pick up my sister from middle school on the way home. In the evenings, I’d hang out at home. I still maintained regular study hours like they taught us at the Acaedmy. I’d turn the TV on …
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One of the early arrivals in my next engaement with Columbia House was Billy Idol. I must admit that I am at a bit of a loss as to how I decided to pick up this album. I can only assume that I heard White Wedding on the radio or saw the video for it. …
Was MTV really as big as I remembered it was back then? Even though our house didn’t have cable, MTV was still on our minds and we hungered for music videos. We never missed Friday Night Videos. It was the closest we could get to the MTV experience in our house. I think that MTV …
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I don’t know why but for a 4 year period starting that autumn, I paid attention to radio and music videos more intently than I ever had. I still maintain that it was a ripple effect from MTV. Even on our 4 and half channels we had Friday Night Videos. Perhaps it was just a …
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