Mapping Influences Over Time
In the summer, a temp agency placed me in a factory that made truck parts. Using an array of hydraulic presses, tourches and stamping devices, they turned flat pieces of metal in various thickness and density in to all manner of things that are used in building trucks. It was here that I discovered how labor unions …
Continue reading “My Musical Evolution – Part 194 College Intermission Summer Job”
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 …
Continue reading “My Musical Evolution – Part 86 BFMS The Last Dance”
I can’t understand why there ended up being such an anti-disco movement. I thought some of it was rather clever. You know taking the Star Wars theme or classics like Beethoven’s 5th and discofying them. I feel fortunate to be able to look back at this time in My Musical Evolution and find these great …
Continue reading “My Musical Evolution – Part 80 BFMS You Should Be Dancing”
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 …
Continue reading “My Musical Evolution – Part 76 BFMS Dance Hall Days”
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 …