Mapping Influences Over Time
It was about this time that my dad got remarried and I suddenly had an older Step Brother. Dan was a year or two older. He had KISS Originals but wasn’t quite as enamored with KISS as I was. Still there are a few songs that he was into that I can recall. His presence …
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KISS was more than just a little smart when it came to cashing in on their fame. They knew that people were joining the KISS Army all over the place. Sales of Alive! and Destroyer were on the rise. They enticed people to buy their first three albums by bundling them together and throwing in …
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So there we were at J.C. Penney at the mall back in thoase days they sold records. Yep, downstairs right next to the escalator was a section of albums which eventually grew to include some TV’s and the new Pong Video Game. My goal used to be to get the pong ball stuck between the …
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I’ve been troubled by how I’d handle the transition here. As you know, up to this point, my most significant musical influence had been my mother and her large collection of 45s. Her main influence being the AM radio of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. In March of 1976, a band called KISS would …
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