Mapping Influences Over Time
It is hard to assess the true impact of the Compact Disc on My Musical Evolution. This was a significant change in technology. Remember My Musical Evolution – Part 92? It was then that I had decided to switch from vinyl LP’s to factory cassettes. I then switched back to vinyl after three years of accumulating cassettes. …
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Commercially available Compact Disc players were still a fairly new concept in 1986 when I bought my first one. They had been around for 2 or 3 years but they were ridiculously expensive. That idea seems so silly given how affordable they are today.It is not impossible but very difficult to imagine life before the …
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I’m grouping these four albums together because that is how they were packaged for me. Way back in The Academy Days when I was still very much into Styx. I was able to receive these four albums recorded on two cassettes from my cousin who was an even bigger Styx fan back then. They were …
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The Roach Days were probably the time in my life when music was the biggest thing going on. Sure we did other things but generally, we listened to music most of the time. We had MTV on, or played stuff from our rather large music collection, had parties or played our guitars. It seemed that the …
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I almost forgot that KISS entered the scene again during The Roach Days. If you recall back in Part 84 The KISS Age was officially coming to a close. Aric bought Lick It Up and Animalize so I got to sample KISS again. Since Aric was a big KISS fan back in the 70’s too, we …
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Wow, as I write this, we are just a couple of days away from the end of September. I have been doing this Musical Evolution project for nearly nine full months. The post number tells me that I’m statistically ahead of one post per day. Here again I find myself wondering if I should have …
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Fire Of Unknown Origin gets the distinction of being my last vinyl album due to lack of official records and the alphabet. I’ve spent considerable thought and time trying to plumb the depths of my mind trying to remember the last vinyl album. There is no way to be certain but the process of elimination …
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It was my respect for Led Zeppelin that made me buy this album. I had to, it had Jimmy Page on it. I didn’t know it at the time but the rest of The Firm came with prestigious pedigree as well. While it only very distantly reminds me of Led Zeppelin in some way, it is still a good album. …
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I didn’t mean to buy this album. I wanted to buy the one that had that Bears song on it. When I got to the record store, this was the only one that they had there. I had a stack of Wooden Nickels so it made it easier to gamble. I really didn’t know much …
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By the time this photo was taken, I had just about completely stopped playing Heavy Metal songs on my bass. Occasionally, I’d thump out some Ratt or maybe some Iron Maiden but for the most part the goal was to be able to play songs that the girls were into. Again, being only a mimic …
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