Mapping Influences Over Time
I didn’t know it when I was watching Sammy Hagar jam with Eddie Van Halen at Farm Aid but I was witnessing the roots of the next incarnation of Van Halen. I seem to recall them playing There’s Only One Way To Rock, a Led Zeppelin song, maybe Rock & Roll but I don’t recall …
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I had been playing Aric’s crappy pawn shop bass for several months. Likewise, he was becoming proficient on my cheap ass pawn shop guitar. I want to take this moment to clarify that at no point do I ever consider myself a musician. To me a musician is somebody that understands music as it applies …
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Lisa and I made our way to the movies several times during The Rise & Fall Of ’84. We saw Finders Keeprs, Ghostbusters, Footloose and more. Footloose was a big deal that summer mostly because of all the music that came out of that soundtrack. You already know that I liked movie soundtracks. This one …
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I can’t remember which came first, the Heavy Metal Magazine or the Heavy Metal movie Soundtrack. For a long time I was getting the magazine, at least a year. I had a pretty good stack of them. If you’ve never seen Heavy Metal magazine, it is basically a sci-fi fantasy comic book that targets 16 …
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