Mapping Influences Over Time
I’ve never been what I’d consider a fan of The Allman Brothers Band. I was only familiar with the name Allman because of Cher. Even now I don’t consider myself a fan of The Allman Brothers Band but they do have a couple of songs that I like and represent something special to me. In the early spring of …
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In the early 90’s I really tried to give Rap music a shot. In just about every case, I found that I really liked the music and the way all the elements were brought together. I just can’t get past the vocal tracks. They always seemed to fail. If it wasn’t the words themselves, it was …
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Let’s keep rolling with the Video Jukebox effect. By this time I had a 3/4 Ton Chevy pick up truck. It was 4 Wheel drive with a rugged camo paint job. The guy I bought from had taken out the bench seat and dropped in a pair of bucket seats. This left a rather large space between …
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Another frequent flyer on the Video Jukebox was Pop That Coochie by 2 Live Crew. At the time, 2 Live Crew was getting a lot of publicity for being so controversial. I remember thinking at the time that they were simply trying hard to sell records to young white boys who were looking for Parental …
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There were half a dozen bands that I discovered by watching the Video Jukebox Channel in the early 1990’s. Of these, my favorite has to be 808 State. The video was Cübik. 808 State was one of the early electronic Techno bands that I heard. The music was for the most part lyric free and looking at the video was made …
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I started this journey almost a year ago trying to remember the first song that I loved. I wonder if my mother would agree with what I came up with? In the case of my son, although he may not remember it, the first song that he really reacted to was I’m Too Sexy. He not …
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I’ve got to do something. I’ve been writing about New Age for the past several posts and that is fine. I’m satified with calling this era A New Age. It makes sense in that it applies to both the genre and the fact that I had shifted from The Roach Days Revisited into another era …
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