{"id":1796,"date":"2012-08-11T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2012-08-11T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T12:00:21","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-216-college-intermission-billy-squier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/11\/my-musical-evolution-part-216-college-intermission-billy-squier\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 216 College Intermission Billy Squier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Billy<\/a>It seemed that Billy Squier<\/em> was everywhere for a while in 1983-84. His songs were all over the radio. Just about everybody I knew had at least oneBilly Squier record. I didn’t.\u00a0 I liked what I was hearing well enough to enjoy it but it didn’t grab me for whatever reason.<\/p>\n

For sentimental purposes, I bought his 16 Strokes Best Of <\/em>collection just a few years ago. There were a couple of songs I was wanting to listen to again. What I found was that Billy Squier<\/em> was so much better than I remembered. Maybe it was just timing.\u00a0 Maybe it was radio overkill and the fact that everybody <\/em>was into him back then. Maybe it is the nostalgia now.\u00a0 Until I reach some sort of epiphany, I’m just going to go with the mind works in mysterious ways.<\/p>\n

So I never owned any of the Billy Squier <\/em> records back then but he certainly belongs here. I put him in College Intermission <\/em>by elimination. He wasn’t part of The Rise & Fall Of ’84<\/em>and even though I would seem him in concert with Ratt, he doesn’t fit my idea of The Metal Years.<\/em><\/p>\n

In November of 1984 I saw Billy Squier <\/em>in concert because I wanted to see Ratt <\/em>who was opening for him. Like I said earlier, I had heard a lot of his songs because they all seemed to be on the radio. The term <\/em>saturation <\/em>comes to mind.\u00a0 Nothing really stands out in my memory about his performance but then again I was there to see Ratt. <\/em>Listening to this 16 Strokes <\/em>album I wish I would have paid more attention.<\/p>\n

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The Stroke<\/em>
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