{"id":2538,"date":"2012-11-01T20:22:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T00:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2012-11-01T20:22:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T00:22:03","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-312-roach-days-revisited-1987-ends-with-big-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/11\/01\/my-musical-evolution-part-312-roach-days-revisited-1987-ends-with-big-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 312 Roach Days Revisited 1987 Ends With Big Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Red<\/a>As 1987 became 1988 several rather large changes occured. I changed cars again. Remember a couple of posts back when I got this little red Tempo. I decided to make a serious effort of using the safety belts. Well it was a good thing I did because I was wearing it the day a woman in a tan Fairmont rad a red light and totalled my car. She wasn’t wearing her seatbelt and nearly came out of her passenger door window. She went to the hospital in an ambulance. I walked home unscathed.<\/p>\n

Another change was that Mary and I got engaged to be married. After the U2 concert, I felt that we got very close. I bought her an engagement ring. It seemed like a good idea but as soon as I got home, I began to wonder if she would think it was as good of an idea as I thought it was.\u00a0 I was going to wait until Christmas but I couldn’t. I needed to know if she would accept the idea or if it would scare her off. On a snowy afternoon, we took a walk and I explained how the whole thing developed and promised her that if she thought we were moving too fast, she could exchange\u00a0it for a watch. Luckily, she went along with it.\u00a0 We were going to get married in June but that seemed kind of soon and too hot to wear a Tux then. We decided on October but that was just too busy so it got pushed back to December 3, 1988.<\/p>\n

Aric and I moved out of the Roach Motel. We found a really nice house on US 30 on the way into New Haven. It was a large home with 4 bedroos, two bathrooms and a breakfast nook. It also had some great basement space including a huge room with a fireplace that would be our rehearsal area. I was actually on the way back signing the lease when that woman in the Fairmont totalled my Tempo. Aric, Kris and I moved in in January of 1988.<\/p>\n

Another big change was the sudden reduction in the time devoted to music. Listening to it, playing it, making mix tapes, it all kind of diminshed when we moved to New Haven. For me, my life was on the west side of Fort Wayne. I would get up in the morning and not get back until very late most days. Our lives were changing, our priorities were shifting.\u00a0 I was going to be getting married in less than a year. Here we had this great house that would have been perfect for some parites but we just didn’t have the time anymore.\u00a0 I had pretty much stopped playing my bass altogether.\u00a0 Writing about it now, I feel kind of like Joe From Zappa’s Joe’s Garage.\u00a0 “This is the Central Scrutinizer. Bill went down to the basement. He plugged in his Ibanez Bass and played his last set for long time…”<\/p>\n

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Loverboy – Gangs in the Street<\/em>
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