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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:16 pm
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Kinda cheesy but some albums do have a way of cementing memories into ones brain that stir every time you hear them and I'm feeling nostalgic so...

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Kid A by Radiohead. I had sold most of my possessions and left the comfort of Florida to give a go at making it in NYC in the audio for film business. This album brings me right back to when I finally landed my first paying gig as an assistant sound editor on a film and had to spend overnights by myself in the picture editing room pulling OMFs. This was literally the ONLY cd in the room that wasn't a sound fx or music library disk. I had never really heard them before but after having that on repeat overnight I was hooked. Why had I not listened to them before? And if anyone knows that album you can imagine how that fit right in with being exhausted and chained to a computer. But I felt like a king that I was finally getting paid, did it on my own by pounding the pavement and the Brooklyn streets wouldn't seem so tough.

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The soundtrack of my younger mischievous days: :mrgreen:

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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 4:06 am
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The soundtrack to my senior year in high school...


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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:07 am
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There's a few

the Eagles album with One Of These Nights, Witchy Woman takes me back to the early days when my wife and I were still dating. We met in 9th grade (way back in 1973). I hear "One Of These Nights" and it takes me right back to those days.

First Boston Album, brings me back senior year, driving around back roads on crisp fall days, driving around in my GTO that had a very good car stereo setup, cranking those tunes out (on a cassette tape) getting stoned with a my band mates from the high school years.

Deep Purple, Machine Head, wood shedding in my room with my very first Strat, trying to sort out the guitar parts for those tunes. I hear those songs, and I'm back at my folks house where I grew up, in my bedroom blasting out the tunes and trying to steel all Blackmores licks.... Orange shag carpet included!


ahh good times....... goooooood times..


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Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones . I was just 12 years old when I bought this and I was hooked right away . It still holds up to this day and is IMO, their best album ever !!!

Made In Japan - Deep Purple . I bought this on 8 track when it first came out and this is what really got me hooked on playing Guitar. Blackmore's opening riff on " Smoke on The Water " decided my destiny for me.

Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses . I remember buying this on a whim in 1987 when it came out and was just blown away at the energy and anger on it. Nothing they did after this could ever top this masterpiece.


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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:00 am
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Great stuff guys thanks.

The Cars debut album – Barbecues at the next door neighbors. 1979-1980 I think. Huge barrel of cans of beer and Frank got a CB for his brownish orange Chevy Malibu LOL

The Outfield Play Deep – it was 1985 … what else but BMX Bikes.

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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 11:31 am
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This is a 2'fer ....

'Ten' by Pearl Jam was released August 27, 1991.

'Blood Sugar Sex Magik' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers was released September 24, 1991.


Every backyard party I went to in 1991 and 1992 featured these albums. You couldn't get away from it. I remember one in particular where they just looped the Peal Jam album for hours on end. And nobody seemed to mind! :shock:

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Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 11:39 am
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Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Quadrophonic Version.

This, along with The Doobies, The Eagles, Aretha, Santana, Elvis, The Doors, Deep Purple, the Staple Singers, and many more top artists gave me a new appreciation for multi track versions of albums I already knew. Some were gimmicky and some were revolutionary. You could always chose to turn the sound to stereo if you wanted. The vinyl quality was usually a step up from the usual fare. Then there were 4 track reel to reel copies, which were rare and expensive in my country.

If you had surround headphones you could be put into a dream world. Some albums were designed just for Quad and, for all it's bad points, my Motorola Quad 8 Track made my '64 midnight blue Parisienne a wonder to hear.

While good clean stereo rocks, I still miss the surround variety. Pink Floyd's was one of the better recordings that shined in surround sound. Every time I hear it in stereo, it reminds me of Quadrophonics, and preferably distinct rather than demodulated surround sound.8)

Note: I'd like to see surround sound become a standard for automobiles. Most have the speakers to handle it already. Although, it would put demands on some recordings and genres to be sure.

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Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 12:17 pm
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12 x 5 - The Rolling Stones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_X_5

I learned and played every song on this album and gained
a lot of confidence. I didn't know then how easy these tunes were.

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Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 10:20 am
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Ventures "Wipeout" ... the first song I ever played for pay. And boy did we wipe out!

Just a drummer and myself, I a recently converted violinist and neither of us could sing. We were "booked" to play a backyard birthday party for a what our off and on singer/rhythm guitarist thought was a girl he wanted to date. Oops ... bad info ... it was her kid sister. Next thing we knew, he'd taken off too (someone had told him where they thought the older sister was).

So with just the drummer, we played four instrumentals (including the Stone's "Satisfaction", not really an instrumental but I couldn't sing it). The pre-teens the party was really for had no idea what we were playing -- it was '67 and Surf and early Stones was not on their playlists. About then, the mom came out ... her first clue being "who are these guys playing songs I know and that my 11 year old daughter could care less about?"

She takes about 10 seconds to decide "You two are high school kids aren't you?" Yes ... and we quickly explain what happened. She confirms that no, it was never a party for her 16 year old daughter and we were way too old to be there. But she then thanks us for our professionalism ("I'm impressed that you did your best and kept playing as you thought you were being paid to do!") But she also says she'd have never hired a band for an 11 year old's party so, exactly how much did our singer claim we were going to get?

"$20 each" we said. She said "okay, tell you what ... you don't belong here but as I said, I'm impressed with your ethic. So if you can pack your stuff up in say 15 minutes ... I'll give you the $40." We did it, she was good on her promise and that proved to be our first paying gig.

It had a happy ending in that we ripped the singer a new one and he admitted he had it coming. After that, he became one of the most reliable singers in existence. But if he ever started to get high on himself, all the drummer and I had to do was launch into Wipeout while I started walking toward a mic ....


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Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 10:59 pm
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Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark takes me back to a place now called Uluhaktok, (was called Holman Island) in the Canadian Western Arctic. A small hamlet of 312 people, mostly Inuvialuit, No broadcast or satellite TV at first, but everybody had a snowmobile and many played an instrument. We were north of the Dew Line.
Court and Spark makes me think of treeless tundra in the summer, and (in the winter) screaming across miles of flat sea ice on a snowmobile, under the aurora borealis.
My wife and I stayed there for seven years.

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Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 8:58 am
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The Arctic? Wow! :shock: That's so cool, John. :D

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Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 9:51 pm
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The Arctic? Wow! :shock: That's so cool, John. :D

I see what you did there.
Yup. Seven years here: https://www.google.com/maps/@70.7375265 ... a=!3m1!1e3 - the red roof in the middle was my house. Zoom out for the full effect.
Then ten years in Inuvik: https://www.google.com/maps/@68.3622087 ... a=!3m1!1e3 - But Inuvik reminds me more of New Wave music in general.
"The Red River Jig" as played by Reg Bouvette - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUMq4A70wCc - especially reminds me of both of those places. I must have heard it every day, and I still did not get tired of it.

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Suicidal Tendencies first Self Titled Album is an album that reminds me of my early to mid teens. I quickly moved from metal to punk in the early 80s. We used to travel to a small PA town called "catasauqua" The local VFW there used to host punk concerts in their basement for money. So every concert involved walking past very surly hate filled vets that didn't much care for youthful rebellion.

Suicidal was one of my first memorable concerts, i have since seen them 4 times total in my life at different stages but i always think of the first time i saw them. Rocky was ripping it up, mike was screaming like a maniac and they had a ton of skaters that from what i could tell traveled with them and were doing stunts that a small town jerk never saw before. Good times man, so much excitement.

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