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takes me right back to the fall of 1983 and my senior year of high school It’s fall. And if you’ve been following me then you know I love nostalgia. And fall makes me nostalgic. I used to love fall. Not as much as Ioved summer, but I enjoyed fall clothes and fall activities when… Read more
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The PERFECT SONG cover! A song that whenever I hear it, either version, it just makes me so, so intoxicated! Way before I ever heard of Bruce Springsteen I remember hearing Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band when I was a kid. I didn’t discover Bruce until I was probably in 8th… Read more
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Your Fall 1981 Fredonia Hillbillies JV cheerleading squad. I have not received permission from anyone to post this. Too bad. And yes, extremely cringe to be called the Hillbillies. Still haven’t changed the name. I’m a little late with this post but August always makes me think of back-to-school shopping. Approximately nineteen years of education,… Read more
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The Perfect Song by Tommy James and the Shondells and covered by Johnny Thunder Next up for the PERFECT song- perfect cover songs! Are you familiar with Tommy James and the Shondells I’m Alive? Perusing social media a while back I somehow found this absolute banger! But I actually stumbled upon the cover of this… Read more
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Music and music people and musicians and musical savants from whom I learn something every day. I wrote about exits a while ago. There have been a lot of exits the last eight years in the past eight years of my life. Because I have a tendency to look at the glass half-empty, I’ve focused… Read more
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Superfest, Summer of ’76, and Peter Frampton Happy 716 day to all who celebrate! In the summer of 1976 the biggest rock star in the world was Peter Frampton. He released his double live album, Frampton Comes Alive in January and it spawned three huge hits, Show Me the Way, Baby I Love Your Way and Do You Feel Like We… Read more
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BICENTENNIAL SUMMER PERFECTION Here’s another perfect song from that Bicentennial Summer. Thin Lizzy’s The Boys Are Back in Town. It’s probably their most well-known song, and for a reason. It’s a great fucking song. As I said before, I was ten that summer and just becoming aware of rock music, music other than the weird… Read more
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Another perfect song from the summer of ’76. July 1976 and the hits just keep on coming! Gary Wright’s perfect song Live is Alive is another perfect song from the summer of 76! It still thrills me to hear it. How can you not move when you hear it? I have to get funky with… Read more
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And the end of freshman year, 1981. REO Speedwagon The Gen X soundtrack was dominated by REO Speedwagon in the late 70s and early 80s. They. Were. Everywhere. Older brothers and sisters listened to You Can Tune a Piano But You Can’t Tune a Fish, and we listened to High Infidelity. I personally can’t say I loved REO Speedwagon but… Read more
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Sort of a companion piece to an earlier post about rock star style. More About Pants! Denim and Leather! I wrote a little bit about jeans- and denim wearing stars, and how denim used to be an anti-authoritarian statement. Think James Dean and Marlon Brando. But now everyone wears jeans and so they really are… Read more
Random musings from a Gen X life lived on the edge… of nothing except Lake Erie. 70s and 80s pop culture and music.
