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Tunkhannock, PA Saved by The Clash
When the punk thing hit, it scared the hell out of me. Who were these dirty looking people with spiky hair and safety pins in their faces? It seems silly now...
Read Memory Unknown My FIRST ever internationa l rock...
OH - SURREENNNNDERRRRR.....!Yes, that's what happened that night in November almost 30 years ago. I was but a young teenager and such a HUGE fan of Cheap...
Read Memory Sitka, AK His Guitar Had One String
His guitar had one string. His record player came from Grandma, so it was cheap and had Disney characters all over it. His record collection was small,...
Read Memory San Diego, CA My First Concert
My first concert was a Big Event: Pat Travers, UFO, Blue Oyster Cult & headlining... Cheap Trick! Budokan had been out for about 6 months & after...
Read Memory Orchard Park, NY flashback: 1979 - first concert...
Flashback: 1979. Saturday afternoon. I was 14 when I walked down to the village record store, dressed in Jordache jeans and Bastad clogs with long blond hair...
Read Memory Southborough, MA UHF covers The Beatles
Dan Stoke on bass, Chuck Greene on Keyboards, Mike Tolson on Guitar, and Terry Lewis on Drums. We were UHF and we were on stage at our grade school during a...
Read Memory Australia ANNOYING MY MOTHER
This track is my all time favourite Stranglers song. The first track from the album (Rattus Norvegicus - not Peaches) starts 'someday I'm gonna smash your...
Read Memory Iketown Another time, another place
It was the 12th time we moved in the last 15 years. I was frigging sick of it. My Dad's work took us everywhere and nowhere at once, and neither were for...
Read Memory Pendleton, OR My First Visit to meet my Dad
I didn't know who my dad was until I was 13. I went to Modesto to meet him and my step mom and 4 new brothers and sisters. The kidslistened to a song while I...
Read Memory Arvada, CO TO BE A ROCK GOD!!
My Brother gave me this on tape one day and I took the tape to grade school where I played it for the first time with some friends and after that ... I...
Read Memory New Orleans, LA World Trade Center Cathedral
I was walking and enjoying the early morning in Manhattan, long before the workers came to the city. I had seen Fifth Avenue pre-dawn empty, and took the...
Read Memory Lansing, MI The First FAVE Ever....
I was roughly 6 at the time this was current.....not really old enough to know much about music and/or radio, yet 30 years later, this song will remain...
Read Memory Sacramento, CA Talking Heads/B52's- my birthday
I had only been in SC County a couple of years from Orange County, and felt very alienated. I found the Talking Heads and B52's were playing on September 30...
Read Memory United Kingdom A little in love & a lot in...
I was soooo in lust with (and I'd better add in my defence, a fair amount of in love with, too) a lovely man I met when I was temping as...
Read Memory Jennings, LA LOST LOVE
I HAD JUST MET THE CUTEST BOY AND WE WERE JUST HAVING THE BEST TIME LAUGHING AND TALKING AND HE WAS TELLING ME HOW HIS LAST GIRLFRIEND HAD DUMPED HIM AND...
Read Memory Jennings, LA HANGING WITH FRIENDS
THIS WAS ONE OF OUR FAVORITE SONGS TO LISTEN TO WHILE JUST HANGING OUT. WE WOULD ALL LISTEN AND SAY BOY IF THAT COULD ONLY HAPPEN TO ME!!!!!!!
Read Memory Northumberland, PA Big 5th Grader
I remember hearing "Big Shot" for the first time during free time at school. Someone brought the record in and played the album over and over...
Read Memory Miami, FL Riding in the car with dad
I remember being a teenager back in 1979, I was about 13 years old and I was riding back home with my dad, who was 30 years older than me. I had just gotten...
Read Memory United Kingdom Altered State Dancing
Standing by the food table with the amazing colours of the fruit and cheeses to my right, and Lynn dancing energeticallyin her bright funky gear directly in...
Read Memory United Kingdom Recording the London Calling Video
Those driving, relentless chords throbbing in my brain interlock with the sheets of rain smacking into the train. I am stuck on Chelsea Bridge. Ahead of me,...
Read Memory Elyria, OH Dad Singing
This is the only song I've ever heard my dad sing. He'd always had problems with alcohol and was always depressed. This song seemed to take him someplace...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH For Me? WOW !!
It had been a few weeks that the teasing and harassment continued from a fellow classmate I did not get along with. Each day was a journey of hell being in...
Read Memory Andover, MN My Wedding
Memory I think of when listening to "Pocketful of Sunshine" is my wedding day. I was so happy to be marrying the man I love and knowing he was...
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