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Chesapeake, VA Meeting Cheap Trick
I remember it like yesterday! It was the first concert I'd ever been to, and my friend Vicky and I were right up front. Robin pointed right at mewhen he came...
Read Memory Unknown 1st rock show
I went and saw my first live show without my folks in 1981, it was Cheap Trick at the Civic Center in Decatur, Illinois. I started at the back and worked my...
Read Memory Houston, TX When a Band Becomes Your Identify
So I'm a freshman in High School. I'm a regular rock and roll guy. I like Led Zep, Aerosmith, Foghat, Doobie Brothers, Boston, Cheap Trick, the usual good...
Read Music Review Nashville, TN The First Time I Met U2
…was in Nov. of 1981 just shortly after their October album had been released. They were early into their second US tour, returning to Chicago’s famed...
Read Memory Grand Rapids, MI My first favorite song
I shared a bedroom with my sister for the first few years of my life so when my parents decided to add on to our house and I finally got my own room,...
Read Memory Canada Start of a life long addiction
I fell in love with Heavy Metal in 1981 when a friend persuaded me to join him for a concert in Hanover, some 60 km away from our hometown in the countryside...
Read Memory Stamford, CT Rocking Again
I had been living in California for about a year and a half when I moved back to New York. I ran into a friend I obviously hadn't seen in a while and...
Read Memory Northumberland, PA Everybody Loves You
I used to sing all of the songs from this album to the girl sitting next to me in Biology (Kristi) I'm sure I drove her nuts!
Read Memory Pittstown, NJ Graduation Day
Complete Control has always been, and always will be my favorite Clash song. It still gives me a full-body rush every time I hear it. The venom and the...
Read Memory Venice, FL Being grounded
I was grounded for not getting home when I was suppose to. I was not old enough to drive then. It was my birthday and my friends snuck up to my bedroom...
Read Memory United Kingdom Imagine That.
Outside it's cold and raining. Inside a mother is busy sewing whilst her little boy is trying to get the cat to play. After several unsuccessful attempts his...
Read Memory Old Forge, PA Random Memory Tuesday Strikes Again
It's back. By popular demand even. (OK, so only one person demanded it, actually it was more of a request, but I'm assuming he's pretty popular anyway.) The...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) Posture perfecting
During my teens, I was disgusted at the way my body looked. I was overweight, slouchy, bulgy, and had greasy tangled hair. At one point, I made up my mind to...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) Performance energy
One of the things that I rarely did as a kid, was follow the fold. nearly every turn I took, I took alone and against advice, request, or even demand. As a...
Read Memory Stevensville, MI School Spirit
I remember riding to and from football games on the fan buses and everyone would stop what they were doing when someone put on Kool and the Gang's...
Read Memory Michigan I Got My MTV
On Labor Day weekend 1981 my Mom and I had a new beginning. We had moved out the house we shared with her boyfriend of 2 years and moved into a duplex a mile...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH The Pavillion Secrets
Mom did not like this group much and S.C and I were not driving long distances by ourselves yet so mom served as taxi and kind-of a chaperone. Blossom Music...
Read Memory Pompano Beach, FL My First AND Last Video on MTV!...
Okay, it's August 1st 1981, I am a 10-Years old and already a music junkie and I find out that we are about to get MTV. I am losing my mind for weeks...
Read Memory San Pedro, CA Sick Days
I ran across this song, and the memories came flooding in! I miss that show so much, it was my absolute favorite daytime show!When I was in 8th grade, I...
Read Memory Jacksonville Beach, FL Get my share now
In those days, I walked a lot. I walked to the movie theater to see Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come. Walking back home, I had the song in my head, in...
Read Memory Berkeley, CA Tinkertoys, Legos & Lincoln...
This has to be my oldest musical memory. Actually, I think this might be my oldest memory ever, and it's no stroke of luck that I can attach it to music,...
Read Memory Riverview, FL Seniority vs. Priority
“That old flame may not be stronger, but it’s been burning longer…” The first time I heard this song I was transported back to a spring day in...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) Mine was big and black, but...
I was about fifteen when I first wished to purchase and wear a bikini. I am not sure why I suddenly wished to do so. Perhaps it was peer pressure or perhaps...
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