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Rockledge, FL Growing Up Being Blessed
This is the best song for daughters/dads.... Every time I hear it I hear the love and appreciation. Alot of females are not blessed to have a father in the...
Read Memory Houston, TX The Kinks and Cocaine
I always preferred the Kinks to the Beatles and Stones. In my opinion they released three consecutive PERFECT records - Something Else by the Kinks (1967);...
Read Memory San Pedro, CA A Dreamer I Will Always Be
Most young girls dream of their wedding day or they dream about who their prince charming will be one day, not I. I was dreaming much, much bigger! I wanted...
Read Memory Appleton, WI My sister
One of the best memories I have of my sister (who passed away from MS in 2004) is dancing together to the Sunday Bloody Sunday video. We had entered a local...
Read Memory Montclair, NJ U2 @ Red Rocks
what a magical week this was, with the dvd release of RED ROCKS. i was indeed there that night (we were in the back row and are consequently all over the...
Read Concert Review Denver, CO A musical perfect storm: U2 live...
I know exactly where I was the night of June 5, 1983: I was freezing my butt off, soaked to the bone but ignoring my discomfort because I was in musical...
Read Memory Webster, NY Oh Oh She's the Refugee
Although I had a copy of I Will Follow on some mixed tape I stole, it was this album, WAR, and this song, THE REFUGEE that brought me into U2 Nation. While...
Read Memory Washington, DC Ditched on the Road to Geneva
Here's a time twist. My memory involves the terrific song, Rest Stop, by Matchbox Twenty, which came out in 2000. But my memory happened in 1983 along the A6...
Read Memory Iketown War and Thunder
This is dedicated to one of my best friends from High School....In the summer of 1983 I lived in Bellevue, Nebraska - a suburb of Omaha. Yes, Omaha is big...
Read Concert Review Arlington, VA Cold War Kids
In 1983, on a levee that separated the North Platte River from a little residential lake, I came together with an unlikely group of friends. We were high...
Read Memory Corte Madera, CA lake placid sugaree
The Grateful Dead opened the show with a mind bending 18 minute sugaree. I will never forget the energy and crowd reaction to Jerry's jams- over the top and...
Read Memory Orlando, FL My Brothers Death
This song was a big hit when my brother died in a Car accident. I was 15 at the time. It must have been something In Bowies voice that made me wanted to hear...
Read Memory Maple Valley, WA Portable Music for Youngsters
I had discovered that I could record music onto casettes, and that I could use the same tape recorder that I used to save programs for my computer to carry...
Read Memory Homewood, IL Sleepover at Jessee's
I remember hanging out with Jess and Christy at this sleepover. We were in the living room dancing to this album as her mom put it on the record player. It...
Read Memory Washington, DC first judas priest song heard
this is the first judas priest song i heard. i was 14 years old. this is the song and band that changed my life. i fell in love with judas priest and heavy...
Read Memory Seattle, WA First time in a gay bar
I had asked Christelle Johnson out on a date. She was one of the two Punk Rocker girls in my class, and she was very cool. She made her own clothes-lots of...
Read Memory Philadelphia, PA First album purchased
My mother took my brother and I to KMart for school things. As we were leaving, she let us look through some records and we chose this classic. I'm still...
Read Memory Mesa, AZ My Father
As a former radio DJ, I have a lot of memories attached to music. Billy Joel has, and always will be, my favorite, thanks to my father. We have never been...
Read Memory Hoquiam, WA Bridging the Gap between mother...
Through the years from the time I was a teenager I have been a fan of Billy Joel. The first concert ever wnet to was Joels... It was awesome and I was...
Read Memory Allentown, PA As a young listener
When I was little, I remember listening to this song so much that I was getting used to the melody and knew some of the words. I'd was in the car with my...
Read Memory Nashville, TN Piano Man
My uncle was much younger than my father. He was from the era of Journey instead of the Beatles. I remember my grandmother had received a piano for Christmas...
Read Memory Washington DC Complete With Jean Jacket
Christmas morning. My sister Julie folds aside the tissue paper and lifts the gift from our parents from the McAlpin's box. It's a jean jacket, soon to be...
Read Memory NorCal, CA Tara Smile-- My First Concert
It was 1983 when I experienced my first live show. My mom and aunt couldn't wait to see them and decided it was time to bust my concert cherry. For weeks...
Read Memory Houston, TX A Concert To Remember
Back in the early eighties I was finally old enough to start going to live shows...of course I needed to find a willing adult to go with me and my friends....
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