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Kingman, AZ Rockline
1985...Rockline...the number I dialed was ringing...(fifi) Hello, can I talk to Rick or Robin? (rick) This is Rick and Robin. (fifi) Oh, Who was the song...
Read Memory Saint Paul, MN My first live concert
It was 1985 and it was my frist concert. I was excited to see AC/DC for the first time live in front of me. The place was packed. I was sitting side stage...
Read Memory Houston, TX Music Hell
Growing up as a kid I always heard this song at every sporting event I went to. Still to this day I hear this song at football games, baseball games, and...
Read Memory Monroe, GA MY FIRST CONCERT
IT WAS 23 YEARS AGO, ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1985. I WAS 14. I LIVED WITH MY THEN 58 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER. SHE HAD WORKED THAT DAY. WHEN SHE CAME HOME SHE...
Read Memory Lexington, KY My Green Hat
It was right after St Patricks Day, at Madison Square Garden. My boyfriend, (later we married and had a son and my husband passed away in 1988), and I had a...
Read Memory Nashville, TN Transcendenc e at a U2 Show
While watching U2’s new Vertigo Live from Chicago DVD, I began reminiscing about one of my favorite concert experiences from the 14 times I have seen this...
Read Concert Review West Hollywood, CA Driving with the Older Kids
I got to ride to the drill team competition in San Antonio with the popular older kids - Lana Morris and Ladd Mitchell. We played this entire album, but I...
Read Memory Jacksonville, FL Growing up new kids
Note: please do forgive my spelling errorsI picked keep on smilin' because that is one of my fav. songs....It is hard to pick one story, but when I...
Read Memory Mission, KS Discovering Kayleigh
I'd heard the song "Kayleigh" on KYYS, my local rock station, and liked it. I knew nothing about the band Marillion, but kept picking up the tape...
Read Memory Canada Stevie Wonder in the Middle East
In 1985, while travelling in the Middle East, I decided to visit Jericho, reputed to be the oldest continuously populated city in the world. We drove for...
Read Memory Tampa, FL End of an era
My first full recording project. Does not get released for another 15 years. Wow a lot of memories.
Read Memory Bethesda, MD My First Song.
I was born in 1983, the same year that the Toy Dolls released their first real album, and, arguably, their biggest and most important record. Which, for the...
Read Memory Mexico Free and out of High school
How I like to remember those times, when I was all enthusiatic about goign out of high school, at that time I had my yellow VW all loaded with a stereo...
Read Memory Sacramento, CA Riding my mountain bike
I vividly remember finishing my radio show and flying "down the hill" of UCSC campus to downtown Santa Cruz, with a huge bag of records strapped to...
Read Memory Houston, TX Soundtrack to my first hip hop...
My cousin John and I made a hip hop album in 1985. The instrumental theme served as the beats for our original song. In the song, my cousin raps, "The...
Read Memory Richmond, VA It Usually Involves Girls,...
In late 1984 I discovered punk and "college rock" through a friend at camp; from then on I was hooked. Not just on the music, but the camp thing as...
Read Memory Ogden, UT Album covers
When I was little, I used to love looking at all the album covers in my mom's collection and make up stories about what was pictured on the cover. My brother...
Read Memory Columbia, SC what the boys called me
I was always thought of as the girl who would not come down from my throne. The fellows thought of me as a prima dona. Really, I was not. I enjoyed getting...
Read Memory Mexico I knew it!
During those days it was very hard to obtain quality music in Mexico, in a recent trip to NY my dad bring home a bunch of cd's from several artist, that time...
Read Memory Saint Louis, MO a new life
Before this song was released, I was going through a very rough time. High school was not going very well. I was dealing with the realization that i was gay....
Read Memory Logansport, IN Uptown Girl
My mom used to sing this song to me when I was a little girl and we would just dance. I even much later fell in love with a downtown boy lol. Just a really a...
Read Memory York, PA my first cassette tape
i already had the tape, but no tape player!! i couldnt wait for xmas for my grandma to give me the one i asked for. thats all i wanted. 20+ years later and i...
Read Memory Mission Viejo, CA Misunderstoo d
I was about four years old when I first heard this song. My dad put together a mixtape and was playing it on the way to our babysitter's house. I heard this...
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