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The Most Influential Albums of My Life
In 2018, a “challenge” went around Facebook that I was able to get behind and participate in – the first (and only) one ever. No Ice Bucket Challenges for me, but the 10 Most Influential Albums in 10 Days challenge was appealing. My college friend Leigh forwarded me the challenge, which had been almost universally…
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The Kinks – One For The Road
(Album ©1980, Arista Records) One of my all-time favorite albums is The Kinks’ One For The Road. I heard it for the first time in a ski trip in eighth grade. Don Saturday, wherever you are, thank you for bringing this along. This is one of the best live albums of all times, if you…
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Van Halen – Van Halen
Bruce, The Kinks, The Stones and The Who got me through Middle School, but by 1983, I knew there was other exciting music out there. I had already picked up on snippets of harder rock, from Rush (“Tom Sawyer”) and the aforementioned Kiss to Queen and AC/DC (“Back in Black,” “For Those About To Rock”)…
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The Kinks – Give The People What They Want
I used to spend a lot of time with my aunt Deane & uncle Howie – we’ve been really tight since I was a little kid. So spending a weekend afternoon with them in NYC was a semi-regular event. One Saturday in early 1982, I was at their apartment on the Upper West Side. We…
