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Memphis, TN A Beautiful Mess
I'm probably one of the better-known non-professional Replacements experts in the world, at least online, and it's a well-known fact that I "worship at...
Read Memory Memphis, TN If There Be Ghosts
I spent the summer of 1985 living in Jackson, Tennessee, the second largest city in West Tennessee under Memphis, but don't be misled by that fact - it's not...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Stranger Everywhere You Go
I've gone through so many copies of The Damned's The Light at the End of the Tunnel now, both on cassette and CD, it's not even funny. If you're going to...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Not Deja Vu
R.E.M. was one of those bands that was almost like homeboys to those of us hanging around the indie music scene in Nashville in the early to mid-Eighties,...
Read Memory Memphis, TN I Could Be Wrong
The boyfriend at the time spent about half of 1987 just south of Knoxville, Tennessee, while I stayed behind in Middle Tennessee. I used to go up there...
Read Memory Memphis, TN No New Tale to Tell
I've written before about my ex-boyfriend's obsession for a time, back when we were living together and had first moved down to Memphis, with reggae and how...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Destruction
I almost can't listen to this song, Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine". It's almost too painful.The record had, of course, been out a while by...
Read Memory Memphis, TN You Might As Well
I watched American Bandstand just about every Saturday from the time I was very small, since I had teenage aunts at my grandmother's house at the time, until...
Read Memory Memphis, TN At the Drive-In
The small town where I went to high school didn't have a walk-in movie theater - though there was one in the next town over, which we went to often - but...
Read Memory Memphis, TN The Hottest Day of the Year
It was August, and it had to be the hottest day of the year - if not the hottest day ever - so why on earth we decided it was such a brilliant idea to cook...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Johnny Played a Guitar
Johnny sort of taught us all to play guitar, the friends of mine who are my age and myself, when we were in high school or shortly after. He had been away at...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Downed Out of Our Heads
This memory is actually about the Dream Police tour in 1980, but "Downed" is my very most favorite Cheap Trick song and it's relative to this...
Read Memory Memphis, TN No Sweat
The summer after I graduated from high school in 1984, I went on vacation with my high school sweetheart's family to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, for two weeks....
Read Memory Memphis, TN It Was a Thriller
The two albums probably most central to my high school days were two of the biggest hit albums of the time - Michael Jackson's Thriller, and Loverboy's Get...
Read Memory Memphis, TN "Sunday Morning" ; on a...
Somehow, in the course of my rather extensive and self-propelled modern music education, I totally missed The Velvet Underground.Sure, I wasn't completely...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Reggae'd Out
The boyfriend at the time almost ruined reggae for me forever with yet another of his lengthy musical obsessions. At the time with him, it was reggae,...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Beautiful Day
In those weeks when fall is just about to turn to winter in the Southeastern U.S., we often have these unusual days that feel less like fall and more almost...
Read Memory Memphis, TN By the Light of the Moon
I was never a country fan, although most of my friends in high school were, so I would listen to some of it sometimes, even attended a couple of concerts....
Read Memory Memphis, TN Most Daring Meets Her Match
Back in college days, I rented a little apartment right off campus with a friend of mine from my hometown, Jules. Jules and another hometown friend of mine...
Read Memory Memphis, TN Defying Death at the Beach
Although I have been quite fortunate to have many close and "best friends" throughout life, Christopher was probably my all-time closest, very best...
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