Category: Music and Video Stuff

September 1980 this song was released. The same month Lou came to visit me here (Honolulu), 5 months before we got married. At the time, after being apart for a while while I was doing Uncle Sam’s bidding and we were waiting for the right time to get married, I got to Hawaii and started thinking hmmm maybe staying single might work better while I check out what Hawaii has to offer.…

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Memory soundtrack. This one brings back memories of Dad.

Maybe 1976 or so. I used to drive Dad places when he needed to do running around for tools, materials for his around-the-house projects, etc.. I remember driving him to Ace Hardware in Anigua and this song came on as I was in the car waiting for him. Looking out over Agana Bay with, I don’t know, my mind wandering across the ocean, pondering what else in this world, this life, is out there.…

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The soundtrack and memories that go with it in my head are so vivid of my missing and longing for Lou back in the day when being together wasn’t quite that easy. The physical distance as we made our way to adulthood, carving out our careers and making our life’s plans made us stronger. In hindsight that’s what it was.…

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Ahh the days before the internet, before facetime, Webex, Zoom, messenger, email, or any other “instant contact” digital media. It was those days when the only way to keep contact with babydoll, other than writing letters via snail mail, was outrageously expensive RCA Global international long distance phone calls.…

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Another song from the recesses of my memories. What is my saying, songs from yesteryear pop up… and put me into my mode of reflection of life lived. 1971 release.

Inventorying the flashback visions. One, My brother Leo in his room recording songs off the radio, and tuning in to Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) with this song playing.…

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One of my memory soundtracks that only gets better with age. Looking back at life lived, memories made, and the warmth of life itself with loved ones. Takes me back to that special place where everything was as fresh as… oh that’s another song…

Styx – Come Sail Away

That 2½ minute drum solo in the middle of a 17+ minute cut. Flashbacks of 7th grade band class. By about the second semester, we on drums picked this up as our “litmus test” of solos to play, , among others deemed lesser.

Iron Butterfly – In a Gadda Da Vida

I didn’t make it on drums of course, since I went to SVS 9th grade and no band.…

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Every time Lou and I hear this song, we laugh or at least smile. It brings back memories for both of us. High school, senior year, close to (her) graduation times. Cruising around spending time together (kinda aimlessly). We had nothing insofar as life’s possessions back then, just the company of each other.…

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High school days, this song zooms my thoughts back to them at light speed. Some good, warm, tender memories of spending tie with Lou in our carefree moments. Some not so comforting in my loss of life’s direction at the time… wandering, bumming. But it’s all good. History shows things panned out pretty well, all things considered.…

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