Chattanooga
We lived at 103 Asbury Drive in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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My first appearance in the paper.
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I heard Seasons In the Sun and thought I was going to die.
Watched The Night That Panicked America.
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Influences: we got an 8-track tape of folk songs for Christmas.
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Star Wars was released in theaters.
Influences: the art of Don Martin.
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I helped make a commercial with Mr. Sulu.
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I saw Devo on Saturday Night Live.
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I saw the Rolling Stones do "Shattered" on Saturday Night Live.
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I saw Talking Heads on Saturday Night Live.
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Kicks, Atoms Win In CYF.
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I got promoted to the sixth grade.
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I was walking back from soccer practice when I heard President Reagan had been shot.
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I saw Fear on Saturday Night Live.
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I saw Billy Squier at the Roundhouse.
I took the Kuder test.
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I got kicked out of a record store.
We played Fox and Hounds at Scout meeting and never found the fox.
I saw The Day After on TV.
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I was in a band called Dial A Miracle.
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Played with a Gene Simmons doll.
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I got in a fight outside Pizza Caesar and spent the night in the hospital.
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Buncha guys sitting on the couch.
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Thanksgiving Punk Fest.
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Punk rock comes to Chattanooga.
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Bev's birthday, 1985.
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Saw Musical Moose and Bend Sinister at the Knights of Columbus Hall.
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I worked at Taco Casa in Eastgate Mall.
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I saw the Black Crowes before they were really the Black Crowes.
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The Red M&Ms recorded our five-song cassette, Unhealthy.
We played a show or two in Chattanooga.
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I saw Little Richard on Tom Snyder's show.
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My grandfather died.
Red Hot.
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A warehouse caught fire while I was home for Thanksgiving.
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Goldie's radiator blew up near Poplarville, Mississippi.
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I saw Wayne-O-Rama in Chattanooga.
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I saw the Wayne White exhibit at the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga.
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I went to Chattanooga for Thanksgiving.
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Here are ten or twelve albums that really influenced me.
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Unimog!
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I dreamed a religious group took over my home to make a worship show.
I took a walk around downtown Chattanooga.
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First flight in years.
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I took pictures of a wig shop on Market Street that looked about the same when I was in high school.
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Trey and I went to Riceville, Tennessee, and stopped a couple places on the way.
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I got a catfish plate at Uncle Larry's in Chattanooga.
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Had lunch downtown with Beverly.
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Our lodgings were across the street from a neglected cemetery.
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My mom got out some old family photos.
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I dreamed my car rolled into a river.