Chattanooga
Here are ten or twelve albums that really influenced me.
These aren't even necessarily the ones I listen to the most. These are the ones that "influenced" me.
I went to Chattanooga for Thanksgiving.
Joanne is the one taking the picture.
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I saw Wayne-O-Rama in Chattanooga.
I also saw the Wayne White museum show, but this might have been more fun.
Goldie's radiator blew up near Poplarville, Mississippi.
I still made it to my mom's the same day, just about eight hours late.
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Red Hot.
We start a ritual regarding a sign in Laurel, Mississippi.
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My grandfather died.
I went to Chattanooga and hung out with my cousins.
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We played a show or two in Chattanooga.
I remember this show or these shows but I really wonder when they happened.
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The Red M&Ms recorded our five-song cassette, Unhealthy.
After the recording my brother got picked up to go to summer camp.
I saw the Black Crowes before they were really the Black Crowes.
They were the opening band. They were pretty good.
I worked at Taco Casa in Eastgate Mall.
I got the job the day I graduated high school.
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Bev's birthday, 1985.
I guess this picture was given to me because my high school hair is on full display.
Punk rock comes to Chattanooga.
We started to get real DIY shows in Chattanooga in 1984.
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Thanksgiving Punk Fest.
Punks and skinheads finally united.
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Buncha guys sitting on the couch.
No idea what the occasion was.
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We played Fox and Hounds at Scout meeting and never found the fox.
The rumor was that he hid in an open grave but I think the real answer was different.
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I got promoted to the sixth grade.
We all had to wear white, and then you have ginger ale with sherbet in it.
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I helped make a commercial with Mr. Sulu.
The city bus company was making a commercial starring Mr. Sulu from Star Trek, and would we like to come down to the studio and watch and maybe help out?
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Influences: the art of Don Martin.
We stuck these sound effects stickers on our dresser and our closet door.
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Influences: we got an 8-track tape of folk songs for Christmas.
Turns out Folk encompasses a lot of kinds of music.
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Watched The Night That Panicked America.
A movie about Orson Welles' War Of The Worlds. I remember they unscrewed a jar in the toilet.
