Chattanooga
My mom got out some old family photos.
I didn't have a scanner, this was the best I could do.
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Our lodgings were across the street from a neglected cemetery.
I climbed through a lot of briars and such to get up there and look around.
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Trey and I went to Riceville, Tennessee, and stopped a couple places on the way.
We went to Ankar's, which had barely changed since 1985.
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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.
Back then we wouldn't have felt comfortable taking pictures.
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I took a walk around downtown Chattanooga.
It was a really hot Sunday, so somewhat deserted.
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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.
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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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I got in a fight outside Pizza Caesar and spent the night in the hospital.
Very hard to recreate the date on this event.
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I was in a band called Dial A Miracle.
We went through so many drummers.
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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 kicked out of a record store.
Definitely worth it though.
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I saw Fear on Saturday Night Live.
This really did seem wild at the time.
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I was walking back from soccer practice when I heard President Reagan had been shot.
It seemed unbelievable, people were just walking down the street making this insane claim.
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 saw Talking Heads on Saturday Night Live.
I wish I still had the More Songs About Buildings And Food album.
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I saw the Rolling Stones do "Shattered" on Saturday Night Live.
Our mom switched it off halfway through though.
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I saw Devo on Saturday Night Live.
I liked the effects pedals taped to the guitar, though I had to ask Bruce what that was.
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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.
I heard Seasons In the Sun and thought I was going to die.
I had to go to a special doctor.
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We lived at 103 Asbury Drive in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Guessing a date based on the fact that I started school a little after the start of the year.
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