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You Can Dance if You Want To
by powerofwhy

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The soft parade

02/09/2011

This is the next part of the story of me. See 2 entries back for the last part.

Near the end of elementary school I received my first CD player as a Christmas present. I got The Doors "The Soft Parade" album with it. My parents were sort of artistic hippies, mother was into things like David Bowie, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan and father loved Neil Young and Alice Cooper. Those artists along with the classical piano pieces I learned were my first musical influences. What was the first album you purchased? After receiving the CD player I bought my first album, Pink Floyd's "The Wall".

Soon after that I started seventh grade a a violent and incompetent institution known as Franklin Junior High School. The site the school was build on is infected by an ancient curse. Eyes blink at you from dark corners and invisible tentacles rise from the ground, looking up womens skirts and pulling bad thoughts to the surface of the minds of anyone in reach. It will always be a place of madness and pain, but you can get a surprisingly good cappuccino nearby.

There were no gifted or advanced courses at Franklin, academically it was routine, dull, and easy. The place felt black and white like you had just stepped onto the set of an old but violent prison film. At Franklin I saw a girl get shot in the eyes with mace and scream while tryiing to wash the stuff off for over 30 minutes in a water fountain. I saw a boy punch his hand through a window and get rushed off to the emergency room for stitches. Red, red blood on the grey concrete floor. I saw a friend's head beat against a brick wall by a random assailant, then watched him try to get up several times. He would twitch from the pain each time like he had epilepsy and fall over. I saw how playground fights end on the ground and the kid on top wins. I saw a bully threaten a victim with a switchblade knife. I saw how all these things were all more intense in real life than on television.

I was a small, thin kid through most of school but was never swept up by the violent hands of Franklin. My long hair and rick t-shirts attracted the druggie kids and I fell in with their crowd, a tough and raggedy group who protected one another. I learned it is better to be a good talker than a good fighter.

I had a lot of casual friends but few close ones outside of school. Life was playing the piano, drawing, books, homework, and riding around town in our family's station wagon. My younger brother was in basketball, my younger sisters were in ballet and I played the piano. Those things kept us running about like mad from one rehearsal or performance to another.

After seventh grade we moved and things changed again.

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Oh, the music of those days. It saved my life on more than one occasion. I was one of the violent, bully kids back then...but music kept me from falling off the edge and totally into the blackness.

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[Tetamarina|0 likes] [|reply]

so I had a long comment on this that I was working on and off while I was at work.. but then closed out my internet without saving it O_O ..sooo I will come back to this when I have more time and give a better comment. For now, I am enjoying reading your journey

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RYC: Gonna play the Spiderbox stuff next week. LOL Figured I would split them up so that people could digest them as seperate entities. I really dug the Gangsta Paradise cover.

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RYC: Hey, thank you so much. I have a tendency to get a bit heavy at times with the conversation parts. I rant a lot and get a bit over the top...LOL Trying to stay more focused and keep the convo on the music end of things.

Daniel Harrison & The $2 Highway are amazing. They have a page on ReverbNation where you can download some of the songs for free. They do an amazing version of Purple Rain that I'm just itching to play but they asked me to hold off on. LOL

And yeah, Kfit is one of my absolute fav bands. They have been SUPER awesome to me and the show. Gonna have them down as soon as the weather clears up and their show schedule permits. They're gonna do a show with me. Jason said they might even bust out a couple live songs.

Thinking one of the next couple shows will be ALL local/unsigned/underground bands. And hey, if you used Facebook at all, you can find the A.S. Fan page on there...

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RYC: Thank you for the bio stuff. Will definitely use it to talk you guys up more. Once again, thank you for allowing me to use the stuff. The "bossman" really dug it as well and said he might get back with you about playing it on his show as well.

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RYC: LOL, yeah, there is a Rock a Billy band that goes by that name as well. Yeah, if you can get your hands on the CD's, by all means, do it. I promise you will NOT be disappointed. It's one of the most outrageous bands ever. First time I ever heard them I was like "What The Fuck??!"" After that though, I have truly sat and listened and have been addicted since. There's just NOTHING else like it. The guy is a mad genius.

I'm gonna do a "special" podcast in the next day or so about them and play one of their WHOLE CD's from beginning to end. I will post the link when I have it done.

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RYC: And yeah, It might be a minute til he gets around to playing the stuff. He's currently in the process of coding the pages for FIVE new shows on the network along with doing his TWO shows weekly. LOL He's got his hands TOTALLY full. He WILL get around to it though, promise. And when he does, I will definitely let you know.

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RYC: That's hilarious that you should mention that. I was just sitting around listening to the Wreckard re-release CD this morning while typing notes for the next show. LOL

I actually wasn't familiar with them until a few months ago when a friend gave me the CD. Very kewl stuff. Definitely something that more bands should do instead of being clones of other lesser, untalented bands.

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