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My Life Is A Song #103

March 9, 2018 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

Memory is perplexing, and unfair.  I can’t remember the funniest thing my kids did just last week but I can recall countless inane moments from thirty years ago in vivid detail.  I’d much rather have gloriously detailed memories of my children’s lives than the pointless goings-on of a grade five geography class back in 1983, […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, dance, Eighties, hair metal, high school, rock, Whitesnake

My Life Is A Song #85

December 2, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I was a timid child.  Still am, to be honest.  Few things make me more uncomfortable than talking on the phone, having to make calls being the worst.  Luckily I was also the oldest child so I had a younger sister I could browbeat into doing those things I desperately wanted to do but was […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Eighties, hair metal, radio, sister

My Life Is A Song #59

June 3, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

True story.  Once, when I was twelve or so, I thought I had written “Rock You” in my sleep.  One morning I awoke with the riff and words already in my head.  “Gimme an R, O, C, K.  Watchya got? ROCK!  And watchya gonna do?  ROCK YOU!”  It was brilliant and I figured not only […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: CanCon, hair metal, Listowel, rock, rock you

My Life Is A Song #58

May 27, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

What?  You didn’t expect hair metal in this blog series?  I was an eighties teenager, for Christ sake, how could hair metal not be part of this?  We were hair metal!  If anything, this is far too late in coming and believe me, there will be more. This is one of those bands that simply […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, baseball, Eighties, hair metal

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