RE: TCV at work

["Pamela Ford" <jpford@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great story Dan!  

Isn't it something how we remember the music associated with the times of
our lives.  Just like a scent can bring back memories, so can music.  Do we
remember those songs because they already speak to us?  Or do they speak to
us because of the association to the event?

Some of my earlier ones include:

The Doors, Love you madly - my husband played the Doors on our first date,
believe it or not it was the first time I had heard of The Doors (remember
my previous growing up stories, I had no older siblings, parents who forbade
rock music because it was from the devil, corrupting our youth, and the beat
imitated sex)

Doobie Brothers, Black Water - it was the song played by our new band
director in my senior year of high school as we would be getting our
instruments out and tuning them.  I thought for sure he would get fired.

Led Zeppelin, Ramble On,  I remember the exact place I was standing in my
girlfriend's house when I heard this song - just like with the Challenger
explosion and the events of 9/11.  It was the first time I heard Led
Zeppelin and it catapulted me on a lifelong journey of appreciation.

Nobody's Fault but Mine, I played it once at home as an act of rebellion,
knowing it was forbidden, but pissed off at my mother about something I
don't remember.  I got through half the song before the Presence cassette
was confiscated and destroyed.

And as cliché as it sounds, as I lay on the bed after my "first time", what
comes on the radio but Foreigner's It Feels Like the First Time.  That one
still makes me blush.

Anyone else have memories tied to a particular song?

Pam



-----Original Message-----
From: admins-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx [mailto:admins-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dan Copenhaver
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 5:25 PM
To: Wyatt Brake; zepcontent@xxxxxxx
Cc: tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx; zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: TCV at work

I became anti-Meatloaf when I was 15 years old and that album just came out 
not long before. My girlfriend at the time owned it on eight track and 
played it nonstop pretty much. She especially liked to play it when I was 
trying to get her to give it up for the first time. She would go right to 
the track... stop right there! Before you go any further... do you love 
me... will you love me forever. While gazing into my eyes for my answer 
which of course was YES, but she still didn't give it up! I hate that song!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wyatt Brake" <wyattbrake@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <zepcontent@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: TCV at work


Well, I didn't come along until 1981, so I don't know how ubiquitous
it was (nor why that would make it a good thing!).  I'll tell you the
only thing good about the song - Phil Rizzuto!

Nah - I have no wish to disparage the closeted Meatloaf fans on the Zep 
list...

I think I developed my anti-Loaf complex in junior high.  While I was
on the bleachers at school dances, cursing the popular idiots, I was
subjected to multiple doses of "I would do anything for love... but I
won't do THAT..." - whatever song that was.

Then there's an ex-girlfriend who insisted on singing karaoke to
"Paradise" and got angry when I refused to take part... so I guess I'm
biased.

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:14 AM,  <zepcontent@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Paradise by the Dashboard Light
>
> that song WAS 77-78 and 79 to a lot of people
>
> even if it only peaked at 39 on billboard
>
> it was everywhere
>
> more contagious than swine flu