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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 #101

August 4, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

This has been an odd summer, mostly because it has actually been a summer.  Not that Calgary is renowned for its summers, but last year we had near perpetual spring.  And not the “yay, winter is over and the tulips are blooming” kind of spring but rather the “dear god, when will this rain end” […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Eagles, Eighties, nostalgia, rock, summer, sun

My Life Is A Song #98

March 3, 2017 by acrockofschmidt 1 Comment

I’ve never owned a plentiful amount of record albums in my lifetime, but I’ve owned some interesting ones.  I wish I could say it was the result of an exceptionally discerning use of my allowance but the more likely truth is that I was just weird.  I didn’t exactly shy away from popular music.  I […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, CanCon, Eighties

My Life Is A Song #96

February 17, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

One night in St. Jacobs, the old fable of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse played out in real life within the bland, beige box that was my childhood bedroom.  I, as you rightly presume, starred as the Country Mouse. It was 1985, most likely later March or possibly early April, and a rather […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Eighties, hockey, kids, radio, Woolwich

My Life Is A Song #95

February 10, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I went to a small town, K-8, elementary school.  I shared a class with pretty much the same 25 kids every year.  In the upper years, I can’t remember in which it started, we did class gift exchanges at Christmas.  We’d each draw a name from a hat and give whichever classmate we pulled a […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Eighties, rock, Sting

My Life Is A Song #94

February 3, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

As I do more and more of this little musical blogs, I’m becoming all the more cognizant of the fact that 1984 was a spectacular year for music.  Maybe it just feels that way since I was twelve in 1984 and came of age with music that year.  Or maybe it really was a fantastic […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Eighties, one hit wonder, pop

My Life Is A Song #91

January 13, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I remain skeptical of how accurately pop culture portrays reality but I think it’s safe to say most couples have “their song.”  Typically it’s a song associated with a special moment in their relationship.  Perhaps it was the song the house DJ was playing the night they first met at the meat market dance club […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, ballad, couples, Eighties, one hit wonder

What If The Dukes of Hazzard Had Been A CBC Show?

December 12, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Imagine, for a moment, an alternate universe where Canada is the dominant entertainment production force on the planet rather than the United States of America.  Everything about the two countries is exactly as it is now the only exception is that Hollywood is in Vancouver and the major television networks dominating North American television since […]

Filed Under: Funny Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, 70s, Bricklin, CBC, Dukes of Hazzard, Seagrams, TV

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 #81

November 4, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

This is the story about the first time I got drunk. Ah, I see I have your attention now.  Oh, hey Mom.  Ooo, and Dad.  Nice to see you two joining me this week.  Curious, are we? I was sixteen. My neighbour and good friend at the time, also 16, was home alone for the […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, drunk, Duran Duran, parents, teenager

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