Musical Milestone #2:

It was 1982, and I was 3 years wiser than I was the day that “eruption” changed my life. The Kiss posters had long since disappeared from my bedroom walls, and I had inherited my Dads old stereo complete with an 8 track player. I’d been listening to Van Halen, AC/DC and the standard radio fare of the day, but I was really hung up on Rush since the release of “Moving Pictures”. This music was important. Listening to it was a completely different and foreign experience to me. There were only 3 guys, but they made more music than bands twice their size. There were new sounds arranged into more interesting patterns than I was used to, and I was becoming aware of the magic of musical chemistry… The more I understood the individual pieces of the music, the more I realized that the music was more than just the sum of its parts. There was lots of music out there, but my tastes were narrowing and pulling me towards something. I was looking for something heavier…. something faster…something different …. something new….…

I had some friends up the street that were older than me, and one day Fred got a car! Up to this point, we always rode our bikes everywhere, but on this particular day, we had plans to engage in some specific mischief. After school, Fred pulled up to the curb and honked the horn. Mom didn’t like the idea of me going off in a car, but she let me anyway. Fred was looking under the seats and all over the place for something. I climbed in the back. Just as he was telling me that he just bought a new tape, he spotted it by the stick shift and popped it into the tape deck.

The music totally freaked me out, it was what I’d been waiting for. It was something heavier…. something faster…something different …. something new….…

For the sake of interactivity, I want you to guess what it was.
Post a comment with your guesses and then I’ll finish the story.