What Do You Have To Say? - Music: My First Favorite Band
I'd listened to the radio and such when I was younger. But in 6th grade we moved to a 20,000 acre cattle ranch in Southern California, near a tiny little town called Guadalupe (and that damn near LOOKS like the ranch!). I was the only white girl in school.
Seriously.
I got in fights almost every day and had no friends.
At night the coyotes circled around our house and howled while we cooked dinner.
My brother, sister and I all slept in the same room on a fold out couch. And we didn't even like each other.
We lived in a tiny run-down little mobile home.
It was way out, it was lonely, and of course, I was heading into the worst that puberty could throw at me.
During this time, a guy who owed my dad some money gave us a horse. A thoroughbred right off the race track. She couldn't turn right, she'd only ever run on a race-track. So of course I named her 'turn right you stupid bitch'. I had to get her to do complete circles to go in a different direction. Oh, and I'd just learned how to ride and had only a saddle-pad and a hackamore (basically a bridle/reins with no bit). One day the stupid horse tossed me (I NEVER got bucked off again) and I had to walk about 5 miles home in the desert-y sort of weather we had there. On the walk home I found an abandoned car (now that I think about that, that's really weird). I looked in it, saw that it had a tape deck (back then that was like wow, when most still had an 8-track) and I opened the car up and popped out the tape.
It was U2's 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'.
I listened to it when I got home and was HOOKED. Seriously hooked.
I still sing U2 songs that probably only a few people know as lullaby's to my kids.
I don't like a lot of their newer stuff (ok, say Zoo-ropa) but some of it's ok. But their older stuff? Man. still some serious love there.
I outgrew Ah-ha, and Bon Jovi. But the next 2 after U2 I never outgrew either (The Cure and then Dead Can Dance) (and WOW that's a good video)
Seriously.
I got in fights almost every day and had no friends.
At night the coyotes circled around our house and howled while we cooked dinner.
My brother, sister and I all slept in the same room on a fold out couch. And we didn't even like each other.
We lived in a tiny run-down little mobile home.
It was way out, it was lonely, and of course, I was heading into the worst that puberty could throw at me.
During this time, a guy who owed my dad some money gave us a horse. A thoroughbred right off the race track. She couldn't turn right, she'd only ever run on a race-track. So of course I named her 'turn right you stupid bitch'. I had to get her to do complete circles to go in a different direction. Oh, and I'd just learned how to ride and had only a saddle-pad and a hackamore (basically a bridle/reins with no bit). One day the stupid horse tossed me (I NEVER got bucked off again) and I had to walk about 5 miles home in the desert-y sort of weather we had there. On the walk home I found an abandoned car (now that I think about that, that's really weird). I looked in it, saw that it had a tape deck (back then that was like wow, when most still had an 8-track) and I opened the car up and popped out the tape.
It was U2's 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'.
I listened to it when I got home and was HOOKED. Seriously hooked.
I still sing U2 songs that probably only a few people know as lullaby's to my kids.
I don't like a lot of their newer stuff (ok, say Zoo-ropa) but some of it's ok. But their older stuff? Man. still some serious love there.
I outgrew Ah-ha, and Bon Jovi. But the next 2 after U2 I never outgrew either (The Cure and then Dead Can Dance) (and WOW that's a good video)