My Life Through Music
by Bishop
In the My Life Through Music Podcast I share and guide likeminded lovers of music through my life while aligning the influential and meaningful moments with the songs and music that were there at the time, or describes the thoughts, feelings, and emotions I was experiencing at those places and those times. If you love and appreciate all varieties of music the way I do, then you are invited to take your own walk down memory lane as you reconnect with the beauty and power of the internal playlist that has been with you your entire life and is waiting to be brought back to life once again!
Episodes
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Like To Get To Know You Well - Howard Jones
https://youtu.be/xqF1P8Khnmw?si=qZju6rWPg9gwu6hs. - Howard Jones - "Like To Get To Know You Well."There are conversations... and then there are conversations that change the way you see people forever.In this episode of My Life Through Music, a Howard Jones song takes me back to a night in…
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Never Enough - The Cure
There are certain people who walk into your life quietly… and somehow end up changing it completely. When we got stationed in Germany, our room was supposed to be temporary. Just three guys trying to figure things out far away from home. New country. New routines. New reality.Then one day, THIS…
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Empire - Queensrÿche
This was the first weekend that we had where, as a Battery, we didn't have much going on... And, we were getting ready to go out to the field for about three weeks! So, we did what we felt was the only thing to do, and that was to PARTY!!!! And party we did. That weekend I met some more very cool...
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For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) - AC/DC
B-Battery 3/35 FA... Werthiem, Germany. Late 1990- Early to mid 1992...When the doors of Bravo Battery closed behind me, a sound that I would get to know all too well and never forget, I KNEW that my life was about to change... once again!!!! I'm 54 years old, I've been in many different types of...
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Where I Come From - Montgomery Gentry
There’s a moment in basic training I’ll never forget! Not because of what ALMOST happened, but because of WHO stopped it from happening. I was fired up! My heart was pounding and my blood was hot. One of the other guys had pushed me way too far! The disrespect, the words, the attitude......
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Long As I Can See The Light - Creedence Clearwater Revival
What is home to you? Do you remember when you left home for the first time? What was it like? Why did you leave? Were you off to college? Did you just want to get out into the world and see what was out there? Did you go into military service like I did? This is the story of when I left home…
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Entre Nous - Rush
I want to be as good as a friend to those who are friends to me! I've been so blessed with having so many incredible friends in every phase of my life! https://youtu.be/MiYXj8j2Mus?si=6UygVVdi4CMqQhKc. Entre Nous - Rush How many friends do you have in your life? Not acquaintances, but real…
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Soul Asylum - The Cult
https://youtu.be/Btbf76dHYnI?si=-aOaxNArG-TXzO64 - Soul Asylum - The Cult Give me Ian Astbutry... with his hair the longest, and blackest. His voice the purest... and his soul the freest!! Have you ever had to say goodbye to someone you love, and you didn’t even want to? The pit in your stomach...
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Stick To Your Guns - Bon Jovi
I was running out of answers... So I blurted out, “Well… I’m not working construction for YOU all my life!!” “That’s perfectly fine, son! As a matter of fact, I DON’T want you working construction for me your whole life… that’s the whole PURPOSE of this conversation! Then his tone got serious and...
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Home Sweet Home - Mötley Crüe
In a small studio apartment in Northwest Phoenix during the early fall of 1989, I found myself sitting at a quaint café-style table against a kitchen wall, with two neatly stacked cassette covers on top of a thin book to the right of my plate. The top cover belonged to Bauhaus’ “The Sky’s Gone...
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Get a Haircut - George Thorogood and the Destroyers
People had always told me that I could try harder and do better... In this story I talk about two major events. One, which happened the afternoon after my dad unexpectedly woke me up at 4:00 in the morning and told me we had to talk about something later that afternoon! It placed me at a turning...
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Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Think about the rush and excitement of going to see a band that you love in concert! Do you still get that rush and that excitement waiting for them to come to your town... and then going and seeing them? Have you ever thought, however about all the time that they spend on the road and despite…
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Piano Man - Billy Joel
Then, with this lunatic smirk on his face, the trickster in him comes out and he flicks me on the side of the head and he says, "Don't tell me you didn't see that piano in the front room... He KNOWS and PLAYS music!!!!" "And?" I say back to him. "AND? What do you mean AND, what if we can get him…
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If You Ain't Here To Party - Luke Bryan
Even though I was still way behind the curve, it was WILD! All I had to do was show up, hang on for the ride... and LEARN! These guys were awesome, and it was proof of how important it is to have good people around you! What kind of people do you have around you? Oh yeah, come to find out, "Tom...
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Ocean Size - Jane's Addiction
The POWER of those songs, IN THAT ENVIRONMENT, musically AND lyrically, along with the way they were delivered to everyone there that night, FLUNG me into a controlled chaos as bodies moved, shook, swayed, and convulsed while their music kept filling and filling my soul until, at the end... their...
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Tom Sawyer - RUSH
So… as I’m standing there all by myself in the corner of the patio, HE… this guy who I’ve never met before IN MY LIFE, slowly raises one arm… index finger pointing right at me, and he looks DEAD into my eyes! At this moment I’m frozen, my pulse is racing, my muscles are tightened, and with the...
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Alone Again - Dokken
When I caught up to her in the parking lot she stared at me in stoic silence waiting for me to say something... but I didn't, I didn't say one word, because everything that I wanted to say was in the note that I held in my outstretched hand... “Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How…
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Sworn and Broken - Screaming Trees
Backing out of her driveway, the last few notes from Billy Duffy"s guitar receded into the speakers as The Cult's, "Big Neon Glitter" came to a quick end. A few seconds of hiss from the tape deck... Then, that sinister riff and high-pitched lead pushed back out of those same speakers as their…
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Innocente - Delerium (Ft. Leigh Nash)
Innocente; Italian, I believe, for innocent: innocent: /in-uh-suhnt / adjective 1. Free from moral wrong; without sin; pure. 2. Free from legal or specific wrong; guiltless. 3. Not involving evil intent or motive. I wanted to be all of these things... but I wasn't....
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Carpe Diem Baby - Metallica
When talking about living one’s truth and living one’s life, I believe that as human I should be given the absolute freedom to live that truth the way I want to, and that’s exactly what I did during this time in my life. However, it took me a long time and a lot of suffering to realize that…
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Euphoria - Collide
They say that love is likened to a drug... but what happens when drugs are likened to love? The lines can get blurry... and so can the "lines." Just because we avoid disaster or don't get caught doesn't mean we should continue, or even double-down on the behavior... I should've stopped... period....
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What You Know - T.I.
NOTHING! That's what I know. Yeah, I may have been listening to the music, going to concerts, thinking that I knew something. I didn't know, WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW. **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube...
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You're Gonna Get Yours - Public Enemy
In this video I talk about one of the few trips I took to California with "California Kid," and how teenage recklessness and curiosity led to more and more danger. These situations CAN be a teacher, but they can also teach us things about ourselves that we didn't want to know. As the title of…
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'Till I Collapse - Eminem (feat. Nate Dogg)
Cactus Shadows football (1988-89). Take a moment to think about all the voices that have been part of your life... past and present. Think about the impact they've had on you, whatever it was, and what they mean to you today. In this video I talk about that one great football season of 1988-89.…
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Dope Man - N.W.A and the Posse
Learning about a new art... in Art! "Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself." Wilde, Oscar, et al. "The Preface." The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. J.B....
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Just Like Heaven - The Cure
We were all just trying to figure this "love" thing out. What helped me was talking and having conversations with many different people about many different things. People I had never thought I would talk to about this stuff... When you're with someone you love it feels like THIS song by The…
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Let Me Kiss You - Morrissey
The sun behind the thick cloud-cover spread a silvery hue into the car through the back window bringing out her eyes and highlighting her sharp facial features, and the only thing I could hear was the morning as I quickly went from searching for words... to not needing any words at all. “Finally…...
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How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
With my senses heightened, the sweet smell of clove cigarettes, mixed with regular cigarettes, was even stronger on the inside as they coalesced with sulfur... and sweat. Continuing into the club, I inwardly grinned as I saw on the dancefloor a beautiful mass of souls expressing themselves, and...
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Don't Change - INXS
Can Music pick up where words end? I looked down at the cassette tape in my hand having no idea what was on it, or what song she was referring to... but I couldn't wait to find out! **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find…
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All Star - Smash Mouth (Part Two)
Attendance Girl!! It felt like my heart was going to beat right out of my chest! It was at that moment that the arm of the automatic door closer made a "hiss" sound, swinging the door behind me shut. She turned around to see who had walked in, and there I was, standing in the middle of the office...
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All Star - Smash Mouth (Part One)
Falling in love in typing class?? As the three of us were sitting in a row in the kitchen at this huge breakfast bar/counter in my old house, my mom was going on and on telling how great learning how to type would be and how it would benefit me in the future, I started to tuned her out. There was...
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Rhymin' and Stealin' - Beastie Boys
My own mutiny. I think we all have a little "mutiny" in all of us. **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through Music.** Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYP_hc9H3zXmhglzjcOBADA
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King of Rock - Run-DMC
Meeting "California Kid." I heard, "I'm the King of Rock, there is none higher, sucker MC's should call me sire..." and I was like, "Dude, what IS THIS??" **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel…
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Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
The eastern sky over Cave Creek/Carefree, Arizona. As the song came to an end and begin to fade, I looked out into the night sky through a cloudlike mass of cigarette smoke. I then looked over to my friend sitting to my left, and before I could say, "We need to listen to that again," he reached…
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Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
The record, the videos, and the movie made me look at life in a much different way. When someone like Prince is SO talented, and plays all other instruments at the highest of levels as he does, one talent or one particular instrument is not going to stick out more than the rest... because he…
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Time After Time - Cindi Lauper
MTV, music, all the time. I was getting ready to climb up the stairs to meet everyone in the driveway when I heard my mom yelled down the stairway into the basement at my Aunt's house, "Come on, we're leaving." I put my hand on the handrail and stopped when this video came on the T.V. I watched…
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Madonna - Crazy For You
Roller Skating at Shadow Mountain Skate Center. The four of us were huddled around the video game, it was probably Donkey Kong, or Asteroids, or something, and from out of nowhere a girl's voice came resounding in from behind us, and all we heard was, "You're a JERK!" We all looked back curiously...
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More Than a Feeling - Boston
The synthesis of music and existence. **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through Music.** Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYP_hc9H3zXmhglzjcOBADA
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Children of the Sea - Black Sabbath
The dark, the light, and the human soul. These songs and lyrics, along with many more, were instrumental in helping me move out of conventional thinking. **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My...
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Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden
Death and time. At 11-12 years old I never really considered dying. I had done so little living up to that point and seemingly had so much of it ahead of me... I never gave it that much thought. And time? I had all I wanted... This song was the catalyst that made me consider death and time. "The...
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Photograph - Def Leppard
Memories from the old kitchen. I told my brother, "I'm going to kiss her!" He said, "No way, no you're not!" **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through Music.** Thank you....
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Runnin' With the Devil - Van Halen
Primal, Raw, Full Throttle, Rock and Roll!! Did I want to be David Lee Roth growing up? Hell yeah, I did! **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through Music.** Thank you....
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Hells Bells - AC/DC
The tidal wave of just... MUSIC! **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through Music.** Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYP_hc9H3zXmhglzjcOBADA
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I Love Rock 'N Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
My First "Boom Box!" **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through Music.** Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYP_hc9H3zXmhglzjcOBADA
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Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
I was listening to this song on my crappy record player when my mom walked by my door and shouted, "That's a remake!" I got up, followed her down the hall and asked, "What's a remake?" **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can…
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Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
Everything starts with a dream. Being left out of something, weather it is intentional or unintentional, is motivating... and inspiring!! **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through...
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Crusin' - Smokey Robinson
Family Bar-b-ques and... dancing? **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through Music.** Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYP_hc9H3zXmhglzjcOBADA
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A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr.
Some of the men who made me. Treasure those who have helped, taught, and were an example to you along the way, they sadly won't be here forever... nobody will. **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube...
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Thank God I'm a Country Boy - John Denver
Camping and hunting with my friend. I guess life, "Ain't nuthin' but a funny, funny riddle..." See you on the other side, buddy... **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through Music.**...
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Rapture - Blondie
The Mesmerizing and hypnotic voice... and other songs discovered on early Arizona radio stations. **This "episode" was downloaded from my YouTube Channel. If you would like to watch the video version you can find it on my YouTube Channel, My Life Through Music.** Thank you.
About this show
In the My Life Through Music Podcast I share and guide likeminded lovers of music through my life while aligning the influential and meaningful moments with the songs and music that were there at the time, or describes the thoughts, feelings, and emotions I was experiencing at those places and those times. If you love and appreciate all varieties of music the way I do, then you are invited to take your own walk down memory lane as you reconnect with the beauty and power of the internal playlist that has been with you your entire life and is waiting to be brought back to life once again!
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