Welcome to Spot the Music

As the red ribbon is cut and the doors open to the Spot the Music blog site the intention is to open with a bang. Go big or get off the blog idea? If that is the objective on day 1 then I would have to open where my journey began, about 25 years ago. Finding a small pin on the street as a young adolescent I thought I found pure treasure and I secured as such in my secret shoe box under my bed. As the days past and the seasons changed I ultimately forgot all about that little treasure buried in my room.

Years later I rediscovered my hidden treasure and found it to be just as much of a gift the second time around. During the time between sightings I started my trip down the music path with an obsession for one band - U2. I still remember purchasing The Joshua Tree cassette tape when I was only 11 years old in 1987 and playing it over and over again in my walkman until all the printing on the tape was erased. To this day I still truly believe that this was the best album my ears have ever had the pleasure of listening to and was the spark to my avid music interest.

This is where we attempt to make this point into a something worthwhile rather then a personal blog about my musical journey through life. Today has me referencing to the U2 album The Joshua Tree because it was 19 years ago to this very day that they stopped traffic in Los Angeles when they were shooting a performance on top of an office building for the video Where the Streets Have No Name (track 1 on the album). The simple concept of a band playing on top of an office building is nothing new or very exciting to keep the eye of the common video watching but when you do it without a permit in download Los Angeles it makes for an interesting situation. At least it was a big step up from a typical band playing their song in a studio one a very limited budget.

I still catch myself looking at the pin from time to time wondering if it was fate that it came into my possession. That pin, was a pin I discovered in 1981 for the U2 album Boy - one of the most influential early albums for many of the bands you hear today.