I recently came in contact with a good old, long lost friend. It’s not like he fell off of the face of the earth; he hadn’t moved an inch from the house where I last saw him over a decade ago. Apparently I’m the one that disappeared from the planet, but things fell in place again, and the all-seeing Facebook tracked me down. This friend of mine from way back in high school is literally the definition of my early musical identity since he nudged me to all the “mod” 80’s bands, but really set me down the road with an obsession for Cocteau Twins and the like. We diverged a bit after high school and I continued the evolution on my own. Imagine the sociology experiment of seeing how the two of us developed our musical tastes after wandering on our own so long. Continue reading →