What music makes u nostalgic?
What music makes you nostalgic?
Tonight, for me, it’s heavier rock. Strange maybe, but there’s a reason.
I turned on the new “Real Rock” station on the radio for a change. I keep hearing the same songs repeatedly on the top 40 station, so I figured I’d try something different.
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The first song I heard was “One” by Metallica. Well, I HAD to walk away from the laptop and turn it up and sit on the floor w/ my eyes closed. I ran laser light shows at the local planetarium for ten years from about 1988-1998 (roughly), hence my nickname. I envisioned running the laser show w/ that song in it as I had done a million times. Not the laser imagery perse, but just BEING there, knowing that my friends were by me, or in the lobby, hearing- no, FEELING the music (cranked to peaking in the dome), and then when that one part comes, doing the beam lasers by hand to the music, hearing the crowd cheer. Stupid? Maybe, if you’ve never been there. But it was fun. It was a blast.
So after the song I turned it down and went back to the computer. Then “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns and Roses came on. That song always made me teary, and for no good reason. That was in a Laser Fantasy show (the company we leased the shows from). It still makes me teary, but this time I feel it’s because I miss “the old days” when my friends and I “ran the place”.
One is married now and very busy w/ his job, the other one moved totally across the country, others have just moved on or got busy, others are no longer friends because of misunderstandings, others are gone and not missed at all.
I remember staying there late, the last show at midnight, closing up about 1:30am, staying late to talk or going out to the 24-hour Dennys or Perkins for breakfast. Going out on nights when we weren’t supposed to be there to watch movies on the projector on the dome so huge. Staying way past 1:30am and blaring cd’s like Enigma in the dark w/ nothing but the starball moving slowly. Man, when that place was MINE it was nothing anybody else had. Nothing.
Even though I am just now having an opportunity to run laser light shows again it’s not the same. It’s fun, but it’s not the same without all my old buddies there. Why am I such a mush? It’s not the same since I don’t have keys anymore or an alarm code and it’s not MY place so I can’t stay late or blare my own cds. But, I’m hoping it’ll be fun to get involved again, even a little.