Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 7:40 AM
Song: Crazy Train
Artist: Ozzy Osbourne
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on drive to work.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/7ACxUo21jtTHzy7ZEV56vU?si=4e7d631f51934df2
The morning started with adulting. Contacting our HVAC person
because our furnace was leaking and then heading to work.
“Crazy Train” started to play, and I had a few memories jump
to mind.
The first was that I remember sitting in my truck in high
school, I think in the Northland Mall parking lot, and this song came on. The
opening salvo made me jump. I don’t know why. I believe I was listening to a
tape, and I knew the song was coming, it just really hit that time. The
nefarious sound sent a quick chill up my spine.
The second is that during high school, professional
wrestling’s Attitude Era was popular. I had been a big fan of wrestling as kid
in the late 80s and early 90s. As I got older, and the product’s target
audience remained younger, I drifted away.
But, about 1996, the approach by the two major wrestling
companies changed to an older demographic, namely young men and teenagers. My
closest friends (Jake and Kyle) and I were hooked on it also.
That included an influx of video games on Nintendo 64. These
games featured a “create a character” function, and we developed a faction
known as “The Devil Train.” Our characters were Jeffrey Diablo, Lucifer Menedez,
and Hades McKenzie. It’s crazy that I can remember that all these years later.
While each character changed looks depending on the game, I think we stuck to
red and black outfit colors.
I’ll give you one guess what song we wanted to use for our
entrance. Of course, it wasn’t on the game, but if it ever became real life, we
would have demanded paying the licensing fee.
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