Dance Desire

Heard Haywire's "Dance Desire" on the radio today. It really got me reminising about the road trips I would take with my best pals- the "pre-teens" as the guys at WQBR guys dubbed us. We got the name for our habit of screeching like pre-teens over things like EMU football players, Canadian Band boys, and squirrel chasing freshman. Karen, Nina and I's trips began with Nina driving us across the border to see Eye Eye in Windsor in 1986. Our next trip was driven by Canadian railway as we rode the train to Toronto. As we got older and I started driving, we took more trips to Windsor. After I moved to Arizona, we would road trip to Sedona when they would come visit. We also drove to Toronto on one of my visits back there. What I remember most about our road trips where listening to Canadian radio and always having a tape recorder with us that we used to record our conversations while driving. I think we picked up that habit from our buddies Nick Naime and Chuck Cordell at WQBR. When they would road trip they did the same plus make road trip music tapes. Pretty sure I made a few road music tapes for us too. Usually Karen would insist on holding the microphone and be sort of the host of our travel tapes. She was the inquizitive one, asking myself and particularly Nina the type of questions that would make us blush. Or in our terms, make Nina want to go "cue up a record." (when ever we were at WQBR and she wanted to avoid a question she would say she had to go cue up her next record) Karen would also use the mic to sing along to whatever tunes we had going. It explains her current love of Karaoke now.. I am sure those tapes are full of my current band boy crushes, Nina's talk of her favorite Sun Devil "Sparky" and our constant ranking of the upper echelon of Canadian bands. As I recall, our top 5 essentials were Haywire, Eye Eye, Glass Tiger, Corey Hart and Platinum Blonde. We called Bryan Adams "the lord god king boo-foo of Canadian" We worshipped Stu Jefferies of Good Rockin Tonight after he mentioned us on the show and sent us a bunch of 45's for the station. Nina had a strange attraction to David Foster and other older guys. I should go back and listen to a few of those tapes, it would really be a time piece. I guess that is why one gets hung up on an era of music, it is a very pleasant reminder of a memorable time in your life.