the window rolled ‘Brown. Eyed Girl’ : : by the Beatles or | taining memories. Like the vicious argument ! had with — my brother over whether ‘Everything T do’ was just the - g With Bryan ne Illustrious History of Bryan Adams and the Gilbert Family we had with us was Bryan Adams, ‘Waking up the Neighbours’. The fact that that is one of the three things “J remember about my six months in Ontario (the ather- two things being swimming lessons and the red door on our apartment) tells something. ~ That would be one of the good memories. ‘There i is also some of the, perhaps not bad, but somewhat enter- theme song for the Robin Hood movie or whether it was ~ ‘supposed: to be Robin ‘Hood singing to Maid Marian. 4 Bu es ae (He was definitely singing to her!) - Although the family memories are important, Bean 3 __ Adams doesn’t end there. For starters, being one of the — _ few tapes that exists in my truck it has been listened to— -E _.a substantial amount. Various trips from Nanaimo to 1 get when a song comes on that es “yi ‘time when you were with those aS people and, * sigh *, it was just so much fun. You know what I'm talking about, the soundtrack to your. life, _. Part of the sound track of my life is Bryan Adams and. dicnding the his. concert last Monday brought back a lot of sir = memories. Not just one or two songs i ba learned the words to ‘Cloud 9’, ‘Cuts like a Knife’ and ‘If you wanna leave me (can I come to)’ off by heart. - Then there is my ‘Summer of ‘69’ story. I am deter- _ mined that everybody has a ‘Summer of ‘69’ story. The i guidelines for this story are only that it has to be a clas- sic moment from your late teenage years that just iden- tifies what life was like ‘way back when,’ It doesn’t _ have to include the song ‘Summer of 69’, it just'so nae pens mine does. ning. to him: before. I was nd therefor he permeates 2 For instance, there was hen we lived in Ontaric _My story happens to be on ‘one = those hot spring days close to the end of my grade 12 year. Some angel ghee: the fire alarm and relieved us all from suffering 1ore chemistry class. As the school filtered he fairly tame younger grades flowed into de 12's (I'm from a small hick-town- school, therefor I'm talking about all 100 or so of us) tambled into-the same area of our miniscule parking lot. Somebody thought it would be clever to blast some tunes out of their way-over-speakered pickup (back to that hick-town). What did they play? Bayes Adams, ‘Summer of ‘69. It was-a classic moment. All for as many as possible) of the grads piled onto the old Ford beast and sang loud- _ly (if badly). All 100-of those nutbars that had gone to _ school together since preschool gathered round...until of course our a*#hole principal came over and yelled furi- ously at how much disrespect we had for the possible deadly emergency (dumb fire alarms!) That one moment encompasses my high school career and there- fore that one song will live forever i in By" EE and _ forever remind me of that time.. = Victoria (that’ s on Vancouver Island for all you — _ Northerners!) are themed with the constant repetition as- ~ the tape got flipped over and over and my friends and | ~ So back to the Bryan Adams concert this — Monday. - It was:a great event for all I'm sure (definitely for the polstelibg widest es sitting behind me) “Bryan and my family history go andn hand. + know my parents -were listening ta-him before { was born_(he's getting really old) and therefor he permeates my childhaod. but for my it was more than just a concert. It was the definition of my childhood, my family and my friends. And that's what music is ine right? The sound track to _ our ves: :