Coming Full Circle

Out in the boat today, my stepdad had his iPod. One of the albums he had on it was Van Halen's 1978 self-titled debut. I played it loud, and both my mother and I were singing along. I found out today that my mother had that LP record when it came out, as well as the eight-track apparently, because she told me that I sang along with that album in her Z28 Camaro that she was driving when I was but a toddler, standing in the back seat. She told me that my favorite cut was "Runnin' With the Devil." (Nowadays it's "You Really Got Me" -- with "Eruption" as the song's intro, of course.) I got a huge kick out of that. Funny how I find myself listening to that music now, coming full circle more than 30 years later...