DOWSING FOR LIGHT

I used to be a skeptic. People would say “You can find anything on the Internet!” and I’d give an half-hearted “yep” but I didn’t believe it 100%. Until today. On a whim, I Googled the following:

Vendetta “deadly like a rose”

Sometime around 1981 I won a radio contest. The prize was ten free albums. Not bad, huh? That’s what I thought. But then I got to the station and saw the inventory I could pick from. Basically, it was all the promo records that the station didn’t play. I learned an important lesson that day. Really, I only half learned it; if I had actually learned it well I’d never have bought the Cacophony album by Marty Friedman (the chump who wouldn’t sign the Megadeth album he didn’t specifically play on) a few years later. The lesson: don’t judge an album by its cover.

But that’s not the point of this post. The point is that one of the records I picked was by a band called Vendetta. Never heard of them before that day, never heard of them after. Until, of course, I Googled them today and found this.

To their credit, the chorus still pops into my head on occasion, out of nowhere.