Session 1 - In the Beginning

In the Beginning
''Full Circle opening plays and it fades into Paw. The text "Starring: Your self-appointed authority: Paw." Lemon's "Hell Yeah" plays in the background''.

Paw: Hello, and welcome to the premiere of Full Circle. Now as with all things, one form of art can lead to another. So what we're subjected to in childhood affects us in adult life, like it or not. Now as a hopeless music nerd, I'm gonna go on this little journey of discovery...and you're all coming with me!

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Paw: From the earliest childhood memories, through the 80s, through the 90s, all the way up to present day, we'll see what influenced me and turned me into the person you see before you today.

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Paw: From 80s New Wave or Pop or Ska, Grunge, Punk, Hip Hop, Electro and all the crap in between, I've been through it all.

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Paw: Now if I start from day 1, that'll be like 1979 and I was a new-born so we'll fast forward a bit for brevity's sake. Infants have a lousy taste in music anyway. Now it all starts around 1983 or so...

Squiggly lines transitions the scene to a picture of Paw's house (probably). ''Zooms into a second floor window. ''

Paw: And here's where I spent all those formative years right up there. Usin' this.

Fades into his record player.

Paw: Yup, it's a good ol' Fisher Price My First frickin' Record Player. It was beige and orange and had one speaker which gives just a good as sound quality as the cordless phones of the era and that's giving it a lot of credit.

Fades back to Paw then fades to his dad's collection

Paw: The adventure truly began when I somehow ended up with my dad's old collection of 45 singles. Mixed in with these singles are the songs which will become some of my all time favorites. As well as some of those songs which you look back on with a certain grim nostalgia and a few of those guilty pleasures that you'll never ever admit to. But I will. Oh yes...

Fades into Tears for Fears' "Shout".

Paw: (voiceover) Now, you probably recognize this song before it even starts. The first record I spun until the grooves wore out. One of my very first musical memories. I remember being oddly hypnotized by the almost ethereal quality of this song. It's just one big primal scream of a tune. Not that I knew what any of this meant as a 5-year old but one tends to pick up a larger vocabulary in 20 years so, bear with me as a bear my rose-tinted glasses. The repetitive nature of the lyrics made it easy for me to latch onto and sing throughout the house and the drum beats, they were catchy enough, but there was something else about this song. Something near intangible, something epic.

Fades into the infomercial

Paw: (voiceover) I don't remember the video much save for snippets seen on these god-awful 80s mix tape collections from the late night infomercial. And I can't say I missed much, being deprived of MTV at an early age.

Fades into Michael Jackson's "Bad"

Paw: (voiceover) Now you know he had to be in here somewhere and don't worry, I don't have any Michael Jackson jokes.

Fades into the album cover