Evolution of your musical taste

[tot_Ou_tard]

I remember those too! It is amazing the stuff I have forgotten. Many of my first records I received through one of those Columbia Records and tapes deals where you got like 10 free and paid a little for the 11th. Then I wasn't very good about sending the monthly "no" cards back and ended up with some random stuff. Don't remember what now.

Me too !

So how come no one talks about Lobo, The Captain and Tenille, Neil Sedaka, Bread, Eddie Rabbit, Rupert Holmes, Paper Chase, Bay City Rollers, Leo Sayer or Rex Smith in their musical tastes?

Man O man!! Muskrat Love

I went to Disneyland as a kid & unbeknownest to my family & I, it was Bay City Roller Day. Tons & tons of chicks dressed in plaid.

D-I-S-N-E-Y LAND!

 

[t_ross33]

So how come no one talks about Lobo, The Captain and Tenille, Neil Sedaka, Bread, Eddie Rabbit, Rupert Holmes, Paper Chase, Bay City Rollers, Leo Sayer or Rex Smith in their musical tastes?

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!!

Where's my plaid?

 

[tot_Ou_tard]

A few years later my Mom was nice enough to buy a stereo system for our living room for when we had friends over. I lived in that living room (the rest of the family was in the family room on the other end of the house). My older sister fell in with some friends with great musical taste & all of a sudden there was

The Beatles: Red & Blue double albums.
Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya Yas Out

& a few more. I was into Creedence and others at the time, but had *never* heard the Beatles! Yowza!!! Those albums ended up being mine (my sister still didn't really listen to music. She bought them to be cool)! I couldn't believe that I hadn't heard this stuff before.

I liked the Red album a lot, but I lived with the Blue!

 

[Spudman]

Spudman, some of those groups you mentioned had me laughing. I remember all of those guys.

My wife really likes a lot of those Top40 favorites from the 70s. But she hates my Blues records, who would have guessed? (I also find that most women also hate the 3 Stooges for some odd reason. I guess its a guy thing) One time she made me buy this best-of Abba CD for one of our road trips. By the end of the road trip I loved that CD. ( guilty as charged! ) I'm a closet Abba fan. What's the world turning to. Dang, I won't be able to hold my head high at the "He-man woman hater's club" anymore.

-- Jim

If you notice...I left Abba off my list. Now I'm not admitting anything here, but they are Swedish, so... Momma Mia

 

[sunvalleylaw]

The Beatles: Red & Blue double albums.
Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya Yas Out


I liked both the Red album a lot, but I lived with the Blue!

I was the same, but more the reverse of liking blue a lot but living with red. The start of my really enjoying up tempo, 4/4 songs over in 2 min or less. I also really got into the Stone's Hot Rocks double album, also focusing on the earlier stuff. P.S. Somehow, I also like Abba.

 

[tot_Ou_tard]

I was the same, but more the reverse of liking blue a lot but living with red. The start of my really enjoying up tempo, 4/4 songs over in 2 min or less. I also really got into the Stone's Hot Rocks double album, also focusing on the earlier stuff. P.S. Somehow, I also like Abba.

I still prefer late Beatles to early Beatles. I lean toward freaky stuff.


Hot Rocks! Yes! Since then every d@mn stones album in existence.

Some Girls in high school!!! Yowza!!!

 

[Tone2TheBone]

So how come no one talks about Lobo, The Captain and Tenille, Neil Sedaka, Bread, Eddie Rabbit, Rupert Holmes, Paper Chase, Bay City Rollers, Leo Sayer or Rex Smith in their musical tastes?

Spud - I have the entire collection of the Midnight Special DVDs and my teenager and I are watching them as I type. Practically all the artists you've mentioned are on these disks. Talk about a retro fix. :R

I've enjoyed reading this thread and everyone's musical experiences!

 

[just strum]

Since Steve brought this to my attention, I read it and feel it's worth a bump. Some really good/interesting stuff here.

DVM, your reference to Feb 64 was a flash back to a great moment in my musical past (actually 3 consecutive weeks). I vividly remember the place I was and the smells in the air. That moment and when my cousin brought this album up from Columbus Oh called Axis: Bold as Love - I can remember that moment as clear as if it happen yesterday.

Anyway, this is a great thread and the newer members might want to add to it.

 

[Katastrophe]

I grew up listening to country music, particularly "Outlaw" country - Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker and others. Some of my best memories growing up were listening to those songs with my Dad in his Chevy truck.

I learned my first chords on a loaner acoustic from a friend of my Dad's, who had a really good country band, and ended up driving George Strait's bus for a while. He still plays one man shows in the Austin area, and has a fantastic voice.

Around 15, the bug to get serious about playing bit when another student in my karate class played a blues number on my beat up old Hondo acoustic. From then on, I wanted to learn the blues, and listened to all the blues music I could. I progressed from there to blues based rock (Zeppelin, Hendrix) and southern rock (Skynyrd, Allman Bros.) before finding 80's metal.

I took lessons for a couple of years from some great players and practiced like a fool, getting into Racer X and Yngwie.

So, now I'm 35, and love playing any time of guitar based music I can, with anybody who'll play!

 

[tunghaichuan]

When I was in grade school, I listened to what ever my parents listened to at the time: John Denver, Roger Miller, Peter, Paul & Mary, the Irish Rovers.

My first year in high school I discovered Led Zep. By my sophomore year (1981-1982) I got into Black Sabbath and Ozzy. In fact the first two concerts I attended were Ozzy and Black Sabbath. I also became a metal head: Iron Maiden, Tygers of Pang Tang, Scorpions, Judas Priest but I also liked Pink Floyd. I never was a big Van Halen or AC/DC fan until later.

After I graduated high school and started going to college (circa 1984) I found David Lindley's El Rayo X album at the library. I immediated bought every CD I could find by David Lindley. He is a great combintation of massive chops and quirky sensibilities; he just seemed like he was having a lot of fun on his albums. I've seen him live about 6 times, mostly as a solo act. I would have liked to seen him with his band, EL Rayo X.

I got into blues about the time the movie Crosroads came out. I had a college professor who was a Mississippi Delta style player and I took lessons from him for a while. I gravitated towards the electric styles and eventually found Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter.

It was bout this time that I started to get into Jason & the Scorchers, a kind of metal/country/hybrid. From there I found Albert Lee, Lyle Lovett, and Webb Wilder. I also got into Steve Morse, and particularly his country-tinged tunes.

In the early 90s after I finished grad school and moved to Colorado, I found an article in Guitar Player bout a weirdo, psycho shred guitar player named Buckethead. Soon after, I picked up a copy of Praxis: Transmuatation and it forever changed me. It was so alien, so utterly unlike anything that I'd ever heard that it changed the way I wanted to hear the guitar.

About this time I heard of a microtonalist guitar player named Neil Haverstick. He plays music on 19 and 31 tone per octave guitars. I've met Neil in person, he came over to play a few of the amps I've built. He is known for the microtonal playing, but he is a monster jazz and blues player.

I guess I've always gravitated towards the the left-of-center types of guitar players: Sonny Sharrock, Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Marc Ribot, Janet Feder, Fred Frith, Nicky Skopelitis, Shawn Lane, plus a whole lot of others. Since I been listening to a lot of experimental/avant-garde guitar, I really don't listen to much classic rock or blues anymore.

Around 2000, I picked up a Steve Earle album called "Transcendental Blues" and proceded to buy most of his catalog.

Recently I've started listening to Dwight Yoakam. I'm not a big country fan, in fact most of what passes for country these days just doesn't appeal to me.

My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think I've hit most of the highlights.

tung

 

[sunvalleylaw]

BUMP!

Holy Thread Resurrection!

This thread was fun, and we have many new members. Maybe some want to add their musical histories!?

 

[deeaa]

I can't remember if I posted already to this...in short:

- Started with classical music, motown/jazz
- first real my own love affair with music was to british heavy metal; Judas, Maiden etc. and later Accept and whatever...early Metallica was HUGE for me too
- then listened to stuff like Swing and Buddy Holly, Grateful Dead and Dire Straits for a few years
- Then found Grunge, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden etc...
- Shortly dug 70's bands like Fleetwood etc, CCR...
- Got back into more punky stuff, Ramones, ACDC
- past my 30's gotten more back to basic rock/heavy
- in my 40's mostly listening to aggressive new rock bands, not metal...from Foo Fighters to Djerv and Fair to Midland etc...anything that rocks well, also some 'Emo' bands like Billy Talent
- My own music making diversed to on one hand making pop ballads & songs to wanting mostly to play and sing aggressive Motörhead-feeling garagapunk-metal whatever. As long as I get to scream in it, it's fine!
- Been thinking in the next decade I'd like to start as a singer/frontman for some band that would play bluesy etc. stuff, like, I dunno, Al Green, Otis Redding etc. kind of stuff. But for now, more metallic stuff!

 

[Tig]

Hello, my name is Tig, and I'm a music ****.
The scary part is, I'll be leaving many bands and musicians off of the list!

As a kid, the Beatles were big at home. Growing up in the 60's was cool. My brother's best friend was really into Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, so I was exposed so some great humor and diversity. My first LP was Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

Since my Dad was once a jazz singer, jazz was always playing at home. I remember his Klipsch speakered cabinet he made and his turntable, before stereo. Miles, Brubeck, Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Kenton, Lena Horn, Art Tatum, and Charlie Parker were my guides. Later, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, BB King, Clapton, Santana, Hendrix, Jeff Beck (fusion era), Otis Redding, and Al Green worked their way into our ears.

Then, 70's rock entered the picture for me. Early Aerosmith, Queen, Chicago, The Who, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Rush, ZZ Top, Frank Marino, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, and Van Halen. Frank Zappa re-entered as well, followed by Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Ozzy (Randy Rhoads, mostly) and The Scorpions. Somehow, outlaw country also grabbed me, with Willie Nelson leading the pack. I met a Cajun fiddler named Doug Kershaw, so Cajun Zydeco also got into the mix. As my interest in guitar grew, Al Di Meola and Pat Martino gained ground.

In high school, us surfers were drawn towards new wave, punk and other related new music, like The Cars, REM, The Police, U2, Devo, Kraftwerk, Ramones, Talking Heads, The Jam, The Clash, Stray Cats, The Beat, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Cure.

In college, hardcore punk was strong. I hung out with the guys in NOTA while I lived in Tulsa. Watched and listened to touring bands like Husker Du, The Minutemen, Agent Orange, T.S.O.L., Jodie Foster's Army, Suicidal Tendencies, Social Distortion, Flipper, Whipping Boy, and the Meat Puppets.

Post college, thrash metal blossomed from the hardcore roots. Early Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Flotsam and Jetsam. Guns N Roses, LA Guns, etc., filled in after that, but music was going through a weak spell. I returned to Elvis Costello and other quality music, including jazz.

The grunge era was OK, and I enjoyed Alice In Chains, Nirvana, STP, Pearl Jam, and Sound Garden.

Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine came along, and my interest in music returned a little. I later dabbled in modern metal, Lamb of God, Gojira, Opeth, Mastodon, Meshuggah, and High on Fire.

The last few years as I've returned to playing guitar, I'm now enjoying pretty much everything that I've ever listened to in the past.

Recently, I'm loving Americana, alt country, and roots, including Steve Earle, Jason Isbell, Drive-By Truckers, Lyle Lovett, Gillian Welch, Moreland & Arbuckle, Dr. John, Tom Waits, and Carolina Chocolate Drops.

 

[hubberjub]

Mine's been all over the board. I listened to what my parents did when I was a kid. They were both music teachers and they were mostly into classical and folk (James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, etc.). I was born in 1978 and my tastes changed with what was popular on the radio. Late 80's, I loved metal. Everything from hair metal to thrash. I also enjoyed the rawness of the grunge scene. That continued until the end of high school. In college (as a music major), my appreciation for music grew. I started listening to a lot of bluegrass and (gasp!) jambands. The bands I played in ranged from small acoustic ensembles to large funk bands with a horn section. At 33 (currently), I pretty much listen to everything. The bands I play in have a decidedly more rootsy sound to them.

 

[R_of_G]

Like most kids, it began with listening to music with my parents, mostly in the car. With my dad it was 50s doo-***/60s girl groups, Stax/Motown soul, early rock and roll (Elvis, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran) or classic rock (Beatles, Stones, CCR, Doobie Brothers). My mom was all about the popular singer/songwriters of the day (Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, Kenny Rogers, Barbara Streisand, etc.) and like all good people, she also loved the Beatles.

As a teenager I was mostly into the Ramones, Clash, Stooges, Dolls, and then all the SST punk bands as well as the old-school NY hip hop (Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, et al). In college I found Miles Davis and then listened pretty heavily to jazz (mostly hard-bop, free jazz, and fusion). In my 20s I got heavily into the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers Band, then a bit later Phish. Then I found Tom Waits. That led me to Ribot. That led me to John Zorn and Frisell and that whole cadre of insanely talented musicians. You guys have seen my current musical tastes. I'm pretty much all over the place. If done well, there's not a style of music I don't enjoy.