This is my personal hell: I can't talk music with anyone other than other pros... ...and pros wanna talk about anything other than music.
That is rather hurtful. I actually thought you liked talking about music w/guys like me.
I think this thread is more personal than the normal music threads you post as it is asking what 'defined' your youth. Hell, it's why I felt qualified to post in it!
Wouldn't take it too hard.
WE DON'T NEED A QB BEFORE WE GET A LINE THAT CAN PROTECT HIM my two cents...
Donnie Iris and the Cruisers: 2nd greatest live show I ever went to.
Boston: Best live show I ever went to
Michael Stanley Band
Eddie Money
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This is a tough topic. Many albums played background roles in my life. Certainly the soundtrack in my movie. But which albums defined me... much tougher. Here goes.
1) Pink Floyd, The Wall.... I remember my dad, who has a huge record collection, bringing this album home and playing it. It was a little over my head, I was 7, but I still really liked it. He made me a cassette copy. It was the first album I ‘owned’. 2) So no single album goes here. That said, I was a weird kid. For some reason around age 12 or so I got hooked on music from the 50’s. I ended up with a bunch of cassettes of Billboard’s Top Songs from the 50’s. Each cassette was a different year. I think I had 1952 through 1957. I spun that off into recording Buddy Holly and Elvis albums of my grandma’s. I’d play them over her stereo and set my tape recorder next to the speaker. Kids now a days have no idea how good they’ve got it. So music from the 50’s became my musical refuge during the mid 80’s. 3) Alice In Chains, Jar of Flies... My fiancé left me. Broke me. This album allowed me to wallow in it. 4) Grateful Dead, Europe 72... My introduction to my first musical addiction. The Grateful Dead and the community it created helped me put my life back on track by giving me a path to step out of the rat race for a bit and run away with the circus. 5)Widespread Panic, Light Fuse Get Away... My introduction to my second and last musical addiction. They carried the torch after Jerry died. It was during my early Panic years that I got my life put back together. I started and finished nursing school. I grew up...whatever that means.
I want to thank my dad for sharing his love of music with me. His record collection introduced me to so much diversity in music. I grew up with Heart, CSNY, Joni Mitchell, Linda Rondstandt, Phoebe Snow, Pink Floyd, early Michael Jackson, The Who... My dad would play us classical music, especially during the holidays. He took us to see the Vienna Boy’s Choir on Christmas, and the symphony another. We’d have ‘dance parties’ in the living room to MJ’s Off the Wall album, or an ABBA album. Or back yard parties with Sly and the Family Stone thumping away. Sunday mornings were filled with old hymns sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford, or the Brown’s. Without that diverse foundation I don’t know that I ever would have ‘got’ the Grateful Dead. Without that band, and it’s effect on my way of looking at life, I don’t know who I’d be today.
I wasn't and am still not the greatest of fans but Michael Stanley Bands, "Stage Pass" was a pretty good record. I wasn't thrilled where the band went in the 80's though.
So I just mentioned Widespread Panic. Their lead singer is from Cleveland. He grew up a fan of the Michael Stanley Band. Panic actually covers one of their songs, beautifully I might add, called Let’s get the Show on the Road. Even if you’ve never heard of either band this is worth a listen. Enjoy...
2) So no single album goes here. That said, I was a weird kid. For some reason around age 12 or so I got hooked on music from the 50’s. I ended up with a bunch of cassettes of Billboard’s Top Songs from the 50’s. Each cassette was a different year. I think I had 1952 through 1957. I spun that off into recording Buddy Holly and Elvis albums of my grandma’s. I’d play them over her stereo and set my tape recorder next to the speaker. Kids now a days have no idea how good they’ve got it.
Well, consider yourself lucky.
The records my parents had didn't interest me as a child, at all.
I had to record my music, on a cassette recorder, from the radio. Almost every song had the dj talking at the beginning and/or the end of the song.
When I was 16, my car had an am/fm radio. I had a boom box that I sat on the passenger seat so I could play the "recorded off the radio" tapes.
2) So no single album goes here. That said, I was a weird kid. For some reason around age 12 or so I got hooked on music from the 50’s. I ended up with a bunch of cassettes of Billboard’s Top Songs from the 50’s. Each cassette was a different year. I think I had 1952 through 1957. I spun that off into recording Buddy Holly and Elvis albums of my grandma’s. I’d play them over her stereo and set my tape recorder next to the speaker. Kids now a days have no idea how good they’ve got it.
Well, consider yourself lucky.
The records my parents had didn't interest me as a child, at all.
I had to record my music, on a cassette recorder, from the radio. Almost every song had the dj talking at the beginning and/or the end of the song.
When I was 16, my car had an am/fm radio. I had a boom box that I sat on the passenger seat so I could play the "recorded off the radio" tapes.
Oh I did a bunch of recording off the radio too. Tape deck next to the speaker. My dad’s music collection stalled out in the early 80’s. I’m not sure if he bought another album of contemporary music after MJ’s Thriller album. Dad got all churched up and stopped buying secular music. He still has the collection. I encourage him to pull out an album every now and then and dance with the grandkids, my brother’s kids. He does. I’ve told him straight up I want the collection when ‘that’ time comes. So yes, any music from the mid to late 80’s onward I was on my own to record. My first 2 cars only had AM/FM radios in them. I saved up for an external tape deck that I could wire into the system. Put it under my seat. Moved it from my first to my second car. Classy.
Wow, can't believe I left Jackson Browne's "For Everyman" off my list. I wore that album out.
Side One 1."Take It Easy" (Browne, Glenn Frey) – 3:39 2."Our Lady of the Well" – 3:51 3."Colors of the Sun" – 4:26 4."I Thought I Was a Child" – 3:43 5."These Days" – 4:41
Side Two 1."Redneck Friend" – 3:56 2."The Times You've Come" – 3:39 3."Ready or Not" – 3:33 4."Sing My Songs to Me" – 3:25 5."For Everyman" – 6:20
I saw Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt in concert at CWRU sometime in the mid 70's. I think JB opened, because Linda was big by then. Great show. Thanks for the reminder, time to dig that LP out of the stack.
Neal Young..............Decade Humble Pie..............Rockin the Filmore Grand Funk Railroad.....Any and all. Creedence Clearwater Revival......Any and all. The Guess Who...........Any and all. Jimi Hendrix............Any and all.
And I might add, with the sound as loud as the system would allow.
Blizzard of Ozz-Crazy Train made me want to play guitar.
No way I could mention a single album, or 5.
However, Crazy Train - here's a bit different take on it.
I hope everyone can spend 3:40 of their time to watch this.
Great video. Love to see the kids jumping at the beginning.
I would have really liked to have seen all the kids singing the lyrics together - I think it would have sounded great - and for the guitar player to have ripped into that lead (with distortion!), but it's definitely not easy to play. Regardless, cool vid!
Black Sabbath, Paranoid Mothers of Invention, Live at the Fillmore Led Zeppelin, II Janis Joplin, Greatest Hits Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced? Spirit, Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus Traffic, John Barleycorn Must Die
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Agreed. It’s why I laid out my response the way I did. Of the albums I listed I only own three of them still. Only really listen to two. Only consider one to be in my ‘favorite album’ list.
The albums I listed did define much of my youth. I saw those bands live around the same time the Albums where released.
I still have most of my entire vinyl collection. Probably 2000 or more. I sold some off in a garage sale 10 years ago. But not the ones I listed. I started in 1963 up to the 80's when CD's started to come out. I had a reel to reel tape player I recorded everything on. Then I transferred from RtoR to cassettes for driving music. I sold all of that stuff in the 80's but kept all the vinyl and the new CD's.
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