Foxhound
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Truckin' said:
Yes. A taste like that would have been very good indeed!
How did you get into rock music? What's your story?
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Yes. A taste like that would have been very good indeed!
rtbuck
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I think there were 2 albums that kicked off my interest in Rock but I didn't know it at the time:
Yes,being child of the 60's,it was these 2 albums that introduced me to the world of rock & would cause me to walk around in circles wearing the album covers as hats while the record played.It was the Chipmunks on this album that introduced me to classics like "Henry the VIII","Mr. Tambourine Man","King of The Road",& "This Diamond Ring". The Royal Guardsmen not only brought me the classic "Snoopy vs the Red Baron" stuff(which on this record also featured newscasts before each of the Red Baron trilogy of songs)but cool tunes such as "The Airplane Song" & "Down Behind the Lines".
I had 2 older sisters living with me(another sister was married when I was 4) & they were well into their teens & totally opposite when it came to music.Sister Nancy loved
1950's prom style songs & was madly in love with Donny Osmond. Sister Sally who was about 18, was cool as hell & I loved her music.I would listen to her records & I didn't know it at the time but they left a big influence on me.
They were:
'No BS' by Brownsville Station
"They Only Come Out at Night" by Edgar Winter Group(mainly for Frankenstein)
& this 45 by King Floyd called "Groove Me".
Sometimes as a kid you do stupid things & one time for no reason I took a pencil & Gouged up a record & got in trouble for it.Years later when I was heavy into Rock I came across the record...Alice Cooper Love it to Death with the original Cover. I was psyched finding it in the house & then I pulled it out to play it & seen all the gouges!
In the mid 70's I loved Elton Johns Music(Especially Pinball Wizard) & in 1976 for christmas my sister Sally brought me a small record player with 2 small Speakers.She also Bought me Elton John Here & there which my sister Susie also bought me.She traded it in for:
Kiss 'Rock & Roll Over' totally changed me.As soon as "I Want You" kicked in I was Blown away & became the Rock & Roll Freak I am today. Sister Sally is 60 now & may have mellowed a little but she's still cool as hell & always has been.When I turned 18 she invited me to one of her Halloween Parties...Wow what a wild time.She would always have these wild parties(even Toga Parties) & always invited me.Her parties were always full with Hippies,Cops,lawyers, & one party a bunch of ball players from our minor league Buffalo Bisons team were there.
Yes,being child of the 60's,it was these 2 albums that introduced me to the world of rock & would cause me to walk around in circles wearing the album covers as hats while the record played.It was the Chipmunks on this album that introduced me to classics like "Henry the VIII","Mr. Tambourine Man","King of The Road",& "This Diamond Ring". The Royal Guardsmen not only brought me the classic "Snoopy vs the Red Baron" stuff(which on this record also featured newscasts before each of the Red Baron trilogy of songs)but cool tunes such as "The Airplane Song" & "Down Behind the Lines".
I had 2 older sisters living with me(another sister was married when I was 4) & they were well into their teens & totally opposite when it came to music.Sister Nancy loved
1950's prom style songs & was madly in love with Donny Osmond. Sister Sally who was about 18, was cool as hell & I loved her music.I would listen to her records & I didn't know it at the time but they left a big influence on me.
They were:
'No BS' by Brownsville Station
"They Only Come Out at Night" by Edgar Winter Group(mainly for Frankenstein)
& this 45 by King Floyd called "Groove Me".
Sometimes as a kid you do stupid things & one time for no reason I took a pencil & Gouged up a record & got in trouble for it.Years later when I was heavy into Rock I came across the record...Alice Cooper Love it to Death with the original Cover. I was psyched finding it in the house & then I pulled it out to play it & seen all the gouges!
In the mid 70's I loved Elton Johns Music(Especially Pinball Wizard) & in 1976 for christmas my sister Sally brought me a small record player with 2 small Speakers.She also Bought me Elton John Here & there which my sister Susie also bought me.She traded it in for:
Kiss 'Rock & Roll Over' totally changed me.As soon as "I Want You" kicked in I was Blown away & became the Rock & Roll Freak I am today. Sister Sally is 60 now & may have mellowed a little but she's still cool as hell & always has been.When I turned 18 she invited me to one of her Halloween Parties...Wow what a wild time.She would always have these wild parties(even Toga Parties) & always invited me.Her parties were always full with Hippies,Cops,lawyers, & one party a bunch of ball players from our minor league Buffalo Bisons team were there.
PinkFreud
Rock Junkie
Before I got into it, I was just listening to whatever was popular at the time, and was on all the "pop" radio stations (rap, pop, alternative rock, dance, etc.) I never much thought about the music before I started to take interest. I liked it, I guess, but I didn't think about it much.Interesting. What did you like prior to getting into your dad's rock? What did you think of it before you got into it?
Foxhound
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rtbuck said:
Very cool! How often do you get out to see the Bisons?
Everyone has such interesting stories of how they got into rock music. It is uncanny how many people got their first real tastes of music from either an older sibling or their mother....
My story is a bit unusual, it began in the 2nd grade...The year was 1967. My mother enrolled me into a dance studio. Of course most dance studios base most of their choreography on pop music or instrumental music. The dance studio I belonged to used pop music and rock music, mostly rock. My first competitive dance performance was in 1970 to a Chicago song, "25 or 6 to 4". I still have the picture of the 5 of us girls in constume, I will have to share it one day
I continued in competitive dance until I was 20 years old, so music has always been a big part of my life.
To add to my rock music foundation are 3 older brothers, who were into progressive rock, psychedelic rock, and the Beatles. So I was introduced to Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, The Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Yes, and many others at a very early age.
Once I began my own music discovery, Disco was in full bloom and I loved it. You could dance to the music, and every night club played disco. But I still loved rock n' roll the most. The one discovery that I made on my own was venturing into southern rock. I really dig the sounds of the south Molly Hatchett, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynryd, Charlie Daniels Band, The Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, The Outlaws, .38 Special, Black Oak Arkansas, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Grinderswitch, Black Crowes, Gov't Mule, and many more. I also like the blues, the southern blues; Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Elvin Bishop, B.B King, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Jonny Lang and many more.
I guess you can say I am rooted in the southern rock n' roll blues, with a psychedelic, metal headded twist
My story is a bit unusual, it began in the 2nd grade...The year was 1967. My mother enrolled me into a dance studio. Of course most dance studios base most of their choreography on pop music or instrumental music. The dance studio I belonged to used pop music and rock music, mostly rock. My first competitive dance performance was in 1970 to a Chicago song, "25 or 6 to 4". I still have the picture of the 5 of us girls in constume, I will have to share it one day
I continued in competitive dance until I was 20 years old, so music has always been a big part of my life.To add to my rock music foundation are 3 older brothers, who were into progressive rock, psychedelic rock, and the Beatles. So I was introduced to Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, The Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Yes, and many others at a very early age.
Once I began my own music discovery, Disco was in full bloom and I loved it. You could dance to the music, and every night club played disco. But I still loved rock n' roll the most. The one discovery that I made on my own was venturing into southern rock. I really dig the sounds of the south
Molly Hatchett, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynryd, Charlie Daniels Band, The Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker Band, The Outlaws, .38 Special, Black Oak Arkansas, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Grinderswitch, Black Crowes, Gov't Mule, and many more. I also like the blues, the southern blues; Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Elvin Bishop, B.B King, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Jonny Lang and many more.I guess you can say I am rooted in the southern rock n' roll blues, with a psychedelic, metal headded twist
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I guess I credit my mom. I was dancing in my crib to the Beatles in 1964.
By the late 60's it was my oldest brother who was listening to the typical 1960's bands-Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, David Bowie etc.. it didn't take long to thrive on the same stuff.
By the late 60's it was my oldest brother who was listening to the typical 1960's bands-Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, David Bowie etc.. it didn't take long to thrive on the same stuff.
Foxhound
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Magic said:
That's something I've heard time and time again. The implication though is that it's difficult to dance to a lot of rock music. Is this so?
nope heck I even dance to prog rock.That's something I've heard time and time again. The implication though is that it's difficult to dance to a lot of rock music. Is this so?
That's something I've heard time and time again. The implication though is that it's difficult to dance to a lot of rock music. Is this so?
Depends on the rock music, I cant see an easy dance choreography to Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" or Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar". Many of the songs from The Rolling Stones are great dance tunes, "Miss You", "Start Me Up", and "Satisfaction" are good examples.
It all depends on how the music moves you, and how you move your body to the music
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