How did you get into rock music? What's your story?

[Sunny]

I was basically raised on 90's popular music and rock from the 60s and 70s. My dad always played stuff like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, and The Who, and by the time I was 15 I started to get into it. That's about 4 years ago, and now I can't get enough of the stuff!

Basically the same. I remember when I was about 5 years old, my parents were listening to Led Zeppelin and I loved the track "Rock and Roll" and I used to get them to play it over and over again with me playing air guitar. Now like you, I can't get enough of classic rock

 

[ladyislingering]

My parents were really cool when I was growing up. They had differing tastes in music; the time I didn't spend around them was spent with my grandma (who also had an eclectic taste). I went through phases in my childhood where I listened to a lot of 80s pop, or a lot of hair metal or glam rock type of stuff.

My dad was pretty weird growing up; he was a fan of both Kiss and The Cars. (I owe my ability to really love a lot of weird stuff to him.) The latter being my favourite as a kid. Oddly enough, the stronger influences from my parents (a few more being Pat Benatar, Blondie, early AC/DC, Aerosmith, Beatles, etc.) quickly died down with me, as I began to discover more and more.

With everything else in my life, I was a self-learner.

 

[TheFeldster]

It started when I was in primary school. Yr 1 I think.

We had a special concert at the primary school from some local children's music group that just did school runs (No big concerts, no albums, just the school run). They were pretty low key - played some Wiggles tunes, other kids songs, etc.

One of these "kids songs", however, grabbed me. The song had these lyrics:

"In the town, where I was born
Lived a man, who sailed the seas
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines

So we sailed into the sun,
Till we found the sea of green
And we lived, beneath the waves,
in our Yellow Submarine

We all live..."

And we get the picture.

So anyway, this song didn't register on my Wiggles knowledge, so I decided "I know, Mum will know who that was!" So I went to my unsuspecting mother and asked "Who sang Yellow Submarine" and then demostrated how the song went (which probably would have been a scary sight).

Anyway, she told me it was this group called The Beatles. Being 7, I had no friggen clue who the Beatles were and figured they must be a group like the Wiggles. So I asked for a Beatles album for my birthday. I got an album and a film this year. Both featured this cover:



I was hooked. Suddenly, classic rock bands started appearing in my life. I joined the school choir (don't ask) and the first two songs I learned introduced me to new artists. These songs were "Mr. Tambourine Man" (my dad, being a die-hard Dylan fan, was thrilled to hear I liked that one at a young age) and "Vincent" by Don McLean, which lead me to the evergreen "American Pie" album which I still have.

Another album I got given was called "Rock and Roll For Kids"... it sounds lame, I know. The compilation featured a range of artists - from Bob Seger and the Silver Bullets, to Elton John, to the Bee Gees (early stuff) and the Easybeats.

Classic rock just grew and grew in my life, and now it's here to stay

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

Hmm....that's a good question....Unlike most everyone else here I wasn't didn't learn to love rock before I would walk nor do I have a parent or sibling to attribute it to. Both of my parents have a strong love for country, with my dad making slight ventures away from it as far as SVR goes anyway. My brother used to love Limp Bizkit (who I didn't care for as I thought they were too angry), Eminem, Nirvana (the only band I remember him playing that I liked), and anything else that would piss my parents off, but he has since become the epitome of a suburban redneck who only likes country.
I listened to the radio a lot when I was little and didn't really stick to any set formula for what I would listen to. Just whatever caught my ear at the time I suppose. I remember sometime in my early teens (I was a late bloomer) I was in Best Buy and an album caught my eye for some reason. Twas "Queen's Greatest Hits". I checked the track listing and the first two songs were "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" which were probably two of the very few songs that I actually knew by name back in the day, everything for the most part I just knew by how it sounded. Anyway, without knowing any of the other songs on the record I bought it and played it-and played it-and played it-and so on and so on. I was just simply blown away by every song on the album (Except "Body Language", which I always skipped and still do to this day) with some favorites being "Save Me", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Seven Seas Of Rhye", "I Want To Break Free", and "Fat Bottomed Girls" with the latter two being familiar as I'd heard them on the radio before.
It was at that time that I became more intrigued by music and began to listen to the radio more and I mean ACTUALLY listening to it as I patrolled the stations with the seriousness of a P.O.W. to find anything that sounded interesting to me. This method worked for a couple years, but I didn't actually own any music other than my lone Queen album and the poppy poo that my mom would buy me because it was "popular among kids my age". Such albums included Britney Spears, Christina AgEWWlara, and early "NOW" albums. I do recall there being one or two songs on each now album that I liked though. Some that I remember are "Clint Eastwood" by The Gorillaz, "Kryptonite" by 3 Doors Down, "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi, and more than one blink-182 song.
While I was a sophomore in someone suggested to me that I download Limewire. I had no idea what Limewire was and spent very little time on the computer up to this point, but I went home that day and did so......and with that one act the floodgates opened. For the first time I was in control of what I could listen to. The music wasn't dependent on what someone else's tastes were. I was able to have any song or any band I wanted and was able to listen to them whenever I wanted.

Fast forward 3 years and I'm writing this. As I said, I was a late bloomer, but I made up for lost time right?

 

[Aktivator]

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".

Hm I have always thought my first album I bought was Yes-Fragile but we had the Chipmunks a Go-Go album. I'm doubting it was either of my brothers album although I believe one of them has it now because he took all my mom's albums. I might have gotten it as a present? I remember playing it all the time on my plastic traveling kids record player(damn tried to find a picture online) the ones with the needle was on top so you had to shut it to play a record.

My brother had the snoopy one.

 

[Groovy Man]

I was born a Rocker and will die a Rocker...

that's my story.

 

[Sox]

Two older brothers buying and playing music all the time, a local grocery shop that used to sell old juke box records and a great Record shop in town by 1978 I was hooked.

 

[PinkFreud]

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?

Just look at any footage of Woodstock and you'll have your answer

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

Just look at any footage of Woodstock and you'll have your answer

Illegal substances may or may not have been involved.

 

[LG]

"Don't take the Blue Acid...Don't take the Blue Acid!!...For Gawd's Sake Don't Take the Blue Acid!!

I am not sure if that is exactly what color it was but I do remember them broadcasting that to the assembled fans.