Thanks. You can verify by the credits....my initials JT. I was on a Q&A on Gearslutz with Butch Vig last year and it was much fun. I enjoy this site as the BS is very low.
BTW it was a really cool record to work on though extremely difficult taking 4 months to track and they spent another 5 weeks mixing. Obviously before Pro Tools and etc.
JT
Great job rockit. SD is a wonderful album!!
Hm I could do this a few ways like why I live in NYC today, what were my early influences, why I started and stopped playing guitar and bass
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1. Woodstock-Woodstock
It might not be so much the album as the event. Prior to Woodstock I only listen to music my parents played or we heard on the radio. After woodstock my brothers started playing music and it was the first time we were listening to something not The Beatles, The Who or The Stones. Hearing Jefferson Airplane, Ten Years After, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, CSNY etc.. Yeah might have heard a song or two before but this time we were really listening. It also showed me that music wasn't all about rocking out. This led me to listen to lots of folk rock and psychedelic stuff. Although I was also listening to the Beatles-Srg Pepper's around this time too.
2. Yes-Fragile
I bought this album in 1972 because I liked the album cover. It wasn't until about 74 that I understood it. Sometime in the summer of 74 we got the album back from my brother who took it to college. When he came home he had 500 other albums with him (his roomates collection). I got it back from him and for several days (maybe out of spite) played it day after day. It was the first album I started singing every word as I played it. Later that summer we started playing those other 500 albums many that are some of my favorites today(Genesis-lamb and Selling England, Gentle Giant, Soft Machine, Gong, Jethro Tull(besides Aqualung) etc..
3. Steve Hillage-Motivation Radio
Yeah a wierd choice. At the time we were spending every afternoon after school at my friends house doing bad things
with a bunch of friends. Each day someone would have a new album and we would play it. One day this guy played this one and I had to borrow it and played it to death so much that when I tried to return it my friend said keep it. It's not my favorite Hillage album but it led me to dig into Gong which then led me to fusion. Fusion led me to jazz and several more complexed bands like Gentle Giant, ELP and Mahavishnu Orch. This coupled with a lousy live performance by Led Zep and great live shows by Pink Floyd, Yes and Nektar led me away from blues rock and towards what is now called prog.
3a. Talking Heads-Fear of Music
I didn't get punk or new wave even though I was a mild fan of Patti Smith and did at least like the prior TH albums. But this one hit a cord with me and after it came out I was a big TH fan and picked up everything I could. Also started liking Punk and proto punk like The NY Dolls.
4.REM-Murmer
I could have gone with U2-war or u2-Joshua Tree but REM fits todays mood. In September of my first year of college in Maine I saw REM play to maybe 199 people. I had seen them in the summer at Shea Stadium opening for the Police and Joan Jett and was really looking to really hearing them. That winter Murmer came out and it was our dorms theme album. We danced and danced and danced to REm, B52's, The db's and others.
4a. Tori Amos-Little Earthquakes
I had heard Crucify on the radio on my way down to the Jersey Shore but didn't hear who sung it. Several hours later I was in my friends room and his roomate was blasting Little Earthquakes. My friend said "he has been playing that awful album all week non-stop". I hadto know who it was and bought the album that day (it was destiny).
4b. Fiona Apple-Tidal. The day I bought it I played it over and over until I could sing every line of every song.
5. Doves-Lost Souls
This was my entry into the world of modern rock. I had a new group of friends in early 00 and they turned me on to so much I had missed in the 90's(brit pop(not named Oasis or the Verve,shoegaze, early indie rock). One of the first albums I bought was Lost Souls as I had to decide if I was going to go see them live in a few weeks. I loved this album and quickly picked up a ticket to the live show. The opener for that show was this band know one I was hanging with knew, The Strokes(. That nite we partied until sunrise and had doubled our group of friends. The NYC party scene for me began. Prior to that day I went to a few concerts a year by 2003 it was up to 100 shows a year and many friends were in bands or promoting them.
