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Kiss was my gateway drug indeed. Kiss Alive was the album that sucked me into rock at age 7.

 

Rush (age 11) then made me want to play and create my own music.

 

But I remember my babysitter bringing over Kiss Alive and cranking it on my parents stereo system/record player and I went ape shit.

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I'd have to say Quiet Riot. Summer of 1983, I went absolutely mental over "Cum On Feel the Noize." My mom bought me the 45rpm, which I repeatedly played on my Fisher Price record player. I had to watch the entire video each time it aired on MTV. One night I heard my parents up late making popcorn and I could hear the video playing on the TV, and I threw an absolute temper tantrum until they allowed me to run downstairs and catch the end of it.

 

I was six years old. I became a metalhead at six years old. I've never actually sat down and appreciated this until now.

 

Quiet Riot for me too. Metal Health may be the first album that I ever bought. But it wasn't too long before I heard All The World's A Stage for the first time and probably never played the Quiet Riot album ever again because there was too much Rush to listen to and so little time.

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The Who

:yes: Pinball Wizard and My Generation were irresistable for my young ear.

 

I first started listening to them in '73 when Quadrophenia came out. I was also a huge fan of Elton John and when the Tommy movie came out I was in fan heaven. I saw the movie about a dozen times at the theater.

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The Who

:yes: Pinball Wizard and My Generation were irresistable for my young ear.

 

I first started listening to them in '73 when Quadrophenia came out. I was also a huge fan of Elton John and when the Tommy movie came out I was in fan heaven. I saw the movie about a dozen times at the theater.

Yeah, the movie soundtrack got a lot of play with my pals.
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Pink Floyd

I didn't get into Floyd till high school (The Wall)... college really, along with the Doors, Hendrix and the Who (beyond Tommy and a few hits).

 

 

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In between my first favourite band (Cheap Trick, 1978-79) and the first band I really got into and became a fan of (Rush, 1980) I had a handful of other bands I really liked: AC/DC and Van Halen are the two I remember most clearly. But they got blown out of the water when I began listening to Rush.
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Remember I'm an old fart. It was the Beatles in the 60's that got me off top 40 crooners & girl groups and into real music. Followed by The Who, the Stones, the Animals, etc. Deep Purple came along in college and Clapton from John Mayall era on to today. When MTV came along I was introduced to Rush as well as to harder stuff like Def Leppard, Quiet Riot etc. Early 70's was Tull, Yes, still Stones. And Cheap Trick Edited by IwillchooseFreeWill
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Strangely, it was a tie between Pantera, Metallica, and Primus.

 

Primus was the band that made me decide to play bass though. This was in 1991.

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I have a young Aunt that indoctrinated me with Rush (Fly By Night-2112 era), Genesis (Gabriel era), and Pink Floyd. REO Speedwagon was also somewhere in the mix. The first one that really stuck was Floyd. The first album I ever bought (with my saved-up allowance money) was "The Wall" shortly after it was released. I was 9. This was joined by cassettes of Wish you Were here and Dark Side. I remember building a fort / space craft in my basement and listening to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." The event that lit the fuse for playing music was some early party (like a kid's birthday party) when my friends and I discovered that I was much better at air drumming to "Moving Pictures" than playing Little League. A few months later, my love of baseball was set aside for drum lessons and eventually a 3 piece drum kit (originally augmented with various screws and bolts hanging from fishing line to simulate wind chimes for Xanadu!; eventually, via birthday and Xmas, built up to 8 pc. kit) My formal drumming education and study of every drummer in existence had begun.
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I was never a Kiss fan - However, I recall in 3rd grade (Age ~8-9) having to produce a puppet show with a classmate. We made our sock puppets to look like Kiss. I actually took a little hose and routed it to the puppets mouth and brought in a small thermos of V8 (tomato juice.) He played a Kiss song and we made the puppets dance around, then at one point I spit the V8 through the tube and it came out of my Gene puppet's mouth. The teachers were horrified. It was awesome. Very Rock. lol.
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Oh man, I really don't know how to answer that.

 

I'm tempted to say the Rolling Stones, cause I bought a copy of SOME GIRLS in 1978. I was seven.

 

But it was probably The Who... I saw THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT and got the soundtrack in 1979 and that really got to me.

 

I was mostly a Top 40 person until 1981, when I switched from AM radio to FM radio.. and switched from buying singles to albums..

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...furthermore...

 

 

At the same time (1981) I heard Foreigner 4, Journey Escape, Van Halen 1, Moving Pictures, Blizzard of Ozz, Back In Black for the first time... and at that point, went in all kinds of current ROCK directions.

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born in 95

 

my parents played music but anything heavier than star wars music or the rugrats theme sounded like noise. when I was 5 I heard the beatles by chance out in public and it was the first time I really noticed music. luckily, my parents owned all their good shit, as everyone should. I had no idea at that point that they were considered "the best," so that definitely speaks of their quality

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All the Kiss answers - even in a prog community - are exactly why Kiss are in the Hall of Fame when folks have questioned how that could be so (because they are a joke, because they....). One of the most influential American bands of the last 40 years.
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Another for Kiss Alive! 4th grade. Before that it had been Three Dog Night, Simon and Garfunkel, and Elton John. From Kiss I went to Aerosmith, Zeppelin, Rush, and so on.
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All the Kiss answers - even in a prog community - are exactly why Kiss are in the Hall of Fame when folks have questioned how that could be so (because they are a joke, because they....). One of the most influential American bands of the last 40 years.

I mock them today for being garbage often overlooking that so many went through a KISS phase.

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