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2. Getting captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. Taught me patiance in my listening. and not all music had to be "in the box" and pretty and pleasing to the ear in essence. and that in itself can be perfection.

 

Mick

 

:goodone: :dweez:

 

thank you. People think i'm nuts when i spin it. but i swear they are missing out. i play it for pleasure.

 

Stop letting the norm control ya i say. lol

 

(i reallly don't care if they don't get it but that is how i feel.....call me a snob, lol)

 

Mick

 

Captain's great. Patience is key to a lot of music. I personally prefer Safe as Milk, but Trout is probably more important.

 

I love most of the cap's work. Trout is not my fav either. for me that would be Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller.

 

Mick

 

Doc at the Radar Station!

Lick My Decals Off, Baby!

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2. Getting captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. Taught me patiance in my listening. and not all music had to be "in the box" and pretty and pleasing to the ear in essence. and that in itself can be perfection.

 

Mick

 

:goodone: :dweez:

 

thank you. People think i'm nuts when i spin it. but i swear they are missing out. i play it for pleasure.

 

Stop letting the norm control ya i say. lol

 

(i reallly don't care if they don't get it but that is how i feel.....call me a snob, lol)

 

Mick

 

Captain's great. Patience is key to a lot of music. I personally prefer Safe as Milk, but Trout is probably more important.

 

I love most of the cap's work. Trout is not my fav either. for me that would be Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller.

 

Mick

 

Doc at the Radar Station!

Lick My Decals Off, Baby!

!

 

http://hys2d3ayt6x6b7ts22ypg68p.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/band40.jpg

 

The good Captain does indeed have a great body of work. I swear if you take time on those weirder records. there ARE melodies to latch onto. just focus, lol

 

Mick

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2. Getting captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. Taught me patiance in my listening. and not all music had to be "in the box" and pretty and pleasing to the ear in essence. and that in itself can be perfection.

 

Mick

 

:goodone: :dweez:

 

thank you. People think i'm nuts when i spin it. but i swear they are missing out. i play it for pleasure.

 

Stop letting the norm control ya i say. lol

 

(i reallly don't care if they don't get it but that is how i feel.....call me a snob, lol)

 

Mick

 

Captain's great. Patience is key to a lot of music. I personally prefer Safe as Milk, but Trout is probably more important.

 

I love most of the cap's work. Trout is not my fav either. for me that would be Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller.

 

Mick

 

Your Tom Waits pic almost demands an appreciation for Beefheart. That chain leads right to Tom!

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Joining this forum three years ago has had a profound effect on me as far as music, and my ever growing appreciation ..

 

Chronos, Verena and Cyclonous and their love and recommendation of artists like Anlagard, Eloy and Quella Vecchia Locanda sparked my love for prog and has opened up a whole 'nother avenue for me ... At least once a week, packages arrive with almost impossible to find CDs from every corner of the world and this has really stirred my appreciation for this genre ..

 

The enthusiasm some have here on this forum has prompted me to go back and listen to music that I had turned a deaf ear to in the past - old Genesis for example - I have a whole new appreciation ..

 

And after all the conversations I've had with Duck, my love for metal is stronger now than it was when I was 15 ( if that's possible !! )

 

I don ;t think I'd be the Bob Dylan fan that I am now without JB and ReRushed, and the same goes for The Boss and Segue ...

 

And some of the younger people here - EP and PR - their openmindedness and knowledge of music from all eras has been inspiring ..

 

And in VaporTrailer, I realized that I might actually have a doppelganger :LOL:

 

I've come to realized that no music is bad music .... The people of TRF rock !!!

 

 

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2. Getting captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. Taught me patiance in my listening. and not all music had to be "in the box" and pretty and pleasing to the ear in essence. and that in itself can be perfection.

 

Mick

 

:goodone: :dweez:

 

thank you. People think i'm nuts when i spin it. but i swear they are missing out. i play it for pleasure.

 

Stop letting the norm control ya i say. lol

 

(i reallly don't care if they don't get it but that is how i feel.....call me a snob, lol)

 

Mick

 

Captain's great. Patience is key to a lot of music. I personally prefer Safe as Milk, but Trout is probably more important.

 

I love most of the cap's work. Trout is not my fav either. for me that would be Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller.

 

Mick

 

Your Tom Waits pic almost demands an appreciation for Beefheart. That chain leads right to Tom!

 

ah Tom is my fav artist. but there is a beefheart influence there for sure.

 

Mick

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2. Getting captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. Taught me patiance in my listening. and not all music had to be "in the box" and pretty and pleasing to the ear in essence. and that in itself can be perfection.

 

Mick

 

:goodone: :dweez:

 

thank you. People think i'm nuts when i spin it. but i swear they are missing out. i play it for pleasure.

 

Stop letting the norm control ya i say. lol

 

(i reallly don't care if they don't get it but that is how i feel.....call me a snob, lol)

 

Mick

 

Captain's great. Patience is key to a lot of music. I personally prefer Safe as Milk, but Trout is probably more important.

 

I love most of the cap's work. Trout is not my fav either. for me that would be Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller.

 

Mick

 

Your Tom Waits pic almost demands an appreciation for Beefheart. That chain leads right to Tom!

 

ah Tom is my fav artist. but there is a beefheart influence there for sure.

 

Mick

 

Probably no better lyricist out there.

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I went from being a Monkees fan (got their greatest hits for Christmas when I was probably 8 or so) to being a Kiss fan. My mother HATED Kiss. So she took me to see Beatlemania at the Shubert Theater in Boston. I got 1962-1966 shortly after that. My love affair with them has never waned.

 

In 2009 my wife and kids got me the remastered CDs for Christmas. Probably my favorite gift ever.

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AM radio and 45s were a link to the world of music. I used to listen to an old transistor radio in my room for hours on end. I still have those early 70s classics indelibly stamped on my brain... Run, Joey, Run...One Tin Soldier...

 

In my grandmother's basement was an old turntable and my mother's childhood 45rpm single of Elvis' "Teddy Bear". I played that 100s of times as a little kid, over and over, memorizing every word and note. An aunt hooked me up with an odd box of 45s that included the Righteous Bros "Rock and Roll Heaven" and a version of "You're So Vain" done by the Odd Couple (Tony Randall and Jack Klugman), of all people. :P

 

As a kid that moved constantly and attended thirteen different schools, it was nice to know that music was always there.

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I don't think I'd be the Bob Dylan fan that I am now without JB and ReRushed

 

 

And I've got my old high school buddy Phil to thank for my interest in Dylan.

 

And then there's my longtime uni and post-uni flatmate/friend Randy who got me into Bob Marley & the Wailers.

 

Love the Bobs. Great for the heart, mind, and soul. Bob Dylan will always be my favorite lyricist. So much to think about in every song...hell in every line at times. As for Marley, no artist/band can put me in a good mood faster than Bob Marley and the Wailers. Just so much positivity and calmness in those melodies.

 

There are basically three shelves that I allocate to my cds - Rush and Pink Floyd, Dylan and Marley, and then everyone else. Truth.

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Around the World with Three Dog Night/Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits/Elton John Greatest Hits (via Mom and Dad's collection)

 

Kiss Alive! (leads to...)

 

The Song Remains the Same/All the World's a Stage/Aerosmith (still staples)

 

Big Country/P-Furs/REM/The Clash (after resisting I get into post-classic rock)

 

The Smiths/The Cure/The Stranglers/Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/etc. (I'm all in)

 

Wire/Swell Maps/The Wedding Present/Pixies/etc. (still to this day my favorite type of music)

 

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless/Nirvana - Nevermind/Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque/Pixies - Trompe le Monde ('91 was a good year)

 

Sufjan Stevens (other newer artists are hit and miss for me)

 

Favorite concerts: Big Country '83 (Fredericksburg VA), My Bloody Valentine '92 (Kawasaki Japan), The Wedding Present 2005 (D.C.), Wire 2013 (D.C.)

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p.s. I should add discovering The Beatles in college. Despite Wings Over America being one of the foundational albums of my youth, I always avoided The Beatles because it seemed the distaste of the phenomenon just overwhelmed whatever interest in the music I might have. Then a college buddy forced me to listen to Revolver and the White Album (I was really into post-punk at the time so he figured I'd like those best, and he's still right), and the rest, as they say, is history. Favorite band still.
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p.s. I should add discovering The Beatles in college. Despite Wings Over America being one of the foundational albums of my youth, I always avoided The Beatles because it seemed the distaste of the phenomenon just overwhelmed whatever interest in the music I might have. Then a college buddy forced me to listen to Revolver and the White Album (I was really into post-punk at the time so he figured I'd like those best, and he's still right), and the rest, as they say, is history. Favorite band still.

 

I can just imagine your first reaction to Revolution 9.

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When I was a young boy I remember constantly listening to two 45s - The Archies "Sugar Sugar" and Blood Sweat & Tears "Spinning Wheel".

 

I later discovered three albums in my older brother's record collection - The Beatles 1967-1970, The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks and Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.

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When I was a young boy I remember constantly listening to two 45s - The Archies "Sugar Sugar" and Blood Sweat & Tears "Spinning Wheel".

 

:yes:

 

Good ones.

 

Yummy yummy yummy i got love in my tummy!

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I think this was already discussed but here goes...

 

 

 

First concert was 1970 - Santana /Booker T and the MG's

 

Favorite album - The Who Live at Leeds and I bough it the day it was released ( I had my Mom drive me to the local record store that day )

 

Concert moments... and there are MANY MORE that I have not listed here

 

 

 

Jethro Tull – Aqualing / Thick Asa Brick / A Passion Play / War Child / It’sOnly R&R

 

Grand Funk Railroad – Shea Stadium 1971

 

YES – Fragile / CTTE / Tales / Relayer tours and more… Meet and greet with original members 2003.

 

Led Zeppelin – 1973 / 1975 / 1977 tour ( 6 out of 7 shows ) at MSG

 

Black Sabbath – 1972 and 1975 tours and beyond

 

ELP – BSS tour 1973 tour with MD2020

 

The Who – 1973 /1975 /1978 tours and beyond …

 

The Rolling Stones – I have not missed a NYC area tour since 1972. I’ve traveled near and far to see The Stones. As far as Slane Castle, Ireland.

 

Pink Floyd and members – Have not missed a NYC area tour since 1973

 

Genesis – Lamb Lies Down tour 1974

 

Van Halen – 1980 / 1984 / first row for 5150 tour ... and beyond

 

Rush – 1984 / 1986 and beyond

 

Aerosmith – first show 1975 at Central Park. Missed a few shows but kept up with the band to date.

 

David Bowie – Spiders from Mars / Diamond Dogs tours

 

OzzFests – 1998 – 2005

 

 

Last concert was 2017 – Phish at MSG Dec 28

 

 

 

There’s more but enough from me.

 

Well done. That list kicks all sorts of ass!

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My family was mostly into southern rock and country, so my earliest musical memories are a lot of Skynyrd and Hank Jr. My Mom was into a lot of pop too, so it was a bit weird going from Marshall Tucker to Culture Club. I didn't really dig the country stuff, but I was all about the 80s spectacle of Michael Jackson. MJ was probably my first favorite.

 

After my parents split, me and my Mom went and lived with my grandparents. They were pretty much strictly country fans and my disdain for the genre grew. That's when I first started getting into metal too. My best friend was a few years older and we'd take his dad's tapes to listen to while playing basketball. Appetite for Destruction was the catalyst, but I was absorbing a lot during this time, including some Rush (Chronicles).

 

From there I got way in to thrash, punk, horror movies, monsters...anything my Grandma didn't approve of. That also included rap...NWA, Geto Boys, etc...I liked the more rebellious shit. When that string of Wu-Tang and Wu solo albums came out in the mid 90s, that's almost all I listened to. That and Danzig. I still love Danzig to this day. He was like my Elvis mixed with a pro wrestler heel, except twice as ridiculous. Danzig forever.

 

I smoked my way through my high school years. I still got decent grades, but yeah...the crew was mostly stoners and our music reflected that. That's when I was introduced to a lot of older stuff...Beatles, Sabbath, Floyd, Zeppelin, Yes...and when Rush came back into the picture. I remember listening to 2112 for the first time...me and my buddy high as f**k and carving pumpkins on his porch, swearing that our shitty Halloween display was gonna kick ass. There was modern music we liked too, but the less said about nu metal, the better.

 

I've expanded my my tastes since then, finding something to like in almost every genre (even love a lot of old country now), but I definitely still lean towards older hard rock and metal most of the time. Still finding things to appreciate too, like really diving into Thin Lizzy in the last few years, discovering bands like Budgie and all the great hidden NWOBHM gems...hell, even finding a new appreciation for a few Priest albums in the last few weeks...and I'm still not even close to being bored with Rush. And if I can get corny for a moment, it's been awesome to be married to someone with the same taste, never having arguments over music, and sharing new discoveries.

 

I'll end my rambling here. :smoke:

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First musical wake up: 1962, Watching Mrs. Brewer, the gym teacher dancing to Barrett Strong's " Money " (Motown's first significant record.)

 

First Rock: 1967, Sneaking upstairs to my sister's room to play her two LP's with, as my father called them, "the weird looking guys" on the covers - Fresh Cream and Are You Experienced.

 

First Concert: JHE, November 1969, at the place I continually refer to as "The House that Rock Built" - Detroit's Cobo Arena.

 

Best Concert: J Geils Band, Mountain, and Golden Earring, Cobo Hall, 11/19/1975. Parts of Geils' " Blow Your Face Out" were recorded there. Started on time, stage setups were super quick, and all 3 bands shook the house down.

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A couple of more for me:

 

The first album I ever bought with my own money, from my paper route, was The Stones' Some Girls. It remains one of my favorite albums of all time. My parents weren't too excited about the, "black girls just want to get f*cked all night," line, however.

 

The first song I remember hearing and loving on AM radio in the car was Stealers' Wheel, Stuck in the Middle With You.

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When I first answered this question I approached it as my overall connection and access to music- how I perceive music as an art and to what degree that art matters to me.

 

But I'm not sure I answered the question in 'milestone' fashion as much as I described the developmental arc.

 

Looking at music through the more specific narrative lens of 'milestones' reveals a few differences from the overall picture.

 

I always loved music, but there were several points that changed me or changed my focus.

 

The earliest moment that I recall affecting my musical life dramatically was the lyric in Bowie's Changes:

 

'And these children that you spit on

As they try to change their worlds

Are immune to your consultations

They're quite aware of what they're goin' through'

 

That was the first time I realized music could comment on important matters. I took the lyric as specifically licensing me to think (I was a child) and that my thoughts should be respected. It was not only a great lyric, but it was empowering. Of course I realize that Bowie was referring to older youth and their behaviors, but it worked for me.

 

Then came New Wave. My world was basically sheltered from punk, but New Wave was everywhere. It was a new sound- the sound that my generation was making (okay- people 10-15 years older, but I was 11 and I thought it was mine.) The sounds were new to me and meant that my generation was putting a stamp on the musical landscape. Men At Work was my favorite band for a long time. Colin Hay is brilliant even now, btw.

 

The next musical epiphany was college radio and new college friends. That opened my eyes up to metal, punk, and the more interesting and intelligent underground of those genres as well as country and rap.

 

After that I created my own moments as an active seeker of anything and everything out there.

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p.s. I should add discovering The Beatles in college. Despite Wings Over America being one of the foundational albums of my youth, I always avoided The Beatles because it seemed the distaste of the phenomenon just overwhelmed whatever interest in the music I might have. Then a college buddy forced me to listen to Revolver and the White Album (I was really into post-punk at the time so he figured I'd like those best, and he's still right), and the rest, as they say, is history. Favorite band still.

 

I can just imagine your first reaction to Revolution 9.

 

I thought it interesting, once. I was really blown away, on first listen, by Dear Prudence and Long Long Long especially. On the whole though, the album just seemed sooo ahead of its time, like something a college rock band might have done if they had way way more talent than a college band would have any business having. I remember thinking that Everybody's Got Something to Hide... felt like an alternative hipster/rock hybrid (in a good way, and I realize that I couldn't have literally though "hipster", but that was the idea); only later did I hear the very appropriate cover by The Feelies, confirming my earlier impression. Anyway, I've always realized it was somewhat of a gift/very fortunate accident that I got to discover The Beatles as such a relatively late age, because I could really appreciate nuances by then. Listening to Help!, Revolver, White Album, etc. for the first time as an adult (more or less) was just amazing. I wish I could do it again.

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p.p.s. I should have included Radiohead with Sufjan Stevens among newer acts (post early '90s) that I hold with the same regard as my traditional favorites. I don't love a lot of the languid noodlings that comprises much of their recent work, but through In Rainbows they could do little wrong by me.
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