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So so many!

- the first album I bought with my own money - Donny Osmond

- my first concert (improved musical taste!) The Guess Who

- discovering Rush early and seeing them so many times at Maple Leaf Gardens and other Toronto venues

- playing "drums" on my mother's pots and pans and pillows, with sticks from the backyard, for years until they finally relented and bought me my first drum set when I was 14

- setting up that drum set and playing along to ZZ Top Tush album

- my first bands in high school doing covers of Working Man, Hendrix and others

- tons and tons of concerts(another thread altogether)

- getting amazing tickets to Led Zeppelin in Montreal through a family friend, only to get the news that John Bonham had died

- seeing The Who in Keith Moon's last concert before he died

- listening to all of my father's record's and discovering Sinatra and other legends as a young kid

- rediscovering the drums in my 40's and starting a new band - several bands later, still playing at 56 and getting the rush of playing to an appreciative audience

- hearing Stewart Copeland with the Police for the first time

- meeting my idol Buddy Rich

 

That's a start for now!

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Another of mine:

 

The first concert I ever saw was AC/DC on the For Those About to Rock tour at the "Gahden." There was talk before the show that they weren't going to be able to use the cannons because the old building wouldn't be able to handle the reverberations.

 

I still remember watching the bell slowly come down from the rafters to open the show like it was this morning. They were, by far, the loudest band I've ever seen.

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My first CD ever was ELO's greatest hits, I remember playing Telephone Line on repeat constantly.

 

I started listening to Rush when I was about 10, the first song being Limelight, not too far after I got into Triumph

 

Some concerts I have been to included: (Rush x2, Journey, Iron Maiden, Yes)

 

Started collecting records at 15, my first 2 I bought were Journey's Escape and Rush's 2112. I remember looking at the covers for hours just inspecting every little detail about them, it really is m favorite part of collecting.

 

I turned down the path of a prog nerd, the first band that really got me into prog was Genesis, listening to Foxtrot was a truly amazing experience.

 

The first "obscure" prog album I listened to was Nektar's- Journey to the Centre of the Eye, a truly amazing space rock album.

 

Then came the band Love. Forever Changes really changed me as a person. I think I discovered it at a good time. I was starting with bad depression, a death in the family really was hard, but this album kept me happy, the music really uplifted me. I love every second of it. I can truly say this album has changed me and will be my favorite album of all time for a while.

 

Some "milestone" albums for me include.

 

The Cars- Candy O. Really got me into new wave kinda music and into bands like The Police, Talking Heads, Duran Duran etc.

 

Boston - Boston. Just wow what an album, there was a period where I would listen to this album everyday for months.

 

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue. First album to get me into Jazz, a real stepping stone

 

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame. This album really got me in Jazz Fusion and wanted to explore more genre's of music.

 

Pink Floyd- The Wall. Got me into concept albums, wanted to explore more about stories in music.

 

Hawkwind - Space Ritual. Favorite live album, really got me into space rock. And one of my favorite album covers

 

Many more albums, but i will stop here.

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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.

J. Geils Band easily one of the top 5 best live bands I've ever seen, maybe even top 3 (and I've been to at least 200 concerts). My cousin says the same thing and she saw them a year before me in a different city so not like it was a singularly great night we saw together.

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college has somehow led me to listen to:

 

metal

grunge

00's pop-punk / emo

rap

more obscure prog

pop

and even a little more jazz

 

so much music, so little time

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A little story about that J. Geils Band show I mentioned above..............it is the one and only time I have ever seen an audience refuse to leave a venue until the band came out for yet another encore. JGB had already done 2 encores for us and they turned the house lights on but nobody would leave. The entire audience just kept screaming, clapping and stomping for more. They finally sent a roadie out who said "OK, they'll do one more song if you PROMISE to go home afterwards. We have a show tomorrow and the guys are tired". They did, and we did. One of the if not the coolest concert moments I've ever experienced.
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college has somehow led me to listen to:

 

metal

grunge

00's pop-punk / emo

rap

more obscure prog

pop

and even a little more jazz

 

so much music, so little time

 

Good going. College was when i branched out musically.

 

I would recommend some reggae and funk to round things out.

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college has somehow led me to listen to:

 

metal

grunge

00's pop-punk / emo

rap

more obscure prog

pop

and even a little more jazz

 

so much music, so little time

 

Good going. College was when i branched out musically.

 

I would recommend some reggae and funk to round things out.

 

Surprisingly those haven't made the list yet!

 

Any recs? Obvious ones are welcome as well.

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Another of mine:

 

The first concert I ever saw was AC/DC on the For Those About to Rock tour at the "Gahden." There was talk before the show that they weren't going to be able to use the cannons because the old building wouldn't be able to handle the reverberations.

 

I still remember watching the bell slowly come down from the rafters to open the show like it was this morning. They were, by far, the loudest band I've ever seen.

 

I saw them at the Capital Centre outside D.C. in high school on that same tour. I can remember sitting in geometry the next day not being able to follow what the teacher was saying because my ears were buzzing (literally). It took a couple days for the buzzing to go away completely. Only concert that's ever done that to me.

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Another of mine:

 

The first concert I ever saw was AC/DC on the For Those About to Rock tour at the "Gahden." There was talk before the show that they weren't going to be able to use the cannons because the old building wouldn't be able to handle the reverberations.

 

I still remember watching the bell slowly come down from the rafters to open the show like it was this morning. They were, by far, the loudest band I've ever seen.

 

I saw them at the Capital Centre outside D.C. in high school on that same tour. I can remember sitting in geometry the next day not being able to follow what the teacher was saying because my ears were buzzing (literally). It took a couple days for the buzzing to go away completely. Only concert that's ever done that to me.

 

I saw them again in August 2015 at Gillette Stadium. My head was ringing the next day after that one too.

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college has somehow led me to listen to:

 

metal

grunge

00's pop-punk / emo

rap

more obscure prog

pop

and even a little more jazz

 

so much music, so little time

 

Good going. College was when i branched out musically.

 

I would recommend some reggae and funk to round things out.

 

Surprisingly those haven't made the list yet!

 

Any recs? Obvious ones are welcome as well.

 

Funk- james brown. Parliament & p- funk. Rick james. The funky meters. Are old school.

 

Newer funk i like is lettuce. Snarky puppy too.

 

Reggae. Cant go wrong starting with bob marley. Other then him my fave is steel pulse. True democracy is the classic pulse recording.

Enjoy the journey.

 

Definitely check out james brown if nothing else.

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Forgot this one...

 

See Woodstock movie opening night in NYC. We were late to the theater so we had to sit in the front row. The sound was good but we got stiff necks.

 

Looking up at the screen and seeing the following band gave me an out of body experience. I was very familiar with the band and their music but never saw them live.

 

OMG

 

PT was a musical God that night

 

 

http://youtu.be/nHwSzl5P2OA

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college has somehow led me to listen to:

 

metal

grunge

00's pop-punk / emo

rap

more obscure prog

pop

and even a little more jazz

 

so much music, so little time

 

Good going. College was when i branched out musically.

 

I would recommend some reggae and funk to round things out.

 

Surprisingly those haven't made the list yet!

 

Any recs? Obvious ones are welcome as well.

 

Funk- james brown. Parliament & p- funk. Rick james. The funky meters. Are old school.

 

Newer funk i like is lettuce. Snarky puppy too.

 

Reggae. Cant go wrong starting with bob marley. Other then him my fave is steel pulse. True democracy is the classic pulse recording.

Enjoy the journey.

 

Definitely check out james brown if nothing else.

 

Maggot Brain- Funkadelic. Eddie Hazel is an under rated guitarist. Great stuff!

 

Check out 24-7 Spyz (older) for some great rock/funk/metal. Jimi Hazel is a great guitarist as well (hence taking Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Hazel as his name)

 

You gave the right places to start for sure. Also- although they changed a lot, Black Uhuru has a ton of great Reggae.

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Maggot Brain- Funkadelic. Eddie Hazel is an under rated guitarist. Great stuff!

 

I love this stuff. Funkadelic and Parliament are full of underrated musicians. Check out Michael Hampton's solos on the live version of Cosmic Slop:

 

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college has somehow led me to listen to:

 

metal

grunge

00's pop-punk / emo

rap

more obscure prog

pop

and even a little more jazz

 

so much music, so little time

 

Good going. College was when i branched out musically.

 

I would recommend some reggae and funk to round things out.

 

Surprisingly those haven't made the list yet!

 

Any recs? Obvious ones are welcome as well.

 

Check out Prince's 1999 album. And The Time's Ice Cream Castles. Great funk albums.

 

For reggae, I'm not a big Bob Marley fan to be honest. I do like his son, Ziggy though.

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So so many!

- the first album I bought with my own money - Donny Osmond

- my first concert (improved musical taste!) The Guess Who

- discovering Rush early and seeing them so many times at Maple Leaf Gardens and other Toronto venues

- playing "drums" on my mother's pots and pans and pillows, with sticks from the backyard, for years until they finally relented and bought me my first drum set when I was 14

- setting up that drum set and playing along to ZZ Top Tush album

- my first bands in high school doing covers of Working Man, Hendrix and others

- tons and tons of concerts(another thread altogether)

- getting amazing tickets to Led Zeppelin in Montreal through a family friend, only to get the news that John Bonham had died

- seeing The Who in Keith Moon's last concert before he died

- listening to all of my father's record's and discovering Sinatra and other legends as a young kid

- rediscovering the drums in my 40's and starting a new band - several bands later, still playing at 56 and getting the rush of playing to an appreciative audience

- hearing Stewart Copeland with the Police for the first time

- meeting my idol Buddy Rich

 

That's a start for now!

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To all those recommending funk and reggae to me, I bought a Sublime album today. I know, I know, not actually the same thing, but it is closely related in some senses and has me feeling reggae will follow closely.
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To all those recommending funk and reggae to me, I bought a Sublime album today. I know, I know, not actually the same thing, but it is closely related in some senses and has me feeling reggae will follow closely.

A good place to dive in. Just reggae enough. And full of fun lyrics.

 

 

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To all those recommending funk and reggae to me, I bought a Sublime album today. I know, I know, not actually the same thing, but it is closely related in some senses and has me feeling reggae will follow closely.

A good place to dive in. Just reggae enough. And full of fun lyrics.

 

Right on.

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Another big influence on me over the years was my students. They would bring in cds they burned for me, mostly of alternative music. They got me into bands like Franz Ferdinand, Shiny Toy Guns, Urge Overkill, Mars Volta. In turn, I gifted them my coolest vinyl albums.
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To all those recommending funk and reggae to me, I bought a Sublime album today. I know, I know, not actually the same thing, but it is closely related in some senses and has me feeling reggae will follow closely.

 

Can’t really go wrong with any Bob Marley & The Wailers album. I guess if I had to recommend a non-compilation album I’d go wth Exodus.

 

Something like Redemption Song (which isn’t on Exodus) doesn’t feel like a reggae song to me. Is it more akin to a Bob Dylan folk song? It’s just a great song period.

 

I don’t care about genres. It only matters if I like a song or not.

 

I used to listen to Sublime in the 90s. I never thought of them as reggae though, just fun kind of music.

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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.

One Tin Soldier?

 

Ahhh, THAT explains why you're a Satanist.

 

Just so no one gets the wrong idea, to the best of my knowledge, goose is not a Satanist. You can never be too careful around here, though.

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