Musical Journey
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 6:54 pm
I want to hear about your musical journey as far back as you can remember. It's good to listen and not talk about your own experiences all the time.
I first vivid memory i have of music is the late 70's when i was a weelad of six or seven years. I have three older sisters and they always had Top of the pops on. Showoddywaddy, The Bay City Rollers, Jacksons, Slade etc etc. It was just music to me. Being from a farming family then Combine Harvester by the Wurzels got played a lot.
My eldest sister who is nine years older than me was really in to Disco. She used to put her crappy stereo on full blast whilst she was in the bath. It was distroting like nothing you ever heard. I liked the music though. My mum was listening a lot to Abba (love them), The Carpenters, Cliff, Barbara Sreisand, and quite a bit of classical which i was never bothered about much (still aren't). She progressed on to soft rock like Pat Benatar, Meat Loaf and Whitsnake ( of all things).
My dad didn't listen much to music. I remember helping on the farm in my early teens and driving the tractors. In those days they only had cassette decks and the only cassette that was ever in there was Glenn Campbell. I did actually play it a fair bit in between listening to Radio 1.
First album i bought was The Police Zenyetta Mondatta. I think that is the reason i love it so much now. I remember all my sisters wanting to borrow it and it finally got returned with blobs of nail polish on it . I liked Adam and the Ants and finally got to see him perform last year at a 80's festival. When i got to about 16 i discovered Def Leppard, Bon Jovi and then the moment happened that changed my musical life. I heard Aeromith Love in an elevator and bought the Album Pump. Played it to death. I didn't know anything about their history until my sister bought my a VHS of some of their live performances from the 70's. Loved it. Bought all the albums and then discovered Led Zeppelin. That was the band that opened the gateway to everything else i have discovered.
Certain bands i have been in over the last 30 years widened my horizons as i started playing different styles. An acid jazz band got me into jazz, funk, fusion. A country rock band gave me an appreciation of country music. Still it all leads back to Led Zep. I find myself plundering music from years ago mostly as i find very few modern releases of any musical merit, apart from Jazz. Jazz is the big thing in my life at the moment. But i find myself going back to the things my mother used to play. Time to get Bat out of hell out
Over to you.
I first vivid memory i have of music is the late 70's when i was a weelad of six or seven years. I have three older sisters and they always had Top of the pops on. Showoddywaddy, The Bay City Rollers, Jacksons, Slade etc etc. It was just music to me. Being from a farming family then Combine Harvester by the Wurzels got played a lot.
My eldest sister who is nine years older than me was really in to Disco. She used to put her crappy stereo on full blast whilst she was in the bath. It was distroting like nothing you ever heard. I liked the music though. My mum was listening a lot to Abba (love them), The Carpenters, Cliff, Barbara Sreisand, and quite a bit of classical which i was never bothered about much (still aren't). She progressed on to soft rock like Pat Benatar, Meat Loaf and Whitsnake ( of all things).
My dad didn't listen much to music. I remember helping on the farm in my early teens and driving the tractors. In those days they only had cassette decks and the only cassette that was ever in there was Glenn Campbell. I did actually play it a fair bit in between listening to Radio 1.
First album i bought was The Police Zenyetta Mondatta. I think that is the reason i love it so much now. I remember all my sisters wanting to borrow it and it finally got returned with blobs of nail polish on it . I liked Adam and the Ants and finally got to see him perform last year at a 80's festival. When i got to about 16 i discovered Def Leppard, Bon Jovi and then the moment happened that changed my musical life. I heard Aeromith Love in an elevator and bought the Album Pump. Played it to death. I didn't know anything about their history until my sister bought my a VHS of some of their live performances from the 70's. Loved it. Bought all the albums and then discovered Led Zeppelin. That was the band that opened the gateway to everything else i have discovered.
Certain bands i have been in over the last 30 years widened my horizons as i started playing different styles. An acid jazz band got me into jazz, funk, fusion. A country rock band gave me an appreciation of country music. Still it all leads back to Led Zep. I find myself plundering music from years ago mostly as i find very few modern releases of any musical merit, apart from Jazz. Jazz is the big thing in my life at the moment. But i find myself going back to the things my mother used to play. Time to get Bat out of hell out
Over to you.