Early Musical Influences

Please post the musical interests you had growing up.

Qualifications: Must be music no later than your senior year in high school but can include earlier stuff if that was truly what you listened to.

I had older siblings so I started early:

Influnces of older siblings

Journey
REO Speedwagon
Rush
Genesis
Phil Collins
Chicago

Brief Christain Rock Phase (involved in Church Youth Group)

Amy Grant
Sandi Patti
Michael W. Smith

80's Popular Music (Pre High School)
Kiss FM

Quiet Riot (7th grade and parachute pants!)
Devo (Whip It!)
Duran Duran
Petshop Boys

Intro to Classic Rock (High School)
Q102 and The Zoo!

Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd

Alternative Rock (when alternative really was alternative) High School
I still remember this crazy new radio station, 94.5 The Edge? I still have some bumper strips some where.

Front 242
Depeche Mode
The Cure
U2 (The Joshua Tree album was HUGE)

Growing up...Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Ted Nugent, Todd Rundgren, Neil Young, Jackson Browne all come to mind. ::rock::

Oasis, the Cranberries, Smashing Pumkins, Nirvana, early Green Day

Beginning in the 5th grade, and through high school, Mr. Austin, the band director. The usual composers, the five "B"s. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Brubeck and the Beatles. Plus local bands like the Bill Tanner Band and the Jet Tones. Then and now, my musical taste were/are eclectic. ::Banana::

::OldMan::Most of you wouldn't know who I was talking about, so why bother, but I promise that your heroes know who they are ;)

I was up late the other night and flipped over to FUSE TV. I was amazed at how much the music reminded me of the stuff from my days in school.

There was a period when I heard nothing new that I liked - even the remakes of some of my old favorites. ::hippi::



theres hope for the new kids even if can't spelll or uuuu .,;!-() ::hal::

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Originally Posted by onething

::OldMan::Most of you wouldn't know who I was talking about, so why bother,

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You'd be surprised. I'm curious to know what you listened to besides Beethoven latest hits. ;)

I grew up when "new wave" music was really taking off, so a lot of the stuff I listened to early was was stuff like Depeche Mode, The Cure, the Cult, Joy Division, Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jane's Addiction, etc.
I also got into a lot of the early "industrial" music - KMFDM, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult... I've got a huge box of old 12"s in a closet somewhere, including some really rare WaxTrax! stuff.
I was in my late teens when grunge hit, and I've got plenty of Alice in Chains, Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, and Pearl Jam CDs to prove it. :wink:
I also had a thing for '60/'70s psychedlic music - The Doors, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and similar stuff.

I'm so old I can't even remember.......

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Originally Posted by MadMerv

I'm so old I can't even remember.......

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Tell us what life was like before rock and roll! Big bands, swing, etc?

Mine were Styx, Boston, Queen, and Judas Priest before moving into the New Wave stuff... ABC, A Flock of Seagulls, Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, Yaz, etc...

RJ

Too much stuff to list... ::grab::

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Originally Posted by Treibenschnell

Too much stuff to list... ::grab::

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Originally Posted by black roadster

You'd be surprised. I'm curious to know what you listened to besides Beethoven latest hits. ;)

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So, how many do you recognize?

Mad_monkey sent me a PM and asked if I could reply for him. He said he was emarassed to say that his influences were mainly Britney and the Spice girls.:punchout: :D

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Originally Posted by onething

So, how many do you recognize?

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1. Tennessee Ernie Ford
2. ? (still working on it)
3. Grand Funk Railroad

The earliest stuff I recall would be Handel, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Heart, Chicago, John Denver, Neil Diamond. These were all things I heard because of the parents. Let's say anything on KVIL or WRR.

From there, got into hard rock/heavy metal, such as Def Leppard (two arms), Quiet Riot, Dio, Queensryche, Metallica, Slayer, Killer Dwarves. There was also some mid-80s glam thrown in, primarily Poison, but I'm sure there were others.

My sister, two years older than me, got me into new wave near the end of all that. I acquired tastes for New Order, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths and the other nifty stuff heard on 120 minutes and 94.5, the Edge.

Confusion ensued, and I found myself with releases by Genesis, Madonna and lord knows what else in addition to the metal and new wave/alternative.

Front 242 and Nine Inch Nails found their way into rotation during high school. Accidentally attending a Skinny Puppy show in '92 got me into the rest of the industrial scene at the time. Puppy, Godflesh, Front Line Assembly, Pigface, Thrill Kill Kult...much of the Wax Trax lineup, plus the folks who played with 'em.
Also hit the club music (mostly house at the time, I think) and various crossover stuff, like Lords of Acid.

Good thing we're stopping at high school, or I'd have to get into all sorts of other stuff...

I remember the days of 97.1 the eagle (magma remembers). I have a little metal in me. I listened to all kinds of music, though.

Pantera, Metallica, Rob Zombie, Deftones, Tool, Rage Against the Machine...

Dad was a rock freak who never let go of the glory days... it rubbed off.

Led Zepplin, Cream, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Greatful Dead...

I listen to any genre except pop and country nowadays.

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Originally Posted by boisking

I remember the days of 97.1 the eagle

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What about KZEW (The Zoo) and Q102 (before it became the Edge) ? Damn kids, get off my yard! ::hal::

Big Band: Benny Goodmand, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller

50's and 60's Rock: Fats Dominoe, Beatles.

Country:Hank Williams jr and sr., John Anderson, Jerry Reaves

Pop: Foreigner, Abba, Cream,

Alternative Rock: Men with Hats, They might be giants.

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Originally Posted by sammm

What about KZEW (The Zoo) and Q102 (before it became the Edge) ? Damn kids, get off my yard! ::hal::

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I was listening to the Zoo in Waco when it quit playing rock back around Christmas in 1989. Weak signal, but beter than any of the Waco stations.

The Cars and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Yes, I had a mullet. Yes, there are three Cars CDs in my Miata right now. Yes, I occasionally listen to my Lynyrd Skynyrd CD when no one else can hear.

I generaly keep newer stuff in the Acura.

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Originally Posted by Radio-Active

I was listening to the Zoo in Waco when it quit playing rock back around Christmas in 1989. Weak signal, but beter than any of the Waco stations.

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Walter!!! You're Walter from Waco ::Banana::

C'mon say it - say it - "LaLaLaBella?" ::Hyper::

John Labella is/was my all time favorite DJ, not counting Steve Lundy ;)

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Originally Posted by onething

Walter!!! You're Walter from Waco ::Banana::

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:clap: Forgot about those guys (and Walter from Waco too)...LaBella and Roadie were the Zoo DJ's in Dallas.

But do you remember when KZEW was progressive country? Early 70's before they went rock. That's where I first heard London Homesick Blues as performed by that great Texan wannabe, Jerry Jeff Walker ;) and written of course, by Jerry P. Nunn.

Thought you might enjoy this!

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Originally Posted by onething

that great Texan wannabe, Jerry Jeff Walker ;) and written of course, by Jerry P. Nunn.

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You mean that Jerry Jeff is not a Texan? I think that Gary P. Nunn wrote London Homesick Blues. ;)

I was into the Texas music scene in the early '70's, way after high school. Other names of the period, Willis Allen Ramsey, Steven Fromholtz, Travis Holland and Farrah Fawcett. Oh wait, she did something else.::Ton5::

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Originally Posted by Majik

Mad_monkey sent me a PM and asked if I could reply for him. He said he was emarassed to say that his influences were mainly Britney and the Spice girls.:punchout: :D

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Hahahaha. Nice. ;) :clap:

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Originally Posted by onething

But do you remember when KZEW was progressive country? Early 70's before they went rock. That's where I first heard London Homesick Blues as performed by that great Texan wannabe, Jerry Jeff Walker ;) and written of course, by Jerry P. Nunn.

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That would have been before I had control of the radio dial. I remember my Mom and Dad always using KZEW as the station to tell them that Texas was getting close as they got around the Arbuckles. KZEW had the strongest signal of all of the FM stations.

[Drift on:/] My Moms car, a 1972 Datsun 1200, had a factory AM/FM(monual) radio by Hitachi. My Dad had a 1971 Datsun 1200, which he purchased from my Uncle, with only a aftermarket AM radio. My Father spent the extra money and purchased a AM modulated FM radio adapter that set under the dash on the pasengers side.
[Drift on:/] Incedentally; 1972 was the year that the Fasten Seatbelt warning light and buzzer was required by law. My Dads 1971 Datsun did'nt have the buble on top of the center of the dash, whereas my Moms 1972 Dastun did. [/Drift off][/Drift off]

I remember, vaguely, hearing Walter from Waco every morning, but He was not I. I was in Waco for TSTI from fall 89-Spring 91.

Another cool thread, little late on this one!

My father wasn't quite the ex-hippe rocker but usually listened to the classic rock station so I know a lot of the old rock and also a decent amount of classical music to be well rounded.

U2
Boston
Kansas
Peter Gabriel
Journey
Rush
Genesis
Phil Collins
Chicago
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Front 242
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Heart
Fleetwood Mac
J.S. Bach (my favourite composer)

Got into Metallic around middle school in mid 90's then was introduced to EDM, chillout, ambient musik my freshman year of high school in 98.