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Name: Pdog
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Subject: RE: What styles of music do you like?
Date: Saturday, August 5, 2006
Time: 12:50:44 AM
Remote Address: 69.236.73.70
Message ID: 195987
Parent ID: 195850
Thread ID: 195850
I had a little AM Mickey Mouse radio. I was probably only 9 or 10. I'd been raised listening to a lot of rock and roll. My Dad loved The Stones. So I was lucky enough to hear it at a young age.
Back to the Mickey Mouse radio... I remember hearing stuff like ELO, Peter Frampton ect... I would listen to it late at night and fall asleep imagining what the people playing the music looked like while playing the music.
The seeds were planted, they needed water to grow.
Got my own stereo going by the time I was about 11. Found a bunch of Beatles records in the attic. That's what my dad left behind for my Mom after the divorce.
I listened to those and the first album I ever bought for myself, Frampton Comes alive.
Things really changed by the time I was 12.
The 70's were ending. Music was changing! My Dad had gotten me some pretty decent equipment. I started buying records. Stones, Kinks, Zep, Floyd, VH whatever I could get my hands on. I was listening to rock stations out of Philly WMMR and WYSP. That was also to be my introduction to Howard Stern. That's another thread!
There was a late night show, called Dr. Demento. I listened every Sunday night. I remember the first time I heard The Ramones, like it was an hour ago. I was blown away. I would record the show on my tape deck and listen to the songs over and over. Most of his show was comedy, but as we know, a few bands like The Ramones had some pretty funny lyrics.
The seed was watered!
Like a few lucky people, I had an older sister. She was a partier and had toms of friends. I sold them weed, and they would tell me about CBGB's and all these great bands. This one guy Eric would make me compilation tapes. Ramones, Dictators, Richard Hell, Wayne County, The Clash and tons of other stuff. I wish I still had those tapes, although I eventually wound up owning this stuff.
Hey, I was making tons of money selling pot, I brought records. I owned all the stuff all my friends liked already. But I liked this new shit too... I stopped listening to a lot of bands at that time, like Zep and Floyd. I still got a soft spot for Yes...
The plant began to grow...
Most of my friends thought I was weird for liking The Clash or The Sex Pistols... Literally recoiled when I played it for them. Begging me to put on Zep III for the millionth time. I gave them the records, and kicked out. Cranked the music and thought I was the only kid within 50 miles that liked this crazy shit from NYC, LA and London.
The Plant was a weed...
I never looked back after that. I finally found some other oddball kids, who liked the stuff I did, started hitting shows, wearing painted leather motorcycle jackets, changing hairstyle but not my grubby torn up jeans and Sleeping in my boots... I went down some tough roads... Hey It was the 80's and I was pretty screwed up. I went to a lot of shows, had a lot of fun and the music and the people were for the most part cool.
The weed dies, a flower blooms...
I've gone from a fucked teenager into punk, to a fairly responsible almost 40 guy, who still loves that feeling of hearing that band... When I say that band, it could be any band really... I just know it when I hear it... And I never stop looking for it.
The Stones...
Always been my favorite band. No matter where I was in my life, they've been there. They are special. Exile is something else altogether... I owned for years... It really hit me hard in the very early 90's. That's when I discovered it. Probably the lowest points of my life. Strung out, lonely, untrustworthy. I was totally hopeless.
One day, I put on a tape of it I had been carrying around... It just hit me. It was like the only sunny day in a thousand years of rain. Especially Shine A Light. I felt like the guy Jagger was singing about. The great thing is exile has grown with me since that day. Changing like me. I'm the same person; it's the same record... We're both alive, and living things grow...
Rock and roll my friends, is alive and well. The bands are out there making music as I type and you read. And as long as I breathe, it's alive in me, in my blood, what I see, what I think... It's a part of me, burned into my soul.
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