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Post by Jesse on Mar 25, 2009 6:11:18 GMT -5
........when you first heard (what would become) your favorite band/artist?  |
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Post by spacel0rd on Mar 25, 2009 6:59:29 GMT -5
When I was about 12 I heard "Promises In the Dark" by Pat Benatar on the radio while I was in the backseat of my parent's car. That's all it took.
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Post by rtbuck on Mar 25, 2009 7:42:45 GMT -5
I was in my father's car(on my way to one of my Ice Hockey Games) in the mid 70's (when AM Radio & top 40 45's were the "In" thing)with a carload of other kids from my team & probably sandwiched in the middle of "Bohemian Rhapsody","I Write the Songs",& "Devil Woman", "Beth" by Kiss was played. I didn't realize what the name of the song was or who Kiss was but some time after that I was at Grants Department Store with Spanky Madoo buying some 45's such as "Rubberband Man","Island Girl", & "You Don't Have to Be a Star" & noticed he was buying a song called "Beth"(probably along with some Olivia Newton John). I asked him about the song & then I realized what song Beth was. I thought for some reason Peter was singing "But THEN what can I Do". Anyway after a few days I played the flip side of Beth which was "Detroit Rock City" & was blown away. That Christmas I got 2 of the same Elton John albums from 2 of my sisters,the day after X-mas my sister exchanged it for Rock & Roll Over & the rest became "KISSTORY" for me.
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Post by duojett71 on Mar 25, 2009 10:18:35 GMT -5
I was 11 years old when I first heard Iron Maiden. I used to listen to the Two Hour Metal Hour on 94 WHJY out of Providence R.I.on Friday night. The local D.J. would play would play an hours worth of metal for the first hour and the the second hour was the nationally syndicated show Metal Shop hosted by Charley Kendall. I remember it was from the Two Hour Metal hour that turned my on to most of the music I still listen to. Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Accept, Saxon Queensryche, etc. I remember hearing the song "Iron Maiden" and being fascinated by the riff. I remember later hearing "Run To the Hills" on this show and being underwhelmed by it at first, but the song grew on me when my brother bought a copy of 'Number Of The Beast'. I have great memories of those Friday Nights as a kid listening to that show.
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Post by Speedy on Mar 25, 2009 10:28:01 GMT -5
One of my babysitters brought Hotter Than Hell over.
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Post by jimmccormick3 on Mar 25, 2009 13:02:11 GMT -5
In my bedroom recording off of KFMH 99 Plus FM, late at night with my Sharp radio/cassette recorder. The year, 1977, the artist Pat Travers. The songs, "Getting Betta" & "Dedication," off of the album "Putting it Straight."
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Post by Jesse on Mar 26, 2009 7:04:50 GMT -5
That's awesome, guys! My stories aren't nearly as good, but interesting in their own way. I've mentioned before that I grew up in a "Country Music Bubble" where I was oblivious to the peak years of.....pretty much everybody in the Classic Rock realm. I DO recall seeing Molly Hatchet T-Shirts in the mall at the 1970's version of a "Hot Topic" store, but I never heard their music until MUCH later. Around 1980, while watching a Country Music awards show in my parents' living room, I saw The Charlie Daniels Band performing "In America", not really a Country song in the least and it blew me away. I don't know that I heard "Devil Went Down To Georgia" before, but I can't imagine that I didn't (it was a #1 Country song). If I did, I probably didn't realize that CDB had done it. Anyway, it took a while to get an album by CDB, but once I did they became instant favs of mine. By the end of the 1980's I had almost all of CDB's albums in my collection on either cassette or vinyl. Other artists have surpassed them over the years, but I always seem to come back. With Charlie Daniels Band firmly in place as my favorite band, I bought a Southern Rock compilation cassette featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet. Listening to it in my bedroom, I heard Hatchet's "Beatin' The Odds" for the first time and, though tame even by the standards of that time, it was the heaviest thing I'd ever heard at that point. As much as I liked that song, it was Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" from the same cassette that prompted me to look deeper into the Skynyrd catalog. By 1988, I had all their albums. I had "Skynyrd's First And Last" on vinyl with plenty of liner notes. I noticed that my favorite songs on that album featured a Rickey Medlocke on drums. I got to see the Skynyrd Tribute tour the fall of 1988 and bought a program. The program had a brief history of the band and mentioned that Rickey Medlocke, drummer for "Skynyrd's First And Last" went on to form Blackfoot. Hmm. I just HAD to check that band out. Seriously, it was 1988 and I had NEVER even heard of Blackfoot before reading that program at that concert! Anyhow, that's the stories for a few of my favorite artists. I know I went a little overboard, but for the last 20 years I keep changing my mind about which of these is REALLY my fav. |
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Post by Equinox on Mar 26, 2009 18:38:15 GMT -5
........when you first heard (what would become) your favorite band/artist? We had just left the music store with the 8-track Equinox, by Styx. We had no idea who or what Styx was. In those days (1976), once in a while we would get stoned and go to the store and pick out a tape with a cool sounding name or cover (The flaming ice cube, or whatever it was sold us). We also purchased the following on other occasions using the same techique.. Selling England By The Pound- Genesis  Starz- Starz  Indiscreet- Sparks  Got back in the car and fired up a spliff and the 8-track simultaneously as the song "Light Up" started... I was sold for real then!  |
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Post by kim on Mar 27, 2009 17:29:39 GMT -5
One of my babysitters brought Hotter Than Hell over. What was her real name and did she stay the night Speedy???... ;D Thanks Kim |
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Post by DreamTide on Mar 27, 2009 22:54:05 GMT -5
It was Summer 1982 and I was listening from radio 1 hour Blue Öyster Cult special. Week before the same show played Cheap Trick so I was ready for some more good music. After that hour show I asked some money from my mother to get some BÖC albums. I did not even have record player. ;D
So I checked from local library BÖC albums and there was Tyranny&Mutation. I bought later that summer Tyranny&Mutation and Agents Of fortune. Those 2 are my first vinyls.
Q: where were you...
A: at home
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