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Subject: My earliest influences
I started out, as many of us I suppose did, listening to the music my parents liked. I had no older siblings who would lead the way, so I grew up listening to Fleetwood Mac, the Beach Boys, and Kenny Rogers. Around Grade 4 - I'd have been 9 by this time - I became aware of commercial music. MTV was brand new, but in Northern Canada we got Much Music instead, a weaker version of the same that was still doing music long after MTV started giving it up.
This is when I discovered my first music tastes outside the house: Def Leppard, and Quiet Riot were the first things I recall liking. There were others, but when Def Leppard's Pyromania came out I was hooked. If memory serves it was the first album I ever bought.
Other tastes of the era were Billy Idol, Hewey Luis and the News, and Ratt. I really liked Ratt, but wow, I sure can't stand to listen to most of their stuff now.
I guess it's easy to see how I drifted into the heavier stuff with origins like this, eh? =)
Where did you start?
This is when I discovered my first music tastes outside the house: Def Leppard, and Quiet Riot were the first things I recall liking. There were others, but when Def Leppard's Pyromania came out I was hooked. If memory serves it was the first album I ever bought.
Other tastes of the era were Billy Idol, Hewey Luis and the News, and Ratt. I really liked Ratt, but wow, I sure can't stand to listen to most of their stuff now.
I guess it's easy to see how I drifted into the heavier stuff with origins like this, eh? =)
Where did you start?
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