Who is your biggest musical influence....

samjam

....OTHER than a musician?
I'm talking about another person/other people.

For me, it's my dad. He's an older guy compared to my friends dad. He was a teenager/young man in the late 60s, early 70s who worked at a popular hippie (popular amongst hippies, rather) clothing store in the villiage, across from the Fillmore. He was 2nd row at Woodstock (first day). He got kicked out of a bar with Robert Plant & Jimmy Page. Ray Davies asked him if he knew him from somewhere. All in all, he was a cool guy. He introduced me to the music he lived for growing up. My first intro to music were the cassette tapes of 'Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy' (I think I'm the only person who, at 2, knew 'Boris the Spider' ), and 'Appetite for Destruction'. So here I am, at 17, with a true love and passion for really kick ass music.

Your stories?

Newch91

My dad also. He is a musician but he got me introduced to the greatest music ever.

My earliest memory is when I was 3. He made me a Beatles tape and all I remember is listening to that tape all the time and carrying it around with me everywhere I went to in a small tape player for a kid. I remember being at a bank and I had it playing at a reasonable volume and someone came up to me and said, "You are the youngest person I've seen that's listening to the Beatles." I also remember another time I was in my grandpa's basement and found a stack of vinyls. There were all the Beatles ones, a couple Who ones, Eagles, and so much more. My dad told me they were my uncle's. ALL ORIGINAL PRESSINGS!

Also, two of my cousins. One of them introduced me to Pearl Jam in 2005 and another to The White Stripes in 2003. I thank them for that. They opened the door for me to other bands that I like now.

Ledbetterman10

Newch91 wrote:

My dad also. He is a musician but he got me introduced to the greatest music ever.

My earliest memory is when I was 3. He made me a Beatles tape and all I remember is listening to that tape all the time and carrying it around with me everywhere I went to in a small tape player for a kid. I remember being at a bank and I had it playing at a reasonable volume and someone came up to me and said, "You are the youngest person I've seen that's listening to the Beatles." I also remember another time I was in my grandpa's basement and found a stack of vinyls. There were all the Beatles ones, a couple Who ones, Eagles, and so much more. My dad told me they were my uncle's. ALL ORIGINAL PRESSINGS!

Pretty similar story for me except I was about 4, my father introduced me to the vinyls, and ya gotta substitute those Who and Eagles vinyls for CCR and Elvis ones. Keep in the Beatles though. There's horribly embarrassing footage of me when I was like 5 watching A Hard Day's Night and running around screaming Can't Buy Me Love at the loudest, most irritating volume you could ever imagine. My father (like most men in the 1980's) didn't find one thing that his HUGE video camera didn't like.

Jeff Murray

Honestly I would have to say my friends. Way back when, pre-MTV, we would find new music and share it with each other. I can remember taping songs off of the radio to share, yes you had to be ready and quick to hit the record button! By doing this it sort of created a healthy competition to find new music amongst us, and there were no restrictions on genre either. I can remember taping the Roxanne Roxanne battles on the radio, and then turning around and blasting Suicidal Tendencies. I am also thankful that my Dad was bad at sending those Columbia House club cards back, we got a lot of great 8-tracks sent to us, Kiss, Disco Compilations, Rock Compilations, The Eagles, and so on. As time went on and new outlets became available I still find myself looking for new music. And by new music I don't mean current, I often find myself looking up great blues, punk, older rock artists.

To this day I still remember my first proper album. My Dad got myself and my sister each a turntable for Christmas, she got Thriller, and I got Queen's The Game. My first cassettes were Police Synchronicity and Quiet Riot Metal Health. First CD's were Cinderella's Long Cold Winter and Judas Priest's Ram It Down. Strange the things we remember....

Kloddz

Well, given the fact that my older sister got me into PJ (she was a huge "Grunge" fan back in the 90's, with Cobain posters all over her walls and stuff), I gotta say it's her (although it took me a few more years, until 1999 or so, to become the huge PJ fan that I've been ever since). What's funny about it is that she hasn't been listening to "that kind of" music lately - when I got her Avocado for her b-day she said it was too loud for her then 1 year old daughter. :roll:

Apart from that, I guess PJ themselves have influenced me quite a lot - they got me into "Grunge" in the first place and are one of the reasons why I bought quite a few Soundgarden and AIC records; they got my into The Who, which in turn got me into some other 70's and then 60's bands, etc. and so on; not to mention Uncle Neil! Come to think of it, the only guy that they haven't managed to get me into is Bruce...

MysteryTrain

Don't have anything interesting to share, but my dad turned me on to all the great artists from the 50's, 60's and 70's. The most important one being Bruce Springsteen. It took me three years, and I became a much much bigger Springsteen fan than him. He also owned the first few PJ albums, after that he lost interest. So I picked up from where he left off. But if it weren't for him, I wouldn't be in the 10c, and I wouldn't be traveling thousands of miles just to see the Boss and Neil Young.

Newch91

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

My dad also. He is a musician but he got me introduced to the greatest music ever.

My earliest memory is when I was 3. He made me a Beatles tape and all I remember is listening to that tape all the time and carrying it around with me everywhere I went to in a small tape player for a kid. I remember being at a bank and I had it playing at a reasonable volume and someone came up to me and said, "You are the youngest person I've seen that's listening to the Beatles." I also remember another time I was in my grandpa's basement and found a stack of vinyls. There were all the Beatles ones, a couple Who ones, Eagles, and so much more. My dad told me they were my uncle's. ALL ORIGINAL PRESSINGS!

Pretty similar story for me except I was about 4, my father introduced me to the vinyls, and ya gotta substitute those Who and Eagles vinyls for CCR and Elvis ones. Keep in the Beatles though. There's horribly embarrassing footage of me when I was like 5 watching A Hard Day's Night and running around screaming Can't Buy Me Love at the loudest, most irritating volume you could ever imagine. My father (like most men in the 1980's) didn't find one thing that his HUGE video camera didn't like.

There were CCR and Elvis vinyls also. There was everything in that stack.