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My parents dug the Moody Blues, but that wasn't it. The Beatles were big in my house too and I loved their music. In 75 when the older neighbor kid brought over Kiss Alive! and Aerosmith Toys in the Attic I was absolutely hooked! I wanted to play drums but my parents bought me a guitar in hopes that it would make me forget about the drums. I didn't know about the spectrum of rock n roll until my uncles turned me on to the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, etc... a year or so later. But that one day... I absolutely knew it.
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I used to sit and play around with the radio in my mom's 67 Toronado. Back when people tucked the seat belt under the seat and kids crawled around the car. Child restraint seats? Ha! FM was classical and easy music and AM had that horrible rock and roll music. I would always go to the AM band and listen to the forbidden nasty music. Doing that I heard The Rolling Stones Satisfaction for the first time and man was I ever hooked.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar! -
probably hearing elvis first, then kiss, acdc, maiden, van halen etc.Comment
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KISS was a huge impact. They were so different and frankly, they had some great songs and to this day, much of what you see in stage entertainment and merchandising was pioneered by KISS. I just watched Behind The Lighted Stage and it was cool to hear Geddy Lee fondly talk about how they learned a lot being the opening act for KISS.
I think every kid in my neighborhood had KISS posters in their room and those coveted Alive albums. Then Van Halen replaced KISS and more girly posters went up as well. I had all the Lang ski boot babe posters and hot and sexy St. Pauli Girl beer posters. Then you got your drivers license got laid more and found there was a lot of bullshit in those Penthouse Forum stories you read before you actually got laid for the first time.
Of course Ace Frehley was the guy who made you want to play electric guitar and yeah, you wanted a Les Paul and a big Marshall stack.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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My brother's record collection was very important to me. We listened to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and many more on a daily regular basis. Also to VH's first album on vinyl a few months after its release, bought in london and then (carhorn) we were runnin' with the deviiil!
Here's a photograph of me in my brother's room when I was about 4 years old.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53880619@N03/4993301933/" title="Runnin' with the Devil by Etienne Burdevet, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/4993301933_4c8ab2a8ef.jpg" width="392" height="500" alt="Runnin' with the Devil"></a>Comment
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A childhood of diet of Queen, Hanoi Rocks, and a couple of other bands from the 80's...
Biggest kick for playing rock'n'roll came from two videos: Europe's "The Final Countdown" and DLR's "Yankee Rose".
Imagine seeing that stuff during your first decade on this planet...Why settle for something you have, if it's not as good as something you're out to get?
Originally posted by SeshmeisterIt's like putting up a YouTube of Bach and playing Chopstix on your Bontempi...
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Funk 49 and Over the Hills and Far Away coming out of a Pioneer receiver with speakers all around the room.
The old ABC records sounded so great it was like the band was in the room.
Cds are an abomination.
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I remember hearing the Alice Cooper Group on CKLW as a kid in Detroit....huge impact
A babysitter playing her KISS records as soon as my Mom & Dad would leave on Sat night.......
Parents bought me "ROCK 'N' ROLL OVER" as a birthday gift..............KISS opened the door........
Remember hearing QUEEN, SWEET, BOWIE, T REX as a kid on the radio.........
moved to the sticks when I was 8.........neighbor kids had older brothers into ZEP & HENDRIX...............I was hookedComment
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I agree. My dad had a McIntosh set up with four six foot electrostatic speakers. You can see the same speakers at the end of The Doors movie when the band is saying goodbye to Jim. I used to crank Rush's Witch Hunt on that system and it sounded so massive. CD's just don't have the same dynamics.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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1976. That was my door opener. Before that all I had was Bill Cosby records and kiddie stuff. Maybe a Partridge Family album. LOL!Parents bought me "ROCK 'N' ROLL OVER" as a birthday gift..............KISS opened the door........No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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The year was circa 1978. I was 7. I had a hippy uncle that one day brought my brother and I a big black trash bag full of 8 track tapes. Pink Floyd, Zep, KISS, weird soundtracks to movies I had never heard of like "Harry & Tonto". We kept the ones we liked, and pulled all the tape out of the rest. The biggest impact of that bag was KISS Alive II. I was hooked from side one, track one. (ah remember the four sides of an 8 track tape?) First I wanted to be Peter Criss and would bang on everything imitating the drum solo after God of Thunder. Then I wanted to be Ace Frehley. From there I started buying vinyl like Queen, J. Geils Band, Foreigner, Loverboy, Journey, etc. Found Black Sabbath and Van Halen in jr. high and was really hooked. If it had a guitar on it, I wanted it. Picked up the guitar at 14 after mowing lawns all summer and haven't put it down yet. My folks thought it was a fad I would grow out of. Ha, jokes on them!This space for rent.Comment
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Anyone else guilty of carving a VH logo into a school desk?No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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I've done better than that.
In Jr. High, me and a friend of mine, who also happened to be the best graffiti artist in town, painted a huge VH logo on the outside wall of the gymnasium. It looked exactly like the logo on the cover of the second album in color and detail. The wall was also facing the street, so when you drove by, it looked like it was "Van Halen Jr. High".
It took an entire night to do (though most of that time was spent looking out for the cops). They tried to cover it a few days later with one coat of cheap white paint, but you could still see it.
A big 6ft. x 7ft. VH logo on the wall of the school...
...it was fuckin' awesome.Comment
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