What is THE tune that changed everything for you ?

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There is one tune in your teenage years, that turned your world upside down. What is it ?

For me it's FOXEY LADY. First time I heard it was at a band practice in 67. The other guitarist had just bought the Are You Experienced album and asked us if we thought we could play stuff like that.
What the hell was THAT ? We thought Jimi played all partitions at once, couldn't grasp the concept. Didn't even know what a fuzz was.

After that, nothing was ever the same. Girls got foxier. My hair just spontaneously started to grow. Sweet dope was readily available. Amps got louder. Everything was now sexier. Being in a band was everything.

The band, a few years later. By then I had switched to bass.

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Black Sabbaths Paranoid. My friend had a old 58 Appache Chevy truck.he had two 8 tracks to play,Black Sabbath Paranoid and Neil Youngs Harvest. we were about 14 lol
 
Not sure of any one tune.
I was a serious Beatles listener since about 14, more into the pre Sgt. Peppers stuff.
As I was getting more into say, the White Album and Abbey Road along with listening to the first few Zeppelin, and Aerosmith records, and Boston I really dug the rock music.

i think the first song I was really pulled into and focused on the guitar playing was While My Guitar Gently Weeps. I always knew it didnt sound like George Harrison to me.
I had no idea.......
 
The first Van Halen song I remember hearing was "Jump", but what made me want to play the guitar was hearing "Unchained" for the first time. It still gets me going every time I hear it. Van Halen changed my life.
 
you may mock and ridicule me ----well you do on a regular basis -- AND I LIKE IT.....(yes I am odd) --- and perhaps the fact that my true musical AWAKENING came from a live recording of this song -----to the ears of a pre teen child --- a song laden with sexual innuendo and preversion so epic it launched me into puberty the minute I heard the words---- causing me to devour all the raunchy rock n roll I could get my hands on..........might explain why am so "F"ed up!!!!!!!

At 8 years old I was mired in this stuff .......I heard all types of music --- but when I heard the lead on this song ........I was HOOKEd and like a crack addict I have been trying to get more .............
"Keep it in.....and keep me HIGH"




Seriously WHO THE HELL lets their 8 year old listen to these frreaks!?!?!?! and even BUYS them album after album....
THANKS MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE YOU!!!!!!
 
Oh, Kiss were gods when I was in kindergarden. When we played with our matchbox cars in the sand pit, we were Kiss. I used to be Peter Criss. We didn't necessary pretend to be playing gigs or anything, but we were Kiss. I distinctly remember one time imagining I was Peter Criss driving to the supermarket to buy milk. Good and innocent times!
 
I always felt that Kiss were a joke band, along with Alice Cooper and all the Poodle Rock crowd (some call them hair metal, but I think mine works better). Time hasn't changed my view. I can't watch any of these people for long.
 
KISS well.......they where/are a "Gimmick" as was/is Alice Cooper ....all of which/whom seem to still be making a CRAP TON of CASH well into their (Alice is what 72 now???) GOLDEN years.......
Like them? --me not particularly--but I have to respect the marketing $ making machines they created.

Personally B.O.C. and Steppenwolf really opened my eyes.
 
I liked KISS as entertainment and like lots of their songs, but nothing really ever jumped out and bitch slapped me.
With the ferocity of say, a Layla or Livin' Lovin' Maid, All Right Now, etc.

I saw them at MSG as a surprise for my 15 or so birthday. I thought we going to the lame circus until I heard warms/ soundcheck as we were walking in the building and my uncle showed me the tickets.
It was a blast.

Detroit Rock City is one of my faves.

I've been experiencing those incredible, yet undiscovered, wow moments lately through the likes of Gary Moore, Howlin' Wolf, and Freddie and BB, and Muddy Waters.

I listened to the next generation - Clapton, Page, SRV, Robert Cray and the like of blues inspired players who were inspired of those before them. Now I'm going back in time. I know Gary Moore was more contemporary but I'm just getting to know his.
I need to find me a Delorean and a Flux Capacitor.
 
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Kiss is a controversial band.

They have some very good ones. RnR all night is a hell of a party opener.
 
For me, it was Hotel California and the duelling guitars of Don Felder and Joe Walsh. That and all the '80's hair metal bands from when I was in high school!
 
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