What is THE tune that changed everything for you ?
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BGood
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Yes you can, if you concentrate and try to remember it. It's there.One tune? There are so many going through my mind... all at the same time! House of the Rising Sun, Inagadadavida, Purple Haze, Maggot Brain, Sweet Hitch Hiker, Smoke on the Water, I'd Love to Change the World... Hell I can't pick just one
Me too I have zillions of back flashes to all the tunes you guys are naming. But there has to be ONE.
Heket
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I know which one mine was but it's not one of my favourite songs. I'll tell the story first - I was lost musically, never really listened to much, bit fed up. On a whim I bought an album of a band based on one song, which I was unaware was a remix, and found I quite like the rest of the sound. Being young and innocent I wasn't really aware of music genres, so I looked it up, saw the band described as "pop metal". Well what the heck is metal? I went to the library to mooch around the CD section and found a CD by a band called "Metallica". Sounds metal! I went home, popped the CD in the player and pressed play.
And that's when I discovered that distorted guitars really turn me on. Yeah!
So, that song would be the first song on that album I found, which was Ain't My Bitch.
And that's when I discovered that distorted guitars really turn me on. Yeah!
So, that song would be the first song on that album I found, which was Ain't My Bitch.
Sp8ctre
Ambassador of Steel
OK...Let me set the stage here...it was 1972 and my step dad had just returned from a tour in Viet-Nam. He brought back a Sony cassette player with a box of tapes he listed to when in the field. He was an Airborne Ranger in the LRPS (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol) and he was always in the $HIT!
I was given permission to listen to what ever I wanted...I was 12. I put on the headphones and popped in Black Sabbath Paranoid. Prior to this I was listening to mostly radio hits. Some CCR, The Doors, Beatles...etc.
When "War Pigs" started I was just blown away...seriously, my life in pursuit of music change that day! Just UNREAL!!! That whole album chewed me up and spit out a different person...that's when I started seeking out the heavy stuff!
I was given permission to listen to what ever I wanted...I was 12. I put on the headphones and popped in Black Sabbath Paranoid. Prior to this I was listening to mostly radio hits. Some CCR, The Doors, Beatles...etc.
When "War Pigs" started I was just blown away...seriously, my life in pursuit of music change that day! Just UNREAL!!! That whole album chewed me up and spit out a different person...that's when I started seeking out the heavy stuff!
Okay...
I'll join in, but it's not what you may think.
Having been raised in a church environment, certain forms of music were discouraged, back in the '70s and '80s.
My brother-in-law exposed me to this group, Rez Band (short for Resurrection Band). It was one of the first true Christian Rock groups. Others were contemporary or rock-ish, but this group went all out. They had all been part of the drug culture in the '60s. I saw them a few times in concert. They were incredibly loud and employed a full pyro-technics display.
This song, City Streets, was a ground-breaking song in Christian Rock in 1980. It really opened my eyes to a whole new musical world. This was the first song I tried playing when I picked up guitar.
Here's a video of them in 1992, doing another of their more popular tunes, Military Man.
I'm not trying to go religious on the forum, but the question was asked about the tune that changed my world as a kid. This is the honest answer.
I'll join in, but it's not what you may think.
Having been raised in a church environment, certain forms of music were discouraged, back in the '70s and '80s.
My brother-in-law exposed me to this group, Rez Band (short for Resurrection Band). It was one of the first true Christian Rock groups. Others were contemporary or rock-ish, but this group went all out. They had all been part of the drug culture in the '60s. I saw them a few times in concert. They were incredibly loud and employed a full pyro-technics display.
This song, City Streets, was a ground-breaking song in Christian Rock in 1980. It really opened my eyes to a whole new musical world. This was the first song I tried playing when I picked up guitar.
Here's a video of them in 1992, doing another of their more popular tunes, Military Man.
I'm not trying to go religious on the forum, but the question was asked about the tune that changed my world as a kid. This is the honest answer.
Sp8ctre
Ambassador of Steel
Hey it's not a problem...if that's the music that affected you, you have every right to put it out there!
Everyone was raised in a different environment and has different experiences that shaped who they are!
ninjaking67
Ambassador of Good Will
I have seen Alice Cooper live and while the songs may not be amazing, they have stood the test of time so far. The stage show is one of the best times I have ever had......with my clothes on, at least! Well worth the money!
Mississippi Queen....1971
My home was religious too...my music was discouraged....
Tony M.
Ambassador
I gave this a little more thought.
If there was one song that changed everything for me it
was She Has Funny Cars, the first song on Surrealistic Pillow
by Jefferson Airplane. The song broke a great many rules.
It started with a drum solo and it completely changed the
concept of lead and background vocals. The entire cut is
drowned in reverb and it ends with a screaming guitar solo
and Jack Casady's bass roaring like a wounded dinosaur.
It was not the typical pop hit song of that time period.
Nothing was the same for me after hearing that song.
Those 3 minutes and 10 seconds pretty much defined
the term psychedilic music and after I heard it the first
time I never listened to music the same way again.
If there was one song that changed everything for me it
was She Has Funny Cars, the first song on Surrealistic Pillow
by Jefferson Airplane. The song broke a great many rules.
It started with a drum solo and it completely changed the
concept of lead and background vocals. The entire cut is
drowned in reverb and it ends with a screaming guitar solo
and Jack Casady's bass roaring like a wounded dinosaur.
It was not the typical pop hit song of that time period.
Nothing was the same for me after hearing that song.
Those 3 minutes and 10 seconds pretty much defined
the term psychedilic music and after I heard it the first
time I never listened to music the same way again.
Don't get me wrong. I've never walked away from it. But, my attitude on some things, particularly music, is a little different from the traditional norm. That's all.
Same here...my beliefs are unchanged, but I have always loved rock-n-roll.
I did spend about 6 months playing for a very large church's worship team back in 2011, but there was a lot of drama that I just grew weary of.
My parents gave me a record player, and a candy-striped box of old 78's and 45's, in 1970. The box contained hits by The Shirells' , Little Richard, Jumpin Gene Simmons, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Mel Street and many others.
Two songs that were favorites of mine (from the record box) was "If Ya Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody" (James Ray) and "Mr. Moto" by The Belairs - the latter being a guitar instrumental and the very first song I taught myself to play. (I encourage those who have never heard Mr. Moto to discover it!)
The next year, in 1971, my 23 year old uncle came to visit from Kentucky and stayed with us a while.
We used to have a big Motorola stereo in the living room that looked like a casket. The front was all speakers and inside was a record player, AM-FM radio, reel-to-reel tape player and an 8 track.
My uncle told me, "Boy, you like guitar? You ought to hear this, Man..." He plopped down a 33-1/3 LP and cranked the volume.
The tone of Leslie West's LPJ just blew my mind. I was hooked on trying to emulate that sound. For me, that moment changed the musical course of my life.
I was soon introduced to more music...Ram Jam, Sabbath, Black Oak Arkansas, early Scorpions and countless others.
The Beatles and Hendrix never grabbed me, I think largely because of their very thin tones...
Then, in 1976, my uncle mailed me an album. It was AC/DC's High Voltage. I was blown away like never before. I stopped listening to all my other music. This was the album I played along to for hours, on that old 1959 Silvertone, driving that 5 watt tube amp for everything it had.
I would, as time passed, listen to a lot of Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Ozzy and other bands, but the most profound impression left upon me musically was Angus Young and his Gibson SG....
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Sp8ctre
Ambassador of Steel
Great Story!
Those old stereos were awesome. I restore them now.
I have a video somewhere of Leslie West playing that LPJ and it's just incredible...
I had a very young uncle who was in a band. He gave me my 1st two records. Meet the Beatles and Introducing the Beatles when I was in 3rd grade! That started it, but the Sabbath was the game changer...