My mother loved Elvis! I remember going to try to catch him leaving a hotel when he came to Buffalo area years ago in the 70`s. I told her we should have went to wait by the back entrance!

Heard alot of Elvis back then supremes and stuff from my parents. But one of my best memories was listening to early Who in the back of my dads corvair on the am radio sometime late 60`s...rock and roll!

I really like this thread. It could run and run .....

The first albums I bought were Bee Gees (1st album), Spencer Davis Group (1st album), Fleetwood Mac (1st album, when Peter Green was the creative force), Mamas and Papas Deliver, Moody Blues: Days Of Future Passed, Doors (1st album) ....

OK. Some of them were a mistake. What was I doing buying the Bee Gees and The Mamas and Papas ??? That stuff just isn't me. I'm deep!

At a party one weekend in the late sixties (I remember it, so perhaps I wasn't there) somebody brought along The Velvet Underground With Nico. Wow. That album was played and played all night. It was a total revelation for me. I was spellbound. I'd suddenly discovered what I really liked. And I've loved The Velvets ever since. OK, I've made allowances for some of their later stuff (after John Cale was forced out), but there's always been something there to latch onto (particularly in the live sets - Live At Max's is just great). I've also got a whole load of Lou Reed and John Cale albums, plus a couple of Nico's and a Cale/Eno collaboration. But nothing really compares with the impact of that first Velvet's album. It contains so many great songs. Fantastic discordant music. And the lyrics are pure poetry (albeit inpenetrable). I now own The Velvet's boxed set and play it often. I think The Velvets sell more records now than they did in the 60's.

I like a lot of other music, including - Pink Floyd, Man (terrific Welsh band), Echo And The Bunnymen, Sex Pistols, John McLaughlin, Robin Trower, Stone Roses, Free, Tindersticks, Devo, Mountain, AC/DC, Beth Orton, Joy Division, New Order, Only Ones, Gong ....

Blimey, forgot The Who (Live At Leeds, Tommy, Who's Next)

I wish I'd bought Lou's Metal Machine Music when I had the chance. The sleeve notes were worth the money. I was working at a bank when it came out and when I listened to it during my lunch break I stupidly decided to reject it. OK, it might well have been pretentious crap but it was memorable pretentious crap ...

This is a topic right down my alley. If its possible to be addicted to music, I'm there. I've been so sick of the crap coming out these days that I have embraced my old school punk music once again. Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies ... I almost miss the 80's!

"Holiday In Cambodia" - great track.

My english failed with that - what it means?

"Wow, you are very deaf... How did this happen? Was this caused by working as road crew for the world's loudest band?"

I played in bands for years. Started when I was 15. I also played in discos as DJ for years, I had my own DJ company that hired many DJs to discos. I love to play, so I played lots of gigs myself. We also built audio systems to discos.

I didn't knew I'm that deaf. Music still sounds like it has sound always. One day we were testing our home theatre audio with testing DVD and when we tested how low and how high our amplifier can go, after 10,000 Htz the sound stopped. Total silence.

You youngsters who play in band or play music loud, take care of your ears. It's not nice when your ears starts to play a high voice and you can't do anything. I don't know what they call it in english, but Neil Young has it. And I.

Some great bands there eman Only Ones!!! Now where did they go? I loved their Baby's Got A Gun Album - I never considered them punk though - more power pop - but that is a cracking album.

Echo And The Bunnymen - first heard them on the John Peel Show - way, way back - another great 80's band.

Joy Division - I think Ian Curtis would still be writing great songs if he were still here today!

In fear every day, every evening
It calls here aloud from above
Carefully watched for a reason
Mistaking devotion and love
Surrendered to self-preservation
From others who care for themselves
A blindness that touches perfection
Appears just like anything else -
Isolation (3)

Mother I tried, please believe me
I'm doing the best that I can,
I'm ashamed of the things
I've been put through;
I'm ashamed of the person I am
But if you could just see the beauty,
these things I could never describe
This is my one consolation
This is my wonderful prize

Undertones - Remember them! Teenage Kicks has got to be the best (power) pop single of all time.

The Dammed - Black album is on of my faves - we went to see them again couple months back when I was in the UK - They didn't play one track off that album and the bastards never came on for the encore to play Smash It Up

Finnbear Opti had it..ManOWar is in the Guiness book of world records as the loudest band. 130 some db I believe. One time in the studio a client said "can we listen to playback at ManOWar level" and it stuck as a joke every time we cranked up the mains!

So true it is critical to protect your hearing if you value it! In the old days it was`nt thought of much but no excuses these days. I record and produce and always have earplugs handy at live shows and in the studio when you can get away with them. And I have no clue what all these poeple nowadays are thinking cranking bass in thier cars at pain threshold levels. In 10 years they will need it turned up that high. And EQ was made for tailoring a system to a room not to loosen bolts on your undercarriage! Can you say "Sounds like mud"!

Oh and tinnitus is the term here in the US for the condition your thinking of Finnbear.

I did a bit of work for Neil Young years ago and did`nt know he had it..it figures though..a long career! He never had great pitch but he always had enough vibe to make up for it. He is truly a one take guy. Strictly A.I.R. sessions...Always in record! Either that or you might not be there the next day!

Whoa!!! what a walk down memory lane on this thread!
Being in even a half assed descent band does bring with it some perks.

Chris Montez - met him, actually had breakfast with him... lol (my friend Robb and Dad, not sure which year of - Winter Fest - formerly Buddy Holly Fest - Clear Lake IA in Feb - though there's a Ton, like hundreds, more early rockers I've met either by playing or working with Robb)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - met them sometime in the late 80's or early 90's at a battle of the bands prior to their concert at 1st Ave in Mpls. (prince fame bar) - And actually for quite a few years, I don't honestly remember the dates, or for that matter anything. LOL

Joy Division - listened to them a bit, bought an album or two. But then there's the Cure, Love and Rockets etc... I Love Elvis Costello.

Had the Stack's of 45's but my 1st Album was - OK shoot me cause you'll be singing it all damn day :) "Afternoon Delight" Starland Vocal Band I think was the band.
1st 8 track was "Best of the Guess Who"
1st cassette - believe it or not "William Tell's 1812 Overture" because Mom said it was On Sale.
1st C/D I actually bought? (I had hundreds given to me) I can't honestly remember.

Green Rooms (for those that haven't played anywhere) are extremely SMALL!!!
If the room was 15x25 - that was BIG. So you get to - No you Have To - meet everyone else in that room.
Best Green Room for Pictures would be the Clear Lake Ballroom, Clear Lake IA. If you want a who's who of Early Rock and Roll, their signatures are on the walls. Buddy Holly and the Crickets, to Jonny Cash, Chris Christopherson, Bobby Vee (duh), Richie Valens.
(as of when we played there a long time ago, you have to be Better than those listed to actually sign the green room as there is only maybe a few places to sign the wall)

Worst Green Room - some small ass bar in KC we played once (the bathroom - and not just Any bathroom - cause that's not so abnormal - but 6x 6 foot one!)

8th track never became very popular here. I have seen one in my life and some cassettes that guy had, but that's all.

I have never bought cassettes, only vinyls. I had tons of c-cassettes because I was playing in a ship that went from Helsinki to Hamburg and back. They had done every thing possible that DJ could play records, but many many times storms were so bad you can't play them. That's why they have two cassette players and I had every song I had in cassette. One song in one cassette. So, you can imagine it, hundreds of c-cassettes...for a dude who loved parties and girls, it was dream job, but that's another story...

I remember my first CD - Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen. I bought the first CD player I ever saw. It was Sony, fairly small one, and it played CD in vertical position. You could see how fast that CD went round and round...

roflmao.. the thought of that song just makes me want to giggle... has to be the worst song ever to hold number one on the charts for 10+ weeks :D


Finbear: I still like watching the CD spin (small things, small minds maybe?) ;-)

Finbear: I still like watching the CD spin (small things, small minds maybe?) ;-)

Nothing bad with that, but the player I have now takes the CD inside so you can't see it when it plays.

When I owned a small fast food restaurant I made cassettes there. At lunch time oldies like 'What A Wonderful World' and other old songs that were "easy listening". Later at afternoon pop music from 60's to 80's and at evening the rock classics.

We were real popular. Many people said they come to eat just because of music. Music is very important in our life.

Wow, great to see there are some people of my generation here.

I got my first 45s and lps from my sister. Beatles, Hermans Hermits, and that kind of stuff.

First 45 I bought was some song about the green barrei (I don't know how to spell that...lol).

First albums I bought where the who, guess who, humble pie, traffic, james gang, and fleetwood mac's Future Games (I still think the best album they ever did).

Hardly buy any music anymore. Listen to 70s rock sometimes on the radio, some classical, and sometimes new rock.

I wanted to be a guitarist but I mostly sucked at it (could play some simple blues stuff a little, especially when high).

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Ah..a music thread..Music was my very first love!! :)
My grandma LOVED Elvis. I remember seeing him on tv with her when I was about maybe 5 or so..Ed Sullivan I think..and I've had the music bug ever since..The first album I bought was the beatles white. My Grandpa bought me meet the beatles. But when I got older, the Rolling Stones did it for me!
I have a collection of over 5,000 albums, all rock dating back to the early 60's. I have an mp3 server in my house we finally got set up with 35 gigs of music..
What I listen to now is alternative rock mostly with the older stuff mixed in. Like 3 doors down, Creed (RIP), Disturbed, Rammenstein, Chilli Peppers, etc..Mixed with Country, Rock and Blues.
But I love all kinds of music..anything..

I was reminiscing with a friend and decided to break out some music from the time we were talking about. So I loaded up the CD changer and now I'm listening to tunes from 1979:

Blondie: One way or another

The Knack: Good girls don't

Pat Benatar: Heartbreaker

Apri lWine: Roller

The Cars: Let's go

Rickie Lee Jones: Chuck E.'s in love

Little River Band: Cool change

Poco: Heart of the night

Rex Smith: You take my breath away

Now to round up some of my tunes from 1983 :)

I've gone back to 1969 today..... listening to King Crimson "In the court of the Crimson King".

I'm too young to have gotten this album first time around..... but my older brother got me into it.

Robert Fripp is the most amazing guitarist.

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