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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 20, 2019 15:07:49 GMT
I used to think the first was when I was in the 6th form unit at school playing Stone Free by Jimi Hendrix. Trying to squeeze in the guitar break before the Headmaster came in. Even having watched him coming I failed as I had to hear that break. As I wasn't Master Perfect at school that could have seen me expelled and I would do it again Then I remembered I used to sit away from the family in the kitchen as a 13 year old plus to listen to Top of the Pops - my excuse there was almost nothing else. Cold in the Winter as no central heating
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Post by MartinT on Mar 20, 2019 15:25:21 GMT
Around 14-15 as I simultaneously used to go to my friend's house to listen to rock music and to another friend who was classical mad. I grew up with both genres in my blood.
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Post by John on Mar 20, 2019 15:47:40 GMT
As a teenager, I used to listen to the radio and watch Top of the pops, memories like Slade and the Sweet and Sabbath come to mind. At about 16 I started to go to concerts I started at places like Wembley Arena and Hammersmith Odeon but then got into more of the small clubs like the Marquee. I would trade tapes, buy the latest albums. None of my school friends was into music like me so I just followed my own path. I think this more than anything led me to be open to hearing new music. I gradually found people that shared a similar pattern, we were music junkies eager to get our next fix of music At this stage, I was going to 2 to 3 concerts a week. The Marquee was like a second home. The next big change was learning guitar, this opened my ears up to Jazz guitar players that in turn got me listening to other styles of music. I remember going down the West end and searching for the latest obscure album I read about, sometimes it would take years to find it. Very different days!
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Post by Slinger on Mar 20, 2019 16:05:46 GMT
Probably at school, in 1967 I'd say. I was always hooked on music; I used to listen to the pirate stations on my "tranny" but around '67 I found myself listening to things like The Moody Blues as well as "pop" music. Of course, "pop" meant anything from Humperdink to Hendrix back then, so it was a much broader church. One could still like hit records when they were by the likes of the aforementioned Jimi Hendrix, Procol Harum, The Herd, The Move, Traffic, and the band that bestrode all genres, The Beatles. Even the Bee Gees (New York Mining Disaster 1941) were turning out palatable stuff, and of course, '67 was the year of Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco" and more importantly (to me) "Waterloo Sunset" and "Itchycoo Park."
If I was only allowed one single to serve as my entire record collection it would probably be The Kinks' Waterloo Sunset.
Of course, for every Kinks there was a Val Doonican, for every Troggs a Vince Hill, but there was so much interesting music that one could ignore them. At least they kept our parents quiet when Top Of The Pops was on because one could "tell the boys from the girls" and could "understand every word they're singing" too.
It was also the beginning of the LP as more than just a repository for an artist's last six singles and some 'B' sides. Brilliant tracks that never saw the light of day as a "45" were springing up, and getting radio airplay too. The chart single became more of a sampler for our favourite bands rather than the only thing we wanted to hear them perform. For me, it was the year my relentless, unremitting, love affair with music took its first few breaths and pretty much took over my life in one way or another.
It was when my interest in musicians transcended what their favourite colour was, or where they bought their kaftans. It was the year I felt involved with the music rather than just being an innocent bystander as it strode past.
The only other "name" I use on the internet, other than slinger, of course, is UK_Muso, at places like MySpace, Soundcloud, and Spotify.
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Post by MartinT on Mar 20, 2019 16:51:02 GMT
The friend I mentioned had parents who bought a Lenco turntable, Hitachi amp and AR 2ax speakers. It was almost solely used by him, the lucky b*st*rd. I had to wait several years before I could even afford to build my own system, but that gave me the taste for home reproduction as well as music like Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Climax and others that have stayed with me ever since.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 20, 2019 17:23:18 GMT
All of my mates at school were into music. We started going to gigs while still at school and were able to stay in touch afterwards. Curse my luck, poor judgement and parents never seeing Hendrix and Cream when they did, even missing Cream at Windsor Festival as I was so tired and had to work Monday.
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Post by Pinch on Mar 20, 2019 22:41:20 GMT
Hard to say. There was never a time that I didn't enjoy music. By around aged 10 I would regularly go to bed with headphones on and listen to an album before going to sleep. But just pop stuff really. A big change around 15-16, when I discovered stuff like nine inch nails and Aphex Twin - prompted me to engage with music in a very different way.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 8:17:10 GMT
I have been a music fan literally my entire life and in fact, my Mum always tells the story of me bopping around in her belly to Thin Lizzy when she was pregnant.
For me Music is a mood enhancer, it always works, I only need to put something on and it changes how I am feeling.
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Post by julesd68 on Mar 21, 2019 10:38:17 GMT
An interesting question young Michael. Taking two definitions of 'muso' - 1 "a musician, especially one over-concerned with technique."I joined a choir school straight out of primary school and immediately started various music lessons - I became a full-time chorister and it wasn't long before I was playing both violin and trumpet, and later French Horn. Can't say I was overly concerned with technique at that age though .... 2. "a keen music fan."I'm desperately trying to remember that far back but I think it was when we started watching TOTP around the same age. I loved it. This prompted my first vinyl purchase which was Blondie's 'Parallel Lines'. From then on I was hooked and started going to gigs around the age of 13 or 14 - became a regular at the Manchester Apollo as I was a dedicated 'metaller' at the time ...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 11:51:09 GMT
From the point where your sister introduces you to 'In rock' at the age of 5 Much to the annoyance of one's parents
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Post by MartinT on Mar 21, 2019 12:16:20 GMT
As in Deep Purple...?
Nice album to start with!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 12:27:50 GMT
Yes Martin Purple's defining album needs number 11 to listen to correctly
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Post by MartinT on Mar 21, 2019 13:05:59 GMT
Tricky choice between that and Machine Head.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 13:38:00 GMT
Both are excellent in the own right, for different reasons, however Fireball contains some rather more left field work that is underrated but seriously good.
However MIJ is still one of the very best live albums ever put down on tape, it captures five musicians achieving virtuosity while enjoying themselves totally and utterly sublime
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