Squonk
singemonkey wrote:
Jack Flash Jr wrote:
My son Jack's favourite song is 20th Century Boy, he calls it the "heavy one"... he's just turned 3.
I think Marc Bolan invented the rock and roll star. You just need to see Zeppelin before and after T-rex. Jimmy Page is night and day. Every guitar player saw that and though, "Hell, so that's what you've gotta do to look the part?" and went to the mirror to practise pouting.
Seriously, Bolan must have been a huge influence on many musicians at that time and even now. I even hear bits of Bolan in Prince's best work!
I was a huge fan ?
PeteM
I took to music at a very early age, 3 years' old, and would sit for hours on end in front of my parent's record player listening to a variety of music from Bizet’s Farandole and Gilbert and Sullivan to Glen Miller, George Formby and Noel Coward. On my 4th birthday, I can distinctly remember getting a ukulele and a 78RPM record with “Pop Goes the Weasel” on one side and “My Banjo On My Knee” on the other. So the first song I ever learned to play on my uke was “My Banjo”. I'm told that at the same age I was highly fascinated by the local school's bugle band, and would insist on going to their practices.
As a 9 year old I had to catch 2 buses to get to school and the terminal for changing buses was outside the Durban City Hall where the city orchestra used to have their practices. I would skip the connecting bus and go to their practices sitting all on my own at the back of the hall fascinated by the sound of the different instruments. I would then catch a bus home an hour later.
From about age 10, I was exposed to LM Radio and became hooked on artists like Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Bill Haley and the Comets and of course Elvis. I would work the songs out on my uke. I remember going to a concert around that time at the Durban Ice Rink featuring a guitarist by the name of Duane Eddy and was hooked on the guitar. But all the while I still enjoyed listening to classical music and trad Jazz... Louis Armstrong in particular. I finally acquired a guitar at about age 11 and having those bass notes was a revelation. Then came Buddy Holly, The Shadows and of course the Beatles... also Peter Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, The Rolling Stones and all of the Mersey Beat Bands of the 60s... and so at age 12 it was time to form a band.... and the rest is history.
I believe that being exposed to and embracing a variety of music at an early age has been enormously beneficial particularly regarding the writing and arranging of music.
NOTE: Verbosity is the prerogative of a 64 year old.
strataxe
What I grew up with (a wide variety of music)
from my parents Abba, Beatles , Bee Gees.. Lionel ricjy, Michael Jackson, Rolling Stones(first song I heard was Out of time (79), CCR, Queen, Dire Straights, Julio Iglesias, Engelbert Humberdinkt..
my grandfather used to love boermusiek, so I had that exposure
Clasiscal is in the mix as well, not that I know it...
even some of the older Afrikaans stuff, like Ge Korsten is in there...
then came iRON maiden, ACDC, Poisen, Priest, Metallica , INXS from friends, never had lots of money so we usually recorded the stuff we borrowed, and
many times, 'who is this' don't know... it was mostly (I still have a tape (was Pop shop 26), with ACDC live on, Whole lotta Rosie, the Jack) it has been played to pieces, you hhear shhhhhhhhhhhh with Bon Scott sounding like a ghost... ?
So ya, I had exposure to lots of music, but these days the main thing in my collection is rock, hard rock and metal
josh
Well I am still a kid. I am currently 15. I am like the weird kid at school because I dont listen to Rap,Hip Hop,Dance,Rave and all that stuff.
I listen to all kinds of music so here is a short list oh and it ranges from Black Metal to Fusion Jazz.
Al Di Meola, Mike Oldfield, Eric Clapton, Cream, Deep Purple , Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Gorgoroth, Putrid Pile, Led Zeppelin, Opeth, Bloodbath, Opeth (My Favourite), SLIPKNOT(ALSO MY FAVOURITE), Jethro Tull, Dire Straits, Rolling Stones, SRV, Gary Moore, Thin Lizzy, Stone Sour, The Who, Motley Crue, Pink Floyd, The White Stripes, Wishbone Ash, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Ozzy Osbourne, Nevermore, Paramore.
I have been influenced by the blues & jazz & fusion alot. And I think that Al Di Meola is Brilliant!!!
Oh and 1 more thing, I wish that I could teach this generation of children what real music is because seriously they dont know anything if they listen to Rap & Hip Hop & all that KAK!!
Everyday I preach @ school about good music but they dont listen so I will just stop & I will enjoy the great music!!!
make-and-do
singemonkey wrote:
Those were things I was grooving to before I knew anything at all. After we moved to Cape Town, my brother would listen to the top 40 and get tapes from my cousin, so I was exposed to most of the eighties pop sensations. There were some good ones too. Ah Ha was the Swedish band that really did something good. Any of you other fogeys remember Howard Jones? Madonna. Depeche Mode. Tears for Fears. But this was all my brother's music. And I kept up my little obsession with '50s and '60s music until meeting a guy in high school who also liked The Beatles. And he knew a couple of other things too. The Rolling Stones. Zeppelin. Sabbath...
My parents always had the radio on at home. So I grew up on radio tunes...and the odd vinyl or two such as Abba - Super Trouper, The Shadows, Beach Boys, Cliff Richard (hehehe - some of his old 60's tunes are pretty cool). To this day I still get flashbacks from my childhood whenever I hear Super Trouper.
I always wondered what it would be like if my parents were more sussed with the more underground tunes of the day like Led Zep, Doors, Velvet Underground, Stones, et al - if my musical development would have been different. I guess it doesn't matter, the mere fact that I was exposed to lots of random music when I was a kid, made me curious about music in general.
And to this day I'm still obsessed with discovering new/old music.
Aha, Tears for Fears, Talk Talk = Classic stuff. And who doesn't remember Howard Jones ?
Anybody remember Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love missile F11 (or something like that)
I still have a big soft spot for cheesy 80's pop.
My very first two tapes I bought with my own money, were Europe - The Final Countdown (eek!) and Queen - Greatest Hits. Cue derail thread: any of you guys ever get the Rodney Seal
talk at your schools in the 80's?? The dude went round preaching about the evils of pop music and basically slated everything from Belinda Carlisle (mmm....remember her) to John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. He had this bit where he'd backward mask/reverse play a LP record and come up with supposed hidden messages. And I remember the Queen track, Another one bites the dust, supposedly said "It's fun to smoke Marijuana" if you reversed the record... hahahahahha....funny stuff.
Oh and KISS was suppose to be an acronym for Knights In Satan's Service and AC DC, Antichrist Devil's Child... hahaha :goodtimes: the paranoid 80's
make-and-do
+1 on Mr Bolan.
I still love T-Rex. Nearly bought a re-issue of Electric Warrior the other day, but it was R300 :-/
Forgot to mention Billy Idol on the 80's list.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik ------>>>>>
flatfourfan
I was fortunate to have pretty hip parents.
before my teens - Queen, CCR, Mammas and the pappas, dylan..............erm black lace...........I SWEAR THAT WAS FOR ONLY A WEEK......lol.
from teens it was pretty much anything, HIGH ENERGY...........lol........oh man that was a dark hour. Cure, the smiths, the cult, sonic youth etc etc.
Got into metal/ rock from about Std 6.
Squonk
flatfourfan wrote:
I was fortunate to have pretty hip parents.
black lace...........I SWEAR THAT WAS FOR ONLY A WEEK......lol.
Agadoo, push pineapple.....
IceCreamMan
my ole man was a duck tail so he listend to a lot of that kinda music, Shadows ......we're all going on a summer holiday crapola..... he did not have beatles albums but he an my mom did go to a couple of beatles concerts in the early 60's afore they married an all. pan pipe music and stuff like that ...
i trust i am a better example to my kids ?
Ray
The toppie listened to a lot of rock and roll Elvis Presley (early) and other guys Buddy Holly etc.. I guess that's why I've got a liking for it still. The old girl was big into Calypso for some reason and Negro spirituals (am I allowed to say that?). She sang in a choir that did all that singing. So, I like it still. And then both of them were serious classical listeneres and made me and my sister play the stuff. They listened to a lot of it all the time. Opera. Old Maria Callas was young then and my old girl used to listen to it until early hours of the morning becasue Callas was just about the best thing around as far as she was concerned. And then when she went to bed she would have nightmares and moan away and for me it sounded just like the singing that came before. Anyway, I like some classical music but not so much. A bit later on (late 60' early 70's) started to listen to just about everything that was going on LM radio. Lots of bubblegum. And having a sister who was quite some years older than I, was lsiteneing to all her records as well so that was Hendrix Beatles Stones ag a whole lot of things from that time.
flatfourfan
Squonk wrote:
flatfourfan wrote:
I was fortunate to have pretty hip parents.
black lace...........I SWEAR THAT WAS FOR ONLY A WEEK......lol.
Agadoo, push pineapple.....
grind coffee..................AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.......they're back.
Jack-Flash-Jr
make and do wrote:
+1 on Mr Bolan.
I still love T-Rex. Nearly bought a re-issue of Electric Warrior the other day, but it was R300 :-/
Forgot to mention Billy Idol on the 80's list.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik ------>>>>>
This track.... killer!
Seventhson
Well not as old as you old people but here goes.
Dad
Eric clapton
Jimi hendrix
And allot of blues stuff.
My mom
fleetwood mac
Queen
abba
cat steven
And alot of rave :?
Only really started listening to music when I was 16. :-[ Back before that I use to just leave the radio on while I played video games?
Bob-Dubery
josh wrote:
Oh and 1 more thing, I wish that I could teach this generation of children what real music is because seriously they dont know anything if they listen to Rap & Hip Hop & all that KAK!!
Everyday I preach @ school about good music but they dont listen so I will just stop & I will enjoy the great music!!!
Most people don't really like music as music and for the sake of music. They just want a back drop to their lives.
Renesongs
My mom was about as musical as a cow. My Dad was a Trad Jazz fan and had an enormous collection of vinyl that he played all the time.
Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Lena Horn, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Modern jazz quartet, Django Rheinhart, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, Herb Ellis, Wes Montgomery, Brubeck and this list could go on forever. My dad only liked East Coast none of the West coast "progressive Jazz" like Miles, Dizzy Train or Parker I had to discover that myself.
My sister (8 years older than me) Introduced Rock 'n Roll to our home Chuck Berry Elvis Presley et al and early Beatles and Stones - I can't say I was taken much with her choice of music.
My eldest brother was my hero he was into psychedelic acid rock Vanilla Fudge, King Crimson, Iron Butterfly, Strawbs, Traffic, The Cream, the better Beatles (White Album) and Stones (Beggars Banquet) and most importantly Jimi Hendrix.
My 2nd eldest brother was into the standard rock schlock Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath etc but that didn't influence my ear much because I had already developed my own taste I was after the blues men Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Winter, Pete Green, John Mayall. Later in my teens I discovered Fusion Chick Corea, Weather Report, Miles Davis, Al Dimelo, Flora Purim, John Mclaughlin and of course all that forbidden west coast jazz my dad didnt listen to.
singemonkey
make and do wrote:
talk at your schools in the 80's?? The dude went round preaching about the evils of pop music and basically slated everything from Belinda Carlisle (mmm....remember her) to John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. He had this bit where he'd backward mask/reverse play a LP record and come up with supposed hidden messages. And I remember the Queen track, Another one bites the dust, supposedly said "It's fun to smoke Marijuana" if you reversed the record... hahahahahha....funny stuff.
Oh and KISS was suppose to be an acronym for Knights In Satan's Service and AC DC, Antichrist Devil's Child... hahaha :goodtimes: the paranoid 80's
Oh yeah. A lot of serious looking adults completely blew their credibility to shreds with me and my mates by buying into that nonsense. My buddy Ivan took some quite serious shit at school for listening to metal. Imagine my shock when I discovered that Americans considered AC/DC and Ozzy to be the normal thing at high school braais. For us it was this deviant activity. The insanities of Apartheid reached into weird places.
singemonkey
Ray wrote:
The toppie listened to a lot of rock and roll Elvis Presley (early) and other guys Buddy Holly etc.. I guess that's why I've got a liking for it still. The old girl was big into Calypso for some reason and Negro spirituals (am I allowed to say that?). She sang in a choir that did all that singing. So, I like it still. And then both of them were serious classical listeneres and made me and my sister play the stuff. They listened to a lot of it all the time. Opera. Old Maria Callas was young then and my old girl used to listen to it until early hours of the morning becasue Callas was just about the best thing around as far as she was concerned. And then when she went to bed she would have nightmares and moan away and for me it sounded just like the singing that came before. Anyway, I like some classical music but not so much. A bit later on (late 60' early 70's) started to listen to just about everything that was going on LM radio. Lots of bubblegum. And having a sister who was quite some years older than I, was lsiteneing to all her records as well so that was Hendrix Beatles Stones ag a whole lot of things from that time.
When you
right write :? your biography, sign me up for an advance copy.
IceCreamMan
singemonkey wrote:
make and do wrote:
talk at your schools in the 80's?? The dude went round preaching about the evils of pop music and basically slated everything from Belinda Carlisle (mmm....remember her) to John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. He had this bit where he'd backward mask/reverse play a LP record and come up with supposed hidden messages. And I remember the Queen track, Another one bites the dust, supposedly said "It's fun to smoke Marijuana" if you reversed the record... hahahahahha....funny stuff.
Oh and KISS was suppose to be an acronym for Knights In Satan's Service and AC DC, Antichrist Devil's Child... hahaha :goodtimes: the paranoid 80's
Oh yeah. A lot of serious looking adults completely blew their credibility to shreds with me and my mates by buying into that nonsense. My buddy Ivan took some quite serious shit at school for listening to metal. Imagine my shock when I discovered that Americans considered AC/DC and Ozzy to be the normal thing at high school braais. For us it was this deviant activity. The insanities of Apartheid reached into weird places.
Nothing to do with apartheid , this was the 'merican south and their puritan value ..ozzy pissing on the alamo and the like.
warning stickers bout lyrics were nancy reagan's doing ? or was it the vice's wife or even ford's wife (cant remember)
huge rallies where ppl burnt records by the thousands like the nazi book burnings ..... the parralels are astounding ...
Ray
IceCreamMan wrote:
warning stickers bout lyrics were nancy reagan's doing ? or was it the vice's wife or even ford's wife (cant remember)
Tipper Gore
Een
singemonkey wrote:
Ray wrote:
The toppie listened to a lot of rock and roll Elvis Presley (early) and other guys Buddy Holly etc.. I guess that's why I've got a liking for it still. The old girl was big into Calypso for some reason and Negro spirituals (am I allowed to say that?). She sang in a choir that did all that singing. So, I like it still. And then both of them were serious classical listeneres and made me and my sister play the stuff. They listened to a lot of it all the time. Opera. Old Maria Callas was young then and my old girl used to listen to it until early hours of the morning becasue Callas was just about the best thing around as far as she was concerned. And then when she went to bed she would have nightmares and moan away and for me it sounded just like the singing that came before. Anyway, I like some classical music but not so much. A bit later on (late 60' early 70's) started to listen to just about everything that was going on LM radio. Lots of bubblegum. And having a sister who was quite some years older than I, was lsiteneing to all her records as well so that was Hendrix Beatles Stones ag a whole lot of things from that time.
When you right your biography, sign me up for an advance copy.
That read a lot like a Holden Caulfield rant!
