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My old man listened to lots of folk, and rock.
The fureys for instance. Rolling stones, uriah heap, and even some laura branigan etc... This taught me to appreciate what the 60 & 70's did for music. Thank heavens i went with my old man's taste, and not my mom's otherwise i would have posted in this thread all about carika keusenkamp, anellie van rooien, uri els, and that may have lead to me being a bieber fan of some sorts...
    domhatch wrote: hey. what's wrong with roxette? compared to mr curtains-for-trousers, they're positively brilliant!
    Nothing wrong with roxette. I listened to them well into highschool years
      My mom played a lot of blues around the house - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix. Then she introduced me to The Doors, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Nazareth, even Leonard Cohen. She got me listening to most of the music I listen to now.
        coynegfsa wrote: My mom played a lot of blues around the house - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix. Then she introduced me to The Doors, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Nazareth, even Leonard Cohen. She got me listening to most of the music I listen to now.
        What did your dad listen to?
          Crafty wrote:
          coynegfsa wrote: My mom played a lot of blues around the house - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix. Then she introduced me to The Doors, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Nazareth, even Leonard Cohen. She got me listening to most of the music I listen to now.
          What did your dad listen to?
          We never talked music. Or much else for matter.
            Nuthin'!!! My mother listened to The Sound Of Music and Mario Lanza... I was into Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep as a small kid. :-[
            Until my older sister smacked me against the head and introduced me to Led Zeppelin and Blind Faith... 8)
            I grew up watching Woodstock, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, and Concert For Bangladesh.

            A far cry from Oupa's "trek klavier & bekvluitjie"... ???

            Bottom line is... the music is in your blood. What you do with it is entirely up to you. :-\
              My mom played piano. I tried taking lessons when I was younger, but it never stuck with me. Now I regret not sticking with it and the piano stands in the lounge un-tuned and idle. Alas...

              My dad listened to a lot of Neil Diamond, Tracy Chapman, Joan Armatrading and Yello (for a very strange while). I can appreciate Tracy Chapman and Joan Armatrading, but it doesn't do that much for me. Neil Diamond, much to my dad's dismay, never did anything but annoy me.

              Most of my friends' parents got them introduced to the glory of the Gods of rock early, however the first I ever heard of Led Zeppelin was at a bar at the age of 15 when my (much older designated beer buyer) friend freaked out at hearing that I never heard them and played "Stairway" on the jukebox. I got introduced to The Pixies, Twisted Sister, Rolling Stones and all the greats in short order.
                I had a variety as well from my old man. Boston, Bob Dylan, Crusaders, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong (Especially an album, Louis sings the good book. Amazing choir and the pianist is unbelievable!)

                There were plenty of old show tunes and the favourites right through from the 50's to the 70's. Stagger Lee, My Delilah that sort of stuff.

                My mother listened to the 80's stuff. Adam Ant looked so hardcore on his album cover but was so stupid. We heard Rabbit and some Beatles as well.

                I'm now introducing my oldest son to the Beatles and Queen.

                  I'm now introducing my oldest son to the Beatles and Queen.
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                  "What I as a parent am giving my kids"

                  My daughter, now 20 years old, has been a Beatles freak for years. I gave her the two cassettes of the the Beatles "best of" albums after she asked about "Octopus's Garden" which was being used in a dance production that she was in when she was 12. She was hooked straight away. She has all their albums and doesn't seem to tire of them completely.

                  On finding this out the other day a friend of ours asked her "What do you know about the Beatles" to which she said ask me any question about them you like;
                  Who was their first drummer? Pete Best
                  Who was their first bassist? Stuart Sutcliffe
                  Which songs did George Harrison write? While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Here Comes The Sun, Old Brown Shoe
                  So I guess she "owned" him as the modern saying goes. ?
                  She unfortunately does not play a musical instrument but can do ballet and contemporary dance quite some justice.

                  Both her and my son (useful drummer) seem to enjoy some of the older stuff that I listen to(Yellow Jackets, Spyro Gyra, Rolling Stones, George Benson....) in addition to some of the modern popular music.
                  I am also being exposed to some of the more modern music, especially from my son who gets these from his drum tutor, like Dream Theatre & Karnivool. ?

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                    Yes I know its not cool to resurrect old threads... but I think its an awespme topic, and pretty pertinent to a musicians taste's at the end of the day. 8)

                    I remember hearing Ice T's interview, from his 90's album, "Body Count" which was essentially a Black male hip hop artist performing with a rock band. And he says in the interview on the album, that he pity's people that constrain themselves to listening to only one genre of music. I have to kind of agree with him actually.

                    I have probably about 400 vinyl's dating back from the 40's to about the begining of the 90's. In all three speeds ?
                    I grew up listening to everything from classical to Opera and rock, which definitely hasnt made me a better musician, but it does allow me to enjoy all sorts of music, so Im quite grateful for that.

                    From my parents I got:
                    Elvis, Trini Lopez, CCR, Boots Randolph, Nico Carstens, Satchmo, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Glen Miller, Frank Sinatra, Eta James, The Shadows, Bill Haley And The Comets, The Archies, Little Richard, Engelbert Humpidink (sp), Lance James, Eartha Kit, The Beatles, The Stone's, Ike & Tina, The Beach Boys, Roger Whittaker, Neil Diamond, Mr Pavarotti, Vivaldi, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Barry White, BB King, Cream, Johnny Cash, Santa Esmeralda, Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Ry Cooder, The Monkee's, Neil Young, Rodrigues... and the list goes on...
                    From my siblings I got:
                    Led Zeppelin, KISS, Bad Company, Golden Earing, Peter Frampton, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, The Who, Frank Zappa, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Boston, Pink Floyd, Rabbit, Nazareth, The Eagles, Supertramp, Thin Lizzy, Van Halen, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Leo Sayer, Jethro Tull, The Kinks etc etc etc...

                    I was fortunate enough to go through a few era's of music genre's as well, like, Reggae, Punk, Ska, Goth, 80's & 90's Hard Rock, Metal, Blues, Jazz, Hip Hop, House and as of late.... a combination of I think just about all of the above ? My favorite concerts are the one's that feature completely unrelated legends jamming together, like the Queen's Golden Jubilee. FSS it had Clapton, Ozzy, Brian Wilson, The Corrs, Paul McCartney, Joe Cocker, Brian May, Roger Taylor, Tony Bennett & Rod Stewart all on stage performing ?

                    If you have kids, I believe you should try hand down or at least expose them to almost as much music as possible, from as many genre's and backgrounds as possible. Its the foundations and building blocks to greater understanding. They will thank you later ? And perhaps they will grow up realizing that Bieber is an Oxygen thief :'( lol (kidding)
                      ThomasN wrote: Yes I know its not cool to resurrect old threads... but I think its an awespme topic, and pretty pertinent to a musicians taste's at the end of the day. 8)

                      I remember hearing Ice T's interview, from his 90's album, "Body Count" which was essentially a Black male hip hop artist performing with a rock band. And he says in the interview on the album, that he pity's people that constrain themselves to listening to only one genre of music. I have to kind of agree with him actually.

                      I have probably about 400 vinyl's dating back from the 40's to about the begining of the 90's. In all three speeds ?
                      I grew up listening to everything from classical to Opera and rock, which definitely hasnt made me a better musician, but it does allow me to enjoy all sorts of music, so Im quite grateful for that.

                      From my parents I got:
                      Elvis, Trini Lopez, CCR, Boots Randolph, Nico Carstens, Satchmo, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Glen Miller, Frank Sinatra, Eta James, The Shadows, Bill Haley And The Comets, The Archies, Little Richard, Engelbert Humpidink (sp), Lance James, Eartha Kit, The Beatles, The Stone's, Ike & Tina, The Beach Boys, Roger Whittaker, Neil Diamond, Mr Pavarotti, Vivaldi, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Barry White, BB King, Cream, Johnny Cash, Santa Esmeralda, Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Ry Cooder, The Monkee's, Neil Young, Rodrigues... and the list goes on...
                      From my siblings I got:
                      Led Zeppelin, KISS, Bad Company, Golden Earing, Peter Frampton, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, The Who, Frank Zappa, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Boston, Pink Floyd, Rabbit, Nazareth, The Eagles, Supertramp, Thin Lizzy, Van Halen, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Leo Sayer, Jethro Tull, The Kinks etc etc etc...

                      I was fortunate enough to go through a few era's of music genre's as well, like, Reggae, Punk, Ska, Goth, 80's & 90's Hard Rock, Metal, Blues, Jazz, Hip Hop, House and as of late.... a combination of I think just about all of the above ? My favorite concerts are the one's that feature completely unrelated legends jamming together, like the Queen's Golden Jubilee. FSS it had Clapton, Ozzy, Brian Wilson, The Corrs, Paul McCartney, Joe Cocker, Brian May, Roger Taylor, Tony Bennett & Rod Stewart all on stage performing ?

                      If you have kids, I believe you should try hand down or at least expose them to almost as much music as possible, from as many genre's and backgrounds as possible. Its the foundations and building blocks to greater understanding. They will thank you later ? And perhaps they will grow up realizing that Bieber is an Oxygen thief :'( lol (kidding)
                      I think you and I have the same family.
                        Dad was the muso - played a bit of sax, upright bass, piano & flute. He listened to loads of classical (Vivaldi, Bach, Chopin, Mozart) & supplied the dry humour : the goon show, monty python, not the 9 o'çlock news.

                        Mom was the artist and supplied the discipline (piano lessons), excellent greek cuisine and...Nana Mouskouri (ack!)

                        The only musical things they had in common was the Beatles & Vangelis. That got a lot of airtime in our house.

                        Luckily my brother was in AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi and Richard Pryor. He's the one to thank for the love of rock, metal & raw humour.

                        My sister supplied all the 80's cheese you could not want - I 'blame' her for my love of electronic music & disco. I heard Funky Town so many times, that to this day I cannot help but sing along :-[

                        At about 15y/o I found the "The Blues Collection" Magazine in the local CNA - Thankfully!. John Lee Hooker, BB King, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith - such good stuff! Just had to pick up a guitar and learn to bang out some 12-bar's after that.
                          I got most of my 'education' from my Dad, with my Mom just being into whatever my Dad was listening to. Some of the stuff I don't like today, like the Beatles. I appreciate what they did for music, and coming from Liverpool myself, its almost unforgivable not to like them, but I just don't.

                          Other bands include the Kinks, The Byrds, 10cc, the Eagles, Queen (to a lesser degree), the Shadows (again not one of my favourites), Fleetwood Mac, and many others whose names escape me. Heck, I even got raised on the Monkeys!

                          Out of all those, the only ones I'd still choose to listen to today would be the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and 10cc.

                          Once I started to develop my own sense of musical tastes, I listened to alsorts from Bucks Fizz, and Shakin Stevens to Prodigy and 'Double Trouble and the Rebel MC'. Thankfully as I grew up a little more, and dnace/house music started turning more bluergh, I started to enjoy rock more and more, and I've been addicted to rock n roll ever since!

                          Having said that, I never really did the Led Zep, Def Leopard, EVH stuff, apart from maybe the odd song here and there, and went through a small Queen phase, but I really took onto the early 90's/late 80's rock and alternative scene. Bands like Mansun, U2, DC Talk, Audio Adrenaline, Radiohead, and Paul Weller were pretty much my style. Even today, I'd rather listen to the Bends or OK computer by Radiohead than most other bands currently out there. I do listen to a lot of music from Coldplay to Muse to Evanescence etc, and even some Folk rock and celtic rock, but for me the early 90's was the best movement in Rock terms (particularly independant labels) of my age.

                          Regards
                          G!
                            Mommy dragged poor mini me to the movies to see...
                            The Great Caruso (Mario Lanza)
                            Mary Poppins
                            The Sound Of Music
                            Summer Holiday (Cliff Richard)
                            Various Elvis Presley movies ☹
                              ThomasN wrote: Yes I know its not cool to resurrect old threads... but I think its an awespme topic
                              Absolutely. ? It's the agony aunt threads I hate seing returning, not great ones like this.
                                Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
                                ThomasN wrote: Yes I know its not cool to resurrect old threads... but I think its an awespme topic
                                Absolutely. ? It's the agony aunt threads I hate seing returning, not great ones like this.
                                Sigh... Alan, I had a really bad day so I grabbed my guitar ?
                                  Eish, you guys make me feel old :-[..........I grew up with Glen Miller, Sinatra, Dizzy Gilespie, Ella, Sachmo, Edith Piaf, Bobby Darin...........
                                  I discovered the real stuff...Led Zep, Boston, Santana, Steve Miller at boarding school..........
                                  First LP I ever purchased with my pocket money was Steve Miller Band, first seven single was Rolling stones..........
                                  remember the good old days, bunking school to go and wade thru records at Look and Listen in Hillbrow (it was safe and fun then....).......

                                    Great thread.
                                    Glad it is was brought back from the archives!

                                    My dad raised me on everything that used to play on Springbok Radio.
                                    Some that I recall are, Queen, Status Quo, Fleetwood Mac, Hollies, and The Animals.
                                    I the got into metal with Pantera, which he described as a "broken washing machine".

                                    We still don't see eye to eye on all my music tastes, but we have common ground in what he raised me with.
                                      ragges wrote: Eish, you guys make me feel old :-[..........I grew up with Glen Miller, Sinatra, Dizzy Gilespie, Ella, Sachmo, Edith Piaf, Bobby Darin...........
                                      I discovered the real stuff...Led Zep, Boston, Santana, Steve Miller at boarding school..........
                                      First LP I ever purchased with my pocket money was Steve Miller Band, first seven single was Rolling stones..........
                                      remember the good old days, bunking school to go and wade thru records at Look and Listen in Hillbrow (it was safe and fun then....).......

                                      Yes but those were not all available on the movie circuit... While my parents indeed played played those on the local radio, the movie scene was rather limited.
                                      Even in my own teenage years the movies were limited... I watched those that were available but the best one's were banned...
                                      I took great pride in owning the Blind Faith album with it's banned sleeve, or Peter Gabriel Plays Live with the banned track, but there was so much that was denied to me as a youth ☹
                                        Yes but those were not all available on the movie circuit... While my parents indeed played played those on the local radio, the movie scene was rather limited.
                                        Even in my own teenage years the movies were limited... I watched those that were available but the best one's were banned...
                                        I took great pride in owning the Blind Faith album with it's banned sleeve, or Peter Gabriel Plays Live with the banned track, but there was so much that was denied to me as a youth ☹
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                                        Movies..??? - friday entertainment was Squad Cars............heehee............although I do remember watching a pirate copy of Rocky Horror shown through a projector that kept jamming and we had to stop the movie to sort out the yards of film that ran off the reel........
                                        Still got my folks original His Master Voice wind up grammophone and the Glen Millers etc to go with it......Wound it up the other day - was awesome to listen to the old stuff crackling away........