What got you into music?

[RobTheDrummer]

Myself, I dunno...always just loved drums, always wanted to play.

[Sapo]

AC/DC. They were the coolest growing up. I've always been a Cliff Williams fan...I wanted to be like Cliff.

[Primates]

My mom.

[GoneForever]

Music in general-Kiss
Metal- Over Kill

[Baceman Spiff]

AC/DC. They were the coolest growing up. I've always been a Cliff Williams fan...I wanted to be like Cliff.

Gotta go AC/DC too, at least initially. They were the first band I ever got into to. But it was Angus not Cliff Williams. Oh yeah BLACK SABBATH too.

[Bag]

Heard "Rock And Roll All Night" on the radio, liked it, went and bought Kiss Alive. The rest is history...

I about shit my 10 year old pants when I opened up that album on the way home from the store.

[ToonaRockGuy]

I started banging on pots and pans when I was 3, and my dad got me started with drum lessons at age 4. I loved to play, but never really understood the whole thing until the first time I heard "A Hard Days' Night" by The Beatles. Then the "band" think clicked. I think I was about 6 or 7. I slowly but surely worked my way though my parents' collection of music, everything from Bach, Beethoven and DeBussy to Elton John, Neil Diamond, and The Bee Gees. Then I discovered KISS, Styx, and Rush, and it was all over from there.

[metalchurch]

I know of 3 songs I heard when i was young, that made me like music, the first one is Rainbow's Man on the Silver Mountain. The other 2 were by Sabbath; Sweet Leaf, and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Those songs just stuck out from everything I heard when I was young. I was about 6 maybe 7. My old man always jammed Sabbath, and Twisted Sister, Dio, Ted Nugent, all the classic stuff, so I got alot of influence from that also.

[RamRod 1]

Always wanted to play guitar........Then the BeaTles hit.

[EyesOfAnguishbassist]

My mom...she used to wach Poison home videos all the time and i sat there and watched em.. my guilty pleasure ... but thats how it all started

[UNEARTHA7XMatt]

The Paradise City Video made me want to be a Frontman..
Pantera made me want to be a Metal Frontman..

[Asundor]

I would have to say the two bands that first got me doing what I do know would be, Poison & Kiss. And my mother use to have these 2 very old Fender guitars that I was always playing on.

[Michael Troy]

Fate...

[Plastered Bastards]

I grew up around a house that always had music going,but my 2 older brothers gave me the tools to succeed. A guitar and a chunk of hash. LOL
Cheers!!!!!!!

[mjb]

music got me at about 4 to the best of my recolection, my main guy was johnny cash, i believe he had a show on tv as well as glenn cambell(sp) and then i had favorite songs on the radio when i went to bed and had to stay up till i heard them and could practially memorize what WCRO was going to play next. back then you could catch wolf-man jack late at night maybe on a wed. or somethingand he would play some really good stuff that you weren't hearing on wcro and there was also the king bicuit flour hour. at age 6 my dad got me guitar lessons, everybody said i was too young and "he won't stick with it" that was 34 years ago. although i've only been serious about playing for 25 years. i don't know, its kind of wierd how music gets some of us and not others. who knows, maybe i won't stick with it thats how it all started. i could talk about this for days. good thread rob.

asundor, does your mom want to sell those old fenders

[YankeeRose]

I grew up around a house that always had music going,but my 2 older brothers gave me the tools to succeed. A guitar and a chunk of hash. LOL
Cheers!!!!!!!

LMAO






Yeah, great thread Rob! From my earliest memories, whether my family's pic-a-nics and "good beer drinkin'" Country/Honky Tonk/Bluegrass (Those who watched it will never forget "Hee Haw!"), my sister and Motown/Beatles/Rock (She got me to watch "the Bandstand!".), my brother and Rock/Acid Rock/Hard Rock/or Metal (Plus, late night weekend Music shows and SNL.), while visiting my grandparents, Big Band/Jazz (PBS: "Austin City Limits" and "anna one, anna two" - "Lawrence Welk".), it seems one genre of Music or another was always playing, no matter where I went. Precious memories, how they linger...

[BassFinger]

My entire family is musically talented so I just fell into it. Glad I did!!

[Naga]

I can't remember any specific point until I got my second cassette. My mother gave me her copy of Alice Cooper's Trash (the first cassette I owned was El De Barge, and for those who're curious, my mother gave me that as it had "Who's Johnny?" on it). The entire album is as twisted as Cooper's mind usually is

The song Hell Is Living Without you was severely in my mind. That song was really striking to me, even if not very technical. It embodied emotions towards a girl that I found at a very young age. The day I heard that, I made a vow that if I ever learned guitar, that song HAS to go under my belt some time. I kept true to that vow. There're still songs and such that rattle around in my head from the younger years, but that one was clearly the one that caused earthquakes

[songsmith]

I was a real, actual Merle Haggard fan at age 4, my uncle used to play his records when I was there, and started buying his records for me when I showed great interest for such a little kid. My dad gave me bluegrass and gospel. The same uncle eventually moved in with us, and brought his awesome honkytonk record collection with him. Another uncle had a Les Paul copy, and could play "House of the Rising Sun," which had minor chords, something new to me, and I was hooked.
I decided to actually be a musician one day home sick from school. I was 12, I think, and Kiss' "Hard Luck Woman" came on the radio. Not sure why, but I just knew I wanted to do that for a career. I had gone to a street dance around then, a band named Pegasus played, and I thought it was so cool that people danced while they played.
As for rock in general, that's the influence of my best friend since early childhood, Mark Morningstar. I wasn't allowed to have rock records, but Mark had hundreds of classic albums, and I had free reign to listen to whatever my heart desired.------>JMS

[BDR]

My two biggest vocal inspirations are Elton John and Jon Bon Jovi.

I first got the jones for being on stage thanks specifically to Huntingdon area band Thin Ice. Some dude called "songsmith" fed into it by letting me get up on his stage and rock out.

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[AllHolLowsEVe]

My father's immense vinyl collection! When I was a child we lived in a small house so my dad used to keep the stereo in my room. Around age 5, I would start looking through all the albums, reading lyrics and liner notes (well attempt to anyway). I think our turntable was the first thing I ever learned to opperate. haha

[alfred]

its got to be sabbath, since the first time i seen them in 72 in pitts.
so dark and eerie sounds and those riffs ,am i right?

[DirtySanchez]

My mom.

Seriously, my mother got me into music.
She has a massive vinyl collection.
I used to jam out to Ac/DC FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK all the time.

She also played guitar, so I'd attempt to play it until I came to the conclusion that I'm an attention whore and better suited as a frontman.

[ZappasXWife]

dirty said

until I came to the conclusion that I'm an attention whore and better suited as a frontman.

I bet your mom of all people always knew that!

For me, my love of music began with the lame records mom and dad had and I played them over and over. Stupid stuff like Glenn Campbell, Mitch Miller, Andy Williams and musical scores. Hey it was all I had, that and the transistor radio I had with me all the time. Then my dad got me a piano and I taught myself how to read music and played that thing all the time. Then of course there was my bubblegum phase when I bought my 45s at Gables. When I first discovered more refined 'rock' music I played CSN&Y 4-Way Street and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road until I wore them out.

[Dragan Kalasa]

I don't remember much. When I was in 5th grade I started playing the Alto Saxophone. 10th grade was my pivotal moment in music. First, I wanted to try marching snare, but I was too much of an asset on sax to leave (that's what my instructor said, and graduated with the sax). At the same time, I got into Grunge, more specifically Soundgarden and Filter. Then my friend and I started a metal band, which was far from metal in the beginning. I played guitar, bass, and did drums on a keyboard (freestyle, haha), and vocals. After we went through a bunch of people I stuck with the keyboard/drums and vocals. When I left the band and joined CE, I just became vocalist.

But believe me, now that I'm kinda wondering around aimlessly without a band, I still beat on the steering wheel like it's just a round keyboard, and now I'm starting listen to Acid Jazz knowing now how important a sax can be (no disrespect to the OG's of Jazz and Blues). However, when I get back into the scene, I'm an all metal screamer/growler .