What cd/cassette/album/8track/or/78rpm changed your life?

An album called Passion, Grace, and Fire with Al DiMeola, Paco DeLucia, and John McLaughlin.

This album informed me that Eddie Van Halen is a decent rock guitarist, but NOT in fact God. haha

The album that made me want to play guitar was probably Led Zeppelin II.
The album that made me fall over and really start to play guitar was probably Black Sabbath's Sabotage.


Albums that I worship and listen to on a daily basis (I've listened to Rust in Peace 3 times today):


Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Every Ozzy album featuring Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society (Any album)

If you have not heard any BLS, I suggest you buy/steal some. Zakk Wylde is fucking insane.

Bethoven's 5th Symphony also known
"The fate is knocking on the door"

LOVE IT! Big fan of Dimeola.

That's a good one. I like the 2nd movement of the 9th.

Also, Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu.

Oh, and my album choice was Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force. I like a lot of other guitar players more than Yngwie but when I heard R.F. I was blown away and immediately started being influenced by more than just heavy metal guitar players.

zeppelin 3. you can tell music fans from idiots based on their ownership or lack of ownership of this alblum.

Music taste is subjective. I like Zeppellin II myself.

Music taste is subjective. I like Zeppellin II myself.[/b][/quote]
well, we all like zeppelin 2.

music is subjective....or is it? Yes!

Henry's Dream by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

It didn't change my life but it's a great fucking album.

Fortunately, spelling is subjective too. :ph34r:

Fortunately, spelling is subjective too. :ph34r:[/b][/quote]
thanks god!
;-)))

well, we all like zeppelin 2.

music is subjective....or is it? Yes![/b][/quote]
No, we all don't like Zepplin 2

Toys in the Attic

LOVE IT! Big fan of Dimeola.[/b][/quote]
DiMeola is supposed to be coming to Atlanta in June. Playing with Stanley Clarke and Jean-Luc Ponty. I'll be there...

DiMeola is also doing these guitar clinics for Ovation right now. He was recently at Manny's in New York, and my best friend won a guitar. Funny thing is, he's a drummer. hahaha He got to meet DiMeola and chat with him for a few minutes though. Very cool. :okthumb:

with out a doubt the White Album :rokk:

"Tie a yellow ribbon"

Persuaded me to stop playing at weddings etc ;-))))

Napoleon the XIV "Their coming to take me away ha ha"

with all the classics....

Bats in the Belfry
I'm in love with my little red tricycle
Photogenic, schizophrenic you
Let's cuddle up in my security blanket
Marching off to Bedlam
The place where the nuts hunt the squirells
I'm happy they took you away ha ha

and many more.........

Reassured me that I was not the only one of me in the world (or even in my house or mind)


:yowsa:

(edited in just so you could see a sample of the genius of it.....

thirty days has septober
april june and no wonder
all the rest have peanut butter
all except my dear grandmother

she had a little red tricycle
But it's mine now...hahahahahahahahaha

)



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"Kill 'Em All" by Metallica, especially Cliff Burton's bass playing, made me want to play bass and not be content to just play the typical G-note that most bassists just pound on

"Mother's Milk" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers showed that you could be white and get funky on bass...I never played slap style until I heard Flea going insane with it, especially on the songs "Higher Ground" and "Knock Me Down"

"In Your Face" by Fishbone was also a monster reason for me switching froma mediocre guitar player to a better than average bass player

Slayer's "Reign In Blood" and Venom's "Black Metal" influenced a lot of the aggressiveness in my songwriting

The White Album comes close, but ...

Mr. Baker, Mr. Bruce, and Mr. Clapton. Ran across them on an FM station one night when I was 15 and bored. Sounds funny today, but rock/pop was almost an exclusively AM genre at the time. Discovered there was an alternative to the 3:05 sappy poppy singles.

They played the entire first album. Followed it with one of Hendrix's.

And I have owned Led Zepplin II on disc, on 8-track, on cassette, and now have it on CD.

We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal

We are forces of chaos and anarchy
Everything they say we are we are
And we are very
Proud of ourselves

What was on FM?

After Toys in the Attic ....

other influential albums

Kiss Live (the first one) - I was 14 and played the hell out of that album, still raw rock n roll meets theater

Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic- like Sykk says, Flea is amazing

Appetite for Destruction - the award for could have been a great band but succumbed to chronic assholism goes to - still a great piece of music
I turned on to it before they were famous and saw GNR in a club with less than 2,000 people. Could walk right up to the stage

Look what the Cat Dragged in- Schmaltzy Choreographed Cheese - but huge glam - Loved the era of 3 minute pop - Totally a different time and place - the Reagan years - when nothing succeeded like excess - before AIDS and crack
How many times I said"Talk Dirty to Me" and the girls answered "I Want Action" and I was "Look What the Cat Dragged in"

Agreed there. Axel's destruction.

You might not know them, and I would recommend taking the time to,


Eponymous album by Grim Skunk.
http://www.grimskunk.com/images/grim..._grimskunk.jpg


Recorded in 8 days (Both because they were(are) good and poor ;))


To be listened all the way through. One of the most eccletic album I know, and probably my all time best.



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What was on FM?[/b][/quote]
Mostly religious, big band and classical music (the preachers and traditional talk radio was on AM then too). St. Louis also had a couple of stations playing German music (ummm-paa-paa, ummm-pa-pa). I think there was also an Italian and maybe a Polish station, on FM.

I can't really speak to other areas of the country, but I grew in St. Louis (which is still one of the top 20 media markets in the country). There may have been pop/rock stations on FM in other places, but from the little I've read on the subject, they were rare.

A couple of guys bought one of the ummm-paa-paa stations in 1967 and started playing hippie music way ahead of the absorbtion of the counterculture into the maistream. At the time, the only other stations with that format were in LA, Frisco and New York (although a bunch more had sprung up in major markets by the next year). They survived their first couple of years off ads from head shops, used clothing stores and the like until the May Company and a few others figured out that there was money to be made from the folks who listened to it - at which time the "counterculture" aspects of the station very quickly went bye-bye ("and the words of the profits are written on the studio walls and concert halls").

Still ... got to see Bob Seeger (a very very VERY young Bob Seeger) & Fleetwood Mac (long before they went pop and the girls joined the group) for $0.95 at a local drive-in theater. Some may have even "...smoked a lot of grass and popped a lot of pills..." just hanging around up there, not that a good church-going boy like me would have had anything to do with that sort of activity ...

Hmmm I might be able to pick up a few years from where PD left off

Here in Baltimore our first FM "rock" station (I can remember) was WKTK (out of business now) this was in the early or mid seventies

Was AOR (Album Oriented Rock) which basically meant they would play anything from the album, no playlists, no rigid format - and we had about the same advertising PD spoke of

Believe it or not kiddies at one time AM ruled the airwaves and cars didn't even have FM band radios

My first concert (I believe I was a tender age 14) - Foghat, Gary Wright and Peter Frampton - cost a whopping $5