Grew up hearing the early Beatles, Beach Boys, tons of sugar coated pop, Motown, Bing Crosby, Johnny Cash, 60s C&W, Rock Opera (Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair), and the stuff that my mom and dad listened to.
"Fly me to the moon, and let me drift among the stars. Let me know what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars."
At around 10 years old Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin hit.
Done deal. I was hooked. No looking back.
I wasn't exposed to the Eastern stuff until a bit later. I think Friends off of Zep III was my first experience into that genre in a minor way.
Getting into McLaughlin's Shakti and later Shawn Lane's explorations brought it to full light.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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