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Led Zeppelin, to the point that it took nearly a decade for me to return to them and be able to appreciate how great of a band they are. Looking back, I think I burned out on them before entering high school.

I even remember the specific song that really triggered it. On a car trip up to San Francisco via Big Sur from LA I must have listened to Going to California 100+ times on my little one-cd walkman. After that I started to get really into folk, like Joni Mitchell and Simon and Garfunkel, particularly Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

Before my Zeppelin phase I listened to The Beatles pretty much non-stop. The reason I don't say The Beatles though is because I wouldn't say they turned me on to music, they're music is just really ****ing catchy for a 10 year old. That's another band that took me a few years to come back to to realize how great they were.

Looking back I'm kind of bummed I never went through the whole early teen angst thing, rushing up to your room, slamming the door and then blasting Joni Mitchell doesn't really work.