:love: Oh yes! An very good place to start into music, in my book, NSW. B.B. King was my big launch into blues. But the only problem is when you start off with a one of a kind boy like B.B., its hard to go anywhere but down. Much respect for Sam Cooke too. :thumb:


As for my musical turning point, as boring and common as it may sound, I can't give the credit to anyone but Jimi Hendrix. The man's music gave me my first experiences of those overwhelming, pure bliss moments you feel when listening to a piece of music and provided my young set of ears with an example of what real, untamed emotion and talent sounds like.

Hendrix was also the first artist who I really obsessed over, my dad is a huge fan and would always play his albums on vinyl - all these years later he's still my favourite. But, probably because I was so young my approach to music didn't really change and up until I was thirteen or so I basically listened to whatever was on in the background - which was either my parents music or commercial radio.

The turning point is fairly easy to pinpoint, when I discovered that I could download albums from the net. The very first one I downloaded (accidentally) was the Afro Samurai Soundtrack. But the second, and the album that threw me head first into underground hip hop was Madvillainy. And the willingness to explore and search bled over into my whole mindset for finding music.

this too

That was the first CD I ever bought. Christmas money back in '94. I was 8.

Four words: I Could Have Lied

The first real Album I got was Rock In Rio by Iron Maiden and I had been learning guitar without the aid of having any influences. I think I might have been 10 or 11 and er basically I learn't the majority of the Album. So I'd say that Album by that band probably pushed me into being more musically minded.

My Dad played the piano a lot when we were little kids. He played pop music like Simon & Garfunkle, jazz, and other genres. Some of my first albums were Supertramp Breakfast in America, Blue Oyster Cult Some Enchanted Evening, and Boston Don't Look Back.

this guy is amazing...84 and still going strong. i saw him a couple years back and then once a bit further back at his club in memphis...i love the man. he is really funny too...i remember him saying something like "young girls ask me how i'm able to keep up at my age and i tell them one thing: viagra"

:D I know what you mean...B.B.'s definitely in a league of his own. But it's thanks to him that I've been able to appreciate all kinds of blues artists.

Good call on Jimi too...brings back memories of sitting in my dad's pickup truck, playing a cassette tape he'd made god-only-knows-when that had all his favorite Jimi Hendrix songs on it. I used to sit there and let that cassette flip at least twice before I'd stop listening. Good times.


Nice. :) I saw him a few months back and it was pretty much the same. About half the time he was playing music and the other half was him chatting up the crowd and telling the ladies in the front row how good-looking they were. Always an awesome show though.

Franz Ferdinand. Don't listen to them as much now, but they were my gateway band.

My first music album when I was a small girl was "A Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles :D
Also I had my childhood full of classical music, playing recorder or live music events with classical music.
Than when I was a teenager, I had many many influences, rock, pop, disco... techno of my boyfriend and hip-hop or rap of my brother.

So my first band which got me into music was The Beatles.
But the biggest influence for me in these last 5 years was Marillion and album "Brave". With them, I started to think more about music, they opened my mind for progressive music.

And now I like and enjoy lot of styles. Many influences made my music taste strange and wide... Although I prefer rock, folk and metal - I enjoy also pop, pop-rock, classical music, many languages, medieval, celtic, electronica, experimental, alternative, jazz music. I am not fan of techno and rap but from time to time, I am able to listen to it.