early influences
Posted by: seagull on 10 June 2002
Think back to your childhood. What influenced your musical taste?
My own? Well my brothers are a lot older than me (by 8, 10 and 12 years) and were teenagers during the mid/late sixties so for me it was the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Kinks, Byrds then Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Cream, Hendrix, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc. etc.
Yeah, I like rock music!
My own? Well my brothers are a lot older than me (by 8, 10 and 12 years) and were teenagers during the mid/late sixties so for me it was the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Kinks, Byrds then Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Cream, Hendrix, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple etc. etc.
Yeah, I like rock music!
The Shadows, Carpenters, Chuck Berry are among my earliest memories of music, along with a wildly OTT recording of the 1812 Overture that always fascinated me as it blew dad's Asak (or Asaka, not sure) skyward when the guns went off - that's Linn cartridges for you 
Also some Clannad, the Hollies, Rickie Lee Jones and Donald Fagan around in there, too.
There was also a rather embarrassing encounter with something like "Itsy-bitsy Teeny-weeny....." which we don't talk about any more
The nice this is, although my tastes have changed and moved on, I still listen to much of the music I did when was very young.
Chris L
P.S. And very young there was a tape of the Corries when they were fun, and one of Billy Connolly playing his banjo - great fun!
Also some Clannad, the Hollies, Rickie Lee Jones and Donald Fagan around in there, too.
There was also a rather embarrassing encounter with something like "Itsy-bitsy Teeny-weeny....." which we don't talk about any more
The nice this is, although my tastes have changed and moved on, I still listen to much of the music I did when was very young.
Chris L
P.S. And very young there was a tape of the Corries when they were fun, and one of Billy Connolly playing his banjo - great fun!