Did your parents musical tastes affect what you like now?

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Originally posted by fred simon:

And on my own I was going to concerts by Joni Mitchell, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa ... and many others.

I consider myself very fortunate.

Fred

Great music indeed - sounds wonderful.

My parents were great jazz lovers, my Dad more into modern and Mum trad.

The main influences came from "Bridge over troubled water", which was aquired almost at it's release and then played to death.

On the classical front again my Dad liked the more serious heavyweight stuff, Mahler springs to mind, and my Mum prefers the light fluffy classics.

Having a record player at a relatively early age, 11, and some funds to buy records lead to a fairly broad selection of music.

Jono

My parents, not really at all. But my older brither, enormously. He's 7 years older than me, and was (and still is!) an avid record collector.

So I was listening to stuff like Dark Side of the Moon while my pals thought Gary Glitter was the acme of cool.

We've diverged a bit over the years: I like jazz and he doesn't, he's more of a folkie than me and I listen to a lot more classical. But we've still got lots of common ground in rock and pop.

Pete.

Jazz was the music of my home. My mother would play Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn and Billy Ekstein to name a few. She would often sing to the music as it played on our Grundig HiFi. My mother also was an advid listnener of the radio which in the 50's and 60's broadcast a wide variety of music. Christmas was a favorite time when one of the local stations would play music all day. My uncle would play lots of so called Soul jazz like Jimmy Smith, McDuff, Turentine as well as songs by the Impressions, Sam Cooke, etc. He is the one who introduced me to Miles in the early 60's. I was a teenager then and Motown was a flegling label that became the soundtrack of my youth. There was a radio station in Chicago, WVON, that played everything including Gospel and Blues. On Saturday nights, DJ Herb Kent would mix all of these sounds together with music by the Drifters, Flamingos and Wes Montgomery. I am forever grateful to my parents for planting the seeds of music appreciation I enjoy today.

Anthony

Very little music played in our house when i was a kid/teen. Though I remember mum liking Andy Williams and I love most of his singles. She also had a minor passion for Englebert Pumpernickel and the James last Orchestra................ of which i retain no love or fondness.

God bless you mum xx

Nice thread

Diccus

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Originally posted by HR:
I basicly grew up under my mother's Grand Bechstein, which was a perfect space to play with my toy soldiers. All those chords were great sound effects for my war games. So classical music came early and at home. The rest is from Stefan's recommendations...

Haim

The opposite is true (re:recommendations), Haim, and you know it...

BTW: Sitting under the Grand Bechstein: What a lovely memory !!! So did I (under my mother's Grand "Feurich". No toy soldiers, though. I guess I was a pacifist (?) then, already...

cheers
Stefan

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Originally posted by sjust:


The opposite is true (re:recommendations), Haim, and you know it...

cheers
Stefan

Stefan,

The opposite is true in another sense: In recent years I introduced to my parents to a lot of contemporary, world and jazz music that they never used to listen to.

So it is a reverse role of influence though for some reasons my parents refuse to play with my toy soldiers, perhaps because the Bechstein is long gone..

Haim

I grew up listening to 'The Beatles', Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and the soundtrack from 'That'll Be the Day' when I was really young, all played on a very basic mono record player.

My dad's musical tastes actually developed whilst I was growing up in the seventies and he introduced me to 'Ummagumma' by Floyd when I was about ten and then Deep Purple and other contemporary rock.

We then discovered together the benefits of better music reproduction equipment in the late seventies and developed our own musical tastes and record collections.

Initially I was in to Reggae and then Blues but later came back to some of my earlier influences that were from my dad's music. Floyd in particular.

I now have his LP collection, much of which is in a poor state, but is full of jazz, classical and much prog rock. I'm working my way through it and discovering lots of music I probably wouldn't have listened to when I was younger.

Mark