Do you have any defining moments that stand out as instrumental (no pun intended)in leading you where you are in your enjoyment of recorded music ? For myself - about 6 months ago I bought my first vinyl record "Degenerates by The Passage" which a friend had when I was in my teens. Problem was no turntable - so off on a bit of retail therapy - Then I see that sealed vinyl by the Doors is available on a label called DCC - the rest is history and being compulsive/obsessive I don't know where it will stop. Moment number two - a couple of days ago I received my first DCC Gold CD "Band on the Run" - a piece I like but I wouldn't have put it in my top 100 - but wow !!! Wishing you well - Andrew
My defining moment was, IIRC, on my ninth birthday in 1977 when I received The Beatles 1962-1966 double LP (it was on red translucent vinyl, which was pretty impressive to a nine year old). It sounded even better than the songs I had been taping off of the television during the re-runs of the Beatles cartoons on weekday afternoons after school. It may have been my tenth birthday in 1978, but it's the event moreso than the date that's important, right? Regards,
1964 - Beatles on Ed Sullivan, my Grandmother took me to Wallach's Music City the next day and I bought She Loves You (still have it) . Since then I could never have enough music in one form or another.
Hi, My 1st Grateful Dead show. A few hundred later and what a long strange trip it was! -Jeffrey "Never had such a good time in my life before, I'd like to have it one time more, One good ride from start to end, I'd like to take that ride again" -Mr. Robert Hunter
It SHOULD have been The Beatles on Ed Sullivan (I was all of 8 years old then) - but it wasn't. I guess it was a few months earlier when I heard The Dovells (You Can't Sit Down? Bristol Stomp?). Something in those records just "lit a fire" that still hasn't gone out.
Floyd's DSOTM A few years ago someone introduced me to MOFI. I had know idea what it was, or what the benifits were. So, I tried one on his recomendation. I found a UD2 of Dark Side of the Moon and gave it a listen. I was never a big Floyd fan. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed some of thier work, but I was not a fan(atic). As a matter of fact I hated the song Money and could never figure out why it got so much air time. Then I heard it for real and fell in love with not only the CD, but the song, and the label. I had no idea what I was missing. Since then I have added a DVD player, replaced my receiver and amp, upgraded my needle and cartridge, added a hundred or so MOFI and DCC titles to my collection, and I found this place. Needless to say, I'm still discovering what I was missing all those years.
Strabo, You still don't know what you're missing, as far as DSOTM is concerned. Until you hear the MFSL UD1 (Japan), you'll never know. It is truely miles ahead of the UD2! Welcome BTW The moment came for me the very first time I heard Black Sabbaths Paranoid. I was hooked right away! Mmmmm metal.
My defining musical moment that got me hooked? I don't know. I was too young. Maybe it was when I got home from the hospital after being born? The ride in the car home whth the radio on?
This sounds fun! I've had many "defining moments" that have helped shape my musical tastes and/or steered me towards high quality audio reproduction. Mostly these have been happy accidents. Here are a few of my earlier moments in chronological order: 1. My favorite uncle ridiculing my record collection consisting of Bobbie Sherman, Partridge Family and Archies records when I was eight-years-old. 2. My friend playing me Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" at his house. 3. Seeing the film "Tommy" when it first opened. 4. Attending one of the original Laser Light shows - "Laserium II" featuring the music of Tangerine Dream. 5. Listening to a weekly radio program where a lucky listener got to play whatever music they wanted and being turned onto the songs Jeff Beck "Freeway Jam" and UFO "Rock Bottom" (among others). 6. Borrowing Fleetwood Mac's "Then Play On" and Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" LP's from my local library. 7. My friend loaning me his Pink Floyd "Meddle" 8-track (within a few months I owned all their records). 8. Joining a record club and being sent two selections I did not order but keeping them anyway: Rush "A Farewell To Kings" and Elvis Costello "My Aim Is True". 9. Through my fascination with Andy Warhol, buying the Velvet Underground "Loaded" LP at a local record store (it's the only VU LP they had in stock). 10. Stumbling upon Frank Zappa & The Mothers first two LP's in a second-hand shop. 11. Borrowing Allman Brothers Band "Live At The Fillmore East" from my local library. 12. Buying Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" for no reason other than I loved the cover. Within a few months I had most of the Traffic catalog. 13. A musician friend making me a cassette tape with Brand X "Product" on one side and King Crimson "Discipline" on the other. Within a few months, I owned most of both band's catalogs... 14. Buying my first "audiophile" quality record - Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland" Japanese import (I bought it to get the nude cover, but the quality of the record/music is what hooked me). 15. Buying my first MFSL LP - The Doors. 16. Buying the Beatles white album on MFSL. 17. Buying The Police "Ghost In The Machine" when it was first released. 18. Borrowing Captain Beefheart "Ice Cream For Crow" from my local library (yes, I used to get a lot of music from the library!) 19. Taking a college course titled "The History of Rock and Roll". Coolest class and teacher ever! Got turned onto gobs of great, diverse music there... 20. Seeing a midnight showing of the Bowie film "Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars" There are many more, but those are some highlights. If I had to pick a single defining moment, it would have to be my happy discovery of Fleetwood Mac "Then Play On". That was an epiphany for me. It blew my mind and I've never been the same since.
My father's love of stereo. My friend and I trying to match our drumming to Chicago II in high school. Walking into a high-end stereo shop with the intention of buying something. Becoming disenchanted with recorded music, then discovering discs mastered by S.H. This forum, and all the people in it encouraging me to use my ears, and the stuff in between. Hey, TP!
There were probably many defining moments along the way, but a few come immediately to mind: * Seeing Bruce Springsteen for the first time in 1984, I learned about the power of rock and roll and what live performance can really be. Sounds corny, but I never was the same after that. My memories of Born to Run, Trapped, and Because the Night from my first show will always stick with me. I keep going to see Bruce everytime he is in town, always wanting to rekindle that first jolt I got from him, and he has never failed me. His 99-00 tour was the best yet. * John Lee Hooker's The Healer album led me into a love affair with the blues. In hindsight, it is one of those superstar-studded blues albums done past the artist's prime that I tend to turn away from now, but it paved the way for five hundred more blues discs in my collection as well as a lot of research and reading. * Marvin Gaye's 4 CD The Collection (now out-of-print) was my first taste of Marvin. I fell in love with the silky grit of his voice, his impassioned singing on the live Come Get to This and Distant Lover, and all those classic hits. It eventually turned me into not only a huge Marvin fan, but a lover of soul and Motown. Also led me to what I consider the greatest album ever and my desert island pick, What's Going On.
A neighbor in Middletown Delaware bought my sister and I a cheap phono and he installed it in a cabinet he built for us. This was in 1966 when I was about 13 years old. I'll never forget him demonstrating to me what stereo was. He then gave us a hot off the presses stereo copy of "The Monkees" debut album!
You guys are going to think I'm joking, but for me it was the advent of the digital age. Not that I think CDs are that much better than LPs. It was more that the CD-vs.-vinyl argument got me thinking like never before about musical quality, and that in turn led me to appreciate artists I had never considered buying before. My tastes now are much more varied and comprehensive than before CD. Don
