Do you remember the moment you became a fan of your now favorite group?

The first time I heard the mono 45 'hit' version of "You're Gonna Miss Me" by The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
on a promo copy of Lenny Kaye's original Nuggets album at my college radio station in late 1972.

 

This started obsession

 

Hendrix
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Jeff Beck
Janis Joplin
Allman Brothers
Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
Nirvana

All my favorites and all have one other thing in common.. ....It was love at first listen. Not gradual build up or repeat listens to try and "get it". They all became favorites from the off!!

 

When the band I was in at the time (1990) wanted to do Comfortably Numb. Up until that time I owned no Pink Floyd. I learned it note for note and became an instant fan.

 

When I heard this:

 

December 9, 1978 was when I saw Kate Bush on Saturday Night Live. I had to find an album by her the very next day, and did at Peaches Records at 75th and Metcalf.

This event, more than any other, has defined my life. It led me into editing video, and meeting Vickie, another Kate fan who became my wife of 34 years.

 

One of best friends in college loved the dead and I remember American Beauty, Workingman's Dead and From the Mars Hotel getting a lot of play time during party time.

 

I saw the Cars on ABC Fridays in 1982. I liked them immediately. Three years later after seeing them on Live Aid and acquiring the first album on cassette, they've been my favorite band ever since.

 

I loved the way Lowell sang. One of a kind.

 

This is true most of the time but sometimes that moment for some artist does stick out.

I love Richard Thompson for example but can not pin it down to the when....

 

But that is not what happened with me and the Hollies. Of course I had heard of them and a few songs but it was the video on Top of The Pops and made me the fanatic.

 

Generally I equate both events as the same. I can't think of a song I had heard for these artists where it wasn't the start of fandom of some kind.

That's not a dig at this thread btw, just that I replied to this question in another thread so I just linked to it.

 

You may missed the point but why reply if you always "get it" right off the bat?

I got the Hollies, or so I thought, but something made me respect them more than the casual fan based on just radio singles.

 

That's funny. I got into Dylan through the same song performed by Bryan Ferry.

 

the first time i heard suite: judy blue eyes, and that was it.

 

I was a junior in highschool heavily into Hendrix, Cream etc. A friend of mine says "you like good music?" Uh yeah... Come over my house after school today. He puts on King Crimson Court Of The Crimson King". What a rush! Never heard anything like it! Been hooked ever since! Thanx Byrd where ever you are.

 

I also love COTCK. They are not in my top tier and like mentioned earlier, I had trouble getting into the later stages of the band.

 

I had trouble getting into the stuff in the 80s then I seen Belew play with KC. OMFG! I believe there's a video on YouTube of Indiscipline live in Frejus. It will give you a taste of Belew's genius. Give it shot let me know if you dig it. Peace, Iam

 

1979
USA Network
Video Concert Hall

 

Let me know when it's time to.......
Do you remember the moment you stopped being a fan of your former favorite group?

 

My Man! You have been saved! You have seen the light. Long Live The King! The Crimson King! OK nuff of that. I have heard that so many times! Once you get it you become obsessed! Been like that since 73 or so. I love the Belew era but it took seeing him perform live to get it! Fripp always gets the best musicians and gets their best work. I would love to have seen Fripp, Belew and Holdsworth together. Gods what they could produce would be epic! Peace, Iam

 

i was a kid, 13 years old, and i discover the song Waiting For The Sun by The Doors, it was amazing!

later Morrison Hotel was my 1st album i bought

and 20 years later i still can't listen a complete and proper release of the matrix tapes

 

Bruce Springsteen. Listening to the Live At The Winterland bootleg in the fall of '82.

 

I can't remember the moment or the song but I remember it was hearing AC/DC's Back in Black album that made me a lifetime fan.

 

mine is Pearl Jam also .. i remember the first time i saw them on MTV and i was hooked. I wanted more .. over 20 years later and im still their No. 1 fan xx