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

I was the same, then I got it! I got it bad lol. Bruford and Belew are insane, Levin is soooo freaking amazing and Fripp the mad Ringmaster! All the fun of the circussssss! Be well, Iam

 

Karen Carpenter was amazing love her voice and not a bad drummer. What a tragedy. Peace, Iam

 

Some yes and some no. Great question/exercise. King's X, Maiden...can't put a finger on THE moment. I actually didn't love Bruce's vocals when I used to play my best friend's copy of Piece of Mind. Then Powerslave came out and I pounced on it. That may have been the first album I ever ANTICIPATED coming out and bought on release day. I was 13. King's X just didn't sound like anything else I had heard before and that intrigued me.

I fell for Opeth in the first 30 seconds of Blackwater Park. The death metal vocals I used to dread clicked for me right away when Mikael opened his mouth.

 

I remember picking up my first Beatles 'album' - Magical Mystery Tour in the late 80s. I didn't become a proper fan until I bought my 2nd Beatles album a couple of years later. I called up my friend immediately as the album finished - "You've got to come over now and listen to Abbey Road, it has this medley thing at the end that you are just going to love."

 

I bought Boris' Pink when it came out. I'd never heard their music before. I put the CD on in the car and at about 1:18 is when I knew I was hooked. They're masters of balancing the quiet and the powerful. One of my absolute favorite bands.

 

Here's another one. Dad took my brother and I to the cinema when this was released. We loved it and Dad bought us the single.
Klytus, I'm bored...

 

Great story Steve, thanks for posting. My Nov 4 1980 wasn't quite as cool. I was in my 4th full day of Navy boot camp, ha ha.

 

Thanks Ed, great to hear from you

My younger son is hoping to join the Royal Navy when he finishes his master's degree.

He has passed all his interviews and assessments so far, just the big one to come, "The Admiralty Interview Board"

It's one hell of a tough selection process, but hey that's right and proper, and I don't need to tell you that!!

I wish him well, he is finally really enthused about something, and what a great, worthwhile career.
Anyway, he has left nothing in the locker room in his attempt.

I sincerely have deep admiration for all you guys who serve/have served in the armed forces to keep the rest of us safe and free.

 

Thanks Steve. That's great, about your son, and I wish him all the best.

 

Thanks Ed, yeah, fingers crossed!!

 

Whilst trying to work through the rock family tree drawn by Pete Frame on my Dad's copy of 'The History of Fairport Convention' and trying to identify from the scanty group photography who was who. Oh and hearing Sandy sing 'Who knows where the time goes?'
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My favorite artist isn't a group. (Actually none of my top three is a group.)

I became a fan of my favorite artist when my grandfather gave me a copy of this album in the early 1970s:

 

Probably when I watched my first Beatles cartoon at the age of 6? A very very long time ago.

 

When I was 9 or 10, a spent the night at a friends house. This would have been '81 or '82.
He played his brother's cassette of Moving Pictures the whole night while we played board games.

I was hooked.

The other would have to be receiving "1984" for my 12th birthday in Jan. of 1984. I wore the grooves off that record.

 

They had me at "Okay..."

 

I was always a Stones fan, growing up listening to my parents' older LPs, but up until 1980 or so, KISS was probably my favorite band (I imagine I was right in the middle of their merchandising target demographic). Then, when I was in 8th grade, Tattoo You came out, and for the first time I experienced the Rolling Stones as a current band (my folks probably stopped listening to their new music by 1970 or so). This album opened the flood gates and I started building my own Rolling Stones record collection and learning (reading) as much about the band as I could digest.

 

I think I can pin-point the exact moment. I was in a van with my friend and his dad. We were driving to my friend's house and Stairway to Heaven came on the radio. The dad let us know that this was important and the music coming over the airways reinforced this notion.

We arrived home and pulled into the garage and it was clear he wasn't turning off the van until the song was over. I didn't want to leave. It was a musically climactic event that I'll never forget it. I still get chills from that song.

It was a year or two later that things picked up, but the seed was sown. Probably around 1990.

 

Heard a live version of Won't Get Fooled Again on radio.

 

I bought a Mike Stern cassette for 25p in the HMV sale because Steve Kahn produced it and I was into Khan at the time...it was the start of a 30 year love affair!

I don't think I've listened to Steve Khan ever since.

 

9 February 1964.

 

Hearing "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You" and "All My Loving" on constant rotation on the radio when i was 5 years old!!!!!

 

In the mid-70s I used to listen to a college radio station (KUOR Redlands), and one of the DJs used to play a lot of songs from Budgie. He mentioned that their first album was produced by the same guy who did Black Sabbath (Rodger Bain) so of course I had to seek it out. I eventually found a copy at a used record store for a dollar (!) and practically wore it out on the stereo. I've been hooked ever since.

 

Seeing and hearing the video for Evenflow

 

1. Popped in an 8-Track of The Best Of The Beach Boys Vol. 1 when I was like 8 yrs old.
2. Heard "Emotional Rescue" on the overhead in the Rec Center gym while shooting hoops as a kid.
3. Making out with a girl in a Chevy Celebrity while she was playing the One For The Road cassette.

 

When I first heard the album, Meet the Beatles! in 1974.