How did u 1st hear your favourite bands?

I play the guitar, right? This is something elemental to understand how I got to know my two favorite bands.

First Led Zeppelin. Back when I was about 14-15 I was very much into Guns n Roses and specially in Slash playing. My former guitar teacher asked me if I knew the "fathers" of GnR. What? the fathers? "Led Zeppelin" he said, gave me IV and said "this album contains the best song ever"...love at first sight.

Then when I was 16, and much into the guitar hero rock (Zeppelin, Purple, GnR, Maiden) I bought a Rolling Stone magazine which had an articul about the "100 best rock guitarist" with Jimi Hendrix in the cover. First of all I must say that articul was very bad done, leaving out peolpe like Slash, Vai, Satriani, gary Moore and others and putting people like Johny Ramone and Kurt Cobain in very high positions. Well, the thing is that in number 40-something was a guitarist and a picture about him. The guy had a les Paul (my favorite guitar) and ...sat in a concert...he looked very intelectual and calm while playing...interestng I thought. Then I read what it said about him, how he was the most important guitarist of the progressive genre (progressive...whats that I thought) and how he was one guitarist who played completly different from everyone else...I got very interested! Every guitarist came with a song where you could hear his "best" job on the guitar. This song was 21st century schizoid man. I got so interested that the next days I went to a shop hoping to find an album of this band, that I had never hear of. Well there was this album, with this song...and the cover was the stranges thing...I horrified face!...Well, I bought the album...Till this day "In the Court of the Crimson King " is my favorite album!