Your Musical Bildungsroman
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Topic: Your Musical Bildungsroman
Posted By: andu
Subject: Your Musical Bildungsroman
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 07:23
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what's the story of your getting into music? what were the bands, what was the genre that got you into music at the very begining, that you don't speak of now? i'll start. (has this been done already? sorry then).
my father is a trained pedagogue, and one of the best things he did for us, the children, was to play loud, every sunday morning at our waking time, mozart. i think that shaped us all a lot. then, at around 9-10 years, my hero was my elder brother; he got me into music, via pop, and more exactly Roxette. it was the year of Joyride, that i loved so much. god, ou sont les neiges d'antan? there were only pirat cassetes on sale, we bought these and recorded with the cassete recorder, keeping it in front of the tv's speakers, when the romanian public tv broadcasted the mtv top 20. i was the proud assistant. also because of him i was a great fan of michael jackson's Dangerous.
then MTV came into our lives. and at the age of 13, something dramatic happened. i was wathching "non stop hits; suddenly, silence accompanied the image of a pair of stepping boots. then the imaged moved to the face of an obvious brit guy who started walking and thus changed my life. it was the video for the Verve's Bittersweet Simphony and i was now into good, rock, music. i had a crush for oasis (still have) and everything that was british (but not older then the 90's).
later, at 15, the class mate that was to become my best friend persuaded me into buying Led Zeppelin I. i agreed only because everything i was intrigued by the "old-times" flavour of the music he listened and the very high standards he had for sound and complex oldfashioned machines he used for listening. he was sooo bohemian. man, what did people listen to then, in the 70s? rock'n'roll? and as i got into zepp, i became what i am now.
he was also the one who got me into prog, because he was always one or more steps ahead of me. he made me listen atomic rooster, elp, colosseum, but i was missing the idea, i felt there was something special in that but could not figure what. and when he passed me live in pomepii, everything became bright and clear. this is thank you, Ovi  ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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