I first vivid memory i have of music is the late 70's when i was a weelad of six or seven years. I have three older sisters and they always had Top of the pops on. Showoddywaddy, The Bay City Rollers, Jacksons, Slade etc etc. It was just music to me. Being from a farming family then Combine Harvester by the Wurzels got played a lot.
My eldest sister who is nine years older than me was really in to Disco. She used to put her crappy stereo on full blast whilst she was in the bath. It was distroting like nothing you ever heard. I liked the music though. My mum was listening a lot to Abba (love them), The Carpenters, Cliff, Barbara Sreisand, and quite a bit of classical which i was never bothered about much (still aren't). She progressed on to soft rock like Pat Benatar, Meat Loaf and Whitsnake ( of all things).
My dad didn't listen much to music. I remember helping on the farm in my early teens and driving the tractors. In those days they only had cassette decks and the only cassette that was ever in there was Glenn Campbell. I did actually play it a fair bit in between listening to Radio 1.
First album i bought was The Police Zenyetta Mondatta. I think that is the reason i love it so much now. I remember all my sisters wanting to borrow it and it finally got returned with blobs of nail polish on it
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Certain bands i have been in over the last 30 years widened my horizons as i started playing different styles. An acid jazz band got me into jazz, funk, fusion. A country rock band gave me an appreciation of country music. Still it all leads back to Led Zep. I find myself plundering music from years ago mostly as i find very few modern releases of any musical merit, apart from Jazz. Jazz is the big thing in my life at the moment. But i find myself going back to the things my mother used to play. Time to get Bat out of hell out
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Over to you.