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Location: Chicago | [No, not THAT] It is common to hear that we BOND with music from our early teens through our early twenties. I fit the pattern well, except I returned in my late 30s to reload a bit: from age 10 through 20 (1967 thru 1978). You KNOW when you stopped "bonding"... for sure.
What is YOUR WINDOW (age X through Y) for deep attachment to music that became your cosmic "soundtrack"? Why do you think you stopped "bonding"? |
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Location: Utah | I'm still discovering new artists and bonding with their music. There are memories and nostalgia attached to old music from my youth but I find I prefer to listen to newer music more often than the oldies.
There are many styles I never liked such as rap or hip hop, but there always seems to be something of interest. |
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| Originally posted by dobro:
Why do you think you stopped "bonding"? One word: disco
I spent the late 70s and all of the 80s catching up on all the great bands I'd been too young to know (or care) about. While I still enjoy listening to (and playing what I can) much of that, like FlySig I enjoy even more discovering new artists all the time. That's why I like 'Net radio such as Pandora so much. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Early '60s thru late '70s was my time (teens and 20s). Listened to C/W, R&R, Bluegrass, Outlaw Country and Southern Rock. I also LOVE the Big Band Era!
Then life got in the way. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I periodically explore |
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Location: Waurika OK | My window was in the late 40s and 50s. Big band, courtesy of my parents taste in music, also country, growing up in oklahoma, and 50's rock and roll.
As Colin said; "Life gets in the way." However, at 67 and semi retired, life is "getting out of the way".
I still have my roots, but also I am still learning and trying new stuff. (If only I could play the Blues) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Because I was in show business as a child, I was probably a few years ahead of my contemporaries. They would tease me about my "oldies but goodies." My tastes range from about 1957 through the late 60's. There's some stuff from the 70's, primarily singer-songwriter artists, but I pretty much remain stuck in the 60's. I also listen to many compositions from a few hundred years ago as well. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I spent my early teen years in North Dakota and didn't listen to much radio, so I bonded a bit late, with guys I could sing along with, John Denver, Jim Croce, Simon and Garfunkel. Got really into the Moody Blues after my sister came back from Europe with an album. |
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Location: Yalova/Turkey | It started in the late sixties with Ray Charles and Trini Lopez (influence of my father), went on with symphonic rock thru the 70ies and early 80ies, later on in the 80ies Turkish folk songs and Nueva Cancion from Chile (Victor Jara, Quilapayun and such), but I guess my real bonding ended in the mid-eighties, especially as far as rock and pop are concerned. Some later "discoveries" notwithstanding, like Old Crow Medicine Show some months ago... Basically I think I am just ecclectic to the core... Whatever music swings and rocks... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | My tastes are pretty ecletic thanks to my parental units ... growing up there was everything from jazz to rock to show tunes to salsa to nigerian drumming to polka to disco to what would morph into "americana" today ...
but if I had to pick that quintessential few years, of formative bands, I'd guess you'd have as a set of bookends, the ramones on one side and the clash and the other. |
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Location: Parkersburg, WV | Interesting Post. I remember my sister and her friends listening to the Beatles as :muffled" sound came through a closed bedroom door. I always heard music in the background of adolescence but really didn't pay attention until about '72 at age 14. Jim Croce, James Taylor, Loggins and Messina, and Cat Stevens put me over the edge.
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Quicksilver Messenger Service
James Gang
Greatful Dead
Fleetwood Mac Future Games
Allman Brothers - Filmore East
The Outlaws Green Grass
Marshall Tucker
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Location: Phoenix AZ | My bonding period was 68-76. But I'm pretty open to exploring other horizons. Currently I'm really digging old Sinatra stuff. Not much guitar work in those tunes, but great stuff in its own right. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Like Flysig, I keep bonding as time goes by. With certain lapses.
By the age numbers referenced above my period would have been 1965-'75 but a lot of that early '70s fluff left me cold at the time.
I kinda tuned out until New Wave (and some punk) revived my interests. Now I'm usually looking for something new that tweaks my interest...lately, in no particular order, it's been Jonathan Coulton, Los Rastrillos, earlier Jazz, and Classical (mainly Mozart, no Chopin please.)
Like life itself, I am eclectic and random.
...."and I stiiiill haven't found
what I'm looking for...." |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I'm pretty much with Dave, late sixties to mid seventies, was the first music to really light me up.
Some of it is still good today but much of it sounds dated.
I'm always looking for new, these days mostly in bluegrasws/americana/acoustic music.
Not ready to go the Frankie route. |
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Location: Wichita, KS | My bonding window was from 1972 through the mid 1980s, essentially jr. high through my college years.
I'm still discovering material from that era. For example, I recently picked up Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" at a used CD store. I'd heard the title track before, but this was the first time I heard the album all the way through and found it to be excellent.
Like some of you who've already commented, I keep my ears open for new stuff. Just this afternoon, UPS delivered three CDs by the John Jorgenson Quintet, whom I discovered at Guitar Town last month. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | My formative years were sitting in High School art class listening to Hendrix, Zeppelin and CSN&Y.
That was back when they thought listening to stoner music might get the artistic juices flowing.
So most of my music bonding happened before Disco.
Although I am open to new music.
I have taken a liking to Arcade Fire
and the Old Crow Medicine Show.
Guess I've been watching too much Austin City Limits. :cool: |
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Location: Orlando, FL | The first albums I ever bought were by the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix and Mountain. They made a big impression and kind of set the tone for me - blues based rock. That led me to the blues, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Mayall and Johnny Winter.
I would listen to pretty much anything, the Who, Spirit, Zappa.
Another big bonding moment occurred when I bought Fragile by Yes. That led to ELP, King Crimson, Genesis, Pink Floyd and eventually to Kansas (say what you will, Song for America is an incredible piece of music), Rush, Gentle Giant and the Dixie Dregs.
Somewhere around in the middle of this I heard Mahavishnu Orchestra, Inner Mounting Flame, which led to Stanley Clarke, Larry Coryell and more fusion. Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck made a huge impression.
Somewhere in there I got a hold of Allman brothers, Live at Filmore East. More bonding. Then southern Rock got real big especially here in Florida. I saw the outlaws dozens of times, Seal Level, 38 Special, Henry Paul Band, Blackfoot and many more.
I was not a big new wave fan, so during the eighties I discovered a bunch of great acoustic music - David Grisman, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck and Mark O'Connor. Around that time I discovered jazz too. I went to some great jazz fests and saw Dizzy Gillespie, Miles, BB King, the Crusaders, Larry Carlton and Manhattan Transfer.
The eighties also got me back to the blues with SRV, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Clarance Gatemouth Brown and Robert Cray.
The nineties and early 2000s got me into the updated prog movement - Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Nightwish, Within Temptation and Epica.
And of course back into the blues, thanks to Pandora, I discovered a lot of great new artists like Joe Bonamassa, Ronnie Earl, Tommy Castro and Matt Scofield which led me back to Albert Collins, Peter Green and Guitar Shorty. My latest Bonding has been with Jump Blues like Roomful of Blues, Duke Robillard, Bryan Lee and T.Bone Walker.
It seem like the bonding never stops, although the styles seem to cycle over the years. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | As a kid in the early 60's I listened to WGH AM radio in Newport News VA through a Silvertone transistor radio...my dad was also into music and had a great Sax album by Sil Austin: "Plays Pretty for the People"...great stuff...
then it happened: The Beatles...heard "I want to Hold Your Hand" the night it was released (they played it three times in a row) and life as I knew it was changed forever...
Over the next few years, I listened to all the British bands, the American bands, and into the 70's when I got into blues and explored some Heavy Metal...But primarily, because I was performing as a single and duo (and later bands) I did a lot of singer songwriter cover tunes and built a huge library of music (albums/8-tracks/cassettes/CD/DVD) which still occupies an entire room when it is all together...my friends gave me the nickname "music mike" and it has stuck all these years...I still listen to different genres and new performers...it never gets old..(although I did not like a lot of Disco and am not into Rap or Death Metal...just can't go there)...
Music is simply a passion for me... |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
As a kid in the early 60's I listened to WGH AM radio in Newport News VA Wow Mike, small world. WGH, eh... so do you remember "it's Casey Chevrolet time!". |
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Location: Miami | My bonding age was between age 8 to about 21. I'm 46 now, enjoy the heck out of all sorts of styles from all different periods, but nothing stirs my soul like songs from the 70s. I've noticed the same holds for movies, commercials, toys, photographs, TV shows, etc. It's definitely the time frame when my psyche got infused with the stuff that eventually became nostalgic to a spiritual degree.
It's bizarre. I still bond with modern stuff, but not like that. |
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Location: Chicago | Some very interesting testimony here. I just got sucked back through the window today by finding Fleetwood Mac's HYPNOTIZED . Talk about a time-warp! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ..more from the "Way Back" machine:
From the Fleetwood Mac Future Games album with Danny Kirwan, IMHO their best effort.
Future Games
Woman Of A Thousand Years
Sands Of Time
Sometimes
Show Me A Smile |
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Window of Bondage