I was plbbaory lucky my earliest music influences were mostly what my father and mother played (i liked mostly what my dad played) my dad (coming from italy a few years before I was born) was heavy into Italian Prog Rock, what is now considered classic rock from the mid to late 60s 70s, bluegrass/(true)country, folk and 50 s rock so I grew up with bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath / Ozzy, Charlie Daniels, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty The Kinks, Ricky Nelson to name a few Also my cousin was heavy into 80 s pop / synth so from this I listened to Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Oingo Boingo then later NIN and others When I got my first boom box I found myself also listening to the whatever was on KIIS (this was the mid to late 80s, in hindsight it still sucked!) so I was into more pop music, Madonna and crap and I also liked the beats of Hip Hop / Rap or what was being played on power 106 at the time After getting into Middle school I got over the KIIS fad (and later the hip hop fad) and began to return to my roots listening to more metal and classic rock when I made it to High school I was fully into the earliest bands I was first exposed to I wore Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin T-shirts (and often was made fun of for them and my cool 70s rocker sideburns or so i thought they were) it never phased me I also became heavy into Primus (which went along with my john bohnam / drummer fascination)Also meeting Richard in my freshman year he exposed me to SKA / Punk and all that fun stuff College years were filled with concerts and recording them with my tape deck and later minidisc I began exploring bands like Dave Matthews and other similar sounding artists (although dave seemed to stick) and jazz Recently I’ve been fascinated with garage bands and indie rock / folk Somewhere in the equation talk radio fit oh yeah that came from riding in the red ford with my grandpa who listened to a mix of KNX 1070 news radio along with the greatest hits of AA speakers on tape Musical taste is funny when you look back on it I have a H-U-G-E mp3 collection now and I listen to plbbaory 5%.Music exploration is good, just don’t take things so seriously that’s why people who listen to Emo are so damn lame!
I was plbbaory lucky my earliest music influences were mostly what my father and mother played (i liked mostly what my dad played) my dad (coming from italy a few years before I was born) was heavy into Italian Prog Rock, what is now considered classic rock from the mid to late 60s 70s, bluegrass/(true)country, folk and 50 s rock so I grew up with bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath / Ozzy, Charlie Daniels, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty The Kinks, Ricky Nelson to name a few Also my cousin was heavy into 80 s pop / synth so from this I listened to Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Oingo Boingo then later NIN and others When I got my first boom box I found myself also listening to the whatever was on KIIS (this was the mid to late 80s, in hindsight it still sucked!) so I was into more pop music, Madonna and crap and I also liked the beats of Hip Hop / Rap or what was being played on power 106 at the time After getting into Middle school I got over the KIIS fad (and later the hip hop fad) and began to return to my roots listening to more metal and classic rock when I made it to High school I was fully into the earliest bands I was first exposed to I wore Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin T-shirts (and often was made fun of for them and my cool 70s rocker sideburns or so i thought they were) it never phased me I also became heavy into Primus (which went along with my john bohnam / drummer fascination)Also meeting Richard in my freshman year he exposed me to SKA / Punk and all that fun stuff College years were filled with concerts and recording them with my tape deck and later minidisc I began exploring bands like Dave Matthews and other similar sounding artists (although dave seemed to stick) and jazz Recently I’ve been fascinated with garage bands and indie rock / folk Somewhere in the equation talk radio fit oh yeah that came from riding in the red ford with my grandpa who listened to a mix of KNX 1070 news radio along with the greatest hits of AA speakers on tape Musical taste is funny when you look back on it I have a H-U-G-E mp3 collection now and I listen to plbbaory 5%.Music exploration is good, just don’t take things so seriously that’s why people who listen to Emo are so damn lame!