We've really been talking it up today, haven't we? I am very much a believer that music one of the greatest gifts we have been given in this life, and it is very important me..
Here's my question: What was your defining moment with music?
it was when I was about seven and I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan for the first time. I had heard nothing about them, but my parents (who were only in their mid-twenties, for god's sake) were making fun of them and saying stuff like, "Oh, are you going to go crazy and start screaming when the Beatles when they come on?" I didn't have a clue. But, when they came out, and I saw them, heard that music and those screams, something kinda clicked. I know it doesn't seem it now, but there was NOTHING close to anything like it before, nothing to compare...especially for a kid in the rural south raised on Andy Williams, Buck Owens, and the Ray Coniff Singers (oh, and, my very first album, Alvin and the Chipmunks). And I realized, on some level, that this was MINE, and it had absolutely nothing to do with my parents. They just didn't get it. It was pretty much my first step into being separate from them.
I read an interview with Patti Smith recently, right before she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, where she said "on a cold morning in 1955, walking to Sunday school, I was drawn to the voice of Little Richard wailing 'Tutti Frutti' from the interior of a local boy's makeshift clubhouse. So powerful was the connection that I let go of my mother's hand.....Rock 'n' roll drew me from my mother's hand and led me to experience."
So, what was your music epiphany?
Here's my question: What was your defining moment with music?
it was when I was about seven and I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan for the first time. I had heard nothing about them, but my parents (who were only in their mid-twenties, for god's sake) were making fun of them and saying stuff like, "Oh, are you going to go crazy and start screaming when the Beatles when they come on?" I didn't have a clue. But, when they came out, and I saw them, heard that music and those screams, something kinda clicked. I know it doesn't seem it now, but there was NOTHING close to anything like it before, nothing to compare...especially for a kid in the rural south raised on Andy Williams, Buck Owens, and the Ray Coniff Singers (oh, and, my very first album, Alvin and the Chipmunks). And I realized, on some level, that this was MINE, and it had absolutely nothing to do with my parents. They just didn't get it. It was pretty much my first step into being separate from them.
I read an interview with Patti Smith recently, right before she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, where she said "on a cold morning in 1955, walking to Sunday school, I was drawn to the voice of Little Richard wailing 'Tutti Frutti' from the interior of a local boy's makeshift clubhouse. So powerful was the connection that I let go of my mother's hand.....Rock 'n' roll drew me from my mother's hand and led me to experience."
So, what was your music epiphany?
It was 1975, I was 13 years old, my brother was 16. I was in his room and he took his big puffy head phones, gently placed them over my ears and put the needle down on Queen's "A Night at the Opera", I had never heard music go full throttle stereo through my head. I was blown away and never looked at music the same. The moment is forever frozen in my mind. Thanks for letting me relive it TeTe :7
