General Music Chat

My big 5 in no particular order were...
Led Zeppelin II
The Red Grand Funk Album
CCR-Cosmo's Factory
The Beatles' White Album
Neil Young-After The Goldrush.

That turntable in the folks RCA TV/HiFi console...Thank you 16 RPM!!!

8 track tape of Iron Butterfly. oops wrong thread.
Grandfunk Railroad - was a live album? Yes best I remember.
America - Horse With No Name
Most of my rock experience took place in my cars. A VW and an 8 track player can be very liberating.
My Father would not allow that "racket" in the house.
I got smacked in the nose with a pop fly playing ball one summer. Had two insurance polacies to pay on my hospital stay (nose shattered)
Mom gave me some of the money. Bought myself a Pioneer Supertuner with cassete player. Boy I was the shyt then man. Wooohooo!

Man , thats tough becuase 68-75 , I was all over the place from Steppenwolf to Buddy Rich.. OK here we go.
Doobie Brothers (What were once Vices are NOW habits)
Deep Purple (Machine Head)
Bad Co ( Bad Co)
Buddy Rich (Stick It)
ELP (Brain Salad Surgery)
Steppenwolf (ABC collection)
Eric Clapton (Slow Hand)
Ted Nugent (Double LIVE Gonso)
Eagles ( the blue one???.. )
Styx (Eqinox)
I guess thats enough.. I had more 45's than albums back then:lol: I was studyin EVERY DRUMMER ..Hard to list main influence.Yeah , Dajax, My FAV tune to play on 16RPM was 16 tons. That was an eeerrry soundin B **** at that speed .
John

Only five? Hmmm...

Cream - Goodbye
Hendrix - Electric Lady Land
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Santana - Abraxas

Hoodoo Man Blues album- Junior Wells and Buddy Guy

That's the one album that got me into the blues. The rest is history...

Hey now...It doesn't have to be just 5, but I figured unless I drew a line for myself I'd be rattling off albums all night another 5 would be
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Jimi Hendrix-Smash Hits
The Who-Live at Leeds
The James Gang-Rides Again
Deep Purple-In Rock

James Gang, Funk 49! way cool!

Beatles 2nd was my 1st LP buy. I have a buncha their stuff.

Monkees - I think I have 4 or 5

Steppenwolf - I was a HUGE fan of them, much to my parents' dismay

Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon was my 1st & I was hooked for a long time.

Cat Stevens - a bunch, loved his voice, cuz it was in a range that I could actually sing, unlike much of the other pop stuff.

Others were Jethro Tull (of course), Who (I wore out Quadrophenia), a cpl Stones, some Motown, & Camel

Looking through my LP collection, I have many more albums of Brit acts than American

RUSH-2112
BOSTON-Boston
JOURNEY-Captured & Escape

Trick of the Tail.
Genesis

Rush 2112 also
Metallica ride the lightning
iron maiden powerslave
Alice in chains Dirt
RATM's first album

yeah, not so much LP's.. but 5 major albums for my learning experience.

311 - Grassroots
Ratatat - self titled
Bad Brains - Quickness
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions



runner up: John Frusciante - Shadows Collide With People

First, all of you guy's beat me to the punch and have named the obvious but I got to tell ya Alan Parsons "I Robot" had a huge effect on my playing OMG, When I Break Down, I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You, Some Other Place Somewhere Some Other Time, OMFG Hey people go to Youtube.com and type in Alan Parsons Live-"Games People Play" I listen to this over and over and I will never get enough, and so did Joe Wash's "So What" Aerosmiths "Toy's In The Attic"
It is difficult for me to listen to today's music and I can't help but say I sound like my parents, but my generations music is the best, we had a song called "Talkin Bout My Generation" we had sayings like Don't Trust Anyone Over 40 LOL We taught the world how to "Tune In Turn On And Drop Out"
We taught the world how to say "Do You Feel Like We Do"
We taught the world how to protest if you disagree with the establishment and I still say at 50 the Frickin establishment Sucks

Metallica "And justice for all..."
Black Sabbath "Paranoid"...especially Electric Funeral
SRV "Couldn't stand the weather"
Zakk Wylde (w/ ozzy) "No More Tears"
Zakk wylde (BLS) "1919 Eternal"
Kiss "Destroyer"...God of Thunder
Allman Brothers "Eat a Peach"
Iron Maiden "the trooper"

Rush 2112 also
Metallica ride the lightning
iron maiden powerslave
Alice in chains Dirt
RATM's first album

yeah, not so much LP's.. but 5 major albums for my learning experience.

Fan-fckin-tastic!