<p>ooooooooooooooooh…my kids <strong><em>LOVE</em></strong> “my” music!! We have a couple of great oldies stations and of course, CDs and such.</p>
<p>When my youngest son was two, he developed a serious appreciation for Rod Stewart, and he’d ask for that CD whenever we’d drive in the car. He’d pull out a word or two from the lyrics and rename the song that. For example, when he’d ask for “The Rhythm of My Heart,” he’d say, "Can you play “flames gettin’ higher”? <em>lol</em></p>
<p>Other faves of my kids (and me) are The Eagles, Jackson Browne, Dan Fogelberg, Neil Diamond, Carol King, Joni Mitchell (though for the life of me I CANNOT listen to her anymore w/o cryin’ like a babe, esp “The Circle Game” <em>sniff</em>), Don Henley, Bread, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, and some of the good Motown stuff!</p>
<p>There is NOTHING that can transport you back in time faster than a song, is there? <em>w-i-s-t-f-u-l sigh</em></p>
<p>Listened to a lot of music in high school
Bob Dylan
The Grateful Dead
The Allman Brothers(wore out two copies of Fillmore East)
Traffic
Earth, Wind, and Fire
War
Poco
John Lee Hooker
John Prine
Sly and the Family Stone
The Band</p>
<p>Still listen to these folks alot but my tastes have grown more eclectic. I can’t even begin to list all the music I listen to. Lately I’ve been enjoying Gov’t Mule, moe., and Wilco alot.</p>
<p>Berurah, A friend and I played “The Circle Game” on two six strings (and we sang) for our high school talent show! We even wore Levi jeans, morphed into skirts, where you cut them off, then took out the middle and sewed in different fabrics! With the requisite peasant blouses and Dr Scholl’s…of course!</p>
<p>For my oldest S’s 3rd birthday, we took him to a Temptations/OJay’s concert. For his 4th birthday, it was Billy Joel. Now he is strictly Rolling Stones, Cream, Hall & Oates, and everything in between. In short, all over the 60’s, 70’s music. At an outdoor stadium Rolling Stones concert we went to when he was about 10, he turned to me and said “Mom, what’s that smell?” “I’ll talk to you later! I can’t hear you,” I exclaimed. I think I did have the drugs talk with him in the car on the way home. He worked for a couple of summers in a local music store and the folks in their 40’s and 50’s were shocked when they could give him some lyrics of a song they were looking to buy, and he could go right over to the section and pick out the CD and hand it to them.</p>
<p>We have similar tastes. I love Wilco and the other bands in that genre (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Jayhawks, Golden Smog, etc.). Saw Warren Haynes with the Allman Bros at the Beacon last spring (his dueling guitars with Derek Trucks on Layla sent shivers up my spine) and have tix for Gov’t Mule in a month. Unfortunately, probably won’t be able to make it-it’s tough for this old fogey to go to a concert on Sunday night and be awake enough for work on Monday.</p>
<p>A friend of mine turned me on to Derek Trucks a couple of years ago–burned a live CD for me–but it never occurred to me until just now that he’s related to Butch Trucks of the Allmans.</p>
<p>Miscellany: I was also a big Simon and Garfunkle fan as a pre-teen. First album I ever bought with my own money: Sweet Baby James. First album I wore out: Four-Way Street.</p>
<p>Actually, I have gone by both names on various boards. Mostly I use wharfrat2. Warren Haynes is a God! I really want to catch the Mule one of these days. Have you ever seen moe.? Shoot me an email at <a href="mailto:igotfridgefever@yahoo.com">igotfridgefever@yahoo.com</a> if you’re ever interested in a trade or two.</p>
<p>Derek (named for “…and the Dominos”) does a great job keeping Duane’s legacy. He’s actually now playing with Clapton on his current tour (heard a great review of the show in Philly). From down here in Florida and married to the great blues musician Susan Tedeschi. They’re supposed to be touring together soon.</p>
<p>First 45: Happy Together by the Turtles
First albums bought as initial membership in the old Columbia House Record Club (never fulfilled the committment and threw out the collection letters before my parents saw them): Tommy, Led Zeppelin II, Abbey Road, Best of Cream, Bridge over Troubled Water, Let It Bleed, Volunteers. They’ve ALL held up pretty well, wouldn’t you say?</p>
<p>James Taylor, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Stones, Cream, Mountain, The Who, S&G, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Jesse Winchester, early Elton John (Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across the Water), Moody Blues, BB King, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Santana… Every Picture Tells a Story was a great record, though Rod Stewart hasn’t aged well, to say the least.</p>
<p>And I was just starting to get into Miles, Coltrane and Monk when I graduated.</p>
<p>Lent my daughter “A Love Supreme” and “Kind of Blue” when she was in high school. She was seeing a boy whose dad had a weekly Jazz radio show on the local public station. She is now taking a writing seminar on Jazz music in college.</p>
<p>I was (guess still am) a huge Jackson Browne fan. I still remember my best friend from middle school buying me the “Doctor My Eyes” 45 for my birthday. Best present ever. My husband considers ours a mixed marriage because of my love for great songwriters with lousy singing voices (Browne, Elvis Costello and Graham Parker, for ex.) and his love of mainstream 70s R&R (Journey, Boston). We set aside our differences and bonded over a mutual worship of REM (our son is named after Michael Stipe). </p>
<p>As a family music has always been an important part of our lives (H even works in the industry). We’ve always listened to KROQ, so the kids have grown up listening first to a variety of alternative rock from grunge to emo, and the kids have aligned on either side with S listening to Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, REM, Radiohead, NIN and D listening to All American Rejects, 30 Seconds to Mars, Panic! at the Disco, Good Charlotte and AFI. My kids have gone to more concerts than most people do their entire lives. They’re not all that receptive to music from my youth (Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” was on the radio yesterday and D proclaimed it the worst song ever), but at least I’ve trained them not to complain when John Lennon songs come on the radio. Some things are sacrosanct.</p>
<p>If you get the chance to see Jackson Browne solo, don’t miss it. He sits on stage surrounded by guitars, grand piano and electric keyboard telling stories and playing requests from the audience. He looks exactly the same as he did in the 70s and still has a great voice</p>
<p>Sounds like your husband has terrible taste (Journey?). My wife will only go to a show that she knows the words and can sing along, so that limits her to mainstream acts from the late 60s and 70s. Older daughter was my concert buddy. Now that she’s in college, I’m trying to get younger daughter to come with me, but she’s not as open to it (takes after her mother).</p>
<p>Oh. My. Los Angeles radio… just one of the things I miss about SoCal. Anyone else remember KMET – the mighty 94.7? When I was a college DJ at KUCI (“Twenty-four million microwatts of rock at FM 90 in Irvine!”) I unashamedly copied their format.</p>
<p>My playlist was heavily loaded with Paul and Art, Joni, Jackson, CSN, Ronstadt (sigh – Linda’s voice – sigh), the Beatles, Boston, the Who, and ELP. It were a while ago.</p>
<p>Yes, uh, “distinctive” voices are an issue around here. My son loves Billy Corgan, so there may be a genetic link to liking “distinctive” voices. While I do ridicule my husband for the 70’s bands he loves, I can’t ever forget that he was the one who introduced me to REM and no one since them has meant as much to me musically.</p>
“I’ll talk to you later! I can’t hear you,” I exclaimed. I think I did have the drugs talk with him in the car on the way home. He worked for a couple of summers in a local music store and the folks in their 40’s and 50’s were shocked when they could give him some lyrics of a song they were looking to buy, and he could go right over to the section and pick out the CD and hand it to them.</p>