Get on the good foot!

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Most of the stuff I really dug in my youth aged pretty well - plus, I turned to classics early on (which made me totally uncool (or oddly cool) back then. ;)

My favorite hot new band back then was Metallica (Lightning/Puppet era). I was a huge fan of Ozzy and Randy Rhoads. Voivod was an inspiration to us aspiring metal musicians living in remote locations (IMHO, Piggy still is one of the most interesting metal guitar player ever, and Voivod remained one of my favorite bands even when I started losing interest for metal).  However, there are a few minor/odd bands we used to listen to occasionally which I can't help but smile when I think about, particularly the early metal bands (before our trash metal days). Stuff like Killer Dwarfs, Exciter, Anvil, Raven and such...


That being said, things may have been different if I had been into "hair metal", but, even if I was a huge Mötley Crüe fan for a few months at the time of Shout at the Devil and the first WASP album, as soon as I heard Ride the Lightning, I was done w/ all those "posers" as we called them. ;)

Danny Danzi

sharke


I sometimes look down upon my teenage musical tastes with a snobby air and thank God that I've progressed onto better stuff throughout adulthood. Tonight, for laughs, I listened to "Crushing Day" by Joe Satriani and initially laughed at how cheesy it sounded. But by around 2 minutes in I was stomping my feet, punching the air and banging my head, aged 14 all over again. Think I'll go listen to some Candlemass next!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRhmKuD9x8

I dunno Sharke...I never really regretted anything from my past. Now production, yeah...since I've grown a bit in that area, there are things I listen to now that I used to love that I no longer love. I can say I LIKE them, but the love has faded.
 
But I never beat myself up over what I liked or where I came from. Each piece of music to me that I loved was a stepping stone either by me learning how to play it or how to get the sounds. Even when I listen to my own old original creations. I kinda laugh at times, but I usually still like my songs. I hate the production on quite a few, I can admit to that. But I'd never hang my head in shame or be scared to admit I enjoyed some of the 80's rock stuff like Ratt and Dokken. It was more for the guitar playing than the songs themselves though, ya know? I was one of those guys that would buy a cassette tape and fast forward to the solo sections. I spent most of the 80's doing that other than when Journey or Van Halen put something out.
 
I also always had a problem with stars that sort of went back and ridiculed their past. To some of us that bought the stuff, it was the best times of our lives really and it made them stars. That was one cool thing I liked about the 80's. You were pretty much accepted wearing big hair and flashy clothes being a guy. Ok, when I look back at some of it now...it was sort of rediculous, but it was (to me) an instance of "Dance like no one is looking and just enjoy life" ya know? I really enjoyed life when it had that vibe about it. Though my tastes have changed a bit and I like to think my production skills have grown, I never forget where I came from and what got me into music in the first place. For me...though I loved classic rock, my teen years were in the 80's so that had the most impact on me. I don't regret a thing. :)
 
-Danny

I totally get that. I remember how my friends and I were so hungry for music back then. And when I speak w/ younger people and tell them that bands like Def Leppard were heavy metal back then, I guess it's hard to grasp because they associate them w/ Poor Some Sugar on Me and such. But when I was in 6th grade, Pyromania rocked! lol

The other thing I remember is when "we" stopped fighting w/ punks (literally, punks and metalheads were fighting in the streets almost every friday where I lived back then. Me I had always had a few punk friends.) The boundaries began to blur and we started trading tapes. They'd turn us onto Warfare, we'd turn them onto Slayer. The first time I heard Metallica's Seek and Destroy was when a punk friend made a mix tape w/ that song on it for me.

We were always looking for the heavier, most aggressive and intense stuff. There wasn't much in common between Ratt and the Exploited, but the hardcore stuff helped fill the gap.

bapu

julibee


I'm so cool with my teenage musical self, that my kids sing along to Depeche Mode in the car. 

I think the OP said taste Jules.


I keed I keed.

Fair enough.  I learned as a teenager that I was the ony one listening to it in Zanesville, anyway, so my skin is pretty thick by now. ;)

Mind, I don't pooh-pooh all of my teenage musical tastes. But I cannot deny there are some records in my collection that make me cringe. A live Racer X album for example. I quite like Paul Gilbert as a guitarist, but some of that Racer X stuff was just horrible. The only reason I liked it at the time was because I was impressed by fast techniques like "sweep picking." But listening back to it now it just sounds so gratuitous and garish. 

OK, not my teenage taste but I now cringe when I hear Mister Mr. (or Mr. Mister I get confused in my old age).

And see...the wing is my very favorite piece of chicken.  It's all in the details.

In my early teen I was into reggae, rock steady and ska, then later I got into prog and reggae was not cool anymore .

Latley I have been searching out some of the old reggae favorites, I recently found what was my one time favorite album, Nicky Thomas's "Love of the Common People". I quite enjoyed listening to it again after so many years.

It took me 35 years to realize how good AC/DC is at doing what they do.

I was going to say something along those lines, too. Although I'm still not an AC/DC fan, I do have a greater respect for them today than I did in their heyday. Ditto for many of the "hair bands" from the 80's, some of whom I'm only now discovering thanks to a podcast called the Rock 'n Roll Geek Show.

My nephew is into death metal white noise thrashing chainsawish and ga'throttle sceams and is gigging around. He is actually very talented! 

My nieces are into Trance and and my other younger nephews are into Hip Hop. 


For me; I started out loving all those 1970's bands.  

Fan of Led Zeppelin, Creme, Eric Clapton, Hendrix, ACDC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, followed by Cheap Trick and many, many others. Too many to list, numb brain can't remember them all. Funny though I'm more so a fan of the above examples compared to the Beatles and Rolling Stones. I covered songs by some of them in my youth but mostly did my own Rock original songs about a 90/10 mix of originals and covers. 



That said; my musical taste is very broad, other styles I like include classical music, country, blues, folk, Rock n Roll, Jazz, Pop Rock and current new styles and fusions we have today!

What I was doing in the 1970's my nephew is doing now (similar) although my band did long guitar solo breaks whereas the kids these days are doing manic 64th note dueling thrashing by two guitarist. Pan that left/Right and you get the picture.