When I was a child, my only exposure was to diehard old-school country music. Rock and roll did not enter our house and I was not aware that it existed other than a vague parental disapproval of The Beatles who just made a bunch of noise.
When I was about 5 years old, my parents bought one of those enormous console combination televisions that contained a television, radio, and phonograph player. I'm not sure why they bought it because they never used the radio, and they only owned one record album. In their entire lives, that was the only record album they ever owned.
And that brings me to the point. They had the one record album all through my childhood, and it was some sort of "popular country hits" record from a particular year. So I heard that record somewhat frequently.
There was one song on there that my five-year old mind found to be very clever. It was this:
So the song that I first liked was a pretty bad song about a guy getting drunk. And I'm not even really sure that it's a song. It's more of a weird story set to music.
At some point I was able to listen to the radio, and I guess I like story songs. I heard CW McCall's "Wolfcreek Pass" and it became my new favorite song. From there I went to Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans".
Then when I was about 14, I was hanging out with older kids who had the money to buy records and 8-tracks, and I heard Styx's "Come Sail Away". At that point my musical tastes took a hard turn toward rock and roll. [Reply]
Poor Save Ferris, was right on the money regarding the zeitgeist of music at the time. Tons of energy, hot chick fronting vocals, horns, screaming fans. . . Then one morning they turn on MTV and see this
Spoiler!
Has to be like Carr thinking that the 2018 preseason was pretty good for his franchise, then seeing Mahomes take the field in the regular season. [Reply]
I remember calling the radio station and requesting Cum On Feel the Noize by Quiet Riot. They would always tell me they can’t play it before noon. Pretty sure it was the pop station in StL. KHRT or something like that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coochie liquor:
I remember calling the radio station and requesting Cum On Feel the Noize by Quiet Riot. They would always tell me they can’t play it before noon. Pretty sure it was the pop station in StL. KHRT or something like that.
Ha. I remember calling Z92 (the ROCK in Omaha) and requesting Iron Maiden...they would always say "yeah, we'll get that one up in a little bit..." Took me awhile to realize there was no way in hell they were going to play Iron Maiden. I was young and naive... [Reply]
Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven:
Ha. I remember calling Z92 (the ROCK in Omaha) and requesting Iron Maiden...they would always say "yeah, we'll get that one up in a little bit..." Took me awhile to realize there was no way in hell they were going to play Iron Maiden. I was young and naive...
Yeah, I remember the local StL station K-SHE 95 finally started Monday Night Metal (EITHER YOU ROCK OR YOU SUCK). Still never seemed like they played too much real heavy metal at that point. Probably Maiden, Priest, and Metallica were about as heavy as they got. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coochie liquor:
Yeah, I remember the local StL station K-SHE 95 finally started Monday Night Metal (EITHER YOU ROCK OR YOU SUCK). Still never seemed like they played too much real heavy metal at that point. Probably Maiden, Priest, and Metallica were about as heavy as they got.
Up here it was 93 KROC, they did some metal thing I think on Friday nights. Shockingly good, but that wasn't until the 90's.
It's funny, cuz now you hear metal on the...classic rock station...classic...Fuck I'm old... [Reply]
