Okay, guess I'll play along
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Grid of nine album covers with the title "My9Albums / The sound that made me": "Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne" by Keith Jarrett; "My Son, the Nut: Sings Nutty Things, This Time With Strings" by Allan Sherman; "fast japanese spin cycle" by Guided by Voices; "The Songs and Comedy of the Smothers Brothers! Recorded at the Purple Onion, San Francisco" by The Smothers Brothers; "8:30" by Weather Report; "Murmur" by R.E.M.; "Abbey Road" by The Beatles; "Glassworks" by Philip Glass; "F♯ A♯ ∞" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor!
If I had done this yesterday or tomorrow this would look totally different.
It's genuinely an interesting exercise trying to recall what I was listening to when I was a teenager and pre-teen, when coolness didn't matter and there was no concept of influence. My dad was into borscht belt comedy, the albums he bought tended to be ones that my mom could get along with too, so we had more or less everything by the Smothers Brothers, Allan Sherman, Bob Newhart, and even a couple of Bill Cosby's earliest albums, and us kids played them to death. Later when we had the ability to check out stuff from the library on our own, we were getting George Carlin albums (much to my mother's regret), Steve Martin and hippy music. I rarely listen to any of the records in the pic any more, either I played them so often they're memorized, or my tastes have drifted to other things. But I wouldn't appreciate what I listen to now in the way that I do without having heard these first.
Now that I think about it I should've used just one comedy album as a placeholder for the rest to make room for an example of the late 70s/early 80s dirtbag prog I was listening to as a high schooler, something from Rush, Styx, or Kansas. On the other hand, man we listened to a lot of comedy records as kids.
It's genuinely an interesting exercise trying to recall what I was listening to when I was a teenager and pre-teen, when coolness didn't matter and there was no concept of influence. My dad was into borscht belt comedy, the albums he bought tended to be ones that my mom could get along with too, so we had more or less everything by the Smothers Brothers, Allan Sherman, Bob Newhart, and even a couple of Bill Cosby's earliest albums, and us kids played them to death. Later when we had the ability to check out stuff from the library on our own, we were getting George Carlin albums (much to my mother's regret), Steve Martin and hippy music. I rarely listen to any of the records in the pic any more, either I played them so often they're memorized, or my tastes have drifted to other things. But I wouldn't appreciate what I listen to now in the way that I do without having heard these first.
Now that I think about it I should've used just one comedy album as a placeholder for the rest to make room for an example of the late 70s/early 80s dirtbag prog I was listening to as a high schooler, something from Rush, Styx, or Kansas. On the other hand, man we listened to a lot of comedy records as kids.
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I have a fretless bass, but I have not ever really worked at it. It's a Peavey Foundation that I got for $120.
Sometimes I think that if I had a fretless as a high schooler (not available where I lived, and defretting what I had was simply not in the cards), I might've made enough of an effort to try to get in a band rather than treat bass as something to noodle on at home.
A list like this is easier when you're 20 or when your tastes in music are ossified by the time you reach 20. I'm regularly listening to music genres that didn't even exist until I was in my 40s. There's too much great shit out there.