My Musical Journey

kevhed72

I have to credit my father to really expanding my music interests in my early years....I recall going through his album collection as a kid and listening to Zeppelin, Zappa, The Stones, Rush, Neal Young, Beatles, etc.etc. I also re call leaving a lot of the albums unplayed because I didn't know the artists and figured and I wouldn't like them. My father recently passed away and I found myself going through the entire collection earlier today....I was amazed. I found artists I discovered in my later years such as The Ventures, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Smith, Cannonball Adderly, and a bunch of other great stuff. I was blown away by the connection and how good music lives on through the years.....needles to say, the entire collection has found a new home.

mhardy6647

Cool.

As Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington put it:

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

lightman1

Right there with you, sir. Coming up, there was always music in the home. Between my Mom and Dad always playing everything from bluegrass to Motown and catching them dancing in the living room. To my older sisters playing the good old R&R from the 60's and 70's.
Dad was an engineer and artist. A balanced enigma of the two spectrums. Mom was a goofball who enjoyed life every day.
Being immersed in that type of childhood helped me appreciate all forms of music and the art and artist behind it.
Too see it bring so much joy to Mom and and Dad, I knew there had to be something special about it. And now I have grown to understand that there is.......
Thanks Mom and Dad.....their music lives in my heart.

Enjoy it, Kevin.

MrBuhl

Sorry to hear about your Dad, but the gift of music he left is an enduring one. I remember it was the one thing my Mom & Dad argued about in front of us when my Dad brought a Grundig stereo home back in the 70's...

Looks like yours enjoyed some great Jazz artists! Love Adderly, Brubeck & Smith! Congrats!

dromunds

Interesting story kevhed. My Dad also recently passed away. He did not like Rock & Roll - he was into Hank Williams Sr., strictly old school country. My Mother absolutely loved Elvis, the Everly Brothers, Rickey Nelson, Jim Croce, Donovan. They never argued about it, but my Father never budged either. He shocked me one time, though, when he came home with a hollow body electric guitar for me when I was still in grade school. As soon as I started Junior High, I met some guys that needed a rhythm guitarist, and I was in a band that practiced in our basement. Listening to us pounding MC5, Cream, Hendrix, Savoy Brown, and 45-minute jams of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida must've drove him ape.