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Message started by Donnie on 04/17/26 at 02:08:32

Title: To tell the truth
Post by Donnie on 04/17/26 at 02:08:32

I was just reading something that Dominick had mentioned in the "What's Spinning" thread and it made me wonder about what in the world everyone listened to in High School.

So come on, tell the truth about the album that you and your buddies actually listened to in those most formative years of your life.

And face it, we for the most part had terrible taste, but it was what laid down the base of our now very sophisticated, highly curated music collections.

I will start with mine:

Kiss' masterpiece Destroyer.
I tried listening to it a few years ago, wow, cubic bad. But to every sixteen year old miscreant in 1976 it was "Far out"!

Title: Re: To tell the truth
Post by Lon on 04/17/26 at 02:38:45

Much of my high school years were spent in Africa and I listened a lot to the BBC and my favorites were Cream, Hendrix, Traffic and Free. And a Peace Corps volunteer my father directed gave me three jazz LPs that Atlantic Records had included in "care packages" to the volunteers and I listened to those over and over.

My final year and a half of high school was spent in rural NE Ohio and I was the most unhappy kid you would know, I didn't want to return to America really, and I didn't want to be the kid who was the son of the preacher of the church on the town square necessarily. I didn't relate to a lot that was on the radio except perhaps Santana and Chicago. . . and I found "In A Silent Way" and "Filles De Kilimanjaro" LPs by Miles Davis at the library and those just floored me, and led me away from rock and the radio and into collecting jazz LPs and then cds. . . even though I later started playing drums in blues-rock and alternative-folk-rock bands. . . it's been jazz where my heart has been ever since.

Title: Re: To tell the truth
Post by CAJames on 04/17/26 at 03:48:28

When I was in high school I played in a youth orchestra and my friends were mostly in jazz band. The albums we listened to the most were Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 5,Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic and Maynard Ferguson Live at Jimmys. I'm pretty sure my favorite rock-n-roll album was Bob Seger Beautiful Loser, but mostly I just listened to Katmandu. FWIW I make no excuses for those even today.

Title: Re: To tell the truth
Post by Dominick on 04/17/26 at 04:19:44

Well Donnie…since I sparked your interest that started this thread…I’ll continue. In High School…I played the guitar in a rock/metal band and also a wedding band as a freshman in college.

What did I listen to….I was a huge KISS fan, Motley Crue fan because of the band I was in. I loved Quiot Riot because of Randy Rhodes (before he went to Ozzy), and Van Halen because of Eddie. I would say I more often favored bands that had great guitar players. Loved David Lee Roth when Steve Vai played for him.

My early HS years was more heavy metal, and then my later HS years was the transition to hair bands. Yes…I wore a mullet and had an earring. I had the Blue Jean Jacket with all of the Rock patches on it. I guess you could call me a metal head. Geez! But one major differentiation was that I played sports in high school… mainly track and field. The majority of metal heads didn’t play sports… And those were considered “the burnouts.” The metal heads that played sports were just jock metal heads.

But…I was actively playing guitar and still taking lessons. So I learned jazz, the blues, you name it. In college…we played mostly 50’s and 60’s music in our wedding band…called the Lynch Mob.