early memories/music associations

When I was 16 years old I heard for first time(officially)Opeth(my favorite band if you don't remember).The tracks were Harvest and Isolation years.But(unofficially)I had heard Opeth on a greek tv show for metal music(it's called Tv war)when I was 12 or 13 years old I think(maybe younger).I had seen the live video clip of Deliverance(from Metalmania).

I hate to admit it but when I was about 11-12 (and not into Western music in a big way), watching a concert of Celine Dion made a big impression on me.   Glad I never followed up on that big impression.  Also, Karen Briggs at Yanni live in Acropolis. Again, ditto as Celine.

15 years old and sitting in my cousin's room with friends listening to the Black Sabbath debut album. My cousin got the bright idea to position the speakers next to the front door and shortly after placing candy into the trick or treater's bags, he would start the album off with the sound of the rain, thunder, and bell hoping to scare the crap out of kids. It feels strange thinking of this today because during that time there was yet to be a term invented called "Heavy Metal".  Then my sister's hippie friends later that night would ask me what the hell I was suppose to be doing listening to garbage like Black Sabbath? They were listening to Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Electric Flag, Canned Heat, and Jefferson Airplane. Everything smelled like pot and meatball sandwiches from the deli.

Edited by TODDLER - January 16 2011 at 08:12

Dean wrote: I have related this story before in the PA, but I'll repeat it here because the topic is slightly different. When I was a toddler my parents put a radio in my bedroom so I could go to sleep each night listening to it. The reasoning behind this was simple and logical - most parents put their kids to bed in silence ("ssh! the baby's asleep", "don't wake the baby" etc.) so any sudden noise will wake them - my Dad thought this was a daft idea and from the outset reversed that, sending me and my sister to bed with the sound of the radio playing so that he, my Mum and all their friends could continue being noisy downstairs without disturbing us. I used this same approach when my daughter was young and it works. So my absolute earliest music memories was of listening to Radio Luxembourg in the late 50s early 60s on one of these: and seeing an old steam radio (valve/tube) such as this will invariably invoke memories for me. When I was a little older (5 or 6) my older cousin would give me her old copies of the Radio Luxembourg magazine (Fab 208), like this one: Which I would read in bed by the light of the illuminated tuning dial of the radio.

Finnforest wrote: Somewhat like Dean, as a youngster in the early 70s I had a small radio that I used to take to bed to listen to hockey games, and eventually I started listen to the AM pop station.....radio looked like these kinda Then, my parents got me this portable turntable for Christmas and I began to listen to my older siblings late 60s pop singles, I was hooked on music after that.  Check out the "groovy" pattern on the top....my first experience with trippy design

My earliest musical memory was when I was about 5 years old and playing on the carpet with my toy cars when I heard Penny Lane by the Beatles from our old fashioned wireless (the 1967 edition of Bluetooth)

I honestly thought that the musicians who produced these intoxicating sounds were tiny little men who lived inside the radio. (and sometimes drove the little cars I happily played with)

Years later I discovered that Ronnie James Dio was neither a member of the Beatles or a Matchbox racing driver.

(Shame)

ExittheLemming wrote: My earliest musical memory was when I was about 5 years old and playing on the carpet with my toy cars when I heard Penny Lane by the Beatles from our old fashioned wireless (the 1967 edition of Bluetooth)

Edited by KABSA - January 16 2011 at 11:56

I remember being a 4 year old sitting in the back seat of my Dad's VW Bug in the mid 1960s driving around downtown Toronto (where we lived at the time) and was filled with joy every time Petula Clark's hit "Downtown" would come on the radio-this is my earliest musical memory.

After speaking with other people on early childhood memories it seems I am better than some at recalling early events fairly vividly. I can certainly remember things from before my kid sister was born (she is 18 months younger than I), I was dispatched to my aunt's the day she was born and came home with my cousin's TT-gauge train set... needless to say I was more impressed by that than a baby sister. Before she was born Dad had an ex-police Velocette LE200 motorcycle, (he filled the hole left in the fairing left by the removal of the blue police lamp with an RAC badge, which was also blue), this he fitted with a child-seat from a bicycle and the three of us (mum, dad and I) used to ride down the A127 Arterial Road from Southend-on-sea to a cafe called the Blinking Owl that was popular with Rockers at the time (1957-59). Here I would listen to Bill Hayley and the other rock'n'roll favourites, but Rock Around The Clock was invariably the one I'd always ask for first, and anything by Lonnie Donnegan. Much later, when Dad had bought his first car (a sit-up-and-beg Ford Popular) we would still go to the Blinking Owl to hang out with his Rocker mates. To listen to the new-fangled transistor radio in the car he fitted it with a 12-foot long ex-army tank aerial and on our first visit to the cafe in this car the aerial took-out the overhead power cable that fed from the main cafe to an out-building. 

Edited by Dean - February 16 2015 at 07:34