Discovering you're not alone in musical tastes.

I had a few friends in college who liked some of what I did, but no one in the past who I connected with. If anything, I've ended up getting other people into what I listen to. My mom's been the best. She's always been a huge music lover-classical, jazz, opera, then The Beatles, Stones, Dylan, etc. When I started playing the likes of Tull, Gentle Giant, Genesis, etc. around the house she'd listen. She can even tell me who I'm listening to when I play music now. Recently bought the live Riverside DVD and she loves it!

Guldbamsen wrote: tamijo wrote: On the famly side, my borthers son, ( he is 20-21)  got influenced by the music i listen too. He loves early floyd - especialy Ummagum's - and early danish Hippi'e music from the late 60's - early 70's. (for those few : Steppeulvene - Young Flowers - Sølvstjernerne - Christiania LP'en mv.) Along side a shizload of RAP / Hip-Hop    Well he´s got a great taste in music Those old hippie albums are stellar. I really like Dan Turell on that Sølvstjernerne release.

Yes quite an amasing mix of those brilliant music artists and the poet.

I know the first solo from Claus - brilliant - was listning to it a lot late 70's early 80's - friend had it on vinyl Gotta get the Sølvstjerner  !!

Prog Sothoth wrote: My main coworker (this 52 year old Lebanese guy) in the lab I work at overheard me dealing with a nightclub over the phone about tickets to a show. When he asked me who I was going to see I said this jazz fusion artist. He asked who and I replied "Umm, just this young Japanese woman named Hiromi Uehara. She's quite the keyboard player."   He flipped out. "Really!!! Oh she's absolutely incredible! I've seen her twice already...you're gonna love her!" A few days later he tried to get tickets but it was sold out. The day after the show I almost felt bad telling him I got her to autograph my Voice CD and had a photo taken with her after the gig. He's been a fan of hers (and as I learned, jazz fusion in general as well as Jethro Tull and King Crimson) since 2004 or so while I only discovered her at the beginning of this year thanks to this site. We now play some pretty cool music in our lab now. We had no idea we shared a lot of music tastes.

I grabbed Hiromi's Sonic Bloom from the library (because I'll listen to anything with Japanese girls on it) and it rocks. The production is punchy and there's some great playing on it.

tamijo wrote:   Talking about those classics, do you know this one, highly recomandable, very prog in its style, compared to everything else he have done.   Lykkeland /Povl Dissing med Peter Bastian, Peter Thorup, Ken Gudman, Hugo Rasmussen, Egon Ågaard, Kenneth Knudsen og Bo Stief  Noter Indspillet i København januar-februar 1977 .

No, I don´t know that album but from what you describe, plus the clip - it´s definitely going on my list. I love Ken Gudman´s drumming and Peter Thorup was a wonderful guitarist as well. My fave from Dissing is Nøgne Øjne and his collaboration with Burnin Red Ivanhoe 6 Elefantskovcikadeviser, which not so surprisingly is rated very low here at PA I guess one must be Danish to get the old troubadour and his mææhhhh vocals - I for one have always loved them though...

^It´s an imaginary thing that only exists on the internet...

My dad kindly introduced me to Frank Zappa and Focus when I was 5 in 1996.

I was alone in the late 70's jazz/fusion scene. Maybe a few friends I had who didn't adapt  the macho side to it were cool to hang with....however in the music business I had dealings with musicians who were great players, but were stuck on themselves and thought that the race with the devil to see who had the most flashy technique was held in high regard and the styles of other music seemed neglected. This all happened in my life during the mid to late 70's when the fusion style first hit America. Unfortunately.....my way is the only way. Not to think about feeding your ego and remain humble when you are learning a piece of music. Surely there were musicians in college and in the business who felt like me. Joe Zawnul, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Wayne Shorter were not interested in playing fast for a showdown.   They were working with other aspects to playing and expanding. The side to their playing which WAS a bit flashy or as they say "HOT" .......was part of their composition and a large gathering of American musicians during that time took the whole event as an ego boost.

Maybe you should have tried Pictures At An Exhibition first.  The Planets would certainly not have worked. 

In junior high school math class, I showed a friend of mine Thick as a Brick now he is an even bigger prog nerd than me.