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Old 02-23-2007, 05:38 AM
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Kill Em All - 'Tallica
Ride The Lightening - 'Tallica
Number Of The Beast - Maiden
Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer
Paranoid - Sabbath
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
Appetite For Destruction - GNR
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Old 02-23-2007, 05:55 AM
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Revolver - Beatles.
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Old 02-23-2007, 06:01 AM
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Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation

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Old 02-23-2007, 06:11 AM
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Roxy Music--For Your Pleasure
Genesis--The Lamb Lies Down
Bob Dylan--Blood on the Tracks
Pink Floyd--Dark Side of the Moon
David Bowie--Ziggy Stardust
Allman Brothers--Beginnings
Henry Mancini--Peter Gunn
Miles Davis--Bitches Brew


Cool thread. This really got me to thinking--about growing up, coming of age, and getting older.
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Old 02-23-2007, 06:12 AM
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Led Zep

The 2nd Zep album was the first to hit my funny bone!
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Old 02-23-2007, 06:14 AM
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Funny how they are tied to events:

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gold and Platinum - first rock album- on 8-track !

Journey - Escape - Got laid - shows my age!

Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet - lot's of parties

Any thing by Led Zeppelin - a girl I dated for a while who had hair down to her ankles

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon experiments with weed

Cinderella - Long Cold Winter - first divorce, and it wasn't a long cold winter after all!

Marty Freidman - Scenes - met my current wife

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime - my life since !
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Old 02-23-2007, 06:27 AM
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Only a few had that affect on me:

Yes - Relayer
Black Market - Weather Report
Romantic Warrior - Chick Corea
Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
Jaco - Jaco!

Of course, that was back in the late 70's/early 80's when that music was new, fresh, and more relevant than it is today.

More recently:

James Taylor Live... I've never heard ensemble playing like that in the pop music genre, and Jimmy Johnson's playing and tone are literally perfect.... there's not one note I would change... and Carlos Vega and Jimmy are just locked.
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Old 02-23-2007, 07:00 AM
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Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans

RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

Some Donna Summer album that was playing first time I had sex
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Old 02-23-2007, 07:11 AM
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Garbage- Garbage
Ministry- Psalm 69
Cradle Of Filth- Midian
Miles Davis- Kind Of Blue
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Old 02-23-2007, 07:16 AM
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Beatles-White Album.
Beatles-Revolver.
Allman Bro. Band-Live at The Filmore.
Derek And The Domino's-Layla.
Weather Report-Heavy Weather.
Mahavishnu Orchestra-The Inner Mounting Flame.
James Brown-Live At The Apollo.
Cream- Wheels Of Fire.
Jimi Hendrix- Band of Gypsy's.
Fabulous Thunderbirds-Girls Go Wild.
Mike Bloomfield-Al Kooper-Supper Session.
Miles Davis-Kind Of Blue.
Allan Holdsworth-Road Games.

Just a few that blew my mind.
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Old 02-23-2007, 07:54 AM
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Beatles-Meet The Beatles: !!!!!!!! what is this? I was 9 when I saw them debut on Ed Sullivan's show

Cream-Wheels of Fire: when I heard Jack Bruce, I decided to play bass

Zappa/Mothers-Absolutely Free: so there's more to music than what I hear on top 40 radio? Led me into jazz and classical music

King Crimson-In the Court Of The Crimson King: well it sure didn't sound like the Monkees

Mahavishnu Orchestra-The Inner Mounting Flame: it was loud and frantic like rock but led me further into jazz

Steeleye Span-Please To See The King: I first meet Ashley Hutchings and learn that there's more to folk-rock than the Mamas and Papas

Richard Thompson-Live (More or Less): Richard takes folk-rock into another dimension

John Martyn-Grace and Danger: folk meets jazz fusion meets blue-eyed soul

Lucinda Williams-Lucinda Williams: it's the song, stupid...USA division

Nick Drake-Bryter Later: it's the song, stupid...UK division

Captain Beefheart-Trout Mask Replica: Rockette Morton takes off again into the wind
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Old 02-23-2007, 08:05 AM
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I just going to list the albums I couldn't stop listening to when I got them, otherwise this list would be HUGE (in alpha order -- sorry):
Tori Amos - Under The Pink
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Boston - Boston
The Cars - The Cars
Dada - Puzzle
Dream Theater - Images and Words
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
Peter Gabriel - Up
Joe Jackson - Laughter and Lust
Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave
Kansas - Leftoverture
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Dave Matthews Band - Crash
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Rush - Moving Pictures
Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
Seal - Seal
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Toad The Wet Sprocket - Coil
Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Van Halen - Van Halen
Yes - Drama
Stanley Clarke - School Days
Al DiMeola - Elagant Gypsy
Dixie Dregs - Dregs of the Earth
Steve Morse - The Introduction
Spyro Gyra - 20/20
Jean-Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous
Patrick O'Hearn - Indigo
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2
Tangerine Dream - Lily on the Beach

Just to name a few.

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Old 02-23-2007, 08:31 AM
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Styx - Grand Illusion (made me want to be a musician, I was 7)

Metallica - ...and Justice For All (had my "first time" while listening to this)

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime (it's still in regular rotation in my truck)

Siouxsie and The Banshees - Peepshow (I was in love with Siouxsie for a long time, and I still can't get enough of the song "Killing Jar")

Dream Theater - Images and Words (I was speechless for days after I heard it)

Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You (reminded me that pop music can be good)

Trip Wamsley - It's Better This Way (re-ignited a fire inside me about why I play bass)
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Old 02-23-2007, 08:44 AM
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the few that i can think of: -

iron maiden: live after death - the beginning of my music obsession)
heart: bad animals - cheezy, but it was my transition from playing classical to playing pop and rock. plus there were chicks in the band. little girls like to see that.
rush: chronicles - began my obsession with Rush
stereolab: oscillons from the anti-sun - this album called me by name in the record store, even tho' i had not heard a single track.
carpenters: singles - that voice!
julieta venegas: limon y sal - totally restored my faith in pop and quality songwriting.
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Old 02-23-2007, 08:52 AM
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Beatles' Hey Jude and Abby Road
Led Zeppelin's II and IV
Eagles' Desperado and Hotel California
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals
Styx's Equinox, Lady, Crystal Ball, Grand Illusion
Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic, Aja
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my big 3 in this order

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Birds of Fire

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Old 02-23-2007, 08:56 AM
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Alice Cooper - Killer

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Old 02-23-2007, 09:13 AM
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Cream-Live Cream Vol. I & II
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Buddy Guy-sweet tea
Phish-Farmhouse
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Old 02-23-2007, 09:21 AM
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These were the albums that turned my bass playing around:

Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Tribal Tech - Face First
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
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Old 02-23-2007, 10:20 AM
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Rush -- Moving Pictures. After I first heard that album, I knew I wanted to play bass.
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