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rogermexico · 10-17-2008, 05:00 PM

I was fifteen in 1992. I grew up in Okotoks. At that point, enjoyed music in kind of a surface way - I'd liked AC/DC a lot since first hearing them, and for the last couple of years I'd gotten more and more into REM. But like I say, music wasn't particularly important to me.

A friend of mine went into the city and the Southcentre HMV. Asked the guy at the counter for something new and good, and was given Copper Blue, by Sugar. I will never forget hearing that record for the first time.

I'd never heard anything like it. I new in one of those complete epiphany kind of moments that 1) if there was more music out there like that, I'd have to hear it, as much of it as I could, and 2) that I would have to learn how to do it myself.

So yeah, that record changed my life probably more completely than anything else that's ever happened to me.

There were other songs that would have similar effects (I can still remember equally vividly the first time I heard Heroin by the Velvet Underground, Silent Kid by Pavement and the first Drive Like Jehu record) but the first chords of Copper Blue were the real defining thing, the 'everything is different from now on' moment.

10-17-2008, 05:00 PM	#16
rogermexico Powerplay Quarterback Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Okotoks Exp:	I was fifteen in 1992. I grew up in Okotoks. At that point, enjoyed music in kind of a surface way - I'd liked AC/DC a lot since first hearing them, and for the last couple of years I'd gotten more and more into REM. But like I say, music wasn't particularly important to me. A friend of mine went into the city and the Southcentre HMV. Asked the guy at the counter for something new and good, and was given Copper Blue, by Sugar. I will never forget hearing that record for the first time. I'd never heard anything like it. I new in one of those complete epiphany kind of moments that 1) if there was more music out there like that, I'd have to hear it, as much of it as I could, and 2) that I would have to learn how to do it myself. So yeah, that record changed my life probably more completely than anything else that's ever happened to me. There were other songs that would have similar effects (I can still remember equally vividly the first time I heard Heroin by the Velvet Underground, Silent Kid by Pavement and the first Drive Like Jehu record) but the first chords of Copper Blue were the real defining thing, the 'everything is different from now on' moment.