Slade was my first favourite rock-group. Before The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Dire Straits and Steely Dan. Before all of that jazz and jazz-rock, before soul and funk, which I started listening to and love much later. We were 16-yr old teenagers playing in a school band and our guitarist not only knew all Slade songs by heart but he also had a voice resembling Noddy Holder's, so we played them a lot and got to love them... I have now gathered all of their studio albums on vinyl except for one, "Return to Base", which I am still looking to find for a reasonable price...
What' was yours?
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elementary school: huey lewis and the news, reo speedwagon, van halen
high school: bon jovi, aerosmith, extreme, van halen
currently (becuz according to my wife i still haven't grown up): volbeat
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in that case i'd have to go with huey lewis and the news. i got the "sports" record for christmas (i'm guessing in 1984) and i played the crap out of that album!
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The first band I remember being obsessed with as a kid was the Police, around '83/84 or thereaboutrs. I had a crush on my friend's older sister and she would blast Synchronicity at ear-bleeding volume every time I was at their house. She also had a huge poster of them on her bedroom door. I went out and bought my own cassette copy not too long after that. Man, I played the s*** out of that album.
In Junior High it was U2 and Guns N' Roses.
High school was The Tragically Hip, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, 54-40, the Northern Pikes, and countless other bands.
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The first band I remember being obsessed with as a kid was the Police, around '83/84 or thereaboutrs. I had a crush on my friend's older sister and she would blast Synchronicity at ear-bleeding volume every time ...
Many miles away Something crawls from the slime...
Loved it so much from the first listen. Still do.
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I had older siblings and their older friends influence me a lot. I remember getting exited when Metallica MoP was released when I was 9 years old. I am pretty sure I was the only kid in my grade 4 class that was even aware of it. In all honesty, I didn't quite get the heavier stuff at the time, but definitely grew into it by the time I was 12.
I think my first favourite band was probably Van Halen. I remember thinking David Lee Roth was just the coolest guy in the world. KISS was up there too. In hindsight, KISS was heavily marketed to kids. Say what you want about Gene Simmons (the guys seems like a world class prick to me), but he knows a lot about marketing. By introducing metal to kids, he ensured a full generation of fans.
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