First Favourite Band Growing Up

[8sPOT]

Green Day Dookie for me too. Specifically Woodstock '94 on TV, thats also what really got me wanting to learn guitar.

From there of course it went wild...Hendrix, Metallica, EVH, and so on. But I've discovered that ever since Green Day, I typically have a favorite 'current' band. By 'current' I just mean putting out new, and interesting music or whatever.

Green Day -> Korn -> Mudvayne -> Lamb of God -> Avatar

I was also a lucky SOB and Green Day was my first concert ('98 Edgefest). My Dad drove me and two buddies to the stadium and dropped us off. Now with my boy turning 12 this year...the circle is coming around...

[Inferno]

First musician: Probably Billy Idol who my cousin got me into.

First "Band": Metallica. My sister told me to listen to "One" probably around 1990 and I was hooked.

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by bc-chris

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!

I got that cassette for my birthday along with a (non-Sony) walkman. I remember listening to it at my birthday party though the headphones when all my friends were there. I suppose it wasn't very polite, but definitely prepared me for years of riding the CTrain.

[DigitalCarpenter]

Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

Roxette.

Good god, those Swedes know how to not bore us and get to the chorus... some catchy ass tunes.

Wow - takes me back to sticking their cassette into my bright yellow walkman and doing my paper route at 5am. Made the time fly by.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

Roxette.

Good god, those Swedes know how to not bore us and get to the chorus... some catchy ass tunes.

Suddenly this sent me back to an 11 yr old UCB watching this for the first time and being blown away:

[CMPunk]

[zuluking]

Steve Miller Band!

[Enoch Root]

Dark Side of the Moon
Zeppelin 4

Then things really changed when Van Halen (1) came out - game changer for me. Same for The Cars first album

[DAN0383]

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by DAN0383

One of the best live shows I've ever seen. They were great in the 90s, but I saw them again a couple of years ago on their reunion tour and they were just as good, if not better. Jeff Martin can shred with the best of them.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Culture Club was the first LP I bought.

[Matata]

Originally Posted by direwolf

One of the best live shows I've ever seen. They were great in the 90s, but I saw them again a couple of years ago on their reunion tour and they were just as good, if not better. Jeff Martin can shred with the best of them.

I saw The Tea Party @ grey eagle a couple years after having seen OLP and some other 90s bands that were really starting to show their age. I was expecting The Tea Party to be on a similar decline but nope, Jeff's voice hasn't lost an ounce of power. I've seen them live almost 10 times now and would put them in that top tier of bands with live shows that always surpass their albums, like Pearl Jam and Tool.