..... albums to a band/artist and or into a genre of music.
I know at least for myself my main wheel house would be RNR. So I will just focus on that. I am sure thats where most of us are coming from. But I do listen to old school blues,jazz, bluegrass, americana etc... Pretty much anything besides modern day country.
Gateway to the RNR Genre
I would say the gateway albums or music to the above genre would be Foreigner Double Vision and Styx Cornerstone. My older sister had those. Before that would have to be my Dad's old 45 collections from the 50's and 60's of rock.
Gateway to bands.
This could get long. I will try and keep it short...if possible. I can get kinda of wordy, sorry!
Let me start with why we are all on this website!!
ABB-Knew of their music growing up from classic rock radio playing just the hits, no deeper. I liked them, but did not pursue it more than radio. When I was in my medical training in Indianapolis the summer of 1990. I remember hearing Good Clean Fun on WFBQ 94.7 and the rest is history from there.
VH-Diver Down. I know its not a fan fav, but its one of my fav's from them and will always have a special place in my heart. That was the first band I went nuts about. Still am.
DP-Made In Japan from my sisters boyfriend and the next one was Come Taste The Band.. Those confused me at first since I was young and just learning about music. I thought ,"why does the singer sound different?"
ACDC-Heard the tunes from Back n Black on the radio ,but did not own it. The rerelease of Dirty Deeds I believe came out a little after BNB. So I bought that one. Same as above about the different sounding singer.
Zep-I think from just hearng the classics on the radio. But the first two I bought in the early 80's was I and IV from a garage sale. It was weird, becasue the guy that sold those two me gave me LZ 4 in the original brown paper album that was In Through The Out Door.
Tull-My roommate in college just got the 20th annivesary boxset and played it all the time. I knew the radio hits, but that was it. When I heard the version of "Love Story" off of that set, I was hooked. I cant say the whole catalog, but the early stuff for sure is still some of my fav's. They kind lose me here and there, but lately I have been digging more into the material I ignored. Time changes ones perspective.
I could keep going, but that will do for now. Those bands just led into others and other genres.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
The biggest "gateway" album for me was the Duane Allman Anthology. I was making my way through Allman Bros catalogue, but the Anthology opened up so many other doors - King Curtis, Delaney & Bonnie, Johnny Jenkins! All music I still spin daily.
My gateway to ABB was a 1970 live show. I had heard the 1969 album several times at a friend's house but it didn't grab me. It was good but I didn't flip out. After the live show I bought my own copy and the ABB had been my favorite band since.
With LZ it was hearing Whole Lotta Love on the radio. Bought record then saw them live first time they were close. John's drumming was incredible. Even played regular drums with his hands. Without sticks.
VH was hearing Ice Cream Man on the radio. That really rocked me. First time I figured there was a hard rock guitar player better than Jimi Hendrix. But I continued to hold what Duane and Dickey and the rest of the ABB did on Fillmore East to be just sensational. ABB music was just a different thing entirely. I really liked VH with Roth and bought and saw Roth after he left. Steve Vai was incredible technically too. I thought EVH and Vai could blow any late 60's early 70's off the stage technically until I saw Gary Moore in 1984.
Bought SRV from hearing him on the radio.
Well I have many others but I'll stop.
Led Zeppelin was a gateway band for me in my late teens. I would see the writing credit for some of their early songs being Willie Dixon which led me to track down who Dixon was and from there it opened the door to all the classic blues artists.
My older brother ( 7 years older ) took me with him to see Hard Days Night at our local movie house.
we ended up seeing it 5 times that weekend and my life has never been the same.
gateway for sure!
The Beatles, Meet the Beatles changed my life at age 5 or 6
Led Zeppelin II got me into "guitar music" and helped me leave pop. JPJ may have been the 1st bass player I really heard
ABB AFE was the biggest change - got me into improvisational music and blues. Like I mentioned in the other thread, it remains my favorite album of all time
Hot Tuna (1st album) got me to appreciate acoustic guitar music
Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite and Miles - Kind of Blue were gateways to jazz
When I saw the thread title I thought this was going to be about drugs. 😉
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
Zeppelin got me to check out The aYardbirds, Mayall, AlexisK, Mac, and Savoy Brown. Then back to the Chicago guys,and subsequently the Delta era.
