Which song changed your outlook on music / sound?

Recording, Mixing and Producing
#61

There’s a long list of “eye opening” moments. First time I heard “Frankenstein”. First time I saw “Frankenstein” live!
Yes’ “The Fish” (and the whole Fragile album…much later seeing the 9021 live tour.
Every time I ever saw Rush live. But monumentally the first time.
Physical Graffiti. Enough said.
Ronnie James Dio
Yngwie Malmstein.

My earliest eye opener was my dad’s collection of honkytonk piano, specifically, a guy named Frankie Carle. That got me digging through my dad’s music and I found Floyd Cramer (Last Date et al). As a very young boy studying classical piano and doing the Cali scene “recitals” in the mid-late 60s, (which had some rather large names listening at the time*) I was impressed at how much sound these guys could make a piano have…

  • Remember coming unglued and almost wetting myself meeting Earl Wild (I think I was 9). One recital I was told after the fact that Van Cliburn had been in attendance…glad it was AFTER. :wink:

Had encephalitis when I was 17 (Junior year) and had to learn everything all over again. Could play music, but didn’t know any of the theory…I was HIGHLY discouraged to hear how well I played at age 12, and yet by 18 I couldn’t get muscle control nor mental focus to attain that level again. Still haven’t, and all the tapes of me playing (classical as well as jazz and rock) went the way of the wind when my mom and dad died within three months while I was in the process of moving 3100 miles away. The people who came and did the estate just pitched all of mom’s home recorded tapes…

#62

That’s a good one… my two-stage rocket process of going into orbit from the safety of the Beatles-ridden earth were as follows:

Sitting in my room and listening to this old radio, when this tune came on: the phaser waking up parts of the brain, as you aptly describe it:

And the next stage was lying in bed aboard our yacht, listening to radio again:

After that one-two punch it’s impossible to remember anything about the Beatles.

S

#63

Are you sure it wasn’t your hearing that was damaged? :joy:

#64

Yep, that happened later. Diesel engines and guns… plus the odd jet engine…

S

#65

Sorry Sven,
I was just kidding, and not fair if your hearing really has been damaged.
But I am serious about defending my old time heroes :grimacing:
Aef