Your 1st Ass kicking rock band...

[the_drip]

hte first CD I ever owned was Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction the first rockin band i got into was probably Motley Crue I didn't get into music much until about 4th grade at the pinnacle of hair metal. I listened regularily to:
Skid Row, Def Leppard, Guns n' Roses...etc.

 

[dcat]

yea mine probably was too. Magic carpet ride is an amazing song!!! John Kay is a pretty brilliant song-writer and slide guitarist.
Funnily enough though John Kay/Stepenwolf didn't write Born to be wild though, it was a folky type guy by the name of Mars Bonfire.....

"Mars Bonfire" was a founder member of Steppenwolf but left early on.

Have you heard about the BGO release of...

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:t69us35ra3dg

It has a live version of "The Pusher" lasting 20+ minutes, not to take anything away from Opeth's BRI which imo is one of the greatest moments in the recording history of Rock/Metal...

Steppenwolf did it first, or would that be "The Grateful Dead?"

I only found this out yesterday after spawning this thread

One of the wonderful positive spin-offs of some internet message boards....

Profound Moments....nah Profane, keep it up Mike, PLS.

Have a nice day guys...laterz.

 

[dcat]

Kansas' greatest hits album

"carry on my wayward son"

Great Band, great lyrics, see below how they recorded, "Dust in the Wind"

http://www.eqmag.com/story.asp?storyCode=12957

 

[Powers]

Great Band, great lyrics.

Must have been a belting greatest hits album then.

 

[dcat]

^ Dunno M8, I haven't got that one, I have POKR + a few others in storage, still.

 

[MetalManCPA]

Easy answer for me:

1971 - I'm 11 years old, and I hear The Immigrant song by Led Zeppelin played on the radio. That was it.

 

[gatedropper]

Magic Carpet Ride from Steppenwolf is awesome

My first asskicking one was Deep Purple...other rock the beatles of course

Yep, same here. Ted Nugent and Blue Oyster Cult and Hendrix.

 

[gatedropper]

Easy answer for me:

1971 - I'm 11 years old, and I hear The Immigrant song by Led Zeppelin played on the radio. That was it.

I was 11 in '65 and was listening to Beatles .

 

[gatedropper]

yea mine probably was too. Magic carpet ride is an amazing song!!! John Kay is a pretty brilliant song-writer and slide guitarist.
Funnily enough though John Kay/Stepenwolf didn't write Born to be wild though, it was a folky type guy by the name of Mars Bonfire.....

I got to see Steppenwolf live. I was pretty young at the time and Kay comes out with all leather pants and vest and takes this clear guitar and climbs up on the speakers and proceeds to make one frightning shrill by putting the pickups right on the tweeters/horns. They immediatly go into The Pusher.
My sister tries grabbing me to take me out of the venue and I takes off running toward the front. My first experience with heavy music live.
I did see Chicago right before that and it was one of the loudest concerts I have ever been to. 25 or 6 to 4 had a killer guitar lead!

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

"Mars Bonfire" was a founder member of Steppenwolf but left early on.

Have you heard about the BGO release of...

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:t69us35ra3dg

It has a live version of "The Pusher" lasting 20+ minutes, not to take anything away from Opeth's BRI which imo is one of the greatest moments in the recording history of Rock/Metal...

Steppenwolf did it first, or would that be "The Grateful Dead?"

I only found this out yesterday after spawning this thread

One of the wonderful positive spin-offs of some internet message boards....

Profound Moments....nah Profane, keep it up Mike, PLS.

Have a nice day guys...laterz.

Actually Mars was never a member of stepenwolf, only of a band called the Sparrow which was the band John kay was in before Stepenwolf. Mars left and then john got in a couple of other guys and changed the name to stepenwolf....

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

I got to see Steppenwolf live. I was pretty young at the time and Kay comes out with all leather pants and vest and takes this clear guitar and climbs up on the speakers and proceeds to make one frightning shrill by putting the pickups right on the tweeters/horns. They immediatly go into The Pusher.
My sister tries grabbing me to take me out of the venue and I takes off running toward the front. My first experience with heavy music live.
I did see Chicago right before that and it was one of the loudest concerts I have ever been to. 25 or 6 to 4 had a killer guitar lead!

Shit duno how John managed that seen as he can hardly see 5 ft in front of him been partially blind. Sounds like an awesome show though man!!

 

[Death_To_False_Metal]

I remember hearing back in the day Chuck Berry's Johnny B good on the radio and I was hooked on rock'n roll for life baby !!!!

:zombie:

 

[Powers]

Wow, that's a pretty cool one, first time I heard that was on "Back to the Future", what a film.

 

[rrjii2000]

For me it was AC/DC. I was about 14 and had just joined Boy Scouts

Yea I know... but it was a great way to get out of the house, so I could smoke, my dad was a real prick. Anyway a friend had 'Back in Black', and turned me on to it. At this point in my life, the great Pop music of the 80's kept my ears full. Needless to say this was a major crossroads in my musical life!

 

[SethCohen]

my dad was a real prick.

well heavy metal is a way for kids whose parents dont love them and if they are an outcast then they can listen to heavy metal and say "FUCK THE SYSTEM". yES!

 

[i aint play this]

^^Bullshit

 

[Towedwart]

BS indeed.

 

[TheButcher]

Slayer

 

[Detric]

either zeppelin or king crimson cant remember which one

 

[SethCohen]

^^Bullshit

No because metal is rebellious music for outcasts like everyone here who loves to turn up the music and say "FUCK POSERS!" yES!