Earliest metal memory

stepcousin wrote:

Back in '75-'76 my sister had all the rock and 70's heavy metal that was pretty much mandatory for the time: first 3 Aerosmith, first 2 Montrose, Kiss Alive and Destroyer, Ted Nugent's first couple lp's, Nazareth HOTDog & Loud n Proud, Deep Purple Live In Europe, Boston s/t, Led Zep 4 or 5 albums, and a bunch of other stuff. She would let me play her LP's and would beat me senseless when I would make scratches on them but the blood and bruises were worth it cuz I was hooked for life.
The Ones that really had a lasting impact on me:

Aerosmith...Get Your Wings and Rocks
Kiss.....Alive and Destroyer
Led Zep........1 & 2
Nazareth.....Hair Of The Dog
Montrose.....s/t
Boston....s/t
Foghat....Fool For The City
Thin Lizzy.....Johnny The Fox
Rush.......Fly By Night, Caress Of Steel, 2112
Heart.........Little Queen, Dreamboat Annie

No Sabbath?

stepcousin wrote:

Back in '75-'76 my sister had all the rock and 70's heavy metal that was pretty much mandatory for the time: first 3 Aerosmith, first 2 Montrose, Kiss Alive and Destroyer, Ted Nugent's first couple lp's, Nazareth HOTDog & Loud n Proud, Deep Purple Live In Europe, Boston s/t, Led Zep 4 or 5 albums, and a bunch of other stuff. She would let me play her LP's and would beat me senseless when I would make scratches on them but the blood and bruises were worth it cuz I was hooked for life.
The Ones that really had a lasting impact on me:

Aerosmith...Get Your Wings and Rocks
Kiss.....Alive and Destroyer
Led Zep........1 & 2
Nazareth.....Hair Of The Dog
Montrose.....s/t
Boston....s/t
Foghat....Fool For The City
Thin Lizzy.....Johnny The Fox
Rush.......Fly By Night, Caress Of Steel, 2112
Heart.........Little Queen, Dreamboat Annie

Your sister sounds like one cool chick, holy crap Thin Lizzy, they had not even begun to make in the States yet, you need to send your sister a great big thank you every Christmas and on her birthday for helping to turn you into the metal madman that you are today.

Actually, both Jailbreak and Johnny The Fox came out in 1976, Jailbreak was released first if I remember correctly.

I had the luck to have an Uncle who was 21 years older than me and had an extensive record collection in the late 70's. I got exposed to Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Bad Company, Led Zepellin, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Rush, Van Halen, Ted Nugent and of course, the mighty Priest. I remember hearing the opening riff of "Smoke On The Water" and the ear splitting intro to "Victim Of Changes" and I damn near shart my pants! As the decade changed, I wasn't yet a metalhead. I liked VH, Styx, ZZ Top, Billy Squier, and the aforementioned artists. When I was 9,I went to a birthday party for one of my classmates and another classmate gave him Piece Of MInd as a gift. Later on we went outside to throw the football around and crank the tunes and my love for metal was born.

I think it is interesting that the first bands we all first listened to back in pre adolescent days are still the bands we have followed to this day.

manny wrote:

I think it is interesting that the first bands we all first listened to back in pre adolescent days are still the bands we have followed to this day.

Until the Day I Die!!!

manny wrote:

I think it is interesting that the first bands we all first listened to back in pre adolescent days are still the bands we have followed to this day.

Yep. I may veer off course from time to time but I almost always return "home". That just happened to me with Pink Floyd...when I was 9 years old I used to play Dark Side Of The Moon every night before I went to bed.

Really, the first exposure I had was my dad as he would blast bands like Jerusalem, Running Wild, Petra, Manowar, and Savatage around the house when I was going thru primary and elementary school but I never really had an interest in the music until later.

Later, when I was in 9th grade, an aquantaince in school brought a guitar magazine to class. I was flipping thru the pages and saw a article about Blind Guardians first two records being reissued. I found the cover art intriquing as I was really into the fantasy/frank frazetta thing at the time. I took the time to check out the music and the rest is history.

My Dad is a big fan of Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath/Deep Purple/Uriah Heep (what else was a 15 y/o male going to be listening to in 1970? I remember him telling me his mother (my grandmother) used to say his music was killing her plants ). So those records i guess were my initial introduction to the loud and wild.

Actually my parents have alot of great records that i used to play as well like Bowie, Alice Cooper, Slade, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Stones, Dylan etc. But i remember the one record from their collection that blew me away was when i pulled out a little record called "Songs Of Love And Hate", i remember asking my mum who is this man? Seriously blew me away, changed the way i listen to music. And i didn't even know they had it until i was 18 or so!

RP, makes sense now, you were lucky to have cool parents...even hipper than mine! My Mother is a pretty cool lady though, helped get me interested in music by playing all the 60's/early 70's stuff around the house as I was growing up. She also liked quite a few of the albums I listened to in the 80's...one of her favorites was Garage Days Re-Revisited! (though she hated Iron Maiden & Slayer with a passion)

She is almost as big of a King's X fan as I am, we went and saw them together twice!

detuned wrote:

RP, makes sense now, you were lucky to have cool parents.....

........She is almost as big of a King's X fan as I am, we went and saw them together twice!

I only mentioned the good stuff, there was some bad stuff as well.

That's really cool you and your mum went to see King's X together.

It was ridng along on roadtrips with my older cousins to visit relatives. They played Zeppelin and Humble Pie and Uriah Heep. I remember being fascinated with the concept of stereo! I would sit there in the back seat and say "wow, there is a different sound from each speaker!". The downside was that they had 8-track tapes, which would cut out right in the middle of a song to change tracks or whatever.

Scorpions' blackout. The german band were my sister's favourites. She played them loud all day long. I enjoyed the melodies and screaming.

oh sh* i forget Styx, Carlos Santana and The Eagles.

It was my older sisters boyfriends that lit the fire under my pants, so to speak. I'd heard Sabbath, Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Humble Pie quite alot. On the turntable, the 8 track in the cars, and in the garages where some tried to emulate what they heard on instruments with other high school friends.
The latter is what really intrigued me the most and at 8, I pieced together a drum set made up of CB700, Rodgers, and Ludwig shells that were total crap and began playing along to records somewhat, managing with only a hi hat and no other cymbals. My day of reckoning came in a garage a few streets down from mine.
These guys of high school age and older had a really good band. Of course they'd practice with the garage door up cause they wanted the neighborhhod chicks to see them. I was 11 by this time, with hair a lil bit past my shoulders and by no means shy. (a product of growing up in a biker household). I'd just walked right on up the driveway and into the garage.
One of the guitar players was noodling around with "Iron Man" and there was no drummer present. Much to thier surprise, I not only got up behind the kit but jumped in right where he was at in the song. The bass player followed suit. The singer came from the house with this look on his face like "what the F"
and started yelling. We stopped and he was laughing pretty hard, apparently he was on the phone with the bands drummer when I started playing. Needless to say, I finaly got to practice with actual musicians. A definite step-up from playing along to records. The drummer of that band lived in Riverside about 1/2 hour away and had a bad habit of coming late. One day he came a lil too late and was told that was all she wrote. He wasn't mad and even gave me some stuff to upgrade my rag tag kit. The same guy would later switch to guitar and was a member of a one album and gone band by the name of Roxanne, who had a regional hit of sorts with a cover of Wild Cherry's "Play that funky music"

manny wrote:

I think it is interesting that the first bands we all first listened to back in pre adolescent days are still the bands we have followed to this day.

True enough. I'm still heavily attached to bands like priest, accept, helloween and maiden. And when i'm on the hunt for new bands, i generally get attached to those who sound like the old groups i love.

James B. wrote:

It was my older sisters boyfriends that lit the fire under my pants, so to speak. I'd heard Sabbath, Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Humble Pie quite alot. On the turntable, the 8 track in the cars, and in the garages where some tried to emulate what they heard on instruments with other high school friends.
The latter is what really intrigued me the most and at 8, I pieced together a drum set made up of CB700, Rodgers, and Ludwig shells that were total crap and began playing along to records somewhat, managing with only a hi hat and no other cymbals. My day of reckoning came in a garage a few streets down from mine.
These guys of high school age and older had a really good band. Of course they'd practice with the garage door up cause they wanted the neighborhhod chicks to see them. I was 11 by this time, with hair a lil bit past my shoulders and by no means shy. (a product of growing up in a biker household). I'd just walked right on up the driveway and into the garage.
One of the guitar players was noodling around with "Iron Man" and there was no drummer present. Much to thier surprise, I not only got up behind the kit but jumped in right where he was at in the song. The bass player followed suit. The singer came from the house with this look on his face like "what the F"
and started yelling. We stopped and he was laughing pretty hard, apparently he was on the phone with the bands drummer when I started playing. Needless to say, I finaly got to practice with actual musicians. A definite step-up from playing along to records. The drummer of that band lived in Riverside about 1/2 hour away and had a bad habit of coming late. One day he came a lil too late and was told that was all she wrote. He wasn't mad and even gave me some stuff to upgrade my rag tag kit. The same guy would later switch to guitar and was a member of a one album and gone band by the name of Roxanne, who had a regional hit of sorts with a cover of Wild Cherry's "Play that funky music"

That was awesome!!!

My dad had Hendrix, Cream and Stones records. And tons of 45's. So I listened to them allot as a kid. Since not having the benefit of older siblings, I wasn't exposed to metal till high school. I knew of certain bands (AC/DC, Aerosmith, Ozzy), but didn't listen to them. That's where the door was opened up to me. GnR, Maiden, all sorts of hair/glam bands, The Big 4 of Thrash, although back then (late 80's), Slayer was "too heavy" for the guys I hung with. Megadeth and Metallica were gods to us, but Slayer was a whole different level.

Troublezone wrote:

stepcousin wrote:

Back in '75-'76 my sister had all the rock and 70's heavy metal that was pretty much mandatory for the time: first 3 Aerosmith, first 2 Montrose, Kiss Alive and Destroyer, Ted Nugent's first couple lp's, Nazareth HOTDog & Loud n Proud, Deep Purple Live In Europe, Boston s/t, Led Zep 4 or 5 albums, and a bunch of other stuff. She would let me play her LP's and would beat me senseless when I would make scratches on them but the blood and bruises were worth it cuz I was hooked for life.
The Ones that really had a lasting impact on me:

Aerosmith...Get Your Wings and Rocks
Kiss.....Alive and Destroyer
Led Zep........1 & 2
Nazareth.....Hair Of The Dog
Montrose.....s/t
Boston....s/t
Foghat....Fool For The City
Thin Lizzy.....Johnny The Fox
Rush.......Fly By Night, Caress Of Steel, 2112
Heart.........Little Queen, Dreamboat Annie

No Sabbath?

she was 13 years old in 1975 and she was into the more girl-friendly bands like Eagles and Peter Frampton and some of the bands above, not so much Sabbath or DP Machine Head or very Early Judas Priest. I had to find those out for myself thru my dude friends by 1979 or 1980 and that continued to lure me towards harder stuff and by 1983 it was the early forms of thrash and Metal Blade releases like the Metal Massacre compilations, etc, and of course the Big 4 and the San Fran and Germany and East Coast thrash scenes. By the late 80's I was into Napalm Death, Deicide, Morbid Angel, and Sepultura, etc, but having stretched it to my limits of death metal(at the time, now its probablyy considered thrash) I have since mellowed out and pretty much gone back to classic rock like the forementioned bands earlier. Much more substance, even if those classic rock bands are "wimpy" compared to thrash and death metal. I dont really care anymore, classic rock is where I'm at these days....I've loved it for 34 years and will continue to do so.

In 1983 I started 8th grade, that year a new family had moved up the street and there was a "new kid" on the bus. He was unlike anyone else at school, he had long hair, wore metal t-shirts and had an Iron Maiden patch on his jacket. Most of the kids avoided him...but that Maiden patch got me interested (I had Number Of The Beast by that point), so I started talking to him on the bus about music and found out that most of the groups he liked I had never heard of.

A few days later he invited me over to his house and thus began my REAL metal education. He had Witchfinder General's Death Penalty, Fire Down Under, Kill 'Em All, Welcome To Hell, Ace Of Spades and a whole slew of NWOBHM stuff. It was "the great awakening". I have him to thank for the obsession that followed. (and for teaching me the correct way to use a bong)

Stender wrote:

Really, the first exposure I had was my dad as he would blast bands like Jerusalem, Running Wild, Petra, Manowar, and Savatage around the house when I was going thru primary and elementary school but I never really had an interest in the music until later.

What? I'm your dad now?

I used to have a record player in my basement where I'd listen to Alvin and the chipmunks, or Disco duck. One day I stumbled onto a box of my mother's records and discovered Aerosmith "Get Your Wings". I think I played that record over and over for 3 days straight, or until my older brother got tired of hearing it. He then let me borrow his KISS Alive record. I took one listen and I was hooked. That was the death of Disco Duck. 26 years, and over 2 dozen KISS concerts later, It's still my favorite album.

James B. wrote:

It was my older sisters boyfriends that lit the fire under my pants, so to speak.

kmorg wrote:

James B. wrote:

It was my older sisters boyfriends that lit the fire under my pants, so to speak.

In retrospect, that sounds funny. Regardless of context.