Rock Family Trees

Our Kid has just requested I download some Queen for him. Got me thinking how I manged to have such impeccable taste coming from a family of nerds. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the scene from Wayne's World as much as the next man but have managed to resist the temptation to replicate it thus far and I also quite dig 'Under Pressure' but I've managed to exist quite happily without feeling the need to own anything the uber-camp Mr Balsara has had a hand in.

As for the rest of the family only the women deserve any praise, my sister bought 'Organisation' 'L.F.O.' 'Killer' and 'White Lines' some 'Orb' and some people may consider Nirvana credible. My mum bought 'Souvenir' and some Bob Marley and I quite like The Carpenters. But why didn't they have Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye? As for the aul fella well he's seen Celine Dione in concert and brought us up on a diet of Buddy Holly and his Crickets.

So did anyone here manage to be descended from hippies of hip cats?

brought up on a diet of Stylistics (?), Commadors & Three Degrees & Crystal Gaye (that one about Billy Joe on the Tally thingy Bridge (?ridge) is an all time classic) by me mother who also got me into Blondie

Tho on the downside she did like Abba

oh...and she did see The Beatles live, cost a whole weeks wages did the ticket. She says the gig was crap as 2000 bloody girls screamed their way through the concert so you couldn't hear a thing

FRANKIE IFIELD?,SLIM WHITMAN,MARIO LANZA?,ENGLEBURT DUMPATRUCK AND ROY WOOD...................so thats why i ended up like this. ROCKET THREW ME DADS COLLECTION IN BIN MICK God your parents wer so hip....DAVID BOWIE INDEED. :p

You fucking crack me up man!

My folks were into all sorts of shite....The Stones, Beatles, T Rex, Bowie, The Sweet, The Who, (all of whom I happened to detest with a passion anyway), me elder brother was into a lot of that shit before he then got into punk - so I followed him (punk that is), then diverged into Ska and Skinhead Oi! bands and stuff like that - never really grew out of that to be honest! Thank fook none of our bunch liked any of that prog rock crap, stuff like fooking Genesis, Pink Floyd and ELP, YES (No!), etc....
Me dad was a metalhead / classic rocker - Sabbath, Zeppelin, Purple, Hendrix - all that stuff, he got me into Motorhead too when I was too young to know better! Mum never really had much time for that - she liked the old crooners, but at least had some great soul / northern soul records as well, which me brother got in the end. My sister was into all that teeny shite in the early 70s however - shame on her, then liked Duran Duran and all that cacky 80s new romantic stuff (she fancied Paul fucking Young - eek!) - the only bands I liked around that time were bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Human League and OMD, Kraftwerk, and JD/NO of course... but then I was also getting seriously into noisy guitar bands again by the late 80s, so hardcore and experimental rock began to float my boat....and has done ever since really....

SERIOUSLY i saw LED ZEPPELIN at KNEBWORTH,YES in MANCHESTER,BOWIE at MAINE ROAD,been to visit the tree in BARNES COMMON where BOLAN died,Saw LOU REED at the ROYAL ALBERT 2 year back,IAN HUNTER atLONDON ASTORIA twice and wait for it......ALICE COOPER "BRUTAL PLANET" in BOURNEMOUTH last year....the list is endless but i was a northern soul lad,skinhead ,smoothie,bootboy,and then a REVIVED mod....then i had a relapse.Still it not wot u ar but WHO you r. KEEP ON KEEPIN ON oi! Oi ROCKET BUSTER BLOODVESSEL MICK

PS SAW GARY NUMAN at BLACKBURN also MARK ALMOND icicle works and OMD when they had a longer name.... SAD BUT TRUE

Time for bed now,its DOLE in the morning! ROCKET AT THE DHSS MICK

Johnny Cash and John Fogerty (CCR) ruled my parents house, along with some Stones, Hank Williams, Little Richard, and some Atlantic soul compilations.

I really have my brother to thank for leading me down the "right" road musically. As most kids do, I watched Top of the Pops and knew every song in the charts. My parents never played anything apart from Radio 2 when I was a kid, so when I heard the sounds of punk coming from the next bedroom, it (literally) made me sit up and listen. The first records I started buying were in the Fabulous New Romantic 80's.......Visage, Adam & The Ants, Altered Images, you know the sort of thing. My brother used to take the piss constantly, and one day handed over his box of vinyl. But for that I would never have discovered Joy Division.

Still love all that 80's rubbish though....

My Mum was a big Motown and Supremes fan which has definately rubbed off on my own musical tastes. The backing tracks to some of the Motown stuff are excellent and would make really good instrumentals in their own right.

One of the best record covers is one of the Supremes greatest hits with the 4 bright red lips and microphones against a black background - quality stuff.

My Mum was also a massive fan of New Order and after I left home amassed quite a collection of the back catalogue herself!

This led her into more techno orientated stuff and there was many a time when on coming home for the weekend she'd ask me if I'd heard the latest French ambient compilation - she was into Air before I was!

My Dad was into a bit of Rod The Mod and you still can't beat Maggie May for a top song.

I lived in a family of eight, where I was the second oldest child. My parents were big on classic American rock, REO Speedwagon, Jethro Tull, and the like. My older brother was (and still is) very much into Classic Rock, white trash hair bands, Rap, and Rap Rock. For years, I was the oppressed, shy middle child, and I put up with listening to the shit. But then I rebelled, thank GOD!!!!

Originally posted by ROCKET MICK the list is endless but i was a northern soul lad,skinhead ,smoothie,bootboy,and then a REVIVED mod....then i had a relapse.Still it not wot u ar but WHO you r.KEEP ON KEEPIN ONoi! OiROCKET BUSTER BLOODVESSEL MICK

did you have much choice on the skinhead thing then rm?

my parents were big into jim reeves, the carpenters, abba, cliff & the shadows, olivia newton john & stuff like that.

as the eldest had to break new musical ground myself, came to the order late whilst at polly after a misspent youth into metal.

Originally posted by ROCKET MICK SERIOUSLY i saw LED ZEPPELIN at KNEBWORTH,YES in MANCHESTER,BOWIE at MAINE ROAD,been to visit the tree in BARNES COMMON where BOLAN died,Saw LOU REED at the ROYAL ALBERT 2 year back,IAN HUNTER atLONDON ASTORIA twice andwait for it......ALICE COOPER "BRUTAL PLANET" in BOURNEMOUTH last year....the list is endless but i was a northern soul lad,skinhead ,smoothie,bootboy,and then a REVIVED mod....then i had a relapse.Still it not wot u ar but WHO you r.KEEP ON KEEPIN ONoi! OiROCKET BUSTER BLOODVESSEL MICK

claim 2 fame: i teach the son of the bassist out of bad manners. ooooo

Claim to fame too: Gus Herman from Bad Manners is a good drinking mate of my longtime pals Geoff and Chrissie!!

My mom loved the country rock of the seventies, so I was raised on that, plus John Denver and the comtempory country scene of the early 90's. She also has some sixties stuff that rubbed off on me much more than the previously cited examples. My grandparents are gospel/old-time country folks, and my uncle recently got into the rap-metal crap popular with the clones, erm I meant kids, these days. My aunt who's only a year older than me (and thus an older sister in a way) was into the cool grunge stuff of the early 90's before she found religion. Now she's into contempory Christian junk (unless God is a egomaniac, even HE wouldn't listen to that crap!). My brother listens to whatever's popular. My little sister has an appreciation for some of the same stuff I listen to, but she also buys into the hype of what's cool now, though to a lesser degree. Overall, I'm the one with the wierdest music collection in my family.....now if I could just find that 7 inch of "Rocky Mountain High", I know it's in here somewhere..

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well blow me down HUW it's a small world. who's gus? i'm obviously far too young to know.