The first thing I can remember absolutely flipping for was "Rocket Man", by Elton John. That's the first single I bought. Then all throughout elementary school it was "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", also by Mr. John.
In junior high, as acne and teen angst took up residence,
Lou Reed became my focus, particularly the album "Berlin",
which is a loose sort of concept album (I think) about a young GI stationed in Berlin in the Seventies who falls in love with a charismatic but doomed cabaret singer with two children and a drug problem.
Reed opened the door to Iggy, Dylan, Randy Newman, Bowie
(who I still think is the greatest living record producer),
Hendrix, Van Morrison, Eno, the Sex Pistols, T-Rex. I'm also really fond of JJ Cale, who is the all time master of understatement, and probably one of my favorite guitarists ever.
That gets me through high school, anyway. After that things get a little more complicated.
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The first thing I can remember absolutely flipping for was "Rocket Man", by Elton John. That's the first single I bought. Then all throughout elementary school it was "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", also by Mr. John.
In junior high, as acne and teen angst took up residence,
Lou Reed became my focus, particularly the album "Berlin",
which is a loose sort of concept album (I think) about a young GI stationed in Berlin in the Seventies who falls in love with a charismatic but doomed cabaret singer with two children and a drug problem.
Reed opened the door to Iggy, Dylan, Randy Newman, Bowie
(who I still think is the greatest living record producer),
Hendrix, Van Morrison, Eno, the Sex Pistols, T-Rex. I'm also really fond of JJ Cale, who is the all time master of understatement, and probably one of my favorite guitarists ever.
That gets me through high school, anyway. After that things get a little more complicated.
In junior high, as acne and teen angst took up residence,
Lou Reed became my focus, particularly the album "Berlin",
which is a loose sort of concept album (I think) about a young GI stationed in Berlin in the Seventies who falls in love with a charismatic but doomed cabaret singer with two children and a drug problem.
Reed opened the door to Iggy, Dylan, Randy Newman, Bowie
(who I still think is the greatest living record producer),
Hendrix, Van Morrison, Eno, the Sex Pistols, T-Rex. I'm also really fond of JJ Cale, who is the all time master of understatement, and probably one of my favorite guitarists ever.
That gets me through high school, anyway. After that things get a little more complicated.
