Willie G. Moseley Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 ...and these don't necessarily have to be the first time you heard the band/player/singer/whatever (in other words, not necessarily "the first cut is the deepest", if you will). Truth be told, the inspiration for this notion is an old friend of mine who admits he was, er, more into the mushrooms back in the '60s and '70s than I was. He'd never heard "Tubular Bells" but caught a "live" performance of it on "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" in '74, where the musicians were sitting in a semi-circle, and would get up and walk over to different instruments at different times during the performance (anybody else remember that?). Well, he was blown away, as might have been expected.I can think of at least two songs that had a similar effect on me, admittedly later on. In '85, there was a Phil Collins concert on HBO (it later came out on video), and there was a tremendous extended work therein called "Hand in Hand" which started off with an almost African vibe---rainstorm effect, Collins singing something that sounded like an African dialect, response vocals from the Phoenix Horns, kalimba-like noodling by Chester Thompson on some instrument that was sort of like a mini-xylophone (from what I could tell)...following by a great horn arrangement kick-in and double drumming. It almost came off like a John Barry soundtrack number, and I was so entranced I was catatonic during the entire song. Bassist Leland Sklar said that the band used to open the show with "Hand in Hand" and he was pissed that it showed up later in the concert video, on accounta opening with it really started things rolling in the right manner, he said.In '94 I first heard the 28-minute version of "Rattlesnake Shake" from Fleetwood Mac's Boston Tea Party recordings. I'd heard other material from those live sessions (they were beginning to appear on cut-out type cassettes) but someone in Washington state sent me some bootlegs that included the effort which segues into the "Madge" jams and "Underway". Peter Green's Les Paul was absolutely screaming. It was about 30 degrees outside, I was in my car, and I didn't have the heater running, but I stopped after about 3 minutes of the song, stayed still 'till it was over, and I was sweating like a mofo at the end. It was (and is) the most ungodly extended jam track I've ever heard.Any other songs have such an immediate first-time effect on anyone else? I may think of others later on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mark123 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I was living in St. Louis around '90 or so walking around downtown when I heard what I thought was the best dam guitarist I've ever heard warming up to play a gig. Had no choice but to buy a ticket to see who it was that was making the guitar sound like I've never heard before... 'twas non other than Steve Morse Band promoting the High Tension Wires album. Been hooked ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black magic Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 The first time I heard Angel Of Death by Slayer, I was floored and listened to it over and over and............. It still floors me!! Jack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pesocaster Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Tommy Bolin ... "Poat Toastee" ... made me want to be a better guitarist... Steve Morse ... "Cruise Missile" ... made me want to quit playing..Norah Jones ... "Don't know why"... Her voice floored me the first time I heard it....Just off the top of my head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cswilder Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 The first time I heard "Creep" by Radiohead. It got to that palm muted "chuck-ah...chuck-ah" part right before the chorus and literally made me stop the car. That is so badass...those guys ended up doing pretty well for themselves.Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyOfZ Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 These songs are the ones that impacted me the most over the last 10 to 20 years SRV - Little Wing Dramagods - Broken Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out Led Zeppelin - The Battle of Evermore, Immigrant Song Beck - Sunday Sun Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil Iron Maiden - Murders in the Rue Morgue, Infinite Dreams Metallica - Call of Ktulu, Orion, Master of Puppets Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place Vangelis - Memories of Green Prince - Fury perfomance on SNL K.D. Lang - Anything...her voice is awesome! Alice in Chains - Whale and Wasp, Angry Chair Jason Becker - Higher (one of most beautiful vocal pieces I have ever heard) Marty Friedman - Bittersweet Hendrix - Gypsy Eyes Steve Vai - Call it sleep, Warm Regards David Lee Roth - Ladies Nite in Buffalo Garbage - Drive you Home Michael Jackson - 2 bad, Stranger in Moscow, Money (he sounds good pissed off) Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie, All Alone, Flying in a Blue Dream Michael Lee Firkins - Cactus Cruz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhitcomb3 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Birthday by the Sugarcubes. -Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuclear Wessel Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I wish I'd seen that performance of Tubular Bells! I always thought it was a phenominal album. As much as the term visionary gets thrown around, I think it fit that piece of music.I saw Collins' band doing Hand in Hand on HBO in the 80's too. It had the same effect on me. Real pretty melody, and how the band builds from pp to forte through the course of the song is mesmerizing.I still remember hearing And You And I by Yes when I was a kid. I was at a tropical fish store and they had the local rock station on in the store. That vocal melody just got me! I remember the first time I heard Us & Them by Floyd, and Afterglow by Genesis on the radio when I was a kid. For being a guitarist, I'm sure a sucker for that blissed out keyboard-heavy stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atquinn Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 A handful that come to mind are...Joe Satriani - Not of This EarthSteve Vai - Bad HorsieLiving Color - Cult of Personality (specifically the solo)XTC - Mayor of SimpletonAlan Holldsworth - JoshuaSugar - TiltedPolytown (David Torn Mick Karn Terry Bozzio) - This is the Abduction Scene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeyOfZ Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Jason Becker - Higher (one of most beautiful vocal pieces I have ever heard) Ok....here is a link to Jason Beckers "Higher" cause you guys gotta hear this....don't fall asleep!Jason Becker - HigherHe composed this on guitar (while he could still play) and then had Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra record it for his Perspective album after he got sick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTM105 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Anything by Barry Manilow or Neil Diamond! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Eruption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamertek98 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Eruption. Ditto! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattsmith Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 As a kid growing up in saratoga county, there were very few opportunities to hear live music... on the weekends there was in concert and rock concert... It was there I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra perform "Inner Mounting Flame". I was devastated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Submariner85 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I fell asleep on the couch with MTV on and woke up to hearing Self Esteem Offspring by for the first time. I said DAMNNNNN and bought Smash the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pirateflynn Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Birthday by the Sugarcubes. -Jonathan Good choice.For me it was the 1st time I heard I WANT YOU (She's so heavy) by the Beatles when I was about 12yrs old. It was blairing full blast on the stereo in my room and when it came to the sudden stop........I nearly had a heart attack. I had a real spooky feeling after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerboy_ Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 U2: The Unforgettable Fire, the song. It's hard to explain. It effects me like no other song ever has.-Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caddie Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Van Halen - Eruption, EVH was making sounds on a guitar that i had never imagined possible.Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood - emotional guitar work on that song from his debut albumnoonan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imiss85 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 The opening A chord to Drop Dead Legs (Van Halen 1984 for those of you who don't know it) to this day inspires me to play and play with my wife at the same time. The sound of that, even after hearing it a bazillion times still gives me chills. Every time I hear it I feel 13 again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belikerick Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 He'd never heard "Tubular Bells" but caught a "live" performance of it on "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" in '74, where the musicians were sitting in a semi-circle, and would get up and walk over to different instruments at different times during the performance (anybody else remember that?).I DO remember that live performance of "Tubular Bells" on Rock Concert - it was GREAT STUFF! (showing my age here, but we used to live for DK's RC!!)As far as songs that stopped me in my tracks..."Whole Lotta Love", Zep - (1969) I remember watching American Bandstand when Dick Clark introduces it to the U.S. and I just couldn't believe what I was hearing. Adios Beatles and Motown, hello heavy metal"Black Sabbath", Sabbath - (1970) I'm at a party and here this song that starts out with rain and bells tolling... after the first verse I was HOOKED! I bought the album the next day and played it constantly till "Paranoid" came out. "Black Sabbath" was the reason my parents got me my own stereo."Satisfaction", DEVO - (October 1978) DEVO on Saturday Night Live (also played "Joco Homo" as their second song) just blew me away"Surfing with the Alien", Satriani - (1987) heard it on KROQ in L.A. and almost crashed my car"Down in it", NIN - (1989) Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elduave Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Ben Folds Five-Underground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmatthes Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 I still remember the first time I heard each one of the following songs as a kid/teen and they hit me like a ton of bricks:"Hot Razors" - Crack The Sky"Since You've Been Gone" -Rainbow "Barracuda" Heart "Unchained" - Van Halen"Oh Candy" - Cheap Trick"Getting Closer" - Wings"The Song Remains The Same"/"Fool In the Rain" - Zep"Sultans of Swing" - Dire Straits"And Your Bird Can Sing" - Beatles"Brass In Pocket" - Pretenders (although - "Kid" knocked me out more, I just don't remember hearing it the first time as well!)"Baba O'Reilly" - the WHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruiser Brody Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Devil In A Sleeping Bag - Willie NelsonThe Hunt - Tommy EmmanuelInvisible Guests - King DCity Hall - Tenacious DMean Streets - VHWheels of Confusion - Back StabbathGoodbye To Romance - OzYer Time Is Gonna Cum - ZepThe Drunk - A FreaksGroove or Die/Turn Away - TimmonsSultans of Swing - Monte Montgomery versionThroes of Rejection - PanteraRevolution is My Name - PanteraCowboys From Hell - PanteraBaby Got BackPractice Whatcha PreachI Made Linda Lovelace GagFuggit...too damn many too list once again. Every time a 'greatness' list is mentioned there ain't no way to fit'em all in.....SHOT-30!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killertone Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 As a kid growing up in saratoga county, there were very few opportunities to hear live music... on the weekends there was in concert and rock concert... It was there I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra perform "Inner Mounting Flame". I was devastated! Holy crap. That must have been unreal!! I am jealous!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auge Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 highway star - DP - made in japan versionmade me changing from pianoplaying to guitarlearning (till now)paul gilbert - friday night - burning organdidnt know that gilbert is a good songwriter tooicecream man - older EVH recording not the newer DLR version. asked my guitartecher for learning this song including solo - it was my second year on guitar - he laughed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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