OK, don't laugh.... Limp Bizket - Nookie My first rock song I was exposed to. Incubus - Drive: Made me wanna play guitar Rage against the Machine - Bulls on parade and Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta love: Made me realize I HAD TO play the guitar.
First rock song I rember hearing was "Money for Nothing" by the Dire Straits. Loved rock since then (I think I was 3 when I heard it). Started playing guitar partly because I heard my dad playing "House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals, and I loved it.
I don't recall understanding the concept of genre's as a kid -but I do recall with vivid clarity listening to the muffled sounds of johnny Cash's "Burning Ring of Fire" being broadcast over the family's 8-track - I couldn't have been more than 5 or 6 at the time, funny how the memory can recall moments like that but fails to recall the exact place I left my keys. I also remember watching a rather large man dancing and screaming to what sounded like music, a man I thought at the time was the devil and later learned it was only Meat Loaf, sining Bat Out of Hell. "Playing With the Queen of Hearts", and "The Gambler" are also songs that I recall - but if I were to select the one song that made me take notice of 'Rock' music, it is without a doubt, "Run to The Hills" by Iron Maiden - I was a teeenager at the time, full of teen angst and testosterone, no wonder Iron maiden struck a cord with me. Funny, isn't it - the band that I say here influenced me the most happens to be a heavy metal band and not Johnny Cash or Meat Loaf.
