When did you know that music was your passion?

In the backseat of my girlfriend's 1951 Pontiac. The only way I could complete the nasty was with the radio playing WLS out of Chicago at full volume as she yodeled in my ear.

I was 6 years old in 1966 when my older sister played 96 Tears by Question Mark and the Mysterians on her record player, I was hooked.

A year or so later, she won a copy of Cream's Disraeli Gears as a door prize at a dance. She played it once on her record player, she hated it, I loved it. She gave it to me. I bugged my parents for a record player of my own until I got one for my 8th birthday.

Cheers,
John

My story is rather similar to Rodman99999's:

When I was 8 or 9 I had been begging my parents for an FM radio for my room (I only had AM) and my father found me a very nice Arvin AM/FM table radio, two way mono speaker, push button tuning, cool! I found it amusing but not compelling until THIS came along:

http://pages.ripco.net/~saxmania/triad.html

I'd never heard anything like it. Tull? Kraftwerk? Reverberi? Deodato? I never turned it off. I joined the grade school band, and I've been making and listening to music ever since. The first dollars I earned from my first job at 13 went toward a record player, one of those compact jobs with the fold down turntable. I still own the first album I bought - Aqualung. It's pretty trashed now.

:-)

David

The summer of 1966 when I fell in love. Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" and The Association's "Cherish" along with several others from that year still has an magical effect.

The summer of 57 or 58.My older cousin would come over to play ball and after lunchtime,just had to listen to the radio for his favorite song.I was forced to sit there and listen until it came on,then we could go out and play more ball.Sometime that summer,I started waiting for a song also.....after that,splendor in the grass joined the hit parade.......hey Bobgates...that was the best summer of my life[1966],glad you were there too....