When did you start to love music and why?

Actually, Louis Armstrong was the first to really bring it home for me. I was 5.

Growing up hearing the many gospel choirs and singings groups and soloist in church. From the Hammond B3 organ to the brothers playing a wash board and spoons and mothers tambourines. Having school assemblies where the school orchestra would play.

Over the many years I have grown to have a great appreciation for many types and styles of music. It truly is a joyous journey for the ears.

A thread for the world! There can't possibly be someone out there who doesn't love music. Unless of course they suffer from some sort of disorder. I'm with Iso. Can't remember that far back. Probably something like 'Twinkle twinkle little star'.

I started liking the Beatles around 1964 when I was 5 and it has continued since. I think the reason that I am involved with this thread was because my Father was a serious music lover and audiophile. We had a Sherwood amp and tuner with a RekoKut or similar TT and a really big Sony Reel to Reel.

In my case it wasn't live music that stimulated my interest, it was recorded music right from the get go. My father, who was born in 1910 may he rest in peace, was actually a bit of an audiophile before the term was probably even coined. I remember he was the first in our very middle class neighborhood to buy a console Zenith stereo, which was the cat's meow at the time in the mid-50s. I grew up listening to Nat King Cole and others of that era playing on vinyl. Then, in the late 50s, my father went a step further and bought an Ampex reel-to-reel tape recorder with portable speakers (this thing looked like a set of luggage) and started making his own mix tapes of what he had on vinyl. This was so that he could play DJ whenever my parents got together to party with their circle of friends, which was just about every Saturday night. Whoever hosted provided the booze (believe me they all drank like fish but only on Saturday nights), and my ‘DJ dad’ always provided the music. As a kid, I remember hanging out with him, watching and kibitzing whenever he made his tapes. Within a few years, like any good audiophile, he got the upgrade fever again. Out went the Ampex and in came a higher end Sony reel-to-reel that I recall cost around a thousand bucks, not exactly chump change for the early 60s. That Sony got a lot of use. I’ve often wondered whatever became of it. To this day, I still enjoy listening to Nat King Cole.