When did you start to love music and why?

1960s, my parents bought a "HIFI;" one of those large pieces of furniture with a desktop that opens to reveal a record player and storage area for LPs. On the front were the Lf and Rt speakers covered with some fabric.
Anyway, I grew to hate music listening to the Ray Coniff Singers and "Sing Along with Mitch"(Miller) every night. Finally I was given "Meet the Beatles" as a gift and that's where it started for me. Then I added some "Stones" and that big headshell with it's stylus tore the crap out of all my records.

Come to think of it, in '65 my dad bought one of those. When it arrived, it had a Herman's Hermits 45 they threw in with it. Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter and Henry the VIII were the cuts. My sister and I literally wore it out. The older sister started bringing in Elvis' 'Spinout' (studio version) which is an excellent album. I've repeatedly tried to track it down but all that seems to ever have existed at any source is the sound track. Wierd. Then came 'Cream', 'Vanilla Fudge','Donovan','Melanie','Dylan', and 'The Beatles'.

5th grade, man! I won an am/fm boombox with a tape player at the spelling bee!!! yeah, you read that right! I slept with that thing listening to new wave (kroq radio) in LA. It sounded fantastic listening to all those synthesizers. I was hooked. I begged my parents to buy "for the house" the all in one piece pilot system with the separate speakers!!!! wowwww!!!! a console system!!!! and it was all practically mine!! I had a great childhood. that was only the beginning. what memories of old....so much has happened since then. I love the stories here.

I'm a blizzard baby (accident). Blizzard of '66 to be exact. My siblings are quite a bit older than me. My brothers and sisters have seen Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix live as well as early The Who and others. Every one of my siblings had a hifi or at least a good receiver, turntable and speakers. There was music coming from every room when I was a child. Everything from Janis Joplin, early Genesis, The Bee Gee's and Perry Como (grandmother born 1902). It was a right of way to have a stereo in your bedroom in my family. I started with headphones listening to Dr Dimento in the early 70's and by '75, I was all over Aerosmith and the Bay City Rollers. I joined the chorus and Orchestra where I obviously sang and also played trumpet and piano. I did very well until I started smoking pots, at which point I stopped playing all instruments.

Fast forward 35 years and I own three cuica's and a few tambourims ( like a tambourine but a Brazilian take on it) and I play around with them. There was a point in my life where I really got into 1960's Brazilian pop which would be the equivalent of rock in the U.S. at that time. Musicians such as Milton Nasciemento and Gilberto Gil collaborated with The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix way back when.

Lots of fun. I always had the ability to play music through a decent rig. It will get better next week.

By the way. I listen to a huge variety of music. I rarely ever play classic rock although that's what I grew up on. Too boring to me. When I hear the old classics like Hendrix, The Who, The Doors etc I turn that garbage off. I wore it out and I'm not a nostalgic person. I seek out newer music. There's a lot out there.

Gz3827, thankyou for your positive response. For that reason I'm going to grandfather you in. I would love to hear your story. I promise to keep it confidential if I could but you know there are hundreds of people that visit this thread and they will be waiting for your response, no pressure here.