When did you know that music was your passion?

1958

One of the long established radio stations (WNIA) changed formats from country to "contemporary" (for lack of a better term). I heard "Rave On" by Buddy Holly for the first time.

Slam dunk.

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.