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I stole my entire personality and music taste from my dad. I love sharing what he showed me and his stories, so I made a thread so everyone else can share theirs too.
My favorite all time Dad story was this show. He would have been 17, barely, and asked his mom (my Grandmother) if he could drive across the country to see GD with his girlfriend. My Grandmother said no.
So anyways he gets there, stays a while, goes to the show, does the things you do at Grateful Dead shows. Drops his girlfriend off at her new college. Makes it to Utah on the way back. His car breaks down in Utah and he is flat broke. He calls my Grandmother and she said, and I quote, "you decided you were grown enough to go, you're grown enough to fix this."
So my dad ended up living in his car, doing handyman stuff and mowing lawns for a while in Utah to save up to fix his car and make it back to start his senior year of high school.
He told my family they were forbidden to tell me this story because "i was a bit too much like him". I found all of this out a few years after he passed away. And he was exactly right, lol, I would and have done the same thing.
Post by Maᴙket Down on Jan 6, 2023 11:47:49 GMT -5
At the risk of making this a Deadhead thread (Deadthread?) my dad was one as well and he taught me to play Friend of the Devil on acoustic. He dropped out of college to follow the dead with my uncle and my grandparents didn't find out about it until they got a letter asking if he'd be back for Spring Semester, or if he was leaving the school altogether. He ended up going back and finishing school and working as an RN until he passed. Never gave up that rebellious spirit though, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Post by Capital Cincy on Jan 6, 2023 11:59:31 GMT -5
My dad loves John Denver, and so I do too. This song in particular makes me feel like getting on the open road, one of the only things we both share a love for.
my mother hates music and went to exactly 1 (one) concert to give it a shot, gnr '92 i believe. anyways someone threw a water bottle at axl and he stormed off stage. "he didnt even stick around for paradise city".
Post by Det. Jake Peralta on Jan 6, 2023 12:03:00 GMT -5
My dads favorite band is Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.....He's a very weird guy who tries his best to hide his weirdness, but when he finally does let his weirdness out it's the best.
Post by Fitter Happier on Jan 6, 2023 12:30:26 GMT -5
My dad was a big influence on me in terms of my first music tastes: real big into 90s grunge with a lot of Pearl Jam and Nirvana CDs and a giant rack with so much stuff that I used to love to comb through as a kid (Nirvana probably was my first love, after my Offspring, Smash Mouth and then Good Charlotte, Eminem, 50 Cent phases in elementary school to early middle school); he's also really into 80s stuff and got me into Talking Heads and The Cure early on. He got me some of my first CDs (Smash Mouth and The Offspring and RHCP) and my first tape (which I think was Train).
He took me to my first real show, which was The Offspring in 1997 when I was like 6-7 years old.
He semi-taught me how to play guitar, and my first gig was in middle school, I think, playing an acoustic night at a local bar with him.
We're both in recovery, and though we both consumed a lot of drugs and alcohol separately; we've oddly never done any together and now are sober, which somehow connects to me being addicted to going to shows and doing a shit ton of festivals over the years.
More recently, we've gone to RATM, The National, and Bon Iver together, and he's not even that big of a Bon Iver fan yet he cried and slow danced with my stepmom throughout the show. I owed him for all the old school stuff from the 60-90s that he got me into and have pretty regularly pushed new music in his direction over the years, The National being one of the ones I knew he would love. Similar to me with him -- he always pretends he doesn't like it at first or doesn't quite "get it" and then all of a sudden is raving about LCD Soundsystem 6 months later. To be fair, totally what happened with me and Radiohead like freshman year of high school.
I'm definitely grateful for all of the shows he's taken me to. We've done some Social Distortion together over the years, Jane's Addiction, and a lot of other good stuff.
He's also an art teacher and influenced my love of the arts in general. Aw, this made me grateful for my dad, who as he gets older just relentlessly talks about fantasy football, calls everyone "Horse," and really enjoys the Jersey Shore.
My dad was a big influence on me in terms of my first music tastes: real big into 90s grunge with a lot of Pearl Jam and Nirvana CDs and a giant rack with so much stuff that I used to love to comb through as a kid (Nirvana probably was my first love, after my Offspring, Smash Mouth and then Good Charlotte, Eminem, 50 Cent phases in elementary school to early middle school); he's also really into 80s stuff and got me into Talking Heads and The Cure early on. He got me some of my first CDs (Smash Mouth and The Offspring and RHCP) and my first tape (which I think was Train).
He took me to my first real show, which was The Offspring in 1997 when I was like 6-7 years old.
He semi-taught me how to play guitar, and my first gig was in middle school, I think, playing an acoustic night at a local bar with him.
We're both in recovery, and though we both consumed a lot of drugs and alcohol separately; we've oddly never done any together and now are sober, which somehow connects to me being addicted to going to shows and doing a shit ton of festivals over the years.
More recently, we've gone to RATM, The National, and Bon Iver together, and he's not even that big of a Bon Iver fan yet he cried and slow danced with my stepmom throughout the show. I owed him for all the old school stuff from the 60-90s that he got me into and have pretty regularly pushed new music in his direction over the years, The National being one of the ones I knew he would love. Similar to me with him -- he always pretends he doesn't like it at first or doesn't quite "get it" and then all of a sudden is raving about LCD Soundsystem 6 months later. To be fair, totally what happened with me and Radiohead like freshman year of high school.
I'm definitely grateful to all the shows he's taken me to. We've done some Social Distortion together over the years, Jane's Addiction, and a lot of other good stuff.
He's also an art teacher and influenced my love of the arts in general. Aw, this made me grateful for my dad, who as he gets older just relentlessly talks about fantasy football, calls everyone "Horse," and really enjoys the Jersey Shore.
My dad was a big influence on me in terms of my first music tastes: real big into 90s grunge with a lot of Pearl Jam and Nirvana CDs and a giant rack with so much stuff that I used to love to comb through as a kid (Nirvana probably was my first love, after my Offspring, Smash Mouth and then Good Charlotte, Eminem, 50 Cent phases in elementary school to early middle school); he's also really into 80s stuff and got me into Talking Heads and The Cure early on. He got me some of my first CDs (Smash Mouth and The Offspring and RHCP) and my first tape (which I think was Train).
He took me to my first real show, which was The Offspring in 1997 when I was like 6-7 years old.
He semi-taught me how to play guitar, and my first gig was in middle school, I think, playing an acoustic night at a local bar with him.
We're both in recovery, and though we both consumed a lot of drugs and alcohol separately; we've oddly never done any together and now are sober, which somehow connects to me being addicted to going to shows and doing a shit ton of festivals over the years.
More recently, we've gone to RATM, The National, and Bon Iver together, and he's not even that big of a Bon Iver fan yet he cried and slow danced with my stepmom throughout the show. I owed him for all the old school stuff from the 60-90s that he got me into and have pretty regularly pushed new music in his direction over the years, The National being one of the ones I knew he would love. Similar to me with him -- he always pretends he doesn't like it at first or doesn't quite "get it" and then all of a sudden is raving about LCD Soundsystem 6 months later. To be fair, totally what happened with me and Radiohead like freshman year of high school.
I'm definitely grateful to all the shows he's taken me to. We've done some Social Distortion together over the years, Jane's Addiction, and a lot of other good stuff.
He's also an art teacher and influenced my love of the arts in general. Aw, this made me grateful for my dad, who as he gets older just relentlessly talks about fantasy football, calls everyone "Horse," and really enjoys the Jersey Shore.
I'm sold let me hang out with him
Everyone always says that! Come to Pittsburgh for a show (we're not that bad)!
Or eventually we'll be out your way. We travelled to Columbus together for a National and Courtney Barnett show not that long ago.
He got me some of my first CDs (Smash Mouth and The Offspring and RHCP) and my first tape (which I think was Train).
My dad bought me my first CD that had a parental advisory (Coolio - Fantastic Voyage single with all the remixes too) and my mom had a shit fit. She confiscated it from me and he gave it back to me as soon as he found it... Solid dad move.
He got me some of my first CDs (Smash Mouth and The Offspring and RHCP) and my first tape (which I think was Train).
He took me to my first real show, which was The Offspring in 1997 when I was like 6-7 years old.
He semi-taught me how to play guitar, and my first gig was in middle school, I think, playing an acoustic night at a local bar with him.
We're both in recovery, and though we both consumed a lot of drugs and alcohol separately; we've oddly never done any together and now are sober, which somehow connects to me being addicted to going to shows and doing a shit ton of festivals over the years.
More recently, we've gone to RATM, The National, and Bon Iver together, and he's not even that big of a Bon Iver fan yet he cried and slow danced with my stepmom throughout the show. I owed him for all the old school stuff from the 60-90s that he got me into and have pretty regularly pushed new music in his direction over the years, The National being one of the ones I knew he would love. Similar to me with him -- he always pretends he doesn't like it at first or doesn't quite "get it" and then all of a sudden is raving about LCD Soundsystem 6 months later. To be fair, totally what happened with me and Radiohead like freshman year of high school.
I'm definitely grateful for all of the shows he's taken me to. We've done some Social Distortion together over the years, Jane's Addiction, and a lot of other good stuff.
He's also an art teacher and influenced my love of the arts in general. Aw, this made me grateful for my dad, who as he gets older just relentlessly talks about fantasy football, calls everyone "Horse," and really enjoys the Jersey Shore.
My dad bought me my first CD that had a parental advisory (Coolio - Fantastic Voyage single with all the remixes too) and my mom had a shit fit. She confiscated it from me and he gave it back to me as soon as he found it... Solid dad move.
That's awesome. Yeah, this would be very different thread for me, if it was a mom thread...Lmao. But, my dad got me this Blink 182 shirt from Hot Topic when I was still in elementary school that said "So many moms, so little time" or some shit like that. It was completely ridiculously, but I always appreciated stuff like that.
My dad bought me my first CD that had a parental advisory (Coolio - Fantastic Voyage single with all the remixes too) and my mom had a shit fit. She confiscated it from me and he gave it back to me as soon as he found it... Solid dad move.
my dad got me this Blink 182 shirt from Hot Topic when I was still in elementary school that said "So many moms, so little time" or some shit like that.
Fitter Happier fr let me know if you're in the area! I'll be back in Pitt at some point for sure
I definitely will. My partner and I make it to Cinci like once every two years for a show but do Columbus more frequently and Cleveland even more frequently (Bikini Kill is the one we definitely have on the books in April in Cleveland). Hit me up when you're in Pittsburgh as well -- would love to hit a Smalls or AE show together.
My parents' music didn't translate much to me at all, with some exceptions. I have some very specific memories of my dad drunkenly wailing to Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" as well as "Casey Jones". Took me a loooong time to get into the Dead and that's completely unrelated to my dad but the memory sticks. Also Live's "All Over You" (which is the only reason I was able to participate in last month's headliner thread discussion about the band).
My stepdad listened to heavier rock and metal, which isn't really my jam. He did give me a bunch of his old vinyl though, which has some Zep and a bunch of other 70's/80's mainstays - Billy Joel, Journey, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac etc. I hate Journey and am indifferent to the Eagles but Joel and FM I enjoy. He did however have an incredible aversion to Bruce Springsteen so it was never played in our house, and I still don't
My mom and I are pretty diametrically opposed musically, aside from maybe John Denver. Otherwise she mostly listens to 80's hair bands and modern country-pop (Def Leppard, Poison, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, etc.) I'm meh-to-ehh on most of it. She also hated Billy Joel, but I came to like him in adulthood. To this day a Billy Joel so can't come on without her going "I can't stand Billy Joel" and changing the station. Every time, 34 years and running. She also hates Adele and Talking Heads so I've stopped trying to bond with her over any sort of music at this point.
He got me some of my first CDs (Smash Mouth and The Offspring and RHCP) and my first tape (which I think was Train).
My dad bought me my first CD that had a parental advisory (Coolio - Fantastic Voyage single with all the remixes too) and my mom had a shit fit. She confiscated it from me and he gave it back to me as soon as he found it... Solid dad move.
i think we have the same dad.
my dad bought me graduation as my first CD, and my mom swiftly took that away
My dad bought me my first CD that had a parental advisory (Coolio - Fantastic Voyage single with all the remixes too) and my mom had a shit fit. She confiscated it from me and he gave it back to me as soon as he found it... Solid dad move.
i think we have the same dad.
my dad bought me graduation as my first CD, and my mom swiftly took that away
He got me some of my first CDs (Smash Mouth and The Offspring and RHCP) and my first tape (which I think was Train).
My dad bought me my first CD that had a parental advisory (Coolio - Fantastic Voyage single with all the remixes too) and my mom had a shit fit. She confiscated it from me and he gave it back to me as soon as he found it... Solid dad move.
My mom once exchanged cds for me when I bought an edited version by accident. The only thing I ever remember them making me stop listening to was Too Short. I was way too young to be listening to Too Short.
My dad was really into Boston and Toto so I listened to that a lot growing up. I think he was both confused and amused when I turned out to be a punk. Still very supportive of all my shitty cover bands in highschool and college.
Just last year, I decided to take my dad to a Primus show since he was at least familiar with Rush. Walking in, I made the comment that most people would probably assume he was dragging me to the show based on the ages of the rest of the crowd lol. The concert itself kinda broke him in a weird way. He seemed bewildered that that type of avante guard funk metal scene was over 30 years old and was under his nose this whole time. He kept talking about the DISSONANCE and MINOR CHORDs that he wasn't used to. A month later, he told me he made a Primus workout playlist which warmed my heart, so net positive overall!
my dad's always been the coolest but when he bought a new car and got SiriusXM he nonstop started listening to the 'XMU' channel so he got hip to all the cool indie-rock bands, flash forward a few years Roo 2011 I was 14, saw the lineup posted on Tumblr i think, really wanted to see Eminem, and saw enough on there that I knew he liked - Arcade Fire, Black Keys, The Strokes... so even though i was only 14 and he was mid-50s I convinced him to go. had 0 camping gear and honestly spent hours on these forums to prepare ourselves haha. and then Radiohead is one of his favorites so when they were headlining the very next year in 2012 of course we had to go back again. all together we did 4 Roos, 2011 2012 2014 and 2015. Some of the best memories of my life especially as a young teenager :') as a kid i just remember him playing Steely Dan, or Radiohead, or some weird jazz, but our tastes kinda grew together as we did festivals together lol or we would at least have a good mix of stuff we both wanted to see.
incinnati Ohio babeyyyy
