7 Songs for 7 Days

[DebraKadabra]

Great song, but not my absolute favorite by The Doors.

I'd be up for this at some point, if y'all don't mind a lady cutting in to the boys' club here.

[King Postwhore]

Thanks Deb.

This next band I found out at my cousin's 12th birthday in 1977.  As a 10 year old I fell in love with their look at first and then I fell in love with their album from 1975.  The album cover is awesome.  They first 2 songs on this album is a tour de force. 

https://youtu.be/-4U000l0T6k

[jingle.boy]

Hell yeah.  I didn't discover Kiss until the late 80s, and still not too deep with them.  Top 100 song of all time in my books though

[Lowdz]

KISS were pretty much responsible for sending me on this path of metal.
Not my favourite band now but they're still up there. So many great (mainly Paul Stanley) songs. Just double checking that the auto correct didn't change that to "manly" 

DRC is a great song. The guitar harmony part is just so cool. And the feedback into King of the Nighttime World gets me every time.

[Stadler]

Unapologetic Kiss fan to this day.  Seen them more than any other band, and would go again tomorrow.  To me it never gets old. 

Got to meet Paul twice, and Gene once, and both are perhaps the nicest celebrities on the planet.  Neither had to, but both took the time to talk to me (and in Paul's case, my 5 year old daughter) like we were the most important people in the world.   

I had the booklets from Alive! and Alive II with me when I met Gene, and he looked through and commented on the pictures ("That one was staged.  We needed another photo and went into the empty hall before the show to shoot this!" This was the cover to Alive!).

When I met Paul the second time, with my daughter, he got down on his knee and talked to her one on one for a good couple minutes ("Ooh, I like your earrings!  What do you want to be when you get older?").  She didn't know him from a row of assholes, but knew he was important and knew he was paying attention to her, and it made a lasting impression.  She's now a 15-year-old Kiss fan.  I took her to her first show this past summer, and during "Rock and Roll All Nite" she took a picture of the stage exploding and posted it on Instagram with the caption "Greatest night of my life!"

Rock and Roll Over is still my favorite, but this combo never ceases to get my blood pumping.   

[King Postwhore]

What a great story Stadler.

[jingle.boy]

What a great story Stadler.

Fer sure.

[TAC]

KISS were pretty much responsible for sending me on this path of metal.
Not my favourite band now but they're still up there. So many great (mainly Paul Stanley) songs. Just double checking that the auto correct didn't change that to "manly" 

DRC is a great song. The guitar harmony part is just so cool. And the feedback into King of the Nighttime World gets me every time.

Yes, all of this.

What a great story Stadler.

I love Paul Stanley. Stadler, any chance you attended Paul's solo tour in '89? I went to the Hartford show. Got a pick and some front row pics.

Alive II was the first album I ever bought.

[Stadler]

What a great story Stadler.

I love Paul Stanley. Stadler, any chance you attended Paul's solo tour in '89? I went to the Hartford show. Got a pick and some front row pics.

Alive II was the first album I ever bought.

Alive II was the first one I bought with my own money (at the time, that picture of Gene was so cool!!)

I did not see that tour, and I regret it.  I love his solo album and listen to it regularly to this day.   I was in CT, then, too, so I don't know what I was thinking.   

[TAC]

We ended up going to Hartford because the Boston show was sold out. It was awesome. Seems the band started to embrace the older songs after that.

[King Postwhore]

The tour that got Erik Singer into the KISS door.

[TAC]

The tour that got Erik Singer into the KISS door.

Yup, and Bob Kulick got to play all those great songs from the solo album live.

[King Postwhore]

I do have a bootleg video of that tour.

[King Postwhore]

So it was the summer of 1981.  I got a cassette off my guitar teacher.   First side was Santana - Zebop.  Fantastic album.  But it was the second side that sent me on the path of buying every album, bootleg, different versions of the same album, (Album, cassette,  cd, remastered cd, Blu Ray...) and 31 times seeing them live.

This was the song and album that started my obsession.

https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk

[TAC]

I have vivid memories of becoming a Rush fan myself. 1981, to me, was the best year in music.

[King Postwhore]

I was just turning 13, learning guitar. This album just took over my life, my parents car, to their dismay  and I had to learn every note, how to look like Alex when I played my guitar. 

[Podaar]

Well, as songs and bands go, you could definitely pick a worse obsession!

This is actually when I started to drift away from Rush some. At this point in my musical journey I was craving a bit more raw aggression. 

[King Postwhore]

You metalhead.

[TAC]

I also got in at Moving Pictures and got everything else they had by the time Signals came out. And then, after Signals, I also moved on.

[King Postwhore]

Well of course that makes sense Tim.  Your leanings is to more hard rock/metal and they certainty moved in a different direction. Me, I'm a music whore. I sleep with many genres.

[TAC]

Me, I'm a music whore. I sleep with many genres.

What do you think of The Astonishing?

[King Postwhore]

I like it. There's so much to soak in I need more time to soak it in.

[TAC]

I kept thinking of Hemispheres. That was my favorite era of Rush.

[King Postwhore]

Well thereceived are certainly a few more songs in major chords which sound happier.  But that's more of writing for a play. I'm very happy that Ihave to have multiple listens.  Those kind of albums grow on me.

[jingle.boy]

Man that video brought back some memories.  Much Music (our version of MTV) used to do these 30-minute segments every night featuring any given band... they played 4-5 videos, clips of some interviews, and VJ opinions.  I got 'in' to a lot of bands that way - Rush being one of them.  But not until the late 80s.

I watched the fuck out of that Tom Sawyer video.

[TAC]

   Much Music (our version of MTV) 

I had an awesome Much Music video of a Metallica special.

[King Postwhore]

We got Much Music in the 90'same durring the I Mother Earth answer Our Lady Peace days.

[jjrock88]

Man that video brought back some memories.  Much Music (our version of MTV) used to do these 30-minute segments every night featuring any given band... they played 4-5 videos, clips of some interviews, and VJ opinions.  I got 'in' to a lot of bands that way - Rush being one of them.  But not until the late 80s.

I watched the fuck out of that Tom Sawyer video.

Much Music Spotlight!

[Stadler]

Tom Sawyer; one of the very few "signature songs" from a major band that isn't tired and has really held it's own.  When that comes on the Sirius in the car, I STILL swerve all over the road as I'm (feebly and out of time) drumming away in the car.     I just love that song (whole album, really). 

[King Postwhore]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that does the dashboard drumming.   Asia's, "Wildest Dreams" is another!

[King Postwhore]

So after Rush and bands like Iron Maiden,  I was looking for a band that could meld my love for prog and my love for metal.  I think you know the next band from the early 90's.

https://youtu.be/SGRgAULYgWE

[KevShmev]

Pssh, bunch of hacks.

[King Postwhore]

I whored this album to whoever I could.

[jingle.boy]

Suspect that this is the same to you (and many) as Black Dog is to me.  Not the favorite by DT by any stretch, but the song that opened the flood gates, with an absolutely jaw dropping first experience.

[King Postwhore]

It was the gateway to DT.  I had to have the record store order the CD to me.  I remember going to visit my friend 45 minutes south of LA.  I brought the CD with me and I played it on the plane ride a ton of times.  That was a long flight.  We were an hour late in Boston from the de-icing, then we flew to Denver where for 45 minutes we circled and couldn't land because of a blizzard then we went back to Chicago where I had a 3 hour layover to change from the LA airport to the John Wayne Airport and landed 13 & 1/2's later.