LAZI said:
I can remember hearing some songs by unknowns i've only heard once. Heard some of the first songs by some big cats now. I had to start record shows cuz it was on so late. If i was luck my tape would run into the reggae show that came on after that. I'd play those tapes til they popped. It's been down hill since.
Daamn! That is the exact same thing that happened to me! It was one show and I used to either stay up to tape it, or try to wake up every 45 minutes to change the tape. And there was a reggae show that came on after that too! I got like two boxes of those tapes somewhere in the house.
INFLUENCES
I grew up on African music
My pops is a jazz fiend
My sister used to play percussions for Latin bands
My older siblings had me listening to rock and heavy metal. I wouldn't say it influenced me though.
My older sister: mostly british groups like Duran Duran and Scritipoliti
My Older brother: Def Leppard, Van Halen, Living Color, Motley crew, some Crow group, and a bunch of others... except metalica.
I don't listen to that stuff anymore, shit,
he don't even listen to it anymore.
They also had me listening to Prince, Janet, all the other black artists.
When I got old enough to make and spend my own little money, all i bought was rap. Cause where we lived at the time,(Sarasota, Florida) there was nothin but Bass music, I couldn't stand it. The radio stations was all SHIT. Until that fateful night, just like LAZI said.
Now it's mostly African music and Hip hop I listen to.