chase1410 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 lol, kind of embarrassing but my favorite band back then was, "The Offspring"... :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 12 was a long time ago. I think I performed "John Barleycorn Must Die" in a "Gifted" class around then... But I was really mesmerized by the Cream "Goodbye" album. "Sitting on Top of The World" was a powerful piece in my mind then. That, and everything Beatles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 The young guys will laugh at this one, but at 12 I also was putting a motorcycle battery onto my big old bicycle so it could drive a tube AM car radio set on the handlebars. The speaker was below the handlebars. That's before transistors and ICs, so... I got to listen to radio on the bike anyway, and Dad's car/motorcycle shop had a big charge so I could keep the battery charged. For extra summer cash Marvin Johnson and I would pick up pop bottles at the ball field and turn them in at 2 cents each. But a Hershey bar and a bottle of Coke were only 5 cents each at the time, too. We'd pick up one of each, then head to the graveyard hillside to roll ciggies of Prince Albert tobacco and talk about the girls at school and how we'd mod such cars as a '50 flathead Ford or a '53 Plymouth straight six. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 The young guys will laugh at this one, but at 12 I also was putting a motorcycle battery onto my big old bicycle so it could drive a tube AM car radio set on the handlebars. The speaker was below the handlebars. That's before transistors and ICs, so... I got to listen to radio on the bike anyway, and Dad's car/motorcycle shop had a big charge so I could keep the battery charged. For extra summer cash Marvin Johnson and I would pick up pop bottles at the ball field and turn them in at 2 cents each. But a Hershey bar and a bottle of Coke were only 5 cents each at the time, too. We'd pick up one of each, then head to the graveyard hillside to roll ciggies of Prince Albert tobacco and talk about the girls at school and how we'd mod such cars as a '50 flathead Ford or a '53 Plymouth straight six. m Sounds like, you must have been the Rube Goldberg, of your neighborhood, back then, Milod! Good show! :>) CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 For extra summer cash Marvin Johnson and I would pick up pop bottles at the ball field and turn them in at 2 cents each. But a Hershey bar and a bottle of Coke were only 5 cents each at the time, too. We'd pick up one of each, then head to the graveyard hillside to roll ciggies of Prince Albert tobacco and talk about the girls at school and how we'd mod such cars as a '50 flathead Ford or a '53 Plymouth straight six. m Ha! We used to swim in the canals that irrigated the orange groves - there was a sump (about 15' deep, as I recall) where we could find pop bottles (2 cents from the small ones, 4 for quart-size) that we would turn into candy at the local grocery. I never did the Prince Albert thing - we just used to lift the Parliaments from the old man's carton he kept on the workbench. It's a wonder... never mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee M Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I was 12 in 1958, not a lot of "bands" back then. It was even hard to find any Folk music. Surf music started showing up around '62 and in '64 the Beatles arrived and the age of "bands" began. I was 12 in 1960. I can remember the first 45s I bought were MTA by the Kingston Trio and Bim-bom-bay by Jimmy Rogers (at least I think I remember). I wasn't much of an Elvis fan back then either. I agree, the Beatles and the Beach Boys got me started on rock and roll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixforsix Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 1991-1992 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Images that are permanently stored in my head - Hearing the song on the radio on my way home from basketball practice. We get home about halfway through the song and I get my mom to let me stay in the guitar to hear the rest of the song. When she gets out I crank the volume all the way up. Lucky the speakers didn't blow - The song coming on at a school dance and my group of friends "headbanging" to it. Until some teacher or administrator told the DJ to turn off the song and warn us that they wouldn't play it as long as we danced violently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidl Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 1974. It was probably Led Zep and the song that comes to mind is Whole lotta love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Namvet Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I turned the ripe old age of 12 in 1960. Jan & Dean headed me in the path of rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 I turned the ripe old age of 12 in 1960. Jan & Dean headed me in the path of rock. Ahh.."The Little Old Lady, from Pasadena!" Catch a Wave... CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbabig Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 I didn't listen to music when I was 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Zep......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Well at 12 I asked for a stereo for Christmas and discovered a whole new world of FM bands. It was 1972 and they played songs by bands I'd heard of but they didn't play the AM hits. These were strange heavier songs. Album tracks by Hendrix, Cream, Allmans and the Stones. It certainly opened up a whole new world for me but my favorite band from the age of 4 until today is, was and always will be... The Beatles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Namvet Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 Ahh.."The Little Old Lady, from Pasadena!" Catch a Wave... CB Don't forget "Dead Mans Curve" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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