Last entry in music that shaped my early life. #15: Blue Oyster Cult, Burnin’ for You.
I was around twelve years old and a young drummer. I didn’t own my own drums yet but I bought this record and learned the drum part cold playing it while seated at the end of my bed and working out the pattern beating the dust out of the corner of my mattress with heavy, wooden Zildjian drumsticks. I played that part VERBATIM!
It was exciting as it was the first time I gained any real confidence as a musician. I always hated the line, “I’m living for giving the devil his due”...why? Such a good piece of music otherwise.
I went on to absorb the Beatles, later on Bruce Hornsby’s first two solo albums and countless more. This was a great trip down musical-memory lane! I highly recommend you post the early selections that touched you.
Other entries that did not make this list but were no less important: Saxon, Twisted Sister first release (EP) The Ventures, Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues, Michael Schenker Group, British Steel, Point of Entry and Screaming for Vengeace by Judas Priest and several 1970s era Ted Nugent albums.
That is all, carry on and protect your hearing. Do you hear that loud ringing? Yeah, that’s my ears!