Here's a few that really had a major impact on my musical journey...from very early on.

I can pretty much listen to these today and still get the same vibe.....

-Music from Big Pink- the Band
-After the Goldrush/Harvest -Neil Young
-John Mayal with EC-( the Beano record)

-Rhinoceros #1+#2, -with Doug Hastings
( great great band)Doug may have been the first REAL Tele guy that blew me away.

-1st Steely Dan LP-Donald Fagan emerges
and Elliot Randal appears...

-Fresh Cream

-The Youngbloods- Banana played Steel !
He was the 1st Pedal Steel Player I ever saw LIVE..how about that...I had no clue back then..

and of course from the Steel era once I dscovered it..
The Black Album and Live at Panther Hall

yeh, I'm showing my early roots..
they won't go away...

"I Love it " !

How about you guys, and I'm not just asking about albums you really like-, but MUSIC that really made you take a hard look at your direction.

How I ended up a Country Boy I'll never know..but..maybe I'm not !

T

Shortly afterwards, Chet Atkins' 'Teensville' was another big stepping stone.

Since then there have been so many, but the CD that gets played the most to this day is Donald Fagan's 'Nightfly'; in my opinion, this one's a masterpiece.

The 3rd, actually the first, both chronologically and in terms of the degree of influence, is an all instrumental album by Pete Seeger and his brother Mike called "Indian Summer."

This album, recorded in the late 50s on a 3 track recorder, is one of the earliest example of multitracking. Seeger was contracted to do score 3 fims, and this is what he came up with.

Seeger is of course known as a singer, writer, and member of the Weavers. This was something he did on the side. I doubt that even he realized how tremendous it is. One of the films, "The Many Colored paper" is a set of variations on "Deck The Halls." It remains the best version of the tune I've ever heard.

I cannot praise this album highly enough, nor emphasise how profoundly it influenced me. If you are familiar with my recordings, this is where they came from.

I would not be surprised to learn that this is where Mike Oldfield's recordings came from too.

The album is out of print, but a custom CD can be ordered from the Smithsonian institite.
http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=621
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[This message was edited by Mike Perlowin on 15 June 2006 at 05:25 AM.]

Todd Rundgren- Hermit of Mink Hollow- I'd never heard anything like that, I played the grooves off 3 copies of it before it finally got shelved and I still get a little obsessive about it when I break it out.

Steely Dan, comprehensively, through the college years. I was a punk rocker at heart, loved X and the Ramones, but the Dan clan was undeniably the best group of musicians I had ever heard, and still are.

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[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 15 June 2006 at 08:53 AM.]

The first two Band albums really affected me in a musical way, and their influence has stuck with me all these years. I remember the Mayall album as unique because it didn't have a drums. And it will always be indelibly linked in my mind with the magic herb...the first time I smoked, that album was playing. Ahh, the summers in California back then...heady days for sure.

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Blue Moon Highway
(Country Music...and then some.)
www.bluemoonhighway.com

So... From age 5 to present, I'm a fan!

To me its just a big salad bowl of music that has melded together.After The Goldrush by Neil Young. Allman Bros. Live at Fillmore East. Multiple albums by Miles Davis. Multiple albums by Traffic. Of course the Beatles. Multiple albums by the bluegrass group The Seldom Scene.

Many of the albums previously mentioned. A lot of stuff by The Band, Dylan's Blonde on Blonde. Notorious Byrd Brothers. American Beauty and Workingman's Dead, by The Grateful Dead.

Forced to pick just one-the album I have probably listened to the "hardest," as far as what's going on beneath the surface:

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys great masterpiece: Pet Sounds

2. the most surprising entry so far, for me, is Charlie picking Quiet Nights, what I consider (no offense meant charlie - if you like it , you like it) one of the worst of the Evans/Davis collaborations. Miles hated it as well and didn't talk to Teo for years afterwards because he blamed Teo for the way it came out.

Back in 1973 I had it on the turntable. I was living in Boulder colorado at the time. I began playing my trumpet along with the record (I played trumpet then). The next day, I packed up my clothes, got in the car, and drove to Boston to apply to Berklee School of Music.

When I drove to Boston (actually Cambridge), to apply to Berklee, I parked my car and stood on the sidewalk trying to figure out what to do next. The guy from Naropa walked up to me literally 2 minutes later. He put me up at his house and that night he turned me on to Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations. Weird but true. That was the first sign that I had that I should be a Buddhist.

[This message was edited by Bill McCloskey on 15 June 2006 at 11:18 AM.]

Marty Robbins' Greatest Hits
Hank Williams Greatest Hits
Chet Atkins Fingerstyle Guitar
Chet Atkins Teensville
Ken Griffin, To Each His Own
Buck Owens at Carnegie Hall
Lloyd Green, Shades of Steel
Herbie Remington, Remington Rides Again
Suite Steel
Curly Chalker, More Ways To Play
Curly Chalker, Counterpoint
Barney Kessel.... (forgot the title)
The Jazz Crusaders
Joe Pass, Virtuoso
Eric Johnson, Ah Via Musicom
Allen Holdsworth, Metal Fatigue

[This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 15 June 2006 at 02:33 PM.]

I thought you sold your Partridge Family records ?

[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 16 June 2006 at 01:51 AM.]

Todd Rundgren- Something/Anything

Loggins and Messina- Sittin' In

Nitty Gritty- "Circle"

Some of my all time favorites over the years:

The Weavers at Carnagie Hall and On Tour
Anything by Lightning Hopkins
Robert Johnson, king of the delta Blues singers.
Anything by Fred McDowell
Best of Muddy Waters
Muddy waters down on Stovall's plantation
Early John Lee Hooker
Robert Pete Williams- Free Again
Howling Wolf's "rocking chair" album
Beatles- Revolver and Abbey Road
Beach Boys- Pet Sounds, Smiley Smile, Holland and Surf's Up.
Dire Straits- Communique
The Zombies, Odessy and Oracle (AKA Time Of the Season)
Reverend Gary Davis- Harlem street Singer and A Little more faith
Allman Brothers live at the fillmore east
Jeff Beck- Blow by blow and Wired
Albert king- Born under a bad Sign
Mikes davis- Sketches of Spain
Willy Nelson- The troublemaker (featuring Jimmy Day)
Procol Harum, A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Early Who up to and including Tommy
Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's featureing Doc Watson.
Phase 2 by Johnny Smith
Anything by Jim Hall
Charlie Byrd- Blues For nioghtre people, Blues sonata, Mr Guitar, and Byrd By The Sea.

For the past few years I've been listening to a lot of classical guitar ensembles. some of the best are.

The Falla guitar trio- West Side story (the inspiration for my recording of the work)
Quaternaglia- Forroboro (Music from brazil)
Anything by the L.A. Guitar Quartet.

Also, the David Grisman Quartet's first album, The Modern Mandolin Quartet's 1st album, and Our fellow forumites Joe Goldmark (any of his) and David Phillips, playing with Jack West and Curvature (avaiable from the forum catalog)

If I had had more money when I was a kid, I would have been more influenced by Albums...but I can think of a boatload of influence...All Of Motown in the 60's, John Fogerty, Harry Nilsson, The Eagles, McCartney & Wings, Harrison, Lennon, Poco, Mark Knopfler...my fingers will get tired before I run out of influences.

[This message was edited by Pat Burns on 15 June 2006 at 06:26 PM.]