Red Mosquito

Varis wrote:

Bammer wrote:Young MC

His "Bust a Move" is my karaoke song.

My go to is On Bended Knee

Def Leppard
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
QOTSA

Counting Crows. I had the chance to meet them before a show a couple years ago. Incredibly nice guys.

If Whiskeytown ever got back together (highly unlikely) they would rival CC and Whiskeytown and The Smashing Pumpkins were very close to CC for awhile when I was in high school but CC has been #1 since I was like 12 (Summer 93) and I bought AAEA on cassette and I was hooked. The first CDs I bought (I bought them all in one shot at a Best Buy in Dallas in 1994) were August and Everything After, Siamese Dream, Ten and Nevermind. Kinda molded me as a music fan

I'm too young for this.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:Counting Crows. I had the chance to meet them before a show a couple years ago. Incredibly nice guys.

If Whiskeytown ever got back together (highly unlikely) they would rival CC and Whiskeytown and The Smashing Pumpkins were very close to CC for awhile when I was in high school but CC has been #1 since I was like 12 (Summer 93) and I bought AAEA on cassette and I was hooked. The first CDs I bought (I bought them all in one shot at a Best Buy in Dallas in 1994) were August and Everything After, Siamese Dream, Ten and Nevermind. Kinda molded me as a music fan

We are like pretty much twins.

Except you didnt mention Alice In Chains.

Bammer wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:Counting Crows. I had the chance to meet them before a show a couple years ago. Incredibly nice guys.

If Whiskeytown ever got back together (highly unlikely) they would rival CC and Whiskeytown and The Smashing Pumpkins were very close to CC for awhile when I was in high school but CC has been #1 since I was like 12 (Summer 93) and I bought AAEA on cassette and I was hooked. The first CDs I bought (I bought them all in one shot at a Best Buy in Dallas in 1994) were August and Everything After, Siamese Dream, Ten and Nevermind. Kinda molded me as a music fan

We are like pretty much twins.

Except you didnt mention Alice In Chains.

Awww yay. Good to know!

Love AIC. Saw them last year. Would have loved to have seen them with Layne.

If you make the Lincoln PJ show I will buy you a shot.

I shopped at the Wiz.

bada wrote:I shopped at the Wiz.

He's the Wiz.....Nobody beats him!

Kiss 78 - 83
Motley Crue 83 -85
Metallica 85 - 98
Pearl Jam 98 - 09
Mastodon 09 - 11
Between the Buried and Me 11- Present

That's quite specific, Russ.

Varis wrote:That's quite specific, Russ.

He keeps a spreadsheet.

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

Bammer wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:Counting Crows. I had the chance to meet them before a show a couple years ago. Incredibly nice guys.

If Whiskeytown ever got back together (highly unlikely) they would rival CC and Whiskeytown and The Smashing Pumpkins were very close to CC for awhile when I was in high school but CC has been #1 since I was like 12 (Summer 93) and I bought AAEA on cassette and I was hooked. The first CDs I bought (I bought them all in one shot at a Best Buy in Dallas in 1994) were August and Everything After, Siamese Dream, Ten and Nevermind. Kinda molded me as a music fan

We are like pretty much twins.

Except you didnt mention Alice In Chains.

Awww yay. Good to know!

Love AIC. Saw them last year. Would have loved to have seen them with Layne.

If you make the Lincoln PJ show I will buy you a shot.

Only doing St. Louis this year

Edit: I have never heard of Whiskeytown, but everything else is what I grew up on. Gonna see CC next month.

Bammer wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

Bammer wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:Counting Crows. I had the chance to meet them before a show a couple years ago. Incredibly nice guys.

If Whiskeytown ever got back together (highly unlikely) they would rival CC and Whiskeytown and The Smashing Pumpkins were very close to CC for awhile when I was in high school but CC has been #1 since I was like 12 (Summer 93) and I bought AAEA on cassette and I was hooked. The first CDs I bought (I bought them all in one shot at a Best Buy in Dallas in 1994) were August and Everything After, Siamese Dream, Ten and Nevermind. Kinda molded me as a music fan

We are like pretty much twins.

Except you didnt mention Alice In Chains.

Awww yay. Good to know!

Love AIC. Saw them last year. Would have loved to have seen them with Layne.

If you make the Lincoln PJ show I will buy you a shot.

Only doing St. Louis this year

Edit: I have never heard of Whiskeytown, but everything else is what I grew up on. Gonna see CC next month.

Nice. I'm seeing CC in 3 weeks. Whiskeytown is the band Ryan Adams was in before he went solo. Amazing stuff. Check out the albums Strangers Almanac and Pneumonia. Fucking wonderful.

Hm, let's see...

Up until high school, I wasn't really much into music. Sure, there were songs on the radio that I liked while growing up, but I never had much ambition to really find anything out about the music, or pursue it any further. I had Weird Al's Bad Hair Day on cassette during middle school, and when I later started watching VH1 and MTV, I got into a few more of his songs, so I guess you could say he was probably my first favorite artist. I quickly cycled through a few band fandoms in early high school. I had a friend who got me into KoRn ( ), then I found Creed ( x2), and then I had other classmates who introduced me to the Dave Matthews Band. It wasn't until my brother traded me his In Utero CD for a Rob Zombie one, that I really found what I considered a favorite band.

Getting into Nirvana eventually led me to start exploring more early 90s rock, and thus I came across Pearl Jam. I don't remember all of the details, but it didn't take long for PJ to overtake Nirvana as my new favorite band, and, in part because they had a wealth of good material out at that time (between Binuaral andRiot Act), they remained my favorite band for several years. I eventually got burned out, though, when I was in college, and started exploring further. I went a little while without a "favorite" artists, just checking out different stuff, when I heard this intriguing little Latin-styled prog song on the radio. I would soon discover that it was "The Widow" by The Mars Volta, and would then have a new favorite band for a brief period.

By this point, I was doing a lot of exploring based on recommendations from various message boards and having access to relatively good P2P downloads. Oceansize would soon overtake TMV, and then it became a bit of a four-way struggle when I discovered Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor all around the same time. Whoever lined up best with my mood at any given time was the band that I would call my favorite at that point.

Then I got into Godspeed's sister band, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, and they pretty handily overtopped all of the others, especially with a long gap between EITS albums, GY!BE's hiatus and Sigur Ros's brief foray into sugary soundtrack-pop. That left SMZ and Oceansize as basically equals until the latter's demise, leaving Efrim and co. alone at the top of the mountain.

TL;DR version:
Weird Al
KoRn
Creed
Dave Matthews Band
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
The Mars Volta
Oceansize
Oceansize/Explosions in the Sky/Sigur Ros/Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Oceansize/Thee Silver Mt. Zion
Thee Silver Mt. Zion (present)

Weird Al Yankovic
Korn
Pearl Jam
QotSA

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

Bammer wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:

Bammer wrote:

BigRedLedbetter wrote:Counting Crows. I had the chance to meet them before a show a couple years ago. Incredibly nice guys.

If Whiskeytown ever got back together (highly unlikely) they would rival CC and Whiskeytown and The Smashing Pumpkins were very close to CC for awhile when I was in high school but CC has been #1 since I was like 12 (Summer 93) and I bought AAEA on cassette and I was hooked. The first CDs I bought (I bought them all in one shot at a Best Buy in Dallas in 1994) were August and Everything After, Siamese Dream, Ten and Nevermind. Kinda molded me as a music fan

We are like pretty much twins.

Except you didnt mention Alice In Chains.

Awww yay. Good to know!


Love AIC. Saw them last year. Would have loved to have seen them with Layne.

If you make the Lincoln PJ show I will buy you a shot.

Only doing St. Louis this year

Edit: I have never heard of Whiskeytown, but everything else is what I grew up on. Gonna see CC next month.

Nice. I'm seeing CC in 3 weeks. Whiskeytown is the band Ryan Adams was in before he went solo. Amazing stuff. Check out the albums Strangers Almanac and Pneumonia. Fucking wonderful.