Quote Originally Posted by PeruvianSkies
Here's a question that I don't know if it has ever been asked before, but who do you credit with your love and passion for both music and a hobby like audio/video?

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Unlike most music and audio folks, I had no one in my family who had any real musical training or gave a hoot about it. As a kid, the only music I hear was the pop stuff of the late '40s and '50's on the radio interspersed with soap operas. I recall when I was quite young my father bought a turntable that could be connected to a radio we owned; his entire collection consisted on a couple of symphonies, Beethoven perhaps. I think they were 78s. He played these rarely. My father die, that radio broke down, and the turntable got pitched.

I don't know: maybe because I was a shy kid, (hey, I'm still shy at 62), I didn't get to school dances or parties. In any case I just wasn't attracted to Elvis, et al. Somehow, at university I developed some interested in the folk music and Bob Dylan, but I didn't buy any records or equipment untill after I graduated and was working. I bought a Sony cassette player that I attached to my roommates Panasonic compact system. Soon afterwards a friend was working for the Canadian Dynaco distributor, and was able to get me a complete Dynaco system in kit form which I assembled. That was beginning of my interest in better sound and equipment.

Very soon after that my interest turned to classical music, although the folk and folk/rock continued to be of interest too. I still have one of my earliest classical LPs which is of Vaughan Williams' Greensleaves, The Lark Ascending, etc. -- I haven't listened to it in years; as I recall, it's in bad shape. However much of my early classical interest was with Rennaisance and Baroque.

With the general decline of in popularity of folk in the late '70s, my interest also waned. I still listen to Joan Baez once in a long, long while, but I'd puke if I had to listen to any of those Gordon Lightfoot albums again.