Your parent's musical preferrences

(Mannnn ... that's an old thread!!!)

Mom was not musical at all. Dad was all classical music, which helped me since I was already at 15 well versed in a lot of composers and some operas.

The funny thing is that I was not exactly aware of the pop music even as I occasionally heard something on the radio ... until a few years after we were in Brazil, when Maria Betania, Roberto Carlos, Jobim and the like became well known .. .and a day later, the Beatles and Rolling Stones showed up on the radio. 

In general I did not take up to pop music, until I came to the United States in 1965, and the first thing I heard? Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan, and though I did not understand the words, I could tell what it was about by his wording and singing style ... awesome. At that point I got into the pop music thing some, though I did not exactly care for the top ten, and immediately took to The Doors, Jimi, Janis, Jefferson Airplane, Chicago ... for example. By 1972, I got into the European music scenes and pretty much left behind all the American scene that was way too commercial and not very good all around ... it didn't compare favorably to a lot of the German, Italian and French bands, with a wee bit of English in there, though I found too much of the English thing just fat and not that great, but some scenes like Canterbury were neat and far out.