re: How has your music taste changed over the years?

I basically went through the shittiest music before my enlightenment. In junior high I loved nickelback, Seether, Stained and all that shite. Then I went through my mainstream country stage in highschool and DMB at the end. Then Neil Young and Bob Dylan pulled me out of that and eventually Widespread and the Grateful Dead were my favorites and still are along with Phish. I'm just glad my eyes were opened.

in primary school I listened to top 40 radio
In middle school I listened to mostly late 90s early 2000s punk/pop rock (Blink 182, Greenday, Yellowcard, Sum 41, ect) until I discovered classic hard rock (Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Lynard Skynard, Jimi Hendrix, Aerosmith, ect), and I had a Nirvana phase in 8th grade.

In high school, I continued to like both punk/pop and hard rock but started listening to heavy metal, 80s hair metal, and more grunge-esc music (Guns N Roses, Van Halen, AC/DC, Tool, Slayer, Alter Bridge, Audioslave, Incubus, Foo Fighters, Staind, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, ect) I also discovered ska since some of my friends formed a ska band (Streetlight Manifesto, Reel Big Fish, ect)

Early in college, I got into singer/songwriters, swamp pop, and The Beatles (Jackson Brown, James Taylor, Cosby stills & Nash, Van Morrison, Jim Croce, Jimmy Buffet, Rod Stewart, ect). I later moved into funk and New Orleans jazz (Tower of Power, Parliament Funkadelic, Rebirth Brass Band, Trombone Shorty, Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Soul Rebels, Dr. John, ect). Now, I'm on a zydeco/swamp pop bend (Geno Delafos, Rockin' Dopsie, Wayne Toups, ect)

Now, I'm just all over the place.

I still listen to all of the above, but I find that I listen to a lot less grunge and singer/songwriters and a lot more 80s metal, 90s punk/pop rock, and anything with horns.

I used to be all hard rock/metal


Lately I've been listening to a lot of slow blues type stuff.

I've always liked to experiment and try out different sounds to try to develop my taste, but the blend of music that I listen to now has definitely shifted.

I started off listening to more classical music some between the ages of 7-13 or so. My mom made me pick a classical instrument, so at the time it wasn't actually developing my personal taste at the time. I am glad that I was exposed to that experience though.

When I was about 13 I started to develop my taste a little more on my own mostly by listening to whatever alt type rock was on the radio at the time and classic rock. Stuff that I think just kind of presents itself to a person without much searching. For a short period of time I was really into Zeppelin, but that passed pretty quickly. For a longer period of time I was really into Jimi Hendrix. I still really like Hendrix. I listened to the album Axis: Bold as Love all the way through everyday for the better part of a year.

After that I got a little into the punk rock thing. It's cool for what it is, but some of that was probably for the culture side of things as a younger teenager. Although I still like some of that a lot of it seems kind of immature and something that I personally grew out of.

Overlapping that period I used to like some more mainstream bands like Sublime when I was a freshman in high school. I guess part of that might have been the party type scene that I was into at the time. By the time I was a senior I really liked the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Currently bands with that type of sound seem really bland and boring to me.

By my freshman year at College, Frank Zappa and Ween had probably become my two most listened to music. I had been listening to them for years before, but I guess that it was at this point that something really clicked. They are just a lot different and therefore more interesting than a lot of things that would generally be heard.

I guess as time has gone on from this point I also started listening to more instrumental jazz and classical again. I had pretty much always liked that as well, but I just find myself in the mood more frequently for that stuff as time goes on.


So I guess that's how my musical taste has changed over the years in broad strokes leaving out a lot of specific styles and musicians that I have appreciated or grown to appreciate over time.

No I said it like that because he was not like the others that I listened to all the time. John Mayer and Lil Wayne are not in the same genre of music. I have seen JM in concert at least 5 more times than any other band, group, or artist.

I'm 37. My first Albums were 80's pop--Michael Jackson, Culture Club, the Cars, Talking Heads etc. Then I got into the Beatles when my dad bought me a CD player.

Then in middle school, I got into Poison, Motley Crue, Metallica, Guns n' Roses.

High School was more of a grunge thing for me--Nirvana, Faith no More, Bush. Later on I started getting into Jam Bands.

In College, I followed Widespread around a bunch. Pretty much was into the jam band scene for 10 years or so.

Now, I'm more into alt country and listening to the older stuff I grew up on.

This show changed my entire outlook on music forever...

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May 17, 2005 (Tue) The Allman Brothers Band Saenger Theatre New Orleans, Louisiana

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