What bands did your friends try to turn you on to but didn't take?

[dmn23]

I never really got into Metal. Sure, I listened to some proto metal as a teen, Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc but I liked other genres better. I’ve never listened to Iron Maiden, Megsdeath, Motörhead, etc. I was in my 20s-30s by then and just wrote it off as juvenile music for 13 yr old boys. I was trying to play like Tony Rice and Norman Blake, about as far away from that stuff as you can get. I bought the Metallica Black Album when it came out just to see what the deal was and honestly I don't think I made it thru the whole thing and gave the cd away asap.
Today’s down tuned extra bass strings chugga chugga monster voc thing doesn’t move me in any way and just seems kinda pointless.

My story is similar. Rush, BOC, Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, etc. for the first half of the '80s and then I lost interest and jumped ship around Metallica's Ride the Lightning album. Metal was heading in a let's-just-play-faster direction that felt like a dead end. I started broadening my horizons and listening to a wider range of stuff, and I never really got fired up about too many metal bands after that.

 

[smurfco]

Michael Boo-blay

 

[Dogsinplastic]

Phish is the 1st that pops in my head, but the caveat for any of these situations is that none of the folks I was hanging were really trying to get me like the stuff outside of the initial introduction. On old friend, however, really clicked with Phish and definitely thought I'd like far more than I did. I dig a handful of tunes, only two of which I know by title.

I remember feeling a bit browbeaten by folks I was hinging with that were stuck on one band for periods of time. To that, I never got into NiN, Soul Asylum, so much hip hop, metal heavier than Testament (or any metal w/ Cookie Monster vocals, Pantera (as good as Darrell may have been as guitarist, I didn't like Phil's vocals--not liking the singer is always a deal breaker), but not much else.

On the flip side, I've tried to share new music w/ my dad over the decades (given that he really informed so much of my musical likes/dislikes), but I don't think he's ever appreciated any of it. He emphatically disliked a band I love that reminded me very much of the Band and Neil Young (without being obviously derivative thereof), two artists I know my father loves. His response to hearing less than a handful of Avett Brothers tunes:

"If this music were around in late '60s, we'd still be fighting the Vietnam War."

I'm not sure what that really means, and I acknowledge that it's a solid burn in its inanity, but really?

 

[Dew Knot Humps]

Then the whole Hank Jr worship in the 80s turned my stomach. Always considered him a reactionary hack making money off Sr's name with lame songs he didnt even write and co-opting the whole outlaw country thing for a buck. He was a Kid Rock before Kid Rock. No wonder they get along so well.

Your opinion is uncorrect and bogus. Bosephus makes good time music for good time people. I’m in it for the music not his opinions on life.

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

"If this music were around in late '60s, we'd still be fighting the Vietnam War."
I think it means" it sounds kinda pussified and lame".

 

[jrockbridge]

I could never get into Blues Hammer, no matter how much the people of Trees Lounge raved about them.

 

[jp_nyc]

Phish is the 1st that pops in my head, but the caveat for any of these situations is that none of the folks I was hanging were really trying to get me like the stuff outside of the initial introduction. On old friend, however, really clicked with Phish and definitely thought I'd like far more than I did. I dig a handful of tunes, only two of which I know by title.

Phish take effort to get into. Between studio albums and bootlegs there’s a Phish album for everybody. But most people aren’t going to spend days listening to all that music until they find something that they like. Which is totally understandable.

 

[Dogsinplastic]

Phish take effort to get into. Between studio albums and bootlegs there’s a Phish album for everybody. But most people aren’t going to spend days listening to all that music until they find something that they like. Which is totally understandable.

I ended spending what I think is a more than fair time listening to Phish and the the biggest stumbling block is the singing. Their voices don't do anything for me...if I don't at least like (ideally love) the singing and singers, then the band isn't something ima spend time listening to.

Also, the music doesn't speak to me. There's little in the way of expressiveness that I connect with. Someone was recently talking about how much Zappa influence they have and is in their music. I agree, but I love Zappa while Phish is just sort of there for me.

I will say that they are all excellent musicians, no denying that. But not unlike a lot of fusion guys, they apparently aren't saying anything that I want to hear.

 

[cuffdc]

Kiss. No fucking thank you.

 

[Tig]

Supertramp. A few of their songs were okay, but Rick Davies' vocals were too shrill. Their bass player (Dougie Thomson) visited our home in '81 through a friend of the family, and he was really cool.

REO Speedwagon. Hideous ear syrup to induce vomiting.

Meat Loaf. Sorry, but it never clicked.

 

[jrockbridge]

Supertramp. A few of their songs were okay, but Rick Davies' vocals were too shrill. Their bass player (Dougie Thomson) visited our home in '81 through a friend of the family, and he was really cool.

REO Speedwagon. Hideous ear syrup to induce vomiting.

Meat Loaf. Sorry, but it never clicked.

That is Logical, Oh, responsible, practical. Keep on loving…..like a bat out of hell.

 

[Dexter Inferno]

Phish is the 1st that pops in my head, but the caveat for any of these situations is that none of the folks I was hanging were really trying to get me like the stuff outside of the initial introduction. On old friend, however, really clicked with Phish and definitely thought I'd like far more than I did. I dig a handful of tunes, only two of which I know by title.

I remember feeling a bit browbeaten by folks I was hinging with that were stuck on one band for periods of time. To that, I never got into NiN, Soul Asylum, so much hip hop, metal heavier than Testament (or any metal w/ Cookie Monster vocals, Pantera (as good as Darrell may have been as guitarist, I didn't like Phil's vocals--not liking the singer is always a deal breaker), but not much else.

On the flip side, I've tried to share new music w/ my dad over the decades (given that he really informed so much of my musical likes/dislikes), but I don't think he's ever appreciated any of it. He emphatically disliked a band I love that reminded me very much of the Band and Neil Young (without being obviously derivative thereof), two artists I know my father loves. His response to hearing less than a handful of Avett Brothers tunes:

"If this music were around in late '60s, we'd still be fighting the Vietnam War."

I'm not sure what that really means, and I acknowledge that it's a solid burn in its inanity, but really?

Phish always struck me as 90's Grateful Dead, and for that I just have to hate them. Never liked the whole jam band thing.
I was always more of a prog fan, and the jams in those songs were always more structured - as in there is a plan to eventually get out. Jamming for the sake of it for an hour or so is just stupid to me. I've tried a few jams and after 3 minutes I get bored. But give me a 60 minute prog epic and I'm game.

 

[frunobulax]

On the few occasions I've listened to Phish I've found them the be too clever by half.

 

[Dexter Inferno]

On the few occasions I've listened to Phish I've found them the be too clever by half.

I remember being actually pissed off watching Phish playing when Genesis got into the RnrHOF. So many other really good prog bands that could have done that bit (such as Geddy guesting on bass when Yes got inducted). Guess the prog bands weren't "high profile" enough for that one.