I was much more of a prog rocker back in the day -- saw Yes six times, Genesis and King Crimson four times, ELP and Jethro Tull three times, etc. all in hickey arenas with their 'great' sound, alas.
I recently went back and listened to some of this music for the first time in decades. ELP is awful to me now, but much of the rest was much better than I expected.
My first album buy was Jimi Hendrix Experience Greatest Hits, for $1.99. (I had bought 11 singles before that.) Many years later, long after the vinyl had worn out I sold the poster that was inside to a collector for $35 even though it was rather thrashed.
After tiring of ptog, I moved on to jazz, Western classical, Indian classical, new music, what is now called world music, and more. I managed to keep finding new genres to like till I was about 50, better than most people do. I still listen to a lot of trip hop and electronic I discovered around the turn of the millennium.
I had to sell my 1000+ LPs the last time I moved, alas at the bottom of the vinyl market. If I had been able to hang on to them they would be worth at least five times as much these days.
I still have about 500 CDs and 2TB of music in electronic form, but I don't listen to music nearly as much these days due to my lousy eyesight, which makes me end up watching video rather than reading while listening to music.
I would describe my musical taste as everything but pop, but I do even like bits of that as long it is not over-produced.
I have a collection of ticket stubs from concerts I attended; there must be a thousand of them. Why so many? I used to see as many as 75 concerts during a single festival back when I was journalist so could get into everything for free. I also used to watch at least 75 movies every year during the big annual film festival. I miss those days of stuffing my brain full of stuff to see what stuck.
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