Musical Influence

Albums that inspired me

As part of a Facebook “challenge”, I was tagged to post 10 album covers, one per day, that greatly influenced my taste in music. I had so much fun with it that I actually posted for 21 days. I have reproduced the entire list here, including a couple of additional selections.

The list is in a random order, and obviously leaves out lots of music I listened to regularly, including great stuff from Kansas, Journey, Shooting Star, etc. The choices here represent albums/bands which had a profound affect on my musical interests. In many ways, they fostered my cross-genre tastes and led me to new discoveries.

Queen News Of The World

Bachman-Turner Overdrive Not Fragile

Deep Purple Machine Head

Head East Flat As A Pancake

Warren Zevon Excitable Boy

Black Sabbath We Sold Our Soul For Rock’N’Roll

Jackson Browne Hold Out

Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

Sass Jordan Racine

Tool Lateralus

Rush Caress Of Steel

Rush 2112

Styx The Grand Illusiom

Aerosmith Toys In The Attic

Yes Fragile

Robert Cray Strong Persuader

Delbert McClinton Never Been Rocked Enough

UFO Lights Out

Triumph Just A Game

Triumph Allied Forces

The Who Who’s Next

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV

Bad Company Bad Co

Bad Company Straight Shooter

Emerson, Lake & Palmer Brain Salad Surgery

3 Doors Down Away From The Sun

10 Years Division

The last album on my list set the bar & my expectations for what a LIVE album should sound like. Not to mention, it provided hours of late-night, post-party fun as Tom, Jim and I honed our “air” instrument skills on 157 Riverside Avenue, and Ridin’ The Storm Out.

REO Speedwagon You Get What You Play For

Rock On!!! …Bob