What songs hold an emotional significance for you? Why?

Music, it's magic. So much so I decided to build my life around it from an early age. My parents both loved music, but neither were musicians, so they were very happy that all of their children took up instruments. I'm the only one that made a career of it, although my siblings were very talented. We were trained classically, but my parents also loved jazz and classic rock. There are literally hundreds of tunes that hold a sentimental place in my heart for varied reasons across many genres. One of the first pieces I remember that really made me want to practice to gain the ability to play it was Bach's Violin Partita #2 in D minor. I used to lie in bed with my cheap cassette player and earphones, and fall asleep listening to it over and over. Although it is best known for it's final movement (The Chaccone) it's the first movement that hooked me. I'll be performing this piece in recital in a couple of weeks, it is awesome. Here's a live performance from the great Itzhak Perlman, enjoy...

I'm sure it wasn't dad's intention for me to take it Naturally.
But the gap was there.

In my youth, Pittsburgh had a 'free form rock' station. WYDD 104.7

No program director or repeated hits list. They played stuff you never heard, but it was good.

Every single Friday at 5PM for years they played this:
They also exposed us to stuff like this:


I miss that radio station. Their studio was 10 miles away and you could see the studio through a glass window in the street. You could go there and party with the on air DJ if you knew them, I partied live on the air many nights (we weren't allowed to say anything, but still it was fun). You could take LP's there, they'd play a cut if they liked it. You'll never find a station like that again.

The station had more of an emotional influence than what they played.

LP, he he here, Pick up your guitar and voice your opinion on Sunday!

I won a pair of Giants tickets (with parking) early one sunday am when the dj had to cover for someone and couldn't make the game. Only catch had to use them that day. I bullshitted with him for 15 min all the while wondering how many pounds of pot have been smoked in the studio, it reeked of bong water and skunk.

This is truly a local station.

In the wake of his chariot
You swam toward the latitudes
Leaving for happier times
Florida far behind

Trying your best you were
Ignoring the rescuers
You'd gone so very long
You were so very strong

The scene was so tragic
But that was the magic
Will you never drown?
Will you learn to use
Some forgotten part?
Some forgotten part?

Are you going down
Where the ballyhoos
And the tritons are?
And the tritons are?

You were so incredible
Finding all the edible
Prize of the sea
Prize of the sea

In the wake of his chariot
You swam toward the latitudes
Leaving for…

I've got several songs that are significant for different reasons.... Still can't listen to the song I used as background music for my moms funeral video..... She was very well known and well liked. I remember there wasn't a single dry eye in that building after/during that vid. She's been gone a long while now and I still can't listen to that song or watch that video..... Music can definitely set pretty much any mood there is.

I like all types of music. I've played piano my whole life and have stereos in pretty much all my cars....so I can literally go from classical piano on a long drive.....to crazy loud Bass....gangster rap trap house music on my way to grab smokes.... Love music.

there are several songs from the Vietnam era that transport me to places I thought I had long forgotten.....

The first 45 I bought was this, I think I was in second grade. I knew then I was a rebel.

That's a broad spectrum to range but. I've liked this one since I was a teen, when it came out. One of my favorite bands. I've got it nailed down on the vocals but I need to borrow one of @srh88 acoustic guitars for a few weeks to nail the guitar part, should be easy

3 days after returning from Nam I took Acid for the first time and attended a GFR concert. It was one of the most surreal experiences of my life....

doublejj said:

3 days after returning from Nam I took Acid for the first time and attended a GFR concert. It was one of the most surreal experiences of my life....

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The first time I smoked pot was at a GFR concert at the LA forum in 1971 when I was 13

The first time I dropped acid was at a Black Sabbath and Yes concert at the LA forum when I was 13

thank you for your service

This is a pretty heavy song

Sir Napsalot said:

The first time I smoked pot was at a GFR concert at the LA forum in 1971 when I was 13

The first time I dropped acid was at a Black Sabbath and Yes concert at the LA forum when I was 13

thank you for your service

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That may have been the same Grand Funk show. My dad lived in Hawthorne and I had just got back and went to see my dad in LA for a couple days, and few friends invited me to the concert....

doublejj said:

That may have been the same Grand Funk show. My dad lived in Hawthorne and I had just got back and went to see my dad in LA for a couple days, and few friends invited me to the concert....

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Wouldn't that be a hoot?

Although I don't remember them playing Closer to Home

At one point Mark Farner said "this is for everyone who smokes marijuana!" and then launched into Inside Looking Out, which was my favorite GFR song- it was at that moment that I realized I had been transformed and would never be the same

Sir Napsalot said:

Wouldn't that be a hoot?

Although I don't remember them playing Closer to Home

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maybe they played more than 1 night. I'm pretty sure they payed it...