The Moment I Got into Music

Last night I was sitting around with Steven, Antnee, and Brandon at the Waegook.  These guys are some of my favourites.  When we’re together it’s just a real good time.  Always hilarious, and always interesting.  We were talking about our first albums, and such.

I managed to pinpoint the moment at which I really got into music.

In elementary school going towards gr. 7 I listened to the regular pop stuff that we all listened to.  I was into Ace of Base, BoysIImen, Jodeci, and such.

But it was one summer afternoon, I was in the van with my brother driving down Major Mackenzie Road towards Leslie st., likely headed to the highway.  We’d just left our house and he pops in a tape and says to me “Listen to this guitar in the start of the song.  It sounds so amazing.”  He pops in the tape causing a chain reaction of magnetic pulses, and electric currents, converted into movement of a membrane causing the air to vibrate, and send a familiar hiss into my ear.  And then it begins.

And he was right.  The guitar did sound amazing.

Come as you are.

  • you should download paul anka's cover of smells like teen spirit. totally better than nirvana maaan!
  • Angelo
    I remember hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time on either 680CHUM or 640 (can't remember) on the top 6 at 6, but it was AM radio which has since been long gone. That intro came right though the speakers that moment will be forever embedded in my brain.

    The next day I remember asking my friends if they heard that song, and they said yes. I am not afraid to admit that I cried the day I came home from school to find out that Kurt had died. The verdict is out on how he died. Either way, his death is controversial, thus making him a future Rock N' Roll legend.
  • Katie
    haha, Ace of Base... i cant picture you listening to that stuff.. hehe, but you know whats funnier? i was a russian kid in gr. 6 listening to the same stuff.. and then nirvana.... and we were on different continents..whoaaaa...

    i miss you jason...
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