Ha! Well I'm the baby here: 45 in October...

Ten albums, in no particular order:

Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy - The Who. When all's said and done, they were a singles band before everything else.
Rubber Soul - The Beatles. Fave of the Fab Four. Nothing over blown, just perfect number after perfect number.
Live at Filmore East - The Allman Brothers. Best live album of all time. Duane's lead on Elizabeth Reed: my fave ever guitar solo.
Really - JJ Cale. Total cool!
Dire Straits - Dire Straits. If you were around at the particular period when this came along you though; "what a relief - a guitar-lead band that's not leather metal." And that was before spandex...
Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix. What more needs saying?
Stray Cats - Stray Cats. Yet another US act that broke in the UK first - and I just happened to be there at the time! Hot, fast and furious!

And just to keep up with russianracehorse:

Swingin' New Band - Buddy Rich. Ohmygod! A turning point in life.
Beethoven Violin Concerto - Joseph Szigeti, Bruno Walter et al. Childhood spent listening to my dad play this disc and then attempt to emulate it on his own violin - with fair success.
Petruchka - Stravinsky, cond. Simon Rattle, CBSO. Life long favorite piece of music. Grew up on the Bernstein recording but perhaps like this one even better.

Cheers - C

1,2,& 3 -John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (Beano, Hard Life, Green)
4 - The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
5 - Meet The Beatles
6 - Songs In The Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
7 - In Search Of The Lost Chord - Moody Blues
8 - Sticky Fingers - Stones
9 - Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
10 - The Hellecasters - Escape From Hollywood

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Hi Ceri, saw stray cats,looked up Brian Seltzer on U Tube, great player , hated the band though, any other Geetarists like him you know
49 just a kid trapped in a mans body

Hi ripitup555: I'm sure there's others better placed than me to recommend sharp rockabilly players - I'd be glad to hear. It was never much my thing as such - but the Cats made an incredible impression on me from about six feet away in a tiny club one sweaty night back in 1981. Brian's hot now - but he was a lot hotter then when he was lean and hungry!

For anyone interested, there's currently a little Brian Setzer guitar lesson on his website homepage that's nice (though on a horrible finished guitar):

http://www.briansetzer.com/

The mysteries of his hybrid picking technique are introduced there, and for anyone who wants more he did a pretty interesting Hot Licks DVD that has some grown up stuff on it.

Cheers - C

If you want some killer modern rockabilly you need to check out

The Reverend Horton Heat

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

agree with description of guitar, a few more on you tube,
so lean & hungry is that good , how about skinny & starvin

Starvin's even better for the music!!!

To take it back to the point of russianracehorse's thread, I think the reason that first Cats record was so important in my life was that it showed me we can get a lot out of music that is way out of our own area of interest.

Kinda opened the way to a whole lot of other listening and enjoyment. Doubt I'd have paid much attention to Chet Atkins, for example, if Brian Setzer hadn't shown me new avenues first.

Maybe something along those lines was coming off me at that gig. There must be some reason I survived unscathed: there was a moment when I looked about me and realised I was completely surrounded by rockers with huge hair and even bigger fists and I though, "uh-oh: this is where I get stomped". Guess I musta looked so into it they decided to leave me alone - despite my offensive Fred Perry polo shirt!!

- C

And now I follow,Chet Atkins, heard the name but never paid attention, I'll look him up
Cheers

PS It'll make a nice duster

Hey Ceri,

I actually saw Buddy Rich in 1980 or thereabout at the Carlton Celebrity Room in Bloomington MN. Great drummer, great band, great show!

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Hi Beaubs: it has been revealed here before that I was (and still am) a drummer before I was a guitarist. Grew up on the likes of Keith Moon - but life changed the day my dad brought home Buddy Rich's first two Pacific Jazz albums. Ohmygod!!! Didn't know that sort of thing was possible...

I saw Buddy I think eight times in different sized venues. And as I've also mentioned before I had the honor to appear (as an audience member) on a Buddy Rich album, Man From The Planet Jazz, recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in 1980, if memory serves. My most illustrious public performance!

I imagine you and I heard pretty much the same material that year. Fab, wasn't it?

- C

I think this thread deserves a little bump for the benefit of our newer members.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

Boy it is going to be hard to list just ten but we will give it a shoy

1The Beatles- Meet The Beatles
2The Stones-Let It Bleed
3Hendrix-Bold As Love
4Derek And The Dominos-Layla
5Santana-Abraxas
6-Led Zep-II
7Queen- Shear Heart Attack
8AC/DC-Back In Black
9Vanhalen-1
10SRV-Texas Flood
11G&Rs-Appetite For Destruction
12Deep Purple-Made In Japan
13Jeff Beck-Wired
14Gary Moore-Blues Alive
15Stray Cats-Stray Cats
16The Who-Who's Next
17Joe Satriani-Surfing With The Alien
18Sabbath-Paranoid
19Pink Floyd-Dark Side


I need help,lol as they came shooting out to fast and I had five more without thinking or picking an artist twice.

Agree with your first 10 straycat but I have to say that the first 5 Beatles and the first 5 Stones did it for me in my teens. It seemed like The Beatles would put one out and the immediately The Stones would answer with the "Bad Boy" version. What a battle!!

Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
I first listened to it when I was too young to fully understand the lyrics (thought the Midnight Rambler was a train ).
I still listen to it to this day with just as much interest as back when I was a wee one. To me, a perfect album.

And then there's...
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Rolling Stones - Exile On Mainstreet
Beatles - Beatles (White Album)
Beatles - Revolver
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love
B. B. King - Live In Cook County Jail
Muddy Waters/Howlin' Wolf - Muddy & The Wolf
Muddy Waters - Hard Again
Muddy Waters - I'm Ready
...and many, many more!

More than just his albums, all of Muddy Waters' recordings have inspired me to this day.
Once I hooked into his stuff, that was all I listened to for the longest time.

Can I get an Amen!?!

rolling stones...exile on mainstreet
bob dylan...blonde on blonde
the velvet underground...loaded
chuck berry...the great 28
the byrds...sweatheart of the rodeo
izzy stradlin and the ju ju hounds...izzy stradlin and the ju ju hounds
the who...whos next
the band..the last waltz
wilco...being there
jimi hendrix experience...are you experinced?