1990. My freshman year in High school I opened my locker and written on the inside of the door, in black sharpie " You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." I can still see it in my head.
Before that I listened to Metallica, The Doors, Suicidal tendencies, Zeppelin, Beatles, Zappa, Clapton, Cream, Queen, Jimi Hendrix. PINK FLOYD (the wall blew my fricken 7th grade mind)Many of these I found from mix tapes my older sister's boyfriend had left behind.
I pursued this music at garage sales where there were abundant LPs which I grabbed and listened to over and over.
After that I started listening to Dylan and Steppenwolf. Some Paul Simon then Simon and Garfunkel. Crosby Stills and Nash. CREEDENCE CLEAR, Then Various Reggae and some pop rock.
Senior year I went to Grateful Dead concert and didn't really get what all the hype was about. But I bought some dancing bears and put them on my car so I figured I better start listening to them.

If people want to talk about this and just throw in one liners I'll start.

Wind Cries Mary: Loss and longing and disappointment.

Pink Floyd The Wall: definitely helped me hate private school even more.

Music, and prehaps more importantly the community around it definitely shaped the way I think now. I was deep into punk, hardcore, metal, death metal in my youth. I met tons of interesting people from all walks of life -- that experience was invaluable. I still listen to a lot of hardcore and go to shows, the community around here is amazing and it almost feels like we've all grown up together.

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Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

Which songs?

Misfits? "I want your Skull"

Hack the heads off little girls and put em on my wall?

I've played in the sandbox of many different musical subcultures.
Was equally at home with the hippies, metal freaks and punkers.
Took a little of each with me along the journey.

The hippies though, probably the most. The extended group I hung out with were mostly students and well educated. Having long and thoughtful discussions about the state of the world (sometimes high as a tree full of hoot-owls) certainly helped shape my concept of an ideal society.
Surprisingly enough, the political and sociological approach of the other groups was not very far off from the hippies. Kind of seems like anyone who has deep and abiding interest in music is not likely to be right wing. Was not uncommon for the punks or leather-and-stud groups to hang with us, as long as we kept that damn hippie music off...

High school years, when I was still a young republican, I listened to the classics - Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd... wasn't until I started paying attention to the words that my views started to change.
Won't Get Fooled Again...
Fletcher Memorial Home....
Welcome To The Machine...

Later I discovered the world of bluegrass, and redeveloped an appreciation for people of faith. Still think that there is an awful lot of crap tied to religion, but my exposure to decent, talented and religious people has helped ease my derision. Of course, Christian rock bands are excellent for reinstilling that feeling. Not so Christian behind the scenes, most of 'em.

Now, I am fully aware that regardless of the music or ideology behind it, they all need people like me, and ideology takes a back seat to ability. This seems to be true for every profession except politics.

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Man I was just lost in music...

...I was caught in a trap...

...until I quit my 9-5...

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I've been basically disillusioned and morose since listening to Jackson Browne in 73.

It is a dance we do in silence
Far below this morning sun
You in your life, me in mine
We have begun
Here we stand and without speaking
Draw the water from the well
And stare beyond the plains
To where the mountains lie so still

But it's a long way that I have come
Across the sand to find this peace among your people in the sun
Where the families work the land as they have always done
Oh it's so far the other way my country's gone

Across my home has grown the shadow
Of a cruel and senseless hand
Though in some strong hearts
The love and truth remain
And it has taken me this distance
And a woman's smile to learn
That my heart remains among them
And to them I must return

But it's a long way that I have come
Across the sand to find you here among these people in the sun
Where your children will be born
You'll watch them as they run
Oh it's so far the other way my life has gone

If you look for me, maria
You will find me in the shade
Wide awake or in a dream
It's hard to tell--
If you come to me, maria
I will show you what I've made
It's a picture for our lady of the well

Jackson Browne

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Since the late 1960s.........very simple, and easy nowadays to boil it down to this; anyone that receives any form of Government check or Government assistance from the taxpayers, for any reason (whether working or not), is not to be relied upon or trusted. Lessons learned and experience speaking there. If it's from the Government - don't trust it. Was in much of the music and messages.

I suppose, I never got into super anarchistic stuff because I thought it was silly, but death metal never took itself seriously (dying fetus for example) and was a technical showcase, grindcore the same (the red chord, for example), and hardcore was more of a critique on what a lot of people experience day to day (Bane, for example), metal being straight aggression (as I lay dying, unearth). I also have to say I also make/made progressive house and trance music for a while which is atmospheric and purely melodic. I don't even know how to answer "what band" or "what music" or "what songs". I guess if I had to name an album from the time period that was most influential on me, it would be this:

Refused's Shape of Punk to Come.
Refused - Worms Of The Senses / Faculties Of The Skull - YouTube

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Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

Music I listened to as a kid was almost exclusively Classical. Thanks to my parents for that. They instilled in me a love of Beethoven and other great classical/romantic composers whose music has provided me with more hours of sheer bliss than anything else I can think of thru the years. Though my folks were a little nonplussed that my tastes developed more towards Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, Richard Strauss etc...

In my teens in South Africa there weren't multitudes of radio stations you had here in the states. I didn't care much for contemporary rock music though I did enjoy a bit of Laura Brannigan and Springsteen. Though I'd have to say that was always subsidiary to the classical stuff. Always thought heavy metal and most rock was just crap.

Recently though Iv'e branched out a little. Become a Rammstein fan and some other German contemporary stuff. I don't know that the music I listened to as a kid necessarily informed my world view but it has opened up a world of enjoyment for me that most contemporaries have no knowledge of.

Books and movies are another matter. As a kid I had three prime sources of written fiction entertainment. The Hardy Boys. Tintin comic's and Asterix comic's. Loved the realistic portrayal of the different countries and cultures in the Tintin comic's and the Asterix ones dovetailed nicely with my interest in History.

But it was TV and movies that probably influenced me more than anything else. I was fascinated by various American TV series and movies, the latter mostly westerns. Not so much by the stories as by the variety of the background landscapes. Seemed incredible to me how one country could be so different across it's length and breadth as seen in a show set in NY compared to LA for example. Or a western set in the Rockies compared to the great plains or desert south west.

That plus National Geographic of which we had an abundance in our house dating from the 1930's were probably my principal source of desire to experience the US and eventually to emigrate here.

- Peter.

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2021 Chevrolet Spark
Formerly...
2000 GMC Sonoma
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

"Once Upon a Time In The West" made such an impression as a teenager on me that I wanted to become a film maker and it started my love for America, even that most of the film was shot in Spain.

Johnny Cash influenced me because of the amazing and kind person he was. How he treaded his band, gave the spotlight to his son and to his long time guitar player on stage; his unconditional love for his wife June.

Every time when I run a crew I think of that Johnny Cash show in The Hague and how he ran the show...

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).