Music Memories

I honestly do not think there is a need for an introduction to why I am creating this blog, so right off the bat I will talk about the first memories of music its entirety.  I remember the day like it was yesterday.  The lead up to my opening story will be my introduction to this blog.

I grew up around music my entire life, some of my earliest memories consist of listening to music, and singing the songs in the car with my mom, brothers, or other kids at the daycare we attended.  I dont know how it started, but as a kid I was a huge Michael Jackson fan.  My dad when I was a kid hated Michael Jackson.  I remember being a kid, there would be a VH1 special that came on television all the time with The Jacksons, and he would go to his room and close the door.  There would be times he would close the door and play his trumpet over the time frame of Michael Jackson special.  I remember my mother worked only on weekends and my dad made sure that me and my brothers grew up on "good music."

We got our first stereo in 1995, which was a huge deal to us.  I remember it took my father weeks to build the stereo (I think we still have part of the stereo today).  Once the stereo was completed, my dad would make me and my brothers listen to an old r&b album every week.  I honestly do not remember all of the albums he played, but a couple that stood out were Isaac Hayes "Chocolate Chip" and Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits album.   My father was able to sense that the tide was going through a generational change, he made sure that me and my brothers loved music the same way that he did.  These days i'm similiar to my father in the nineties knowing that music from my time is now being sampled.  It's odd and just like the song "How Bizarre"