re: #1 Charmingly Persistent

I listened to what my pops listened to for many years and I loved it: Zeppelin, Stones, Beatles, Roy Buchanan, Slade, Queen, Eric Clapton, Grateful Dead. Then I became a rebellious teenager and got loud, The Offspring, Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica, NOFX, Rancid, Green Day. Then one day when I was 17 my older pot dealer friend gave me a Frank Zappa CD (Cheap Thrills, he handed it to me and said “It’s yours, you need to listen to this”) and that blew my fuckin’ mind wide open. Now my iTunes has ADD, everything from rap to jazz to funk to reggae to blues to prog rock to classical to jungle techno to…