Pink Floyd were 100% my accelerant band. As a 11 year old, my favorite band was Aerosmith. I was bumping "Get A Grip" nonstop (I still maintain it's half-great). Then I heard "Comfortably Numb" for the first time and I had to have "The Wall" and then by the time I was 13, I was obsessed. From them it was very easy to get into prog rock and psychedelic music (although the Beatles also helped with that). One of the first CDs I owned was "Ummagumma," and that second disc introduced me to avant-garde composition. It was easy to get to Frank Zappa from there and from Zappa I got into... literally every genre of experimental music.
Pink Floyd were 100% my accelerant band. As a 11 year old, my favorite band was Aerosmith. I was bumping "Get A Grip" nonstop (I still maintain it's half-great). Then I heard "Comfortably Numb" for the first time and I had to have "The Wall" and then by the time I was 13, I was obsessed. From them it was very easy to get into prog rock and psychedelic music (although the Beatles also helped with that). One of the first CDs I owned was "Ummagumma," and that second disc introduced me to avant-garde composition. It was easy to get to Frank Zappa from there and from Zappa I got into... literally every genre of experimental music.
There is no dark side of the moon really. As matter of fact, it’s all dark.