book: \u201CThere's plenty of music. There's more music than you have time, but if you have an hour to listen, joy awaits. There are no wrong directions. Listen until you feel yourself drawn, and then follow your ears.\u201D When was the first time you remember having a powerful musical experience?I remember at some point in my childhood, I got a record player. I didn't have very many records, and I didn't have very much money, so I was mostly listening to records that my parents had. My parents met being folk singers, so there was a lot of Simon & Garfunkel, Gordon Lightfoot, and John Denver. But for other genres, I really only had the car radio. That\u2019s how I developed my own tastes.
One day, I remember hearing \u201CHold the Line\u201D by Toto on the radio in Dallas. It has a distorted guitar and I was like, \u201CWhoa, what is that noise? That's the heaviest thing I've ever heard.\u201D Looking back, that\u2019s hilarious because it\u2019s Toto, but that\u2019s the sound that led me to Boston and Rush and Blue \u00D6yster Cult and Black Sabbath. Now, I\u2019m into black metal and ridiculously overblown power metal. It\u2019s all attached to that one chord from Toto.
