Kim mentioned in another post how nice it was for me and my son to have the same taste in music.
That got me thinking would any of you have gone to a gig with your parents?

My Mum liked Perry Commo and Neil Sedaka
I can listen to both and when I miss my Mum and need a bubble
I'll stick some of the tunes on.
In saying all that she did have a soft spot for The Damned and Captain Sensible

My Dad wasn't really into music really and the only thing I ever heard
him listen to was Wille Nelson, however he did like to have a wee sing song
and loved Danny Boy (still brings a tear to my eye)

So did any of your parents influence your taste in music, have you or would you
go to a gig with them?

James

Now i've always liked guitar music..... The Shadows were something I grew up with through the radio and my mum and dad although I have recurring nightmares of my dad constantly playing Lena Martell's "Lord It's Hard To Be Humble".... and singing along adding completely new verses of what at best you could call risque lyrics.

However I took my mum to see The Shadows in Llandudno must have been the early eightes in what is now Weatherspoons when it was still a theatre. Not sure which one of us enjoyed the show more ...... think it was called The Palladium in those days.

Bloody good they were

Mum's always going to concerts with me - my choice never her's (Usually pussycat dolls or Sugababes) All the gigs
she chooses are with Dad or Jenny and I think she knows it's right not to ask me if i want to go because frankly our music
taste is soo different but i can put up with a bit of Bruce in the car or something like that as long as she doesn't play it over
and over again.

x Love you mum

My parents were into Rock n Roll when I was growing up, so I was brought up listening to the Beatles, Buddy Holly, Elvis etc
Went to see the Shadows a few times with them, and the Everly Brothers.
My dad also introduced me to heavy metal music - Black Sabbath, Deep Purple + Rainbow!
I grew up in a household where we were never told to turn the music down!

For my mums 60th I bought her tickets to see Cliff Richard, but my dad became ill just before, so I had to go with her instead
.... I have to say it was the longest 3 hours of my life ever!! (she didn't like it much either - said Cliff had got old before his time!!)

me and my mum have reely similar tastes in music lol...been 2 loads of gigs together, the mission, the alarm, terrorvision, electric 6 (which we were both very disappointed with because the sound was terrible) and like loads of others.
its our bonding time reely =]

I tried 'parental influences' with my lads.........music wise.........never worked though, 'cos Carreg is telling me that MC Arsehole is the best thing since he can't remember who......and 'Dad! Ypu just don't understand, mun!!!!' (Now where have I heard THAT before???????

Mind you, Dewi my eldest recognises some good stuff (a big fan of 'Slade Alive')

My Dad took me to my first ever gig - Slade in 1973! Wasn't too long after that before I heard Springsteen for the first time

Bit like Pizza Delivery Girl Rock and Roll was quite normal in our house and I grew up listening to Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Johnny Cash, Dion and the Belmonts, The Who, The Kinks, The Animals, Otis Redding and a host of other great music. We never really had Elvis records in the house or The Beatles for that matter (I never really got into The Beatles at all!). The first record I ever owned was given to me by my parents - House of the Rising Sun EP by The Animals and the first album I ever bought myself was a Janis Joplin album that was given the seal of approval by my Mum.

I think they were a bit disappointed when I started listening to stuff like Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd and were mortified to discover that when I was 12 I had joined up with some school mates to start a band in which we didn't play traditional instruments but used a synth and mixed the sound with clips from TV. The rest of the guys were huge Cricket fans and so one of our epic numbers was called 'Asleep at the Crease' and contained commentary on an extremely long innings by Geoff Boycott. It lasted about 40 mins!

When my eldest sister Kim gave me a copy of 'Anarchy in the UK' that she had be given by none other than Mr Lydon that was my world changed and I think that was the end of my parents influence on my musical life!

As I've got older though I have found myself drifting back to many of those early musical joys and am extremely grateful that I didn't have to endure listening to a lot of rubbish. That broad spectrum of music we were introduced to then has enabled me to be a little more tolerant of other musical styles, though there are some things I would never go near!

He's a Gentleman and a Scholar then Leighton

My mom thought the Beatles got too far out when they got to Sgt. Pepper's. She mostly likes classical.
My dad loved Big Band. They took us to see Mel Torme not my fave,and Ella Fitzgerald - she was pretty awesome. Kinda have a nostalgic soft spot for Ella, June Christy, Stan Kenton, Fats Waller, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, but don't listen to it all that much.
At our house, our music was taboo, if ever a little tiny note of it escaped our bedrooms, it was "turn down that crashing, clanging c#*p!"
Haven't ever really bonded with them over music
I hope that one day when my kids are older I can take them to see the Alarm Right now, I feel they are too young for lots of rock & roll, no matter how much I love it...

my mum took me 2 my first alarm gig wen i was 14 was 1 of the best nites ever =]

He absolutely is GD!

Just like his old man!!!!!

I'm with you BBB!

Indeed Leighton

Although we always had the radio on in our house, my parents never listened much to records. They only had a few - The Everly Brothers, Elvis and The Bachelors are the ones I remember. I don't think they ever went to a gig in their lives, unless you count the local dancehalls in the 50s or the tribute bands in the hotels they go to on holiday.

So I don't think they influenced my musical taste at all. They didn't mind most of my stuff though, until I started playing The Undertones and The Stray Cats. But I think they preferred it to my brother's heavy metal!

In my teens I liked whatever was in the charts but I was also into Rock and Roll in a big way. I ran a Rock & Roll Society at uni but that didn't stop me getting into all the new wave or new romantic stuff that was around at the time. While I was with my ex, I sort of dropped out of the loop, because it was all classical and jazz with him. I did own one Alarm album but I only really discovered them years later.

It's very different with Rhiannon. She grew up listening to The Alarm and all my other music in the car and loved it. I took her along to Caerphilly Castle to see Mike when she was just 7 and she had a whale of a time. A little later she came to the recording of Flesh and Blood in Cardiff and won Jules' heart by dancing in the aisle. After that it was The Gathering 2000 and she's never looked back. We've had similar taste in music ever since. Every now and again she complains it's not cool to go to gigs with me - but she won't let me go alone! I think I've only been to 3 gigs since without her and she's never forgiven me for not taking her to La Scala for Bands Reunited.

I seem fated to be a chaperone! A few years ago, she won tickets for The Wasted Festival in Blackpool and I ended up escorting 3 teenagers for the 4 days. (I also came in useful for backcombing hair and buying bleached denim skirts and camo trousers.) Two of the girls ran out of steam before the weekend was up - but we were there dancing to The Damned on the last night.

Three Cheers for Rock and Roll Mums

And some say Rock and Roll has a corrupting influence upon the young! Personally I blame that Ejit 50 pence and M&M!

My dad used to play Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Matt Munroe, and Herb Alpert. My mum used tro play The Beatles' A Hard Days Night. And my gran used to play Buddy Holly.

Say no more.

Steve W

Rock and roll and some big band stuff.
My Mum and Dad used to jive like the wind!!

I used to always credit my brother and sisters(particularly my brother) with kick starting my love of music.Brought up as I was listening to Rory Gallagher,Horslips,Thin Lizzy and loads of Motown.All of which I still play now.
It was only fairly recently that I realised it was as much to do with my Mum and Dad.
Mum loves opera ( we bought tickets for her and Dad to see Pavarotti for her 70th) and anything 'with a good beat'.
Dad was into opera as well but his big love was country:Johnny Cash,Willie Nelson,Waylon Jennings.He also had a great affection for the Stones(my Dad was a rebel at heart and I think he liked that side of them),Chieftains,Dubliners,Thomas Fraser and more besides.
Some say I have a 'quirky' taste in music sometimes:Stump,Tom Waits,Captain Beefheart etc(of course I don't find it quirky at all!).But Dad was the same.Liked a bit of Tom and was a big fan of Dessie O'Halloran.
I bought him a Dessie O'Halloran cd one Christmas(Dessie has a 'distinctive' voice and sings old Irish standards-'Courtin in the Kitchen','Come down the mountain Katy Daly') till the day I die I will never forget Dad with his ear up against the speaker (he had tinitus)that Christmas day, listening to Dessie and singing along.
My Mum is also one of the only 79 year olds I know who could name her top 5 U2 tunes!
To answer the original question,I would happily have gone to a gig with Mum and Dad,sadly that won't happen now(I can't see Mum heading for a U2 gig any time soon).Always wanted to see Johnny Cash with 'The Boss' as we called my Dad.