Jim_Callahan: To this day you still get a decent number of people my age showing up at shows for ZZ Top or the Stones or whatever, this isn't because those bands have some sort of actual quality that the acts of our own youth objectively lack or anything, it's just that music is a recorded media and your parents are one of your first exposures to general culture.

Jim_Callahan: Skarekrough: Some of it is the parents influence.

I wasn't meaning to claim it's literally liking what your parent's like, if that's what it came off as I was typing it ou badly.

It's more of a "your parents have a cabinet full of Three Dog Night and Willie Nelson records, so you are familiar with some of the song titles Willie covered and the concept of hair metal enough to wander over to that part of the record store instead of new releases, and somehow end up with both Ella Fitzgerald and Led Zeppelin in your favorites when developing your own tastes" type of situation.

I actually wouldn't particularly give a shiat if the specific bands my parents were fans of rolled into town, it's more that they're the people who inevitably introduced the concept of following specific bands to me in general and provided a starting point for the habit from the decade before I was born, when they could do things like have record collections and their own tastes because they did not have small demons running around their house breaking anything breakable and turning all of their entertainment media into Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers yet.

// Okay, I would definitely go to a Willie Nelson act if he was in town and I could actually wrangle a seat, that seems like it'd only be rendered more awesome by him being infinity plus one years old now, but you get what I'm saying.  The random walk towards taste in music has two starting points and only one of them is the current top 40.