Such a great description of your time when leaving school Phil, I empathise completely, this was me too. We were factory fodder, I had the same experiences, hating the factory and the people in it, memorising the music in my head to get me through the day, putting my records on when I got home, and believing surely that I had to get out of this. I left school in 78 and just pre NWOBHM was listening to Rush, Judas Priest, UFO, Zep, Purple, Rainbow etc. it got me through that time and I am eternally grateful for the music that helped me. I got out and found my calling, glad you did too.
Really enjoyed the trip down memory lane and why the music meant so much to you. Physical Graffitti Wish you were Here and Bad Co Straight Shooter were all big albums for me, along with Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare, Bowie's Young Americans, SAHB'S Tomorrow Belongs to Me, and Supertramp's Crisis? What Crisis?. I still love all those albums. What a time to have been alive! ❤
Onya Phil! Physical Graffiti was a standard for me when I was doing an assignment for school. To this day I still need rock music as a “background” for inspiration when writing is to be done. But my proudest statement of life came as my kids went through their youth constantly telling their Zep- loving Dad to turn the music down! Nowadays, it’s just the neighbours…😝
Thank You, Phil Your intricate, explicit (and soul-bearing) details of your relationships with albums & artists really is second to none. I watch and feel I'm in front of a mirror rather than a monitor! There isn't a single time in my life that music hasn't played a major part of. My absolute best friend ... with me through the darkest of days and the best of times. 🎶
Cheers Phil, what a heartfelt broadcast - not easy when it triggers so many memories both good and bad. Physical Graffiti for me - by this time they could have gone to the moon. Brilliant episode
I really enjoy your videos like this where you go back and tell the stories or situations that led to various music you were listening to. My life was a lot like that too in that music spoke to me and made me feel like others understood what I had going on inside. Somewhere between about 1977/78 and probably until I moved out of my parents home around 1985, I had been restricted from listening to music and especially the music I loved. My dad would not let me listen and I was not allowed to listen to rock and roll especially. And yet it spoke to me. I would sneak things in and I would get caught at times and get in trouble. It wasn't until about 1983, when I was 16, that I really got to start listening to and loving Led Zeppelin. The band had already come and gone. But since I was old enough to drive and get away from the house in 1983, then I was able to listen to what I wanted to when I got away from the house. Everything from the unavailable girl that I was in love with to problems at work and home were described and found in music and songs as I was going through my teenage years. I've mentioned this before, but one of my favorite bands I came across in 1981 at the age of 14 was Journey. It was like the lyrics from their previous albums going back to 1978 were written for me. It described things I couldn't even describe. My two all-time, most favorite bands are Led Zeppelin and Journey. Two different ends of the musical spectrum but both have left lasting and lifelong impressions on me with the way they described life then and even today. But it wasn't just the lyrics that got me, it was the music and sound too. I had to do a lot of backtracking when I finally left home and go back and listen to the music I loved but was not allowed to listen to. And that was a blessing too! While a lot of my friends were into the 1980s hair bands and things like that, and I'm not saying those were all bad, I was listening to the late 1960s through early 1980s music that I loved and that described my feelings and life. And a lot of it was new to me even though it had been out for over a decade. There's a feeling you can get when the music is right. It's a feeling you just can't describe really. You can't make it happen every time you listen to the music but it often pops up when you most need it and it's comforting. Music has the capabilities that oftentimes nothing else can match or explain. Thanks for another great video Phil! And by the way, I think you're probably about 8 years older than me and I have noticed that so much of what you talk about liking, or even not liking at the time, seems to match up with exactly what my same thought and musical feelings are. When you were talking about Trampled Underfoot, that was one of my least favorite Led Zeppelin songs for years. It seemed too repetitive to me. It wasn't until I heard the 5/24/75 Earl's Court bootleg of that song the first time that I changed my mind. Jimmy Page's solo and the way he changed the song up live blew me away. And after that I didn't mind hearing it on the radio even though I still didn't consider it to be one of my favorite studio Led Zeppelin songs haha. But so many times when you're talking about the songs on albums in your videos, I swear you must be reading my mind because it's almost an exact match for not only the music I like but the songs I find to be the better ones (or even the not as good ones) It seems. I just had to mention that. Keep up the good work! Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Great intro story Phil. My first job was in a factory in 1978. In June of 1978 I and a few friends saw STATUS QUO at The Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. In 1975 their album "On The Level" peaked at #2 on the Australian Charts. #1 on the U.K. album. It is a very good quality Rock album. Parfitt's "Little Lady" leaps out of the speakers and opens the album. One of my favourite QUO songs closes side one with "Nightride" It is a thumpin' Hard Rock song that I've broken Drumsticks to, playing my Ludwig Kit at home. Alan Lancaster's "Broken Man" & "Over and Done" are two very classy tunes. On track 3, side one, the QUO boys bludgeon their instruments playing "I Saw the Light". I think the 2 Guitarists play one and a half chords on this track. Only QUO fans are allowed to make that comment. Speaking of comments, The Godfather of Rock n Roll, Chuck Berry, sent a Telegram to STATUS QUO after hearing their blistering version of "Bye Bye Johnny". In the usual QUO tradition they recorded LIVE in the studio. Up until 1981's "Never Too Late" album and the sad departure of their Drummer of 20 years, John Coghlan, they were a mighty force to be reckoned with. That's why they're called "The Mighty QUO" The highest selling 7" single of 1975 in Australia was "Fox on the Run" by SWEET. Mott the Hoople's Ian Hunter released "Once Bitten Twice Shy" as a solo single. Down By The Jetty - Dr. Feelgood Siren - Roxy Music T.N.T. - AC/DC Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John Horses - Patti Smith Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac One Of These Nights - The Eagles Live - Bob Marley & The Wailers Tonight's The Night - Neil Young Darryl Hall & John Oates - Hall & Oates The Original Soundtrack - 10cc Fandango - ZZ Top One Size Fits All - (Uncle) Frank Zappa Katy Lied - Steely Dan Main Course - The Bee Gees Four Wheel Drive - BTO Venus and Mars - Wings
76 was the year for me & loved all the same albums. End of school days and early work days were spent at home . There was no going out because of (NI) Troubles. Job started at £19 per week & £10 was given in to mum & dad. Lol memories. Thanks
I genuinely appreciate the care and exposition your provide to your chosen albums - it really speaks again to the magic of music, how simple (or sometimes complex) noises to speak and stay with us in our brightest and darkest moments.
Wow, I remember to this day that Sun article with album recommendations including the Deep Purple album!, I read it too!. Asked my aunt for it for Christmas but got ex Focus guitarist Cyril Havermans' "Cyril" that came out two years before. Still a favourite album. I also got Physical Graffiti for Christmas. I stayed on at school until I was 17 in '76 and remember several of us played Straight Shooter on a cassette in a school room we were left alone to revise in!. Anyway, currently listening to the first Morganway album (Fleetwood Mac like!) plus Brave Rival (Heart meets Tedeschi Trucks, sort of!)
Your videos always make me want to go and listen to a particular album or song. I love your thoughts and your passion for your music. Keep up the amazing work.
Graffiti is my personal fave Zeppelin as well, as you rightly pointed out Phil it runs through the whole gamut of their musical influences/styles. In the light yeah I can see the mystical/Tolkienesque feeling now you mention it, very majestic song. Just a monolithic monumental album, superb! All the other picks are superb, what a year for music!
Phil that was fantastic. I left school in 1974 and my first year was in the apprentice training school where the main connection in that first year was with 16 year old apprentices. I got bullied a little bit by these couple of bigger guys. I was small for my age. However I got to see Bad Company's first UK concert in March 1974 at Newcastle City Hall and saw them again in Nov. 74. I was different I was into music and bands and like you escaped the training school after work. Funny enough going onto the shop floor in Sept 1975 I was working with older men who were all great and same age as my dad. Fortunately no initiation ceremonies which had been banned. My favorite band is FREE and saw them twice. (FEB1971 and OCT1972) I was 12 (nearly 13)and 14 respectively.
What a great selection of '75 albums Phil. What a might fine crop of albums that came out that year. Those ones are staples of my record collection to this day....part of my early formative years of music appreciation. -Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti remains one of my all time favourite albums of any genre to this day. ---And Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow! I got the vinyl the minute it came out. Indeed, Man On The Silver Mountain to start, and that blazing shred-fest solo on Still I'm Sad at the end...superb! And, that photo of Ritchie with his Strat on the back cover - iconic! ----And my favourite Ozzy-era album Sabotage! The epic Megalomania is exquisite. -----And then there's Come Taste the Band by Purple! I hated it when it first came out....being a Blackmore afficiondo, I simply couldn't accept Tommy Bolin at first. BUT...but I rediscovered Tommy through jazz rock fusion on Billy Cobham's Spectrum about a quarter of a century later and then became a total Bolin disciple. I revisted CTTB after that and was gobsmacked at how good a record it is. Now its one of my favourite Deep Purple albums. The wisdom of age and the development of a wider palette of musical tastes gave me that new appreciation.
Great video once again Phil and some more ideas for my shopping list. Watching this I am on a bit of a downer but it has cheered me up no end. I am very nearly your age, maybe a year older so your comments are very pertinent to me. I would have been 17 in 75 and I was becoming an adult and really enjoying life, in fact I was an absolute dynamo working hard and spending my money on records and hifi. I was lucky to get a job that I enjoyed so I look back with great memories. Like yourself I am still playing those records and still enjoying them just as much today as I did back then.
Absolutely bang on Phil, again! I was 21 in 1975 and had been working for three years by then so had cash, clothes, car and girlfriend(s). Bought most of those albums that year, just like you. Took my copy of PG straight from the shop to my mate’s house because his parents had a huge proper hi fi system with speakers like dustbins. We turned the volume up to 7 out of 10 and played side one right through. Whooooooaaaaahhhhhhh!!! Actually his parents came home during Kashmir and asked who was playing it. They were very musical people and couldn’t grasp that it was LZ at all!! That photo of Ritchie in the “” Rainbow” sleeve is just wonderful, but the album is maybe 50/50 to my ears, more of a prequel to “ Rising” a year later tbh. Great job again mate and totally get what you said in the introduction. Wise words. Yeah 1975, what a year for albums!!
I was 8 when I took my brother's Hell Bent for Leather album. Rob helped transform me... I never took crap from anyone ever again. A week or so later I fought back and took care of the playground bully. Rob's voice lit a fire inside of me.
great video Phil!! and thank you for sharing your memories. man i love Bad Co. their debut(the black album) and Straight Shooter are my favorites. but i can't understand why many folks call their music "plain" or "to simple". i think that's BS! like the Beatles early catalog there's certainly a perfection and genius in the compositions and if it was that easy everyone would do it. and our beloved Led fuckin' Zeppelin changed my musical life the minute i heard Led Zep II(still my all time favorite album) although my #2 "Slide It In" sometimes go back and fourth between #1 and #2 , all i can say is thank God for music! i didn't have the easiest childhood and music always was, is and will be my personal solice. thanks again for sharing brother Phil, \m/ \m/ Jerry
Very evocative review of your 1975 album releases and the emotions connected to them Phil. I too was serving an apprenticeship at this time with Austin Morris Engine Division in Coventry. The City and Guilds format had me full time college the first year and day release the second. I hated the old factory and foundry where engines were cast in iron. It was outdated at that time and being fazed out. Sensitive artist souls find no pleasure in this environment. Finally I finished my training and moved on to better things. Music saved me though through those ruff time’s . I travelled to Earls Court that summer of 1975 to see Zeppelin. It was the highlight of my year! We survived those times Phil and I’m sure it made us better people. Thank you.
Phil, you already know how much I enjoy your videos but you are hitting new heights with these open-hearted stories of your experiences and their links to the music of that time. 1975 was a very sad year for me due to bereavement and it proved to be a turning point in my life. The music of that year is emblazoned on my soul. I am so glad that your love of music through the years has led you to this point, away from the bad experiences and towards the enjoyment you are now giving through your videos. Best wishes, Paul
Hi Phil, Yes those are some great classic albums that bring back the memories of a great decade of music. I was a huge prog-rock fan (still am) but albums from Gentle Giant, Camel, PFM, Yes, Kayak, Jethro Tull and of course Black Sabbath were very important to me...."Music is the Doctor"...it's great to hear about your memories, being a teen in the U.K..( I forgot to include Genesis, Van derGraaf G., and Focus)
Great video and it was nice seeing you open up. Music has always helped me. For me last week I went on a personal day trip to Montreal. I found an old box full of mixed CDs I’d made (or were made for me) 20 some odd years ago. I hasn’t listened them in years and each CD took me back to that era of my life. It was a nice change.
1975, a strong crop of albums across all genres. Did some rummaging around and selected these for the week (+ 2 very important ones to me): Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith Warrior on the Edge of Time - Hawkwind Four Wheel Drive - BTO Venus and Mars - Wings Dreamboat Annie - Heart Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen On Your Feet or On Your Knees - BÖC (saw this tour when going from AM radio to understanding the thrill of intelligent rock) Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent (just what a maturing teen needed to hear)
Good choice, the only one I don't own is "Venus And Mars" and for no other reason than I never got beyond "Band On The Run" with Wings - I really must give it a spin.
Working in the shop back in 1997-99 for me was- 1) UFO, force it and No Place to Run 2) Budgie, Impeckable 3) RUSH, 2112 4) Alkatrazz, No Parole for Rock n Roll 5) Judas Priest, Hell Bent for Leather (Killing Machine) 6) Black Sabbath, Mob Rules and Born Again 7) Genesis, Duke 8) Jeff Beck, Blow by blow and Wired 9) Vinnie Moore and Tony McAlpine 10) Thin Lizzy, Renegade
Fantastic monologue Phil. Describes my growing up, coming if age, whatever you want to call it, a few years later in the 80s. Having 'your music' was like an invisible suit of armour protecting you from those who didn't get it the way I did. It gave an extra support to be able to walk with my head up instead of coming down as others seemed to want me to do.
Great video Phil. I lost my father in 1978 ,tough time for my Mom (still with me at the age of 93 amazing lady but not in best of health). I was a student at the time, took my final exams that year Always been a rock/metal, and classical music fan and collector of course. Music certainly helped me through those tough times Retired now and still collecting despite lack of cash at times Need time everyday to chill and relax with a cup of coffee or glass of wine lol and listen to full album or 2 etc Don't dowload or Spotify etc need physical product everytime The Curse of the Collector etc. 6,000 plus cds and 250 vinyls. My passion Take care and keep up the good work mate Thank you Jonathan
Well said Phil, some great insights there of early working life and how music helped......i remember hating my job also around 1975, although rather than being in a big city i was in the small mining town of Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory, Australia. There wasnt a record store so i had to order all my records from Perth in western australia, usually took about a week or two to arrive.I loved Budgie and always thought that Tony Bourge was a very underrated guitarist...and Pink Floyds shine on you crazy diamond was a perfect track to put on when reading the Michael Moorcock fantasy novels that i was into.
Oh my Phiil this episode was a pure joy to watch and listen too. Your like a brother from another mother. My story mirrors yours exactly, just change the setting to Melbourne Australia... didn't like school,worked in a factory as an apprentice fitter and hated it, plenty of bullying etc etc. My escape was music...same bands and all. My dad was a ten pound pom from Birmingham so l guess we have that in common too 👍👍👍
Not just a great year for rock, but a really great year for music in general. A lot of big innovations being made by Neu, Brian Eno, and loads of electronic artists. Funk was still riding high, and if you look at the RYM charts, it was a big year for folk. It's impressive to me as a much younger person just how varied and diverse popular music was in the 70s. To me the idea that you could walk into a record store and buy a heavy metal record and a Parliament album both as new releases is really amazing. In my own life, the three big albums that saved me are Black Flag's Damaged, Poison Idea's Feel the Darkness, and The Replacements Let It Be. Doubt Id be here if not for Judas Priest and Motörhead as well.
amazing albums Phil. I found myself agreeing with all 5 selections you chose as a massive influence on me and my thinking. Those albums were transformational for me in the way they each reached my soul. I love them more and more as the years go by.
Phil, a moving and heartfelt story. I’m three years behind you and managed to avoid the sweatshops of Witton, Aston, JQ etc by squeaking into sixth form. Music was and is a great salve to our lives. Keep up the great work. Kind regards
i went from high school to the kill floor of a slaughterhouse. i hated it but it payed well, and helped me to be become the degenerate i am today! straight shooter is my fave bad co. this week: CD museo rosenbah, zathustra* italy prog, BBA live box " brilliant " van halen, women and children & fair warning. cheers!
Hi Phil, I really enjoyed your video! I could relate to your situation of bullying!!! Always stand up for yourself, if you let someone bully you once, they’ll bully you a thousand times!!! Music got me through, Iron Maiden installed a belief that I didn’t need to let others push me around! I recently had a problem with others at work recently, so I played “Stand up & shout,” by Dio & I faced them dead on!!! My favourites from your list are: “Sabotage “ Black Sabbath, “Wish you were here,” Pink Floyd. I’m going to listen to “Psychical Graffiti,” by Led Zep. My playlist this week has been: “First Daze Here,” Pentagram, “Killing Technology,” VoiVod “The Number of the Beast,” Iron Maiden. Stay safe.
Those choices Phil are like a soundtrack and a memory of the late great Alan Freeman's Saturday rock show. I eventually got a request on the show Side one Rush 2112 happy young man lol 😂
Thoroughly enjoyed this, Phil. I also left school in 1975 (I was 17)but suppose I was lucky to be in an office rather than a factory. Pretty much all the albums you mentioned were also in my collection. Love the channel, keep up the good work.
Fantastic Phil, I was 11 in 1975 but one of friend's elder Sisters were playing Physical Graffiti one Sunday afternoon and I was hooked. Bought the album with my Brother and it like you became the soundtrack to my Summer too. Still the best album ever made! I own virtually all the albums you have here on vinyl. Great channel 👏 😊.
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Some top albums there Phil ! My 1975 playlist is Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories, Wings - Venus & Mars, Jethro Tull - Mistral In The Gallery, Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head and Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama
One thing I've learned about a person and music. Look for those who have integrity and learn from them. In the US many misguided ppl look up to the Kardashians, Musk, Bezos, etc who are NOT relatable and it's pathetic. Then Phil presented him working on production lines, feeling like crap when you don't advance in life, and music is indeed the healer. Yeah there are other channels but there's a je ne sais pas that Phil possesses. I did production line work and it was terrible and felt the same way. I guess it's we've experienced similar things and you feel comradery.
Great reflections Phil. So many great LPs for that year! This week I would say my top 5 for 75 (in no particular order) are: Minstrel In the Gallery; Physical Graffiti; Sabotage; Come Taste The Band & Wish You Were Here. So quite similar to yours....
Phil, Thanks for sharing your personal feelings in that time frame ! The Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti," 2 cd set I purchased first, did not have the window openings, etc. That change with the 40th Anniversary Edition of the classic 2cd album, both are excellent. By the way, my cd copy of BBA, 4cd set arrived a few days ago, and you were spot on with your review !! The drumming, guitar work, etc. is fantastic ! Thank you for your reviews and insight, and all the best from N.H. U.S.A. 🎧😁
Great video as always mate. Going by the albums you picked and the year being 1975 i recon we're about the same age, 64. All those albums ring true with me also, all have stories connected to them like when i first heard them and what was going on in my life around that time, wont go into detail though. I will touch on Wish You Were Here because i first heard it when Alan Freeman played the whole of the album live on his Saturday rock show the week before its release on my crappy wee radio i got for Christmas the year previous. The sound from my radio might have been crap, but it sounded a million dollars when Fluff played the album. Needless to say i bought it as soon as i got payed the following week.
Hello Phil. I left school in 1973 and at that time I was heavily into David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars, Ziggy Stardust album, and also Alice Cooper. I was a big fan of all rock music, Zepplin, Purple, Sabbath, Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, Humble Pie, and especially Grand Funk Railroad. All this music made my late teenage years much more bearable. I was lucky to see many of my favourite bands. As I grew older I fell in love with jazz and classical music, but I have never lost the passion for good quality rock music! Keep up the good. work
Hey Phil, great video mate. You evoked a lot of what I feel about personal aspect of music. I own all but 2 of the albums you showed (Budgie & Sabbath... the former I will investigate further. Should do the same with Sabbath). All of those remaining 5 LP's were bought as first issue new releases. Both Physical Graffiti & WYWH are my favourites by those respective bands. I remember the amazing chance discovery, with my best mate (in our youth) of the debut Rainbow LP, in an import record store. I asked to hear it and from THOSE opening notes.... 'THAT'S RITCHIE!!'. Purple's CTTB is also in my top 3. Bad Company I bought on day of Australian release (with Suzi Quatro's 2nd album). I rate "Straight Shooter" equally with their debut effort. Maybe it's a testament to your inner strength that you pushed through those horrible work experiences. My go to albums after a crap day are "Abbey Road" & "Machine Head". They always do the trick and set my mind at ease. Music IS personal. Huge thanks for sharing mate 👍😎😊
Having had a busy week last week, I didn't listen to much music but here's a 1975 playlist I will construct for next week - and, as a challenge, some "more obscure" choices: Boxer - Below The Belt (UK) - Mike Patto & Ollie Halsall, that fact alone justifies listening to it! Cain - A Pound Of Flesh (USA) - obscure Philadelphia band that only made 2 albums, this is the debut. Dog Soldier - S/T (UK) - Keef Hartley, no other reason needed. Hustler - Play Loud (UK) - supported Queen and Status Quo in the 1970's, disbanded in 1976. Jane - Lady (Germany) - probably Germany's answer to Uriah Heep at this point in their career. Moxy - S/T (Canada) - Tommy Bolin!!!! Nektar - Recycled (UK) - just a classic. Nutz - Nutz Too (UK) - "Bootliggers" was on "Metal for Muthas" but they pre-dated NWOBHM by a few years. Sassafras - Wheelin' And Dealin' (UK) - a proud Welsh band, lots of Wishbone Ash-like twin guitar work. Stray - Stand Up And Be Counted (UK) - Del Bromham, still going and a new album next week. Strife - Rush (UK) - Gordon Rowley, probably one of the best bass players in the UK, the title track is a 12 minute classic!
Great stuff. You know your stories made me think of my favourite line from the John Miles song Music : Music was my first love and it will be my last , Music from the future and music of the past. (it really takes me back)
Great selection Phil I was moving into more serious music in 75 age 13 after cutting my teeth on Slade (still love 'em) I have an uncle who is a few years older, he said "listen to this"he played me Highway star and it was honestly life changing
1975: a peak year for many bands. Zep, Sabbath, Floyd. Come taste the band is my favourite Purple album ( followed closely by Made in Europe); the only two DP albums I play in recent years. 4 more UK albums that I love from 75: UFO Force it ; Nazareth: Hair of the dog; Status Quo: on the level; Foghat: fool for the city
Such a great description of your time when leaving school Phil, I empathise completely, this was me too. We were factory fodder, I had the same experiences, hating the factory and the people in it, memorising the music in my head to get me through the day, putting my records on when I got home, and believing surely that I had to get out of this. I left school in 78 and just pre NWOBHM was listening to Rush, Judas Priest, UFO, Zep, Purple, Rainbow etc. it got me through that time and I am eternally grateful for the music that helped me. I got out and found my calling, glad you did too.
Phil it`s a privilege to listen to your stories of what these albums meant to you.
Really enjoyed the trip down memory lane and why the music meant so much to you. Physical Graffitti Wish you were Here and Bad Co Straight Shooter were all big albums for me, along with Alice Cooper Welcome to My Nightmare, Bowie's Young Americans, SAHB'S Tomorrow Belongs to Me, and Supertramp's Crisis? What Crisis?. I still love all those albums. What a time to have been alive! ❤
Budgie's Bandolier was an album that I use to lose myself with after a dreary day at school !
Onya Phil! Physical Graffiti was a standard for me when I was doing an assignment for school. To this day I still need rock music as a “background” for inspiration when writing is to be done. But my proudest statement of life came as my kids went through their youth constantly telling their Zep- loving Dad to turn the music down! Nowadays, it’s just the neighbours…😝
Thank You, Phil
Your intricate, explicit (and soul-bearing) details of your relationships with albums & artists really is second to none. I watch and feel I'm in front of a mirror rather than a monitor!
There isn't a single time in my life that music hasn't played a major part of. My absolute best friend ... with me through the darkest of days and the best of times. 🎶
Come taste the band, i totally agree wit you, such a fantasic album
Cheers Phil, what a heartfelt broadcast - not easy when it triggers so many memories both good and bad.
Physical Graffiti for me - by this time they could have gone to the moon.
Brilliant episode
I really enjoy your videos like this where you go back and tell the stories or situations that led to various music you were listening to. My life was a lot like that too in that music spoke to me and made me feel like others understood what I had going on inside.
Somewhere between about 1977/78 and probably until I moved out of my parents home around 1985, I had been restricted from listening to music and especially the music I loved. My dad would not let me listen and I was not allowed to listen to rock and roll especially. And yet it spoke to me. I would sneak things in and I would get caught at times and get in trouble. It wasn't until about 1983, when I was 16, that I really got to start listening to and loving Led Zeppelin. The band had already come and gone. But since I was old enough to drive and get away from the house in 1983, then I was able to listen to what I wanted to when I got away from the house.
Everything from the unavailable girl that I was in love with to problems at work and home were described and found in music and songs as I was going through my teenage years. I've mentioned this before, but one of my favorite bands I came across in 1981 at the age of 14 was Journey. It was like the lyrics from their previous albums going back to 1978 were written for me. It described things I couldn't even describe.
My two all-time, most favorite bands are Led Zeppelin and Journey. Two different ends of the musical spectrum but both have left lasting and lifelong impressions on me with the way they described life then and even today. But it wasn't just the lyrics that got me, it was the music and sound too. I had to do a lot of backtracking when I finally left home and go back and listen to the music I loved but was not allowed to listen to. And that was a blessing too! While a lot of my friends were into the 1980s hair bands and things like that, and I'm not saying those were all bad, I was listening to the late 1960s through early 1980s music that I loved and that described my feelings and life. And a lot of it was new to me even though it had been out for over a decade.
There's a feeling you can get when the music is right. It's a feeling you just can't describe really. You can't make it happen every time you listen to the music but it often pops up when you most need it and it's comforting. Music has the capabilities that oftentimes nothing else can match or explain.
Thanks for another great video Phil! And by the way, I think you're probably about 8 years older than me and I have noticed that so much of what you talk about liking, or even not liking at the time, seems to match up with exactly what my same thought and musical feelings are. When you were talking about Trampled Underfoot, that was one of my least favorite Led Zeppelin songs for years. It seemed too repetitive to me. It wasn't until I heard the 5/24/75 Earl's Court bootleg of that song the first time that I changed my mind. Jimmy Page's solo and the way he changed the song up live blew me away. And after that I didn't mind hearing it on the radio even though I still didn't consider it to be one of my favorite studio Led Zeppelin songs haha. But so many times when you're talking about the songs on albums in your videos, I swear you must be reading my mind because it's almost an exact match for not only the music I like but the songs I find to be the better ones (or even the not as good ones) It seems. I just had to mention that. Keep up the good work!
Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Budgie, very underrated
Great intro story Phil.
My first job was in a factory in 1978.
In June of 1978 I and a few friends saw STATUS QUO at The Hordern Pavilion in Sydney.
In 1975 their album "On The Level" peaked at #2 on the Australian Charts.
#1 on the U.K. album.
It is a very good quality Rock album.
Parfitt's "Little Lady" leaps out of the speakers and opens the album.
One of my favourite QUO songs closes side one with "Nightride"
It is a thumpin' Hard Rock song that I've broken Drumsticks to, playing my Ludwig Kit at home.
Alan Lancaster's "Broken Man" & "Over and Done" are two very classy tunes.
On track 3, side one, the QUO boys bludgeon their instruments playing "I Saw the Light".
I think the 2 Guitarists play one and a half chords on this track.
Only QUO fans are allowed to make that comment.
Speaking of comments, The Godfather of Rock n Roll, Chuck Berry, sent a Telegram to STATUS QUO after hearing their blistering version of "Bye Bye Johnny".
In the usual QUO tradition they recorded LIVE in the studio.
Up until 1981's "Never Too Late" album and the sad departure of their Drummer of 20 years,
John Coghlan, they were a mighty force to be reckoned with.
That's why they're called "The Mighty QUO"
The highest selling 7" single of 1975 in Australia was "Fox on the Run" by SWEET.
Mott the Hoople's Ian Hunter released "Once Bitten Twice Shy" as a solo single.
Down By The Jetty - Dr. Feelgood
Siren - Roxy Music
T.N.T. - AC/DC
Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
Horses - Patti Smith
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
One Of These Nights - The Eagles
Live - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Tonight's The Night - Neil Young
Darryl Hall & John Oates - Hall & Oates
The Original Soundtrack - 10cc
Fandango - ZZ Top
One Size Fits All - (Uncle) Frank Zappa
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
Main Course - The Bee Gees
Four Wheel Drive - BTO
Venus and Mars - Wings
Fantastic comment- thank you for sharing - Phil
76 was the year for me & loved all the same albums. End of school days and early work days were spent at home . There was no going out because of (NI) Troubles. Job started at £19 per week & £10 was given in to mum & dad. Lol memories. Thanks
I genuinely appreciate the care and exposition your provide to your chosen albums - it really speaks again to the magic of music, how simple (or sometimes complex) noises to speak and stay with us in our brightest and darkest moments.
Wow, I remember to this day that Sun article with album recommendations including the Deep Purple album!, I read it too!. Asked my aunt for it for Christmas but got ex Focus guitarist Cyril Havermans' "Cyril" that came out two years before. Still a favourite album. I also got Physical Graffiti for Christmas. I stayed on at school until I was 17 in '76 and remember several of us played Straight Shooter on a cassette in a school room we were left alone to revise in!. Anyway, currently listening to the first Morganway album (Fleetwood Mac like!) plus Brave Rival (Heart meets Tedeschi Trucks, sort of!)
Phil, thanks for sharing such a personal experience. I can relate to your passionate words of how music helped you. Just brilliant! Thanks! ❤
Your videos always make me want to go and listen to a particular album or song. I love your thoughts and your passion for your music. Keep up the amazing work.
Graffiti is my personal fave Zeppelin as well, as you rightly pointed out Phil it runs through the whole gamut of their musical influences/styles. In the light yeah I can see the mystical/Tolkienesque feeling now you mention it, very majestic song. Just a monolithic monumental album, superb! All the other picks are superb, what a year for music!
Phil that was fantastic. I left school in 1974 and my first year was in the apprentice training school where the main connection in that first year was with 16 year old apprentices. I got bullied a little bit by these couple of bigger guys. I was small for my age. However I got to see Bad Company's first UK concert in March 1974 at Newcastle City Hall and saw them again in Nov. 74. I was different I was into music and bands and like you escaped the training school after work. Funny enough going onto the shop floor in Sept 1975 I was working with older men who were all great and same age as my dad. Fortunately no initiation ceremonies which had been banned.
My favorite band is FREE and saw them twice. (FEB1971 and OCT1972) I was 12 (nearly 13)and 14 respectively.
exellent Phil.What helped me through school were The Beatles first albums,Stones then later on The Doors,Hendrix and Cream.
What a great selection of '75 albums Phil. What a might fine crop of albums that came out that year. Those ones are staples of my record collection to this day....part of my early formative years of music appreciation.
-Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti remains one of my all time favourite albums of any genre to this day.
---And Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow! I got the vinyl the minute it came out. Indeed, Man On The Silver Mountain to start, and that blazing shred-fest solo on Still I'm Sad at the end...superb! And, that photo of Ritchie with his Strat on the back cover - iconic!
----And my favourite Ozzy-era album Sabotage! The epic Megalomania is exquisite.
-----And then there's Come Taste the Band by Purple! I hated it when it first came out....being a Blackmore afficiondo, I simply couldn't accept Tommy Bolin at first. BUT...but I rediscovered Tommy through jazz rock fusion on Billy Cobham's Spectrum about a quarter of a century later and then became a total Bolin disciple. I revisted CTTB after that and was gobsmacked at how good a record it is. Now its one of my favourite Deep Purple albums. The wisdom of age and the development of a wider palette of musical tastes gave me that new appreciation.
Snap on all five counts😊
Great video once again Phil and some more ideas for my shopping list. Watching this I am on a bit of a downer but it has cheered me up no end.
I am very nearly your age, maybe a year older so your comments are very pertinent to me. I would have been 17 in 75 and I was becoming an adult and really enjoying life, in fact I was an absolute dynamo working hard and spending my money on records and hifi. I was lucky to get a job that I enjoyed so I look back with great memories. Like yourself I am still playing those records and still enjoying them just as much today as I did back then.
Absolutely bang on Phil, again! I was 21 in 1975 and had been working for three years by then so had cash, clothes, car and girlfriend(s). Bought most of those albums that year, just like you. Took my copy of PG straight from the shop to my mate’s house because his parents had a huge proper hi fi system with speakers like dustbins. We turned the volume up to 7 out of 10 and played side one right through. Whooooooaaaaahhhhhhh!!! Actually his parents came home during Kashmir and asked who was playing it. They were very musical people and couldn’t grasp that it was LZ at all!! That photo of Ritchie in the “” Rainbow” sleeve is just wonderful, but the album is maybe 50/50 to my ears, more of a prequel to “ Rising” a year later tbh. Great job again mate and totally get what you said in the introduction. Wise words. Yeah 1975, what a year for albums!!
I was 8 when I took my brother's Hell Bent for Leather album. Rob helped transform me... I never took crap from anyone ever again. A week or so later I fought back and took care of the playground bully. Rob's voice lit a fire inside of me.
great video Phil!! and thank you for sharing your memories. man i love Bad Co. their debut(the black album) and Straight Shooter are my favorites. but i can't understand why many folks call their music "plain" or "to simple". i think that's BS! like the Beatles early catalog there's certainly a perfection and genius in the compositions and if it was that easy everyone would do it. and our beloved Led fuckin' Zeppelin changed my musical life the minute i heard Led Zep II(still my all time favorite album) although my #2 "Slide It In" sometimes go back and fourth between #1 and #2 , all i can say is thank God for music! i didn't have the easiest childhood and music always was, is and will be my personal solice. thanks again for sharing brother Phil, \m/ \m/ Jerry
Very evocative review of your 1975 album releases and the emotions connected to them Phil.
I too was serving an apprenticeship at this time with Austin Morris Engine Division in Coventry. The City and Guilds format had me full time college the first year and day release the second. I hated the old factory and foundry where engines were cast in iron. It was outdated at that time and being fazed out. Sensitive artist souls find no pleasure in this environment. Finally I finished my training and moved on to better things. Music saved me though through those ruff time’s . I travelled to Earls Court that summer of 1975 to see Zeppelin. It was the highlight of my year! We survived those times Phil and I’m sure it made us better people. Thank you.
Come Taste the Band is just pure magic and a sentimental favorite Purple album for me. Cheers Mate
Phil, you already know how much I enjoy your videos but you are hitting new heights with these open-hearted stories of your experiences and their links to the music of that time. 1975 was a very sad year for me due to bereavement and it proved to be a turning point in my life. The music of that year is emblazoned on my soul. I am so glad that your love of music through the years has led you to this point, away from the bad experiences and towards the enjoyment you are now giving through your videos. Best wishes, Paul
the rover 🙂
Hi Phil, Yes those are some great classic albums that bring back the memories of a great decade of music. I was a huge prog-rock fan (still am) but albums from Gentle Giant, Camel, PFM, Yes, Kayak, Jethro Tull and of course Black Sabbath were very important to me...."Music is the Doctor"...it's great to hear about your memories, being a teen in the U.K..( I forgot to include Genesis, Van derGraaf G., and Focus)
Physical Graffiti, Toys In The Attic and Four Wheel Drive and the best (for me) Budgie's Bandolier are now on my playlist in recognition of 1975.
Great video and it was nice seeing you open up. Music has always helped me. For me last week I went on a personal day trip to Montreal. I found an old box full of mixed CDs I’d made (or were made for me) 20 some odd years ago. I hasn’t listened them in years and each CD took me back to that era of my life. It was a nice change.
1975, a strong crop of albums across all genres. Did some rummaging around and selected these for the week (+ 2 very important ones to me):
Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull
Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith
Warrior on the Edge of Time - Hawkwind
Four Wheel Drive - BTO
Venus and Mars - Wings
Dreamboat Annie - Heart
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
On Your Feet or On Your Knees - BÖC (saw this tour when going from AM radio to understanding the thrill of intelligent rock)
Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent (just what a maturing teen needed to hear)
Good choice, the only one I don't own is "Venus And Mars" and for no other reason than I never got beyond "Band On The Run" with Wings - I really must give it a spin.
Working in the shop back in 1997-99 for me was-
1) UFO, force it and No Place to Run
2) Budgie, Impeckable
3) RUSH, 2112
4) Alkatrazz, No Parole for Rock n Roll
5) Judas Priest, Hell Bent for Leather (Killing Machine)
6) Black Sabbath, Mob Rules and Born Again
7) Genesis, Duke
8) Jeff Beck, Blow by blow and Wired
9) Vinnie Moore and Tony McAlpine
10) Thin Lizzy, Renegade
You just told my life for 1975
Fantastic monologue Phil. Describes my growing up, coming if age, whatever you want to call it, a few years later in the 80s. Having 'your music' was like an invisible suit of armour protecting you from those who didn't get it the way I did. It gave an extra support to be able to walk with my head up instead of coming down as others seemed to want me to do.
Thank you 🙏 Phil :)
Great video Phil.
I lost my father in 1978 ,tough time for my Mom (still with me at the age of 93 amazing lady but not in best of health).
I was a student at the time, took my final exams that year
Always been a rock/metal, and classical music fan and collector of course.
Music certainly helped me through those tough times
Retired now and still collecting despite lack of cash at times
Need time everyday to chill and relax with a cup of coffee or glass of wine lol and listen to full album or 2 etc
Don't dowload or Spotify etc need physical product everytime
The Curse of the Collector etc.
6,000 plus cds and 250 vinyls.
My passion
Take care and keep up the good work mate
Thank you Jonathan
Thank you for sharing - take care - Phil
Nice video Phil. Some legendary music discussed here. Take care! 🎸
Well said Phil, some great insights there of early working life and how music helped......i remember hating my job also around 1975, although rather than being in a big city i was in the small mining town of Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory, Australia. There wasnt a record store so i had to order all my records from Perth in western australia, usually took about a week or two to arrive.I loved Budgie and always thought that Tony Bourge was a very underrated guitarist...and Pink Floyds shine on you crazy diamond was a perfect track to put on when reading the Michael Moorcock fantasy novels that i was into.
In the 70ts there was no health and safety, But thank God for the music as I think that's the only thing got a lot of us though it.
Oh my Phiil this episode was a pure joy to watch and listen too. Your like a brother from another mother. My story mirrors yours exactly, just change the setting to Melbourne Australia... didn't like school,worked in a factory as an apprentice fitter and hated it, plenty of bullying etc etc. My escape was music...same bands and all. My dad was a ten pound pom from Birmingham so l guess we have that in common too 👍👍👍
Thank you 🙏
Not just a great year for rock, but a really great year for music in general. A lot of big innovations being made by Neu, Brian Eno, and loads of electronic artists. Funk was still riding high, and if you look at the RYM charts, it was a big year for folk.
It's impressive to me as a much younger person just how varied and diverse popular music was in the 70s. To me the idea that you could walk into a record store and buy a heavy metal record and a Parliament album both as new releases is really amazing.
In my own life, the three big albums that saved me are Black Flag's Damaged, Poison Idea's Feel the Darkness, and The Replacements Let It Be. Doubt Id be here if not for Judas Priest and Motörhead as well.
Neu's "Hallogallo" followed by Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" and that is 30 minutes of ambient German chillout well spent!
fantastic Selection Phil
Budgie stands out for me as it was the first Album i bought of them and still own it
Although i own all their CDs now
I enjoy listening to you so much ❤
Thank you 🙏
amazing albums Phil.
I found myself agreeing with all 5 selections you chose as a massive influence on me and my thinking.
Those albums were transformational for me in the way they each reached my soul.
I love them more and more as the years go by.
🌠 Good One Phil ! I like most of those picks..best wishes ..! & sea of tranquility & Pete ..ROCKS !!!
Great video Phil, thanks for inspiring me to listen to albums I haven't heard in decades.
Phil, a moving and heartfelt story. I’m three years behind you and managed to avoid the sweatshops of Witton, Aston, JQ etc by squeaking into sixth form. Music was and is a great salve to our lives. Keep up the great work. Kind regards
i went from high school to the kill floor of a slaughterhouse. i hated it but it payed well, and helped me to be become the degenerate i am today! straight shooter is my fave bad co.
this week: CD museo rosenbah, zathustra* italy prog, BBA live box " brilliant " van halen, women and children & fair warning. cheers!
Hi Phil,
I really enjoyed your video!
I could relate to your situation of bullying!!! Always stand up for yourself, if you let someone bully you once, they’ll bully you a thousand times!!!
Music got me through, Iron Maiden installed a belief that I didn’t need to let others push me around!
I recently had a problem with others at work recently, so I played “Stand up & shout,” by Dio & I faced them dead on!!!
My favourites from your list are:
“Sabotage “ Black Sabbath,
“Wish you were here,” Pink Floyd.
I’m going to listen to “Psychical Graffiti,” by Led Zep.
My playlist this week has been:
“First Daze Here,” Pentagram,
“Killing Technology,” VoiVod
“The Number of the Beast,” Iron Maiden.
Stay safe.
Those choices Phil are like a soundtrack and a memory of the late great Alan Freeman's Saturday rock show.
I eventually got a request on the show Side one Rush 2112 happy young man lol 😂
Thoroughly enjoyed this, Phil. I also left school in 1975 (I was 17)but suppose I was lucky to be in an office rather than a factory. Pretty much all the albums you mentioned were also in my collection. Love the channel, keep up the good work.
Great video Phil. I left school the same year and bought all those albums you did and still love them today
Great vid again Phil really enjoy your channel keep up the great work
Fantastic Phil, I was 11 in 1975 but one of friend's elder Sisters were playing Physical Graffiti one Sunday afternoon and I was hooked. Bought the album with my Brother and it like you became the soundtrack to my Summer too. Still the best album ever made! I own virtually all the albums you have here on vinyl. Great channel 👏 😊.
Thank you so much - Phil :)
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Some top albums there Phil ! My 1975 playlist is Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories, Wings - Venus & Mars, Jethro Tull - Mistral In The Gallery, Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head and Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama
One thing I've learned about a person and music. Look for those who have integrity and learn from them. In the US many misguided ppl look up to the Kardashians, Musk, Bezos, etc who are NOT relatable and it's pathetic.
Then Phil presented him working on production lines, feeling like crap when you don't advance in life, and music is indeed the healer. Yeah there are other channels but there's a je ne sais pas that Phil possesses.
I did production line work and it was terrible and felt the same way. I guess it's we've experienced similar things and you feel comradery.
Loved this video
Great reflections Phil. So many great LPs for that year! This week I would say my top 5 for 75 (in no particular order) are: Minstrel In the Gallery; Physical Graffiti; Sabotage; Come Taste The Band & Wish You Were Here. So quite similar to yours....
Phil, Thanks for sharing your personal feelings in that time frame ! The Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti," 2 cd set I purchased first, did not have the window openings, etc. That change with the 40th Anniversary Edition of the classic 2cd album, both are excellent. By the way, my cd copy of BBA, 4cd set arrived a few days ago, and you were spot on with your review !! The drumming, guitar work, etc. is fantastic ! Thank you for your reviews and insight, and all the best from N.H. U.S.A. 🎧😁
Great video as always mate. Going by the albums you picked and the year being 1975 i recon we're about the same age, 64. All those albums ring true with me also, all have stories connected to them like when i first heard them and what was going on in my life around that time, wont go into detail though. I will touch on Wish You Were Here because i first heard it when Alan Freeman played the whole of the album live on his Saturday rock show the week before its release on my crappy wee radio i got for Christmas the year previous. The sound from my radio might have been crap, but it sounded a million dollars when Fluff played the album. Needless to say i bought it as soon as i got payed the following week.
Hello Phil. I left school in 1973 and at that time I was heavily into David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars, Ziggy Stardust album, and also Alice Cooper. I was a big fan of all rock music, Zepplin, Purple, Sabbath, Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, Humble Pie, and especially Grand Funk Railroad. All this music made my late teenage years much more bearable. I was lucky to see many of my favourite bands. As I grew older I fell in love with jazz and classical music, but I have never lost the passion for good quality rock music!
Keep up the good. work
Greats albums ! Agreed with you Phil 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Great video.Great albums.Great memories.Thanks Phil😄👍
Hey Phil, great video mate. You evoked a lot of what I feel about personal aspect of music. I own all but 2 of the albums you showed (Budgie & Sabbath... the former I will investigate further. Should do the same with Sabbath). All of those remaining 5 LP's were bought as first issue new releases. Both Physical Graffiti & WYWH are my favourites by those respective bands. I remember the amazing chance discovery, with my best mate (in our youth) of the debut Rainbow LP, in an import record store. I asked to hear it and from THOSE opening notes.... 'THAT'S RITCHIE!!'. Purple's CTTB is also in my top 3. Bad Company I bought on day of Australian release (with Suzi Quatro's 2nd album). I rate "Straight Shooter" equally with their debut effort. Maybe it's a testament to your inner strength that you pushed through those horrible work experiences. My go to albums after a crap day are "Abbey Road" & "Machine Head". They always do the trick and set my mind at ease. Music IS personal. Huge thanks for sharing mate 👍😎😊
Hi Peter, thank you for sharing your thoughts and memories. I really appreciate your kind words. Phil
Having had a busy week last week, I didn't listen to much music but here's a 1975 playlist I will construct for next week - and, as a challenge, some "more obscure" choices:
Boxer - Below The Belt (UK) - Mike Patto & Ollie Halsall, that fact alone justifies listening to it!
Cain - A Pound Of Flesh (USA) - obscure Philadelphia band that only made 2 albums, this is the debut.
Dog Soldier - S/T (UK) - Keef Hartley, no other reason needed.
Hustler - Play Loud (UK) - supported Queen and Status Quo in the 1970's, disbanded in 1976.
Jane - Lady (Germany) - probably Germany's answer to Uriah Heep at this point in their career.
Moxy - S/T (Canada) - Tommy Bolin!!!!
Nektar - Recycled (UK) - just a classic.
Nutz - Nutz Too (UK) - "Bootliggers" was on "Metal for Muthas" but they pre-dated NWOBHM by a few years.
Sassafras - Wheelin' And Dealin' (UK) - a proud Welsh band, lots of Wishbone Ash-like twin guitar work.
Stray - Stand Up And Be Counted (UK) - Del Bromham, still going and a new album next week.
Strife - Rush (UK) - Gordon Rowley, probably one of the best bass players in the UK, the title track is a 12 minute classic!
I'm in the middle of an Opeth, Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, Mastodon run, kind of one album or two albums each a day.
Great stuff. You know your stories made me think of my favourite line from the John Miles song Music : Music was my first love and it will be my last , Music from the future and music of the past. (it really takes me back)
Great selection Phil I was moving into more serious music in 75 age 13 after cutting my teeth on Slade (still love 'em) I have an uncle who is a few years older, he said "listen to this"he played me Highway star and it was honestly life changing
X.T.C. we are only making plans for nigel, hes got a job with a british steel.
Phil anyone told you you look like Iva Davies from Aussie band Icehouse👍👍
Brilliant Phil, you took me right back to my youth there. Going to spin some of these tonight.
1975: a peak year for many bands. Zep, Sabbath, Floyd.
Come taste the band is my favourite Purple album ( followed closely by Made in Europe); the only two DP albums I play in recent years.
4 more UK albums that I love from 75: UFO Force it ; Nazareth: Hair of the dog; Status Quo: on the level; Foghat: fool for the city
Hi Phil, I'm a brummie a couple of years younger, do you remember Cyclops records off New Street?
I do indeed, the grumpiest owners in the world!
you did not clean the ASTRA CINEMA COLWYN BAY
tell me about it...same age as me
When did you start playing guitar?
When I was about 14