[lbo-talk] pre-school rock

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 29 11:19:21 PST 2006


B. wrote:


>I guess everyone has their own passions -- obsessions
>-- they want to pass onto their kids, though something
>about the article gave me the creeps. I remember
>hating a lot of the music some of my relatives -- like
>my mom, bless her soul -- played (and still DOES
>play), but other relatives, like my aunt, had better
>taste that I seemed gravitate to (Alice Cooper, Black
>Sabbath, KISS, AC/DC, Devo, early Pretenders,
>Bloodrock's "DOA,"etc.) . No one ever forced it on me
>or made me attend one hour "rock school" lessons,
>however. My mom would have been delighted if I'd
>enjoyed her Christopher Cross and Bonnie Tyler LPs,
>but it didn't happen -- nor did she school me in any
>of that, thankfully.

So far, little Ivan - four weeks old today! - seems to like Beethoven piano sonatas and Satoshi Tomiie's trance-y electronica. Mahler and Shostakovich make him a little restless. I think I'll try out the Cro-Mags on him later today.

Doug



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