| re: How Were You Turned Onto Jim's Music? | |
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samurai7 11:41 am UTC 01/16/10 |
| In reply to: | How Were You Turned Onto Jim's Music? - steven_stuart 01:04 am UTC 01/16/10 |
| They performed Paradise if I'm not mistaken. The promo clip for Bat was shown a few weeks prior. > Sort of connected to the previous thread is the question > of what media turned you onto Jim's music in the first > place. For many of us it must surely be television. When I > saw Meat Loaf and Jim and Karla DeVito on the Old Grey > Whistle Test performing BOOH The Song (which did well as a > single in the UK but apparently not in America), I was > blown away by a group of people I had never heard of > before. It was so different to anything else I had > experienced. > > Televison also introduced me to TEOTH. I saw the video on > Top Of The Pops before hearing it on the radio. Again, the > Anything For Love video on the same show, some years > later, rekindled my love for Jim's compositions. > > Radio introduced me to Jim's version of Rock And Roll > Dreams Come Thorugh. That was a different kind of > experience. I went into the hardware store feeling down > and while I was in line (they were blasting out Radio 2), > the DJ Terry Wogan said: "This is Jim Steinman's Rock And > Roll Dreams Come Through". Fortunately the line in the > shop was long and I heard the whole thing. I found it so > powerful and optomisitc that I left the shop feeling up > with my depression gone. I think the radio experience is > different from the television experience. > > When I was young a friend introduced me to The Beatles > (the Revolver Album - at the time I only knew Wings). I > wonder if any posters were introduced to Jim's music by a > friend? I know that I have been introduced to some of > Jim's works by infromation that I have read on this board. > My thanks to those posters who helped me to become a more > complete Jim fan. | |
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