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In reply to the discussion: I hate to sound like an old fogey [View all]Garion_55
(1,915 posts)San Jose area. so early on i was introduced to the hispanic culture and music, i had a few black friends growing up so they introduced me to soul/r&B, we had the heavy metal kids who my older brother was more in tune with and the skate punk kids my younger brother hung out with. When rap exploded a lot of my friends got together and we all learned how to breakdance and thats also the time that british synth music came out, thomspon twins, bananarama. Some of my friends were into hair bands but not many. And there are many colleges around that area so the radio stations would play a lot of underground alternative stuff.
I tried to partake in as many different kinds of styles of music back then as i could and luckily i lived in an area that was very diverse. I would have hated being stuck in a small southern town where the only two types of music you heard were country or western.