The Ripple Effect: The Music Commentary Radio Show  

When I was a kid, growing up in a house with Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, and Simon and Garfunkle, the first time I ever heard Kiss's "Detroit Rock City," it was a moment of musical epiphany. It was just so vicious, aggressive and mean.

What have been your musical epiphany moments?

When I was a little kid my dad used to produce big outdoor summer concerts for oldies music and bluegrass at a ski resort. My brother and I would hang out behind the stage in the lodge or roam around in the boozed crowd with my mom. It was really great to experience that as a kid, specially at the end of the bluegrass concerts when all the drunk shirtless cowboys would get completely belligerent because they never wanted the music to end. The crowd loved music so much that they expressed it in the only way their intoxicated cowboy hat covered brains could conjure at the end of a long day filled with music, log rolling, and excessive drinking... they bombarded the stage with beer bottles. Green and brown glass would be breaking everywhere as the crowd threw countless empty beer bottles at the stage as if to say "encore." This was how I learned that music was so very important to people and it would be nice to be a part of something so special and moving.

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