QotD: My Musical Influence

Which friend or acquaintance most influenced your taste in music? 
Submitted by Rev Stan.

To be honest, nobody really did. At least nobody that I know of.

It all started back when an internet radio station called Echo was around. This was before the days of broadband (mostly) in the dark days of the internet. Well…they were kinda like Pandora is now, where they would match up your tastes with other artists and songs that were similar. Occasionally they would throw in a random track, just in case you might like it and start you off on a completely new musical genre.

Well, one day, Echo spit out Dream Theater – Fatal Tragedy, which I liked. I downloaded it from napster (Bad!) and forgot about the band for a while. One day, a couple years later, I listened to it again and really "got" it. After that, I stumbled onto the Mike Portnoy forums and learned about all of this music that I didn't know about before from the forum-goers there. And the rest…is history.

So no one person really influenced my musical taste. It was done by group consensus.

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