Michael Jackson is dead.

[kandrathe]

You discovered Jefferson Airplane only when you went to college???!! You should be arrested. :D

I grew up in a very rural area, so I really only knew about what was played on the radio(top 40) at the time. When I was 16, my parents sent me and my sister on a trip to Washington DC for a week. I remember going to a record store in Georgetown, and being blown away by all the groups I had never heard of before. On the advice of my girlfriend at the time, I bought my first albums "Toys in the Attic" by Aerosmith, and "T.N.T." by AC/DC -- both to the horror of my parents when I brought them home.:) So, it was funny then at my next birthday my mom, trying to soften up my taste for hard rock, bought me "ABBA" by ABBA and I had such a crush on Agnetha Fältskog for the next two years. Most of my friends were into early punk, and the early outrageous stage show bands like Alice Cooper, David Bowie, and KISS.