timppu: Maybe my interest to the genre was restricted only to so few bands that I happened to bump into, rather than researching the genre as a whole on my own.

As a matter of fact, it was the same friend of mine who introduced me to e.g. those three bands, at different times... The funny thing is that my big brother used to have e.g. Pink Floyd albums already when I was a tiny kid, I just never got to listen to them (and maybe I wouldn't have had patience to listen to them anyway).

I just remember how odd the Animals album LP cover looked to a kid, a factory with a flying pig? Much much later in my life I actually got to really listen to the tracks in it, and ended up loving it.

timppu: Maybe my interest to the genre was restricted only to so few bands that I happened to bump into, rather than researching the genre as a whole on my own.

As a matter of fact, it was the same friend of mine who introduced me to e.g. those three bands, at different times... The funny thing is that my big brother used to have e.g. Pink Floyd albums already when I was a tiny kid, I just never got to listen to them (and maybe I wouldn't have had patience to listen to them anyway).

I just remember how odd the Animals album LP cover looked to a kid, a factory with a flying pig? Much much later in my life I actually got to really listen to the tracks in it, and ended up loving it.