Growing up, our taste in music was influenced by our parents. As we got older, they started listening to kids' music for us, especially during car rides. Our dad would record the songs on cassettes so we could listen while traveling. The music we listened to ranged from rock to boating songs once we owned a boat. Artists like Roy Orbison and ABBA were popular. It was a big deal to see immigrant musicians from Europe in Canada, and our dad was a fan of older musicians like Jerry Lee.
of things we were listening to growing up. And then once we got a little bit older, they kind of changed their musical style a little bit, too, and they started to listen to some kids' music, probably mostly for us, especially car rides. Car rides were a huge place where we listened to music all the time. We did a lot of traveling. So in that day and age, the vehicle had like a sequitur, and so then my dad would keep the record, and he would record them on a cassette, so that he could listen to them while we traveled.
So we kind of think, yeah, like it was more rock. Most of the shops, most of the little businesses were up there, and the country, there was boating music, too, when I got older. Once they owned a boat, there were certain songs, certain styles of music, like Roy Orbison and stuff like that. They became boating. Abba. Oh, man, those were, oh, that was still, that was still in the phase of what you see now. When you were seeing an immigrant from the Netherlands to Canada at that time, they were, Europe was big into musicians that were coming here, and Jerry Lee was into older musicians.
It was a big deal to come this way and be able to meet and hear musicians firsthand.
