1967 to 1977 - Alaska
I was born in the Inuit village of Noorvik Alaska on March 28th 1967. My parents moved to Anchorage a few months later where we lived for 10 years (with a one year stint in Montreal). By the age of 5 yrs old I was already obsessed with music... Jackson 5, Laura Nyro and whatever else my parents were playing around the house. When I was about 8 yrs old I started buying K-tel hits albums. It was the golden era of pop music where you could hear funk, prog rock and folk within the same 1/2 hour playlist on the radio. Then one day my babysitter put on Kiss Alive and that kick started my love of heavy music. Soon after I bought Toys in the Attic and started wrapping scarfs around a broom stick pretending to be Steven Tyler.
My first concert was Pete Seeger, who as part of his tour of Alaska came to have dinner at our house and watch some of my Dad's films. By the age of ten I had broad tastes in music and had absorbed a fair amount of my parent's passion for social justice as well.