iTunes 8 has implemented this "Family Sharing" thing. I don't buy too much stuff from iTunes, and you have to be kind of lazy not to have figured out how to share your non-DRM'd iTunes music with your family at this point; but I was giving it a go last night. The timing of it just made it the more convenient way to go.
I've been trying to expose the cooldaughters (especially CoolDaughter #1) a little more directly to some of the music I like, so I used the excuse of "testing this new Family Sharing thing" to put a bit of the stuff that I have purchased over the years onto CD1's phone. Nothing too threatening. Some Real Estate, Vampire Weekend, Waxahatchee, and Titus Andronicus (She expressed an interest.). It started me thinking about when I started to develop my own musical tastes. I think I was about her age.
It had to have been about 6th grade because I was at Markham Place School and would sometimes walk home for lunch. I'd eat my peanut butter and jelly or tunafish sandwich and then head upstairs for a few minutes before heading back to school. I don't remember where or why, but somewhere along the line I'd obtained a copy of Born to Run. I'd put the album onto my combination turntable, tuner, cassette deck and lie on my bed singing "Backstreets" with all of the emotion of a 25 year old Bruce Springsteen.
That turntable would eventually crank out the rest of the Springsteen catalog to that point. Then The Who, Yes, The Police. I upgraded to one with a dual cassette deck, and I can still remember the day I came home from Jack's, went upstairs, and popped the Lifes Rich Pageant cassette into one side. The rest, as they say...
But it all started with Bruce. As I write this, I think the important thing about it was that my parents, while they liked Springsteen fine, didn't really listen to him. It wasn't something I got from a friend. It just feels like, one day, I said, "I'm gonna give this a try." It was my choice.
So I don't know if my clandestine efforts at musical osmosis will bear any fruit. What the cooldaughters choose for themselves will end up being what's most important to them. Maybe, though, I'll burn Greetings, E Street Shuffle, Born to Run, and Darkness onto a CD for CD1 and just nonchalantly import it to the iTunes on her Mac. She doesn't even have to know it came from me.
Happy 65th, Boss.
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