Rich Zigarski
Comp. 102/8
9/6/13
In my life music has always played an important role because my parents always had some type of music on. Since I was the middle child, I would get stuck listening to my sister’s music in the car and around the house. I never really had an interest in her Top 40 pop hits, and leaned towards more of what my father listened to. My dad would always listen to older, rock type music. Bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Dr. Hook, and even Tom Jones. As I grew older and started elementary school my taste for music started to change. I started basing my friends off of who liked older rock music. I would sit in the play yard at recess and we would listen to our Walkman’s and talk about how we wish we could play music the way our favorite bands was able to play. As I started to play sports in middle school, my taste for music begin to turn.During sports, I met a lot of people with different tastes in music. I stayed away from people who liked country, pop, or dance music. I started making connections with friends who listened to rock, hip hop, and rap. Most of these people were my friends throughout high school and some are even today. In college, music has played a huge role in my life. I always have music around me no matter what I am doing. When I wake up, my alarm starts playing music. I go to class to come back and start doing homework while listening to music. When I go to the football stadium to work, they players are always listening to music. Because of all of this I have widened my taste of music tenfold. I listen now to rap, hip hop, country, rock, reggae, 70s and 80s. Music has always had an important part in my life since I was young, now that I am growing up music still has the same type of impact on me as it did as a