Original Gamers, name your tunes!

[dougmander]

Started playing in 1977. While playing in the 77-79 era, we listened to:

Star Wars soundtrack
Bakshi's LOTR soundtrack
Led Zeppelin
Wishbone Ash
Yes

But I also associate 1e D&D with pop radio and album-oriented FM radio tunes, most of which have nothing thematically to do with fantasy. Artists who evoke that period of my life when I still hear them include Steely Dan, Gerry Rafferty, Kansas, Sweet, and Bee Gees.

 

[diaglo]

Bee Gees.

Staying Alive.
staying alive
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ah
ah
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staying alive

 

[Darkwolf71]

Iron Maiden
Judas Priest (esp Screaming for Vengeance, there was just something about playing the original Bloodstone series to the song; Bloodstone.)
Black Sabbath
Dio
Many, many more.

Lighter stuff
Uriah Heep
Y&T (This was mostly while making characters, dungeons, whatever.)

And for the obscure, Picture. A Dutch metal band that my brother-in-law introduced me to when he was home on leave from Germany. 'Griffons Guard the Gold', 'The Blade', 'Into the Underworld', heck most of the songs on that album were inspiration for different adventures I made up.

Snacks? Whatever we could get a hold of. Doritos and Dr. Pepper mostly. Mountain Dew, of course.

Inhale? Occasionally, yet oddly enough, never while gaming. We took our sessions far to seriously for that. We would usually party Friday Night and then wake up Saturday and start gaming.

 

[Particle_Man]

Styx.

Don't you *dare* ing judge me!

 

[diaglo]

Styx.

Don't you *dare* ing judge me!

domo arigato, mr. roboto.

 

[Father of Dragons]

Up to fall '76 (while I was in Jr. High and High School), all of my D&D was played at the MIT Strategic Gaming Society's club space, which pretty much eliminated any chance of music background and kind of limited snacks at the table (we'd just make occasional meal runs). Once I was in college, we played at someone or another's apartment (mine once I moved off campus), but I don't think we used music as a background even then, although we usually did start the game off with a round of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for some reason.

I don't, and never have, generally like the distraction of music playing when I'm writing anything (game material, fiction, software design papers, letters, etc.).

 

[orsal]

So, as part of my ongoing attempt to understand what D&D was all about back in the day, perhaps you Original Gamers can help me out. Here's the question: when you were playing D&D back in the 70s and early 80s, what kind of music were you listening to

Classical. Mendelssohn was my favourite (although I've since discovered Rachmaninoff).

(especially while you were actually gaming, preparing adventures, reading modules in your mom's basement, etc)?

Never played music while gaming, although I may well have had music on while rolling up characters, creating dungeons, or reading the rules.

Please list band names, albums, favorite songs, etc. Imagine I'm making a mix CD or a playlist or something.

Beethoven, Tchaikovski, Vivaldi, Bach, Mendelssohn, Telemann, Chopin, Schubert, et al.

Bonus question: what kind of snacks were you eating?

We didn't munch at the gaming session.

Super bonus question: did you inhale?

Only many years later.

 

[megamania]

Listening to music while playing didn't come until much later when more orchastrated sound tracks came out.

In 1990 when I started I listened to a lot of hair bands- Poison, Motley Crue, Scorpions and then Skidrow and Guns 'n Roses.

 

[Thurbane]

Listening to music while playing didn't come until much later when more orchastrated sound tracks came out.

In 1990 when I started I listened to a lot of hair bands- Poison, Motley Crue, Scorpions and then Skidrow and Guns 'n Roses.

*cough* *splutter* Scorpions! Hair metal! Sir, I demand satisfaction! Pistols at ten paces!

 

[ejja_1]

Iron maiden- Invaders, Sun and Steel, The Duelist, Power Slave,2 Minutes to Midnight.
Manowar- The Power of Thy Sword, Kings of Metal, Black Wind Fire and Steel.
Savatage- Hall of the Mountain King, Strange Wings.
Judas Priest- Between the Hammer and the Anvil, Blood Red Skies, A Touch of Evil.
Slayer- War Ensamble, Reign in Blood, Spill the Blood.
Metallica- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Call of Ktulu(I think thats how it was spelled on the album), Damage Inc.

#2 We drank lots of Jolt cola and ate pixie sticks and popped no doz by the hand fulls

#3 We discouraged partying during gaming, when we allowed it we really never got any serious gaming done.