@stickmandiaries I have often thought about mine ... and how it came to be I lived in a family that loved classical - but not heavy, opera likewise, jazz and those singers like the rat pack etc ... no folk music, no blues per se and no pop .. at least ‘my’ pop ... my main thread of music emerges from something I call English Progressive’ ... I qualify because I am not big into Rush and Tool .., who are often thrown into the broader progressive bucket ... and I think what attracts me to that is often little vocals .. not a big vocal person, layered soundscapes, complexity that actually emerges from simplicity .... and from those foundations I then move out to other places based on core involvement of the people I already was listening to ... back in the day I was also heavy into the folk world - which was a great place for musical connections ... take a look at Pete frame’s Rick family trees one day and follow someone like Fairpory Convention