I came to it backwards, in a way,,,in the space of about a year, went from Beatles/Hendrix to Zappa, to jazz in general, "avant-garde" in particular, and actually, swear to god, heard both Bitched Brew & Free Jazz for the first times on the same night, while visiting one of my Dad's Army buddies in Louisville, Kentucky. Bit of a story, that one, already told on Board Krypton, and not worth repeating, point being just that all that "weird" stuff was very much in my wheelhouse when I came to it. Different time then, it was...