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Post subject: Re: First Influence
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:36 pm
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Great stories here. All that happened in Turkey ted j?

Thinking about 12 year old me hearing Black Sabbath for the first time, I used to think the sound of Tony Iommi's fingers sliding across the strings in this part of War Pigs was a sound effect. It sounded like bats to me.

I also remember mispronouncing 'Tony Iommi' as 'Tony Lommi' for the first few years. :lol:


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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:09 am
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Absotutely Jimmy Page for me. There were others who I liked -- Joe Perry, Van Halen, Andy Summers, Alex Lifeson -- but it was Page who inspired me to save up the money for my first electric guitar (a black Hondo Les Paul copy) and lessons at age 15. The first riff my guitar teacher showed me was "Heartbreaker."


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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:58 am
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"Heartbreaker" was the first song that I ever heard from Led Zeppelin that got me into them. I remember when I was 15 years old, and turning on a rock (I guess they'd call it a Classic Rock station, these days,) and hearing that intro and thinking "What the f- was that?!?"

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My older brother bought Grand Funk's Live Album, that's when I decided I wanted to learn to play guitar. But Mel Schacher's bass couldn't be ignored, and haunted me until I finally got a bass. I never made a dime playing guitar but I've gigged for years on bass.


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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:10 pm
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I was never the same after seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, Sunday, February 9, 1964. From then on, I believed life was not worth living if I didn't possess an electric guitar. Fifty-four years later I still feel the same way. :wink:


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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 3:55 pm
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My first influences were named John Lennon and George Harrison,not only did they inspire me to take up guitar but they both played a huge part influencing just about every aspect of my life,their combined philosophical points of view and the way that they lived their lives were enormously instrumental in shaping the way I have lived my life.

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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:32 pm
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I was never the same after seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, Sunday, February 9, 1964. . . .
Me too. I thought I’d never recover. My ducktail was was dated, my motorcycle boots were replaced with pointed shoes, the James Dean jacket became a lapel less half belt red Beatles jacket, and I still don’t know how or why a t-shirt with rolled up sleeves got replaced with a collar pin and a skinny tie?! I feared that Rock and Roll was dead. What kind of band doesn’t wear jeans even in their off hours?! They even talk funny. Not like the other English chaps. They don’t break guitars, kick in the drums, prance like Jagger, jump on pianos, wear diamond studded western belt buckles, ride Harley’s and hot rods, sing like Marvin Gaye, or funk like Mr. James Brown. Who were these pretty dudes? They hypnotized the girls. Plus, I felt sorry for the rock survivors that started it all. Was Elvis just a passing dream?

Living in a tourist town that was like Old England with families from the mother country, double deck buses, tea houses and fish and chip shops on every other block, you couldn’t even get a date unless you had a mop top which was two halves of a mullet. :roll:
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. . . years later I still feel the same way.
Not me. I might have gone on to become a Sha Na Na member in spandex!? :shock: Or a surfer without a board. Thankfully, the Beatles improved, and I likes ‘em now. :D
But, back then? Me and a lot of the gang felt that way.

He loved you? Nah! Nah! Nah! :lol:
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Just kiddin’. Well, maybe a little. :P

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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 7:16 pm
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Townshend.

I loved EJ's "Pinball Wizard" from the Tommy soundtrack.
Went to the library to check it out, mistakenly grabbed the original thinking it was an alternate cover.
Townshend made me forget all about piano, my parents were more than happy to buy me a $100 plywood Les Paul instead.

It wasn't for probably another 2 years before I actually heard anything else from the movie soundtrack.

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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 7:30 pm
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The Beatles got me locked in on Rock, but it was Jack Bruce that made me notice, and appreciate the Bass the most to play it.

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