My dad was/is a guitar player and would listening to Muddy Waters or Robert Johnson, so it was kind of subliminal.


Some how I got into techno for a while. Not sure how that happened. I think it was from being musically open minded, and attempting to pick up a chick.

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-Classic 50's Strat.
-Std. Telecaster.
-Mike Dirnt P-bass.
-Custody of SE Strat.
-Peavey Predator/Dean Evo/Epiphone DR150/Gibson Slide (much older than me).

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High School is where it happened for me. I was really into Eric Johnson and he playing at a local outdoor venue. the concert was him and Buddy Guy. I didn't have a ticket so I was going to sit outside and listen to Mr. Johnson play. I got to talking with this guy who was doing the same thing I was. And two chicks walked by with two tickets in their hands. The guy I was talking to jumps up and asks them if they want to sell their tickets. They said a few beers would do just fine. This guy I just met, (don't even think I got his name) gave me his spare ticket to see the show. By this time Eric Johnson was done with his set, but Buddy Guy was on next. I saw the show for free, and have been hooked ever since.

Family members (singers/players), Chitlin' circuit (seTX-LA) players. I've sat at the foot of Masters...

Very cool story! That was cool of that guy to do that!

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"Wait a minute, somethings wrong here!"

About a year ago, my Mom got me out of bed at one in the morning to come watch something on TV. I thought that was fairly unusual, so I ran in the living room and low and behold there's this guy playing this beat up old Strat on TV. It was blues, and I didn't like blues, but it was an excuse to stay up later. Plus he was playing a Strat, and that automatically equals coolness.
The more I watched the more I was blown away. I'd never seen anyone play with that much intensity, and I'd never seen anyone play nearly as good. It made me realize just how I misjudged blues. It wasn't boring, it wasn't easy to play and it wasn't just three chords over and over again. I asked my Mom who it was, and she told be it was Stevie Ray Vaughan. I had heard Texas Flood and Pride and Joy before, but I didn't even give it a chance. I just automatically decided I hated it. Never has my mind been changed quicker.
So before the credits had stopped rolling, I was in my room dusting off the Strat I had stashed under the bed (in favor of a Les Paul) and started figuring out what I could remember. I ran back in and showed my Mom how I could play that cool, behind the nut picking-whammy bar thing in Riviera Paradise. I must have played that one note about fifty times...

Then I read some interviews from SRV and I realized that the only person he talked about that I had ever heard of was Jimi Hendrix, and even then the only song I had ever heard was Purple Haze. So from SRV I got into both classic rock and blues. I was especially surprised to find out that most (or at least, quite a few) of the most influential were from Texas, and from Houston. I still can't believe I've lived my entire life in Houston and it took me this long to figure out that blues ever existed here.

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I got into blues because I kept reading interviews with bands I liked talking about the blues--then I discovered a local station had a weekly blues program, and I rarely missed it--I just soaked it in, then I started buying it, etc, etc, etc.

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It wasn't Willy-Nilly, it was at crows.

Music has always been a big part of my life. as a child i would watch any tv show that had music/bands on it. had all the early british stuff on vinal.and knew thats what i wont to do.

When I was a little kid I was deep into metal ..... as I grew up untill recently about 3 years ago I started getting more into blues but still I love METALhehe

Like with Wilburcook music has always been big part of my live, sadly before y2k it was mostly hip hop .

Even more embarrising my gateway to rock music was was trhough a nu-metal band called ... Limp Bizkit . For couple of years I didn't listen to anything that didn't have the sound of 7 string Ibanez in it. But through nu-metal I got more and more intrested in all kind of metal music, and through the nu-metal band Hed-PE I got more interrested in Punk, which lead to classic rock. Now I have put Nu-Metal mostly behind me and listen mostly to all kind of rock music from all eras.

I don't listen to much blues to day (the only blues you find on my iPod is in the form of Cream) but I'm certain that one day I will hear some Blues artist that will blow my mind and open up the genre for me. I just love to explore music like that.

Melodic guitar.

Leave the microphone in the store, let the unemployed vocalists apply for food stamps. The melody line is in these fingers. 'Still have never bought a mic.

"Walk Don't Run" by The Ventures was the glorious shout from the mountaintop which awakened this soul.

Other holy musical people came along and proclaimed the same message of PLAY THE MELODY!

Hank Marvin, Duane Eddy, Al Cailoa, many, many surf groups, Tommy Garrett, Wes Montgomery, Tal Farlow, Glen Campbell, Johnny Smith, Barney Kessel.

Some horn and organ and accordion folks too. Earl Grant, Ethel Smith, Dick Contino, Kenny G, Chet Baker. PLAY THE MELODY!

Back in the sixties, we played and spent most of our time in a cellar club.
I was only about 14 years old at the time and well. the DJ had this huge collection of those old Chess blues records and during the day when no-one was in the club, we would put them on the turntables.
That was my first introduction to the classic blues artist's.

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Hed pe is a great band though.

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-Classic 50's Strat.
-Std. Telecaster.
-Mike Dirnt P-bass.
-Custody of SE Strat.
-Peavey Predator/Dean Evo/Epiphone DR150/Gibson Slide (much older than me).

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Ye I agree. Hed pe is one of few nu-metal (Nu-Punk maybe ) that I lsten to today.

I wouldn't call them nu-metal, they were just unfortunate enough to come up in that era.

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-Classic 50's Strat.
-Std. Telecaster.
-Mike Dirnt P-bass.
-Custody of SE Strat.
-Peavey Predator/Dean Evo/Epiphone DR150/Gibson Slide (much older than me).

Rellik Productions Inc.

I grew up listening to big band and adult contemporary (late 40s and 50s) music at home. It was all my parents allowed and I was in school long before iPods, boomboxes, etc. and they didn't allow playing "transistors" in school. Thus, my exposure to music was big band at home, classical in school and that was about it.

Then my parents moved to the small upstate NY village of Clinton, which just happened to have a big name folk/bluegrass competition and concert every year. I got to go and I got hooked. I'd been taking guitar lessons (orchestral, classic jazz styles) and so this new form seemed both simple (unil I tried it!) and yet fascinating and moving. I fell in love, or so I thought.

Then in 1968, the festival deviated from tradition. Only acoustic instruments were allowed, but for the "name" concert which always closed the weekend, they had Luther Allison. Luther blew the doors and windows out of the Hamilton College chapel. If I was in love before, i was hooked on that sound and never looked back.