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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 8:46 pm
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Ahhh, I know what you mean about not knowing who you are/where you belong, or w/e. Middle school was rough ;-;

I look back and realize that I was doing all the right things to impress all the wrong people, but that's life for a 13 year old, not one person who was 13 can say that they didn't do something(s) stupid. I lit a house on fire. :lol:

I'm still everybody's nobody, but at least I've gotten a few good friends along the way.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 9:08 pm
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It's kind of a weird feeling, like your shrouding yourself in a blanket and locking yourself in a cupboard, and sending a cheap robot that's like everyone else out to 'live' for you.
It was on my 13th birthday that I first heard In Utero, might I add.
This years been absolute kickass, for me. I'm just overall alot happier. I realised sometime ago, that I've got some of the most awesomest friends, I'm doing what I like, not giving a single sh1t if anybody else thinks I'm a total wanker, and most of all I'm experiencing more than ever now. So what's to complain about that?
As sh1tty and as bad as life is, life is still #$@*&!% awesome. Cause the other option, is being dead. You don't exist anymore. You can't do anything, except, well, nothing. Litterally, nothing. So I'm just trying to live while I still have my life. An I like to think that that mind-set equates to the first time I heard In Utero. Which it probably does.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 9:19 pm
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Just like Strings 10927, Jimi's "Are You Experienced?"album changed my life,John and George inspired me to embark on a lifetime love of the guitar and music but when I first heard that first Hendrix album my whole approach to the guitar and even practicing changed enormously. I immediately started to sequester myself in my music room for 8 hours or more a day and I was so guitar obsessed that I rarely left the house without a guitar with me.

Now over 40 years later I am still hopelessly guitarded and still obsessed with nailing a lot of Jimi's tones and riffs that have eluded me over the years-it's just a personal goal moreso than being a copy-cat as such.Picking apart the nuances of all of John's and George's guitar parts in songs is also a big part of my playing to this day.

It's amazing how just one thin 12" circle of vinyl can impact your life so profoundly.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 3:21 am
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TheKingofPain wrote:
Martian wrote:
I cannot fathom how any album could literally change one's life. :?
As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.


Really? That's kind of sad. I'd think most musicians could name at least one album, or at least song that had a profound effect on their life. I'd think most of us should be able to pinpoint the moment that we KNEW we needed to pick up an instrument and play and what work it was that gave us that feeling.



It's not sad at all. I think a lot of people are misreading the question or adding guitar playing influence to the original question because of the forum in which it's being asked. If the same question had been asked on an audiophile forum, no one would jump to the conclusion that it was guitar related.

That said, Martian, can you think of no time where you heard a noise coming from the radiogram :wink: and thought, that's it, rock and roll, thats what I want to listen to?

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 8:53 am
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...Martian, can you think of no time where you heard a noise coming from the radiogram :wink: and thought, that's it, rock and roll, thats what I want to listen to?


There were several simultaneous 'revelations' back in the day to what was a progressive, ever evolving thing for me. I honestly cannot point to one guitarist and/or band and say, "That was the moment!"

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 9:02 am
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The Beatles, "Meet The Beatles" got me listening closer to music. But Jimi Hendrix, "Are You Experienced" album, really put a charge in me.

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 9:37 am
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It started with two Rolling Stones LPs--"Let It Bleed" and "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!"--my first real "rock" albums which I bought from a friend at age 14...this was in the mid-1980's.

My ensuing obsession with the Rolling Stones led a friend to give me an old casssette--the second disc of the 1977 live double album "Love You Live". I specifically listened to side "A" of the album...which was the first time I heard the songs "Mannish Boy" and "Little Red Rooster"...

Found out that some cat named McKinley Morganfield had written "Mannish Boy," so I got the Johnny Winters-produced Muddy Waters album "Hard Again," (which I think has the definitive version of "Mannish Boy")..."Hard Again" was the start of me listening to blues, which changed my life...

Also discovered Howlin' Wolf, because of "Little Red Rooster"...which was the first song on which I learned to play slide guitar.

At age 19, I started playing guitar and slide guitar because of these albums; becoming a musician affected many of the decisions I made in my life.

Next, the Fabulous Thunderbirds albums "Girls Go Wild" and "What's The Word" inspired me to play harp, as well as learn how to play guitar behind a harp player (which is harder than many guitarists think) so I could teach other guys how to play behind a harp player...

The next one impacted how I wrote songs, played songs and structured my bands--the eponymous release by the Arc Angels. I love to have interplay and contrast between two guitarists in my bands, and (although that was already in my mind because of the Stones) it's the Arc Angels that really drove that home to me...

Finally, ZZ Top's "Rhythmeen" taught me that you could get as squanky and dirty and fuzzy and raunchy as you want on your tone, yet still have distinct string attack and clear chord construction...it massively changed the way I used effect pedals and how I picked/played guitar.

There's other albums that changed nuances or factors in my playing, but these albums affected how I looked at music, the way I dressed, how I played music, who I became bandmates and friends with, how I spent my money and time, etc.

That sounds like they changed my life quite a bit...

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 2:09 pm
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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:00 pm
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personally i think my music taste has changed my life, to some degree. if i didnt like oasis, i wouldnt have wanted to learn guitar off my neighbour who was already playing it. from there things have happened that have affected my life, that wouldnt have happened if i heard my neighbour playing spice girls on his guitar. i probably wouldnt have ever picked one up.

then theres people you meet and things you do that only happen because i was in a band. one of my now closest friends was the caretaker at the place we practiced. this then opened up a world of other things like fishing and fiddling with cars that i otherwise may not have got into, with mechanics now being a major part of my life. and fishing :lol: :lol: :lol:

thats only a small amount of things i have done in my life that possibly wouldnt have happened if i hadnt have latched onto "whats the story morning" glory like a limpet.


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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 8:56 pm
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nikininja wrote:
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6 or 7 years old went home for lunch from school on my own one day. Get there and my mom is dancing round the kitchen to my dads LP on full blast. It changed me. Had to be loud crashing guitar from then on


Many great responses, cool thread James. Waited awhile to post but Niki say's it best, I came home from school and my Mom was listening to Meet The Beatles. Mom had a great ear and only bought records that she really liked. I was into the Beatles and the British wave from then on. 8)

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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:24 pm
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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 3:56 am
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KISS Double Platinum really got me interested in music as a kid. Pink Floyd's The Wall was a album that started to define me as a person and Nirvana's Nevermind has been the last album that has an influence in my life. It's strange that no other record has come out since that has had that kind of impact on me then what those 3 have.


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Post subject: Re: Life changing albums.
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:49 am
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It's strange that no other record has come out since that has had that kind of impact on me then what those 3 have.

I don't think it is, it's why they're called formative years. It's when things make the biggest impression on you. That's why guys in their 60s think all good music died in the 1970s.


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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 6:05 pm
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 7:29 pm
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John Hiatt's Slow Turning was life changing on so many levels because of what was happening to me in my late 20's and early 30's.
Before that Abbey Road.


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