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Post subject: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:35 am
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So I'm curious as to what everyone's experiences were with music, and how it's affected your music. What did you listen to growing up? What do you listen to now? Give some examples. I'll go first.

I grew up listening to classic rock, southern rock, blues, country, bluegrass, maybe a little folk. Music like the Rolling Stones (my dad's all-time favorite band), the Beatles, AC/DC, CCR, ZZ Top, etc. Music that defines my childhood would be the likes of John Prine, Barenaked Ladies, and so much more music that I can't remember right now. (I've always been bad with remembering artist/song names).

When I started playing guitar, I was really into AC/DC and some more modern stuff like Green Day, Rise Against, Three Days Grace, MCR, etc. Once I grew out of that and started really learning how to play, I got into SRV, Hendrix, EC, ZZ Top, basically anything with a rock/blues feel. Recently I've been playing my acoustic almost exclusively, and I'm currently obsessed with Bob Dylan, John Prine (oh, the nostalgia), and I'm still listening to a lot of blues artists like Joe Bonamassa. I'm trying to branch out and listen to some more folky stuff similar to Dylan (any recommendations would be great). Since highschool, I've always been a big fan of the Dropkick Murphys and I'm just now starting to listen to the Pogues. I like very little of the music that is coming out now, with the exception of some artists like Jake Bugg. Never been a big fan of rap, and definitely not the newer stuff. Any hip hop I listen to is confined to old school Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg (or Lion :roll: ) and, of course, Eminem.

In short, my music collection on my phone is a very confusing and scary place :lol:

As a result, my style of playing is (currently) a rich mix of rock, folk and blues, some songs with a little bit of a punk vibe thrown in. Basically, I play what I feel like playing, and all these influences just sort of come out.

I'm interested in hearing what others have to say about their music history :D

-Jake :P

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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:01 am
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My first musical experiences were K-Tel mixed cassettes handed down from my dad and stuff from Columbia House he didn't want. I grew up in the 80's, so i listened to alot of popular radio stuff (I recorded songs off the radio). Micheal Jackson, Huey Lewis, Duran Duran etc. As i got older it was RUN-DMC and the Beastie Boys, Once I hit high school I got more into rap but then I started hanging with some friends who were into classic rock. Then came the Zepplin, Hendrix, Floyd and KISS, G n R etc. Got into all sorts of 90's rock and then I got into ska. The ska bug bit me hard and I still listen to it all the time.
Now I listen to whatever sounds good to me. I don't care what genre it is.

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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:28 pm
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My friends and I never were into the "big-hit-radio" music. We made it a quest to find the weirdest stuff out there - King Crimson, Yes, ELP, Mahavishnu, Genesis (Peter Gabriel era), Fripp, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Magazine, Utopia,... the list goes on.
I think I won the "weird" contest when I found Frank Zappa :mrgreen: Although a lot of his music is extremely complex, his jam songs were based primarily on two-chord progressions. he had a philosophy about building on a simple foundation... something I've taken into consideration when composing my own music.

If you're looking for acoustic wonderfulness, check out Hot Tuna, Quah, or anything else Jorma Kaukonen was involved in. Leo Kotke, Brooks Williams, and Cliff Eberhardt are also very much worth looking into.

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The first record I ever bought with my own money was Uriah Heep's album The Magician's Birthday. I was also into Floyd, Zeppelin, Cooper, Purple, etc.

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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:11 pm
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The first record I ever bought with my own money was Uriah Heep's album The Magician's Birthday. I was also into Floyd, Zeppelin, Cooper, Purple, etc.


Ok, don't laugh....first album I ever purchased......Anita Ward, Ring my Bell :oops: . Next record I bought, Ozzy Ozbourne, Blizzard of Oz. Needless to say, I never looked back and grew up listening to late 70's early 80's rock/metal. Today, it's all about what moves me, regardless of the genre.

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The first single I bought was "Hello I Love You" (the Doors), while the first two LPs were "Let It Be" and "Sgt Peppers".

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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:03 pm
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Ok, don't laugh....first album I ever purchased......Anita Ward, Ring my Bell


:lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry, mang.
Not laughing at something like that is a TALL order.

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:26 pm
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BMW-KTM wrote:
The first record I ever bought with my own money was Uriah Heep's album The Magician's Birthday.


"He told me tales, and he drank my wine. me and my magic man kinda feelin fine"


Nice :O) 8)

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:58 pm
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Well, that's a REALLY loaded question...

I was born during Ike's 1st Term in Philly, but moved at the age of 2 to Europe (specifically-Switzerland) as my Late Father headed 3Ms Int'l. Div. which was based in Geneva.

As an American Ex-Pat, I grew up listening to Rob't. Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson, Erma Thomas, Lightnin' Hopkins, early Beatles, Stones, etc. because Europe didn't restrict the playing of Black Artists as America did.

Then, In the mid-'60s, 3M relocated their Int'l. Div. back on-shore which brought me to Mpls./St. Paul in '63.

I brought with me tons of singles and LPs from Euro labels incl. very early Beatles (pre- I wanna hold your Hand), Stones and tons of Black artists unknown and unpublished, in the US.

I made friends in my new school and visited their homes. But, more than once, my Mother was called by the mother of my friends telling her that they no longer wished to have me come over because I brought those Negro Records with me.

Can you even imagine ...???

Personally, I was already hooked ! There was NO turning back.

As America lost interest in the Beach Boys (who are GREAT in their own right), Tommy James, and the Dave Clark Five, I was ready with a collection that blew most suburban White Kids outta their pants.

This has made me very cynical about true musicians vs. those that 'The Machine' manufactured to make alot of Americans shell out tons of dollars to buy what they were selling at the time.

The Music Industry is BLOATED with Posseures who have been marketed to unknowing legions of Youth.

While many will vehemently disagree, I can count the number of true, innovative musicians I have encountered on both hands !

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 12:35 am
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I made friends in my new school and visited their homes. But, more than once, my Mother was called by the mother of my friends telling her that they no longer wished to have me come over because I brought those Negro Records with me.

Can you even imagine ...???


Being 25 and growing up in a predominantly Pakistani area of a city here in England I literally cannot fathom somebody having an attitude like that!

That being said it certainly wasn't all rosy over here, a family friend of ours showed us a school report of his from 1956, it said "Peter can be a lazy child however will work like a black when pushed". that from a school teacher, shows how quickly attitudes have changed (although not in everyone).

ANYWAY enough race talk!

I always grew up listening to R.E.M. Manic Street Preachers and other 90's alt rock from my Dad, but he also played all the classics like The Stones, The Beatles so on and so forth. I remember for my 11th birthday my Dad got me a cd player and a stack of CD's he told me I needed to listen to, amongst those was Sgt Pepper, Exile on Main St, INXS Greatest Hits, RHCP Californication, Primal Scream Screamadelica and other assorted genres of great music. I'd say it's easily the best present I've ever had, and if I ever have kids I will do the same thing.

Aside from that I also listened to a lot of the Emo/Metal thing in my teens and also a lot of rap/hip hop. I'm also not ashamed to admit to being a bit of a pop music fan, like everything there are some good songs to enjoy so long as you accept the fact that you aren't going to get a deep complex song.

As for my playing I think John Frusciante formerly of the Chilli Peppers had the biggest influence, I grew up loving them and love his work, so I use a lot of big thumb over the top chords, and very simple solos, however recently I've been branching back out into some older blues and rock so I'm adding in a bit of a different style for sure.


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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 1:20 am
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Rob Schwarz-Fender wrote:
BMW-KTM wrote:
The first record I ever bought with my own money was Uriah Heep's album The Magician's Birthday.


"He told me tales, and he drank my wine. me and my magic man kinda feelin fine"


Nice :O) 8)

Actually Rob, that line is from The Wizard from the album Demons And Wizards, which was just before Magician's Birthday chronologically. Good song and good call. It was one of the first songs I ever learned in Drop D as a young puppy.

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 2:51 am
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BMW-KTM wrote:
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The first record I ever bought with my own money was Uriah Heep's album The Magician's Birthday.


"He told me tales, and he drank my wine. me and my magic man kinda feelin fine"


Nice :O) 8)

Actually Rob, that line is from The Wizard from the album Demons And Wizards, which was just before Magician's Birthday chronologically. Good song and good call. It was one of the first songs I ever learned in Drop D as a young puppy.


Bahh I get those two Roger Dean covers messed up lol. ...and played a lot of Heep over the years :O) so its all a blur to me

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 4:12 am
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My meager contribution, Who discovered with Tommy 12 years, the 13 Stones and Pink Floyd 14! (this is where I've been infected by the virus Strat) and I can not get a cure!
About Roger Waters happens tonight at the Stade de France in Paris with "The Wall"!
At 15, this is Santana I discovered at the same time, JJ Cale!
At 16, Uria Heep, The Scorpions etc. ...
And 17 years, Dire Straits and Mark Knopler shows up with his old Strat and sounds!
There, I condemn and not heal!

This is serious doctor?

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 7:38 am
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Rob, I was up early (or late) enough to see what you did there. Believe me, I understand your reasoning. But I for one think this thread is much the poorer without that magnificent photo! :D 8)

Cheers - C

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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:36 am
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Rob Schwarz-Fender wrote:
BMW-KTM wrote:
The first record I ever bought with my own money was Uriah Heep's album The Magician's Birthday.


"He told me tales, and he drank my wine. me and my magic man kinda feelin fine"


Nice :O) 8)


You know... when I first posted, I was going to mention Uriah Heep, but I thought my list was getting too long... well, yes, Demons and Wizards is one of the 'big ones"... along with Vanilla Fudge, Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride, The James Gang, The Jeff Beck Group, Allman Brothers... all the early Floyd stuff too like Umaguma, Saucer, A Nice Pair, Meddle.
First Album I ever purchased was Apostrophe'. Never had a real need to buy records in my younger years. My next door neighbor and best friend had two older brothers who were rock fanatics. We'd just raid their collection, hang out with Don (the younger brother) and spin the vinyls for hours.

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