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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 12:59 pm
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My first two records - bought them at the same time - were Green Day "dookie" and The Cranberries "no need to argue" you can laugh, but if you listened to it you'd know that's an incredible record, to this day. I was , at like 11, disappointed that the rest of the tape didn't sound like "zombie" but, hell, I grew into. I still have a special place in my heart for both of those bands. Then I got into Nirvana, and got turned onto a lot of other bands because of them... melvins, big black, etc- over the years I've opened up to a lot of different music.... but I always go back to the old favorites when I'm needing some comfort tunes. Nirvana, Local H, Afghan Whigs, Love Battery, Big Black, Mi6, Slint, Mark Lanegan ,
Our Lady Peace, Seaweed.....
I thought this thread was going to be about musicians in our family history.... in which case, Lester Flatt is my great uncle. He died a few years before I was born, but I've heard a few stories.
And "Ring My Bell" is a great song, all BS aside :)

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 9:34 pm
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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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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:31 pm
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I was immersed in music from day one.Both my maternal and paternal families were very musical,all of my mother's siblings could play at least one instrument and the same went for my father's family.Besides their day jobs,Mom was a church organist and Dad was a choir director.Needless to say I was force fed religious music even while in the crib but at least that gave me a good grounding in harmony,but I'm lucky that it didn't turn me from classical,but then again I always loved the religious music of J.S. Bach anyway. I learned my first song on piano when I was 3 or 4 and got my first guitar for my 10th birthday,one month after I saw the Beatles for the first time on the Ed Sullivan show. I am about the only member of the family who can't read music but I am by far the most music obsessed person in my immediate family but I have a nephew and 2 cousins in particular who are very accomplished professional musicians.One cousin was actually hailed as a prodigy when he was 4 years old and won a Kiwanis music festival's violin competition,beating out 15 and 16 year olds.So you can see that I couldn't help but to be a music fanatic from being marinated in music so deeply from infancy.

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:56 pm
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The first music I bought with my meager allowance were actually two records, Mozart and Liszt. Classical, because I'm related to Edvard Grieg. At least, that's the excuse. The first popular music experience was probably Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" movie. And now I have dated myself. :D

I started playing the violin at age six, and didn't pick up a guitar until I was almost a teenager. A nylon string Yamaha, followed by a 12-string Aria which I loved, and played for a decade.
I also played pretty much anything else I could get my hands on, including a dual-row chromatic harmonica, tin flute, piano, synth, and even a saw and wine glasses. But mostly violin and guitar.

Then real life intervened, and I became a music consumer.
Symphonic Rock, mostly, but pretty much anything that emphasized harmonies over lyrics and rhythm.

Decades passed, until one day I was given another 12-string guitar as a present from my wife, who had found out that I played when younger. After years of looking at it, one day, I picked it up. Man, you can get rusty with no playing for decades! It's not like biking. For one thing, if you get on a bike again, your fingers won't start bleeding, and your dog won't threaten to leave you.
Anyhow, I then figured I might want to give electrics a try, and did so. Surprisingly, that made it much easier to remember and get back playing skills that were long gone. And improve on them, with music from the intervening decades.

Now, several guitars later, I practice at least half an hour every day, but aim for two hours. Mostly my teles, but if the weather is nice, I go acoustic. If you come across an old man wearing a tipped down fedora, sitting on his porch playing Neil Young's "Ohio" or AC/DCs "Thunderstruck" on a 12-string acoustic, be nice to him, 'k? He's mostly harmless, even when plugged in.


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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 3:31 am
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started playing in 1960 at age 6...

early influences were duane eddy, ventures, and many others of the surf/instrumental guitar era.

then the beatles hit. next influence was the brit invasion. still among my favorites.

then the late 60's/early 70's. from cream and Hendrix-to the dead and airplane-then led zeppelin-I would sit in my room for hours trying to learn those songs.

in the 70's, skynrd, southern rock, neil young, so much great music......

and that's about where it ends. not too much new stuff I get excited about...maybe i'm just getting old :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:29 am
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Can't believe I wrote a lengthy narrative and the cyberspace demons ate it. :twisted: Google 'Larry Stock', 'Jerry Wexler', and you'll have part of my musical heritage. Larry Stock was an uncle on my father's side. Jerry Wexler was the son of a cousin of theirs i.e. their mother's sister's grandson. You can also find reference to Larry Stock in the ASCAP Songwriter's Hall of Fame. There's also a contribution from my mother's side, herself, and her sisters, in terms of cultural enrichment in music...piano, opera and the like.

That was my launch pad. I'm piano taught, guitar self-taught, I've written, recorded, performed as one of the Aspiration Army, the hundreds, if not thousands of vocal groups and bands which sprouted across the world these past 50 years or more. I was a great gig, and a great experience.

The irony of it all was how families go their separate ways. I never knew that Jerry Wexler was related to my father, who died when I was 13, until a couple of year ago when I found that my uncle's' Wikipedia bio had been edited. I confirmed it all in Jerry's autobiography, which a friend had given me an unwanted copy of. I had stashed it away in my music library for a later reading. There was enough detail there for me to put it all together.

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:13 am
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I have read Doc's musical heritage with the names he has given and I found it to be very very interesting with the tie-in to Atlantic records and some of the creme de la crème of the music world-it's well worth looking up.I spent over an hour following link after link in what was an intriguing musical journey-check it out-you'll be surprised and entertained.

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:03 pm
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FrankieTheKid wrote:
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.




I have to mimic that same response too!
Loved King Crimson too!


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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:03 pm
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guitslinger wrote:
I have read Doc's musical heritage with the names he has given and I found it to be very very interesting with the tie-in to Atlantic records and some of the creme de la crème of the music world-it's well worth looking up.I spent over an hour following link after link in what was an intriguing musical journey-check it out-you'll be surprised and entertained.

Thanks for your interest and taking the time.... :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Your Musical Heritage
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 12:01 am
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reno2atlanta wrote:
FrankieTheKid wrote:
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.




I have to mimic that same response too!
Loved King Crimson too!


Me too !!

But rather than reject 'Mainstream Music' out-of-hand, I also sought stuff which was not on everybody's radar...

Frank Zappa, Iron Butterfly, Dave Mason, John McLaughlin, It's a Beautiful Day, Shawn Phillips and on and on...

Don't even get me started on my Jazz collection !

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