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Post subject: musical era influences
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:03 am
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This maybe a question for the older people here but I’d love to here from the new ones as well. I was looking at some old pictures last night and started thinking about the different music styles/eras I have played through. Started playing in the late eighties learned to play listening to my mom’s blues and classic rock records, went to college and played in bands during the alternative/grunge era and after college mellowed out a lot and play mostly my own music. During most of that time I never played the stratocaster but looking back now and knowing that the Stratocaster would have suited all those styles instead of going through so many different guitars…. my question, yeah I know finally, is what musical phases have you guys gone through and how has the Stratocaster affected them?


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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:19 am
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stephenr66 wrote:
This maybe a question for the older people here but I’d love to here from the new ones as well. I was looking at some old pictures last night and started thinking about the different music styles/eras I have played through. Started playing in the late eighties learned to play listening to my mom’s blues and classic rock records, went to college and played in bands during the alternative/grunge era and after college mellowed out a lot and play mostly my own music. During most of that time I never played the strat but looking back now and knowing that the Stratocaster would have suited all those styles instead of going through so many different guitars…. my question, yeah I know finally, is what musical phases have you guys gone through and how has the Stratocaster affected them?

SRV was the reason I first picked up an electric guitar back in 1983. Then when I saw him Live, I wasn't sure whether to practice more or just put the guitar away. I'm sure everyone knows about his ability, but what struck me most and which I have not seen since is the "trueness" or "sincerity" he played with. It seemed like he put every ounce of his soul into playing each note (whether fast or slow). I miss that in many of today's players.


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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:14 am
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stephenr66 wrote:
This maybe a question for the older people here but I’d love to here from the new ones as well. I was looking at some old pictures last night and started thinking about the different music styles/eras I have played through. Started playing in the late eighties learned to play listening to my mom’s blues and classic rock records, went to college and played in bands during the alternative/grunge era and after college mellowed out a lot and play mostly my own music. During most of that time I never played the strat but looking back now and knowing that the Stratocaster would have suited all those styles instead of going through so many different guitars…. my question, yeah I know finally, is what musical phases have you guys gone through and how has the Stratocaster affected them?


Started on guitar/bass by playing bass in a Nirvana jam with some friends from school and shorly afterwards got a Epiphone Les Paul special and started a garage punk band with some other friends. That didn't work out because we were too drunk and stoned to play 8) But during this time I started playing my brothers Jagstang and got my mind on Fender. I also began listening to 60/70's rock

Then, about two years later I learned about something called Pink Floyd and just had to get a strat(mim Deluxe Player). that was about 1 1/2 year ago
The strat made me want to learn and become a 'real' guitar player instead of some drugged teen jumping around in semi-psychotic ecstasy
The strat, to me, is the link between rebellion and sophisticated art
The biggest impact the strat has had on my life so far was getting me into blues, I don't know how it happened, it just sort of came along with playing a strat

Now I'm only into 'hippie'-rock and blues and my friends are close to killing me 'cause of all my music and guitar talk


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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:17 pm
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ratboy wrote:
stephenr66 wrote:
This maybe a question for the older people here but I’d love to here from the new ones as well. I was looking at some old pictures last night and started thinking about the different music styles/eras I have played through. Started playing in the late eighties learned to play listening to my mom’s blues and classic rock records, went to college and played in bands during the alternative/grunge era and after college mellowed out a lot and play mostly my own music. During most of that time I never played the strat but looking back now and knowing that the Stratocaster would have suited all those styles instead of going through so many different guitars…. my question, yeah I know finally, is what musical phases have you guys gone through and how has the Stratocaster affected them?

SRV was the reason I first picked up an electric guitar back in 1983. Then when I saw him Live, I wasn't sure whether to practice more or just put the guitar away. I'm sure everyone knows about his ability, but what struck me most and which I have not seen since is the "trueness" or "sincerity" he played with. It seemed like he put every ounce of his soul into playing each note (whether fast or slow). I miss that in many of today's players.


Yeah it's funny how alot of the "musicians" that make it anymore do not seem to have any real soul in ther work. Which again brings me back to the strat. It seems to be a more intimate guitar than others. It's stripped down, no binding no mop inlays just the wood and pickups so I feel it brings so much more soul to ones work


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My parents gave my my first guitar at around 8 years old. Back in those days I would religiously watch the Monkees and never missed an episode. My first music book was, of course, a Monkees book. The guitar came with some free lessons from the music store. My instructor and I would jam on "I'm not your Steppin Stone", "I wanna be Free", and others from the book.

From there I expended out to learn tunes from bands like Bloodrock, Tin House, and even a few classics like the modern electronic version of "Joy" from Apollo 100.

I didn't play much during the several hideous years of my first marriage. Once that was over and I joined the navy, I picked up my first solid body electric, a Hondo. It sounded like crap but hey, at least I was playing again. Later on I would acquire a 75 Strat modified with Dimarzio HS3's, Floyd Rose, etc. I spent long hours into 80's metal bands like Judas Priest, Helix, Led Zepplin, Warrior, Scorpions, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc. And later on the lighter bands like the Cars, Brian Adams and Grateful Dead.

Currently, I'm playing and learning from various Blues artists like SRV, Popa Chubby and Luther Allison but still keeping my foot in the metal door with Guns n' Roses and Bon Jovi.

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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:49 pm
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I may be a younger kid, but I have listened and gone through many types of music. When I was real young I was influenced so much by bands like Led Zepplin and Jethro Tull. Only because my dad liked it. I still like Zepplin a whole lot but I am now more of a Metallica and Guns and Roses type of guy. I do love lots of music and am also influenced by new age bands like Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed.


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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:52 pm
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stephenr66 wrote:
This maybe a question for the older people here but I’d love to here from the new ones as well. I was looking at some old pictures last night and started thinking about the different music styles/eras I have played through. Started playing in the late eighties learned to play listening to my mom’s blues and classic rock records, went to college and played in bands during the alternative/grunge era and after college mellowed out a lot and play mostly my own music. During most of that time I never played the stratocaster but looking back now and knowing that the Stratocaster would have suited all those styles instead of going through so many different guitars…. my question, yeah I know finally, is what musical phases have you guys gone through and how has the Stratocaster affected them?


In 1979, my senior year in high school, my sweetheart taught me the major chords. College saw me with a nylon 6 string slung on my back. I learned how to play Wildfire, Stairway to Heaven and Wish You Were Here among many other "Classics" which were contemperaries at the time on that guitar. I was a big Santana fan and bought a Yamaha T-300 which was their SSS config with a trem flush to the body in 1982. I loved the sounds of single coil pups and I played it to hell day and night. My girlfriend hated it because she'd find me in the morning sleeping on the couch with the guitar still strapped on. I was scouted into my first band less than a year later while I was working at Tower Records. The lead singer was great at Latin beats on the congo drums. There was that Santana feel so I fit right in.

During the time I that I first started gigging I started moving more towards Hendrix, John McLaughlin and several other guitarists that used a lot of different effects. In '83 I met SRV in Tower Records just after his first LP hit national. He treated me very politely and I told him that "anyone who digs Hendrix is cool by me." He shook my hand and we had a great conversation about Hendrix and about the blues. After that meeting I really started listening to lots of blues; John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters and B.B. King along with Hendrix, Trower and SRV. I started drawing from that electric blues experience. Since then I've always wanted a Strat but somehow other things got in the way. The rest of the eighties saw me doing very bad covers of the same popular Punk and New Wave songs from one band to another but when it was just me I would be rocking to I IV V 12 bar blues.

From '89-'97 I was married and working long hours to pay a mortgage and put food on the table. I lucked out and scored a badly beaten Les Paul for $50.00 that I rebuilt and added her to the collection along with the sitar, a Takamina acoustic and an Adamas classical but who was I kidding? I worked 15 hours a day shuttling toursts around the island. '97 saw our divorce and I moved to LA to enter the clergy. In the past ten years I've been recored on 8 CDs with over 60 songs in my resume... none for guitar. I'd been relegated to the ranks of backup vocals and percussions on New Age CDs. But because I specialize in that genra I did make a lot of solid connections and paid a lot of bills. Last year I finally had two of my "childhood" dreams come true. One was to see a KISS concert and the other was to earn my Strat. This year opened with a job laying backup tracks for nine new songs and and an offer to lay some guitar tracks down. I'm also gigging again. Granted I do really small venues. And I'm singing Wildfire, Stairway to Heaven and Wish You Were Here among other classics.

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Manabu108 that's what I'm talking about. Staying true to music no matter what form or how you make it


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