Assuming we have musicians in this OT forum tell some history or stories and beginnings

[60's guy]

I have no story.
I have no story because I have no past. And the present becomes the past in a supersonic nanosecond. Therefore, all I have is the future. And I have no idea what that holds

By the time you enter the future it becomes the past almost immediately, if not quicker.

 

[PorterhouseMusic]

Doesn't that mean that there is always only  now? The eternal.moment of now?

 

[dogooder]

Doesn't that mean that there is always only  now? The eternal.moment of now?

now you are starting to get it.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

I have no story.
I have no story because I have no past. And the present becomes the past in a supersonic nanosecond. Therefore, all I have is the future. And I have no idea what that holds

Where was my response when you posted this? Oh yeah, it hadn’t happened yet

 

[Seeker of Rock]

How long have you got ?

As many pages in this thread as you care to tell

 

[Seeker of Rock]

As many pages in this thread as you care to tell

I haven’t told my BB King story yet but I’ve babbled enough to give this thread a start and want to hear other inspirations and stories. We’re all in this art and it’s interesting how people got started and inspired and things that maybe happened along the path

 

[Track Rat]

I come from a musical family. I have a banjo the was my great grandfather's. My Dad worked for Gibson back in the early 50's and did some radio work on WSM. There was a jam session at our house nearly every weekend when I was growing up. Many of them recorded as my Dad had a decent Sony reel to reel. That's when I knew what I wanted to do.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Hells to tha yeah, brother!

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Of course I made all this up for street cred.

Dog man already has ALL the street cred in here

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Dog man already has ALL the street cred in here

Oops autotxt correct…sry doogooder

 

[Seeker of Rock]

First radio guitar system on Angus Young - AC/DC 1978. He came in from the back of the audience and played to the stage. Everybody parted for him and no security. Brilliant night - my first real rock show.

Back when rock was rock and rock stars were just like us but signed with airplay

 

[Seeker of Rock]

1978. Omaha Nebraska. I don't remember the opener. Mom remembered they were really loud. Judas Priest would fit the bill.

I worshiped kiss back then. Mom met the piano tech I guess at the restaurant she managed. He gave her free tickets.

I can still remember the smell...

We probably saw the same tour as our first concert

 

[Seeker of Rock]

I know they ended their first tour in debt.

They cut their teeth for a bit before becoming brilliant businessmen as documentaries and autobiographies go. Same with Queen.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Getting exposed to Led Zeppelin II when I was about 10-11. That changed me.

II was the one I had on 8 track tape, VI was the one that really hooked me

 

[Seeker of Rock]

I think it was later that same year my father took me and my older brothers to see Jerry Lee Lewis in a local highschool auditorium. There were some of his records around the house I would occasionally spin, the Sun label. I think at that time, The Killer, his ways had caught up to him, in today's parlance he was at the time on what might be considered the canceled list, playing smaller gigs such as that highschool auditorium. There he was, Jerry Lee, The Killer, at times low key, at others kicking the stool out with the back of his knees while rising to stand, banging away on that piano. Even played with his foot sometimes, ain't he somethin'. Opening for Jerry Lee was another piano player, grey haired guy. Ain't that nice, I thought, Jerry Lee let's his daddy play first. It wasn't his daddy, it was "The Grey Fox", Charlie Rich.

Thatbis bad fukking ass!

 

[dogooder]

Dog man already has ALL the street cred in here

Dog man is dead, or alive?

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Actually I started at about 5 when a juke box wound up on my front porch in 1957 and i could play anything on it for free. I would sing along for hours. By ten in 62, i was playing drums and bugle in the town marching band. Received my first drum set at ten. My first guitar at 12 in 1964, the rest is history, nefarious though it may be.

No shit, a jukebox? And not being digital back then with complex mechanics, those things were seriously business. Your folks own a bar or diner they ordered it for or they were just rich and shit?

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Dog man is dead, or alive?

You’re asking ME? I ain’t from around here and don’t know shit except that he’s alive in my best of memories.

 

[dogooder]

You’re asking ME? I ain’t from around here and don’t know shit except that he’s alive in my best of memories.

I can't remember when he showed up here, but yea, he is a good dude.

 

[Seeker of Rock]

Grew up on the Beatles. First acoustic guitar at 15. First concert was Styx opening for Blue Oyster Cult in 1977. I've been playing guitar ever since, plus I added keyboards in 1984. Im 62 now.

I’m 57. First concert beside KISS in’78 (with my dad) was to see Dokken (‘84?) opening for Aldo Nova opening for BOC…in a 5000 seat venue in Indy with Festival seating, half of which was standing only floor. Beatles was where I learned things without playing yet.