fat_fleet
Swollen Member
Can you dig it?
Can you dig it?
kcearl
I see deaf people
You killed the thread!
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
It's a god-given talent.
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
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triquee
Guest
First memory of music was when I was 4. I used to sleep with the clock radio on. Kool and the Gang's "Cherish" came on and the sound of the music filled my dream. Woke up singing it. Lots more memories like that. But that was the first time it happened.
Then, it was hearing Stevie Wonder singing "Overjoyed" at school when I was 5 or 6.
When I was 7, it was the first time I'd heard "Man in the Mirror" on the radio in my mom's car.
There must have been others in between, but the next I remember is R.E.M. "Drive" when I was 13....B 52's "Roam" around that time too..."Blister in the Sun"...gosh, so many...
Then came a whole string of things, but most notably "Caught a Light Sneeze" by Tori Amos when I was 16. That was probably the biggest game changer.
Then began my musical love affair with the Lilith Fair bunch...
"Fast Car" hit me like a Mack truck, but I think it probably did that to everybody.
In college, I ingested Sting's full catalog - put it down when I got to "Desert Rose" (ugh).
Next huge game changer was Tool's "Lateralus."
When I was in my early 20's I did this internship in Chicago at the Field museum. I had the day off and found an art gallery...wandered through and found myself in an all white room, walls colored by video of a bunch of children holding hands, running in a circle. Then the music started. It was children singing "Wicked Game" in the most haunting way.
Then began a year or so of pining over Chris Isaak's lovely voice.
I can remember exactly where I was the first time I heard Eminem - like people remember exactly where they were when they heard Kennedy was shot.
Then, it was hearing Stevie Wonder singing "Overjoyed" at school when I was 5 or 6.
When I was 7, it was the first time I'd heard "Man in the Mirror" on the radio in my mom's car.
There must have been others in between, but the next I remember is R.E.M. "Drive" when I was 13....B 52's "Roam" around that time too..."Blister in the Sun"...gosh, so many...
Then came a whole string of things, but most notably "Caught a Light Sneeze" by Tori Amos when I was 16. That was probably the biggest game changer.
Then began my musical love affair with the Lilith Fair bunch...
"Fast Car" hit me like a Mack truck, but I think it probably did that to everybody.
In college, I ingested Sting's full catalog - put it down when I got to "Desert Rose" (ugh).
Next huge game changer was Tool's "Lateralus."
When I was in my early 20's I did this internship in Chicago at the Field museum. I had the day off and found an art gallery...wandered through and found myself in an all white room, walls colored by video of a bunch of children holding hands, running in a circle. Then the music started. It was children singing "Wicked Game" in the most haunting way.
Then began a year or so of pining over Chris Isaak's lovely voice.
I can remember exactly where I was the first time I heard Eminem - like people remember exactly where they were when they heard Kennedy was shot.
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fat_fleet
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grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
For some reason this reminds me of the Incredible string band
While I've been on holiday, I've done quite a bit of reading on this lot. Some members of the group have written books that cost a fortune second hand but are available free online if you don't mind downloading, punctuating and printing off. I've been fascinated with the case since 1978. Just to show how sad I've become in middle age, I can tell you who 8 of the 9 people in the picture are !
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
me too!
While I've been on holiday, I've done quite a bit of reading on this lot. Some members of the group have written books that cost a fortune second hand but are available free online if you don't mind downloading, punctuating and printing off. I've been fascinated with the case since 1978. Just to show how sad I've become in middle age, I can tell you who 8 of the 9 people in the picture are !
Yeah I like reading about them too....so charismatic! I probably woulda thrown it all away to run with those guys if I was around back then. I mean, I know the crimes were atrocious and all but I think there was truth behind it sometimes....ego really is a too much thing!
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
I just checked ~ it's the cover of "The hangman's beautiful daughter". I thought I'd seen it somewhere before !
Susan Atkins made a really interesting point not long before she died. She was commenting on how, over the years people continually asked how anyone could've gotten involved with Manson and didn't anyone pick up any dangerous vibes at the time. And she said "the simple fact is, that in 1967, there was no reason to be afraid of Manson. He was a hippie guru type that was into acid and free, adventurous and plentiful sex ~ like many, many others that converged on the Haight and California at the time" or words to that effect.
Interestingly, the Haight had started to go bad long before the Manson crowd did, mainly because of hard drugs and big business cashing in on the Hippie happening.
The thing that often makes me wonder about those that advocate eradicating the ego, the proponents never do so themselves and they overlook the reality that our ego is us. It's the core of our identity and being. It may be good, it may be bad but either way, eradicating it is far more dangerous than indulging in it ! Far better to learn to control what's negative than blitz it and worsen the situation.
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
I love the electric piano. That period from 1965 and songs like "The night before" and "You like me too much", right through to the mid 90s and Sheryl Crow's "All I wanna do is have some fun", right through rock and in particular jazz rock. Although I loved guys like Chick Corea {Return to Forever} and Jan Hammer's {Mahavishnu orchestra} playing from the early to mid 70s and the jazz stuff inspired me to go out and buy a clavinet, the guy whose electric piano really went 'kloong' with me and made me really listen to it with both ears and to the extent that I went out and bought a Fender Rhodes, was a guy called Jim Lockhart who was a multi instrumentalist and vocalist with the seminal Irish folk rock band, Horslips. He played flute, uillean pipes and all manner of keyboards. It's his performance on "High volume love" on the 'The unfortunate cup of tea' album that really did it for me. I don't know why.
Like the mellotron, it's an interesting and underrated instrument.
rayc
retroreprobate
Horslips - I've been a fan since I read about them in melody maker or NME in the mid 70s. The DVDs that are available now are amazing too- the Dancehall Sweethearts particularly. they could rock so hard & folk so sweetly then their blend of irish melodies and rock instrumentation & dynamics - well let's say the LPs & CDs are on high rotation at my place.
I really enjoyed the Rhodes Electric Piano - bought one that wasn't the suitcase version with built in amp. Glad I didn't because the version I had weighed more than my Marshall & Etone box combined. I loaned it to someone near the turn of the century and it disappeared.
I really enjoyed the Rhodes Electric Piano - bought one that wasn't the suitcase version with built in amp. Glad I didn't because the version I had weighed more than my Marshall & Etone box combined. I loaned it to someone near the turn of the century and it disappeared.
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
EDIT: early Sonic Youth and Glenn Branca were big game-changers for me when I was a kid.
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fat_fleet
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grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
One morning sometime in the summer of 1991, I woke up with the name Horslips on my mind. I've no idea why. I knew nothing about them, had never heard their music, seen pictures of them, had no awareness of their place in rock. But when I pondered on who they might be, I got a very distinct sense that they were Irish and I had a vague recollection that they were mentioned in a shitty Thin Lizzy biography that I'd had as a teenager. That was the only possible connection, however tenuous, that, in retrospect, I've been able to come up with. No one I knew seemed to know about them except for this guy I worked with who said he knew of their LP "The book of Invasions". Actually, when I mentioned the name to some of the older kids I worked with, they thought I referred to the band as Horse lips, which they thought was a funny name. I later discovered that the name came via a drunken game from the biblical 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.
Anyway, I went to this Irish shop in Willesden that dealt in Irish stuff and there was a Horslips cassette there but I didn't want a cassette so I didn't buy it. The next day, I was in Margate and popped into a second hand record shop and there was a copy of "The Tain". I thought the cover was amazing and I bought it {I also recall buying 'On your feet or on your knees' by Blue Öyster cult and 'Large and lief' by Fairport convention}. When I got home and listened to it, it was better than I ever could have imagined and not long after, I picked up "Dancehall Sweethearts" and "The unfortunate cup of tea", which 22 years later are still my favourite Horslips albums. I think their first 5 LPs are utterly magnificent. On the back of the "Dancehall sweethearts" album is a beautifully evocative sentence referring to seven of the songs ¬> "believe it or not, these tracks have traditional airs concealed about their persons....." which summed them up perfectly. The way they wove traditional Irish music into their rock was breathtaking and not at all obvious if you didn't know the pieces. I also liked the fact that they were all multi taskers in the band. The bassist was one of the 4 singers, the drummer was a poetry writing lyricist and the other three were major vocalist/multi~instrumentalists.
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colonelcraze
New member
Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight
Steve Reich - The Dessert Music
The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People
The Wipers - Is This Real? and pretty much everything they've ever recorded including Greg Sage's solo recordings.
I'm sure there's plenty more but not coming to mind immediately.
Steve Reich - The Dessert Music
The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People
The Wipers - Is This Real? and pretty much everything they've ever recorded including Greg Sage's solo recordings.
I'm sure there's plenty more but not coming to mind immediately.
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coffee&tv
New member
The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was the first song that I ever fell in love with as a young kid. It made me not only love the Beatles, but music in general.
Green Day's "When I Come Around" started my love for music with louder, distorted guitars.
Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" got me into synth music.
Green Day's "When I Come Around" started my love for music with louder, distorted guitars.
Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" got me into synth music.
Manslick
Road
I haven't been the same since I heard - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
Yeah that whole album was a biggie for me.
The long syrupy part in the middle of Interstellar Overdrive too. And the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
Coltrane's Africa Brass taught me a lot about the gives and takes of ensemble playing.
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smili
New member
A couple that stand out:
Joe Satriani - "Satch Boogie" - the first time I heard this on the radio I had no idea who it was, or what it was - and with it being on the radio they didn't even say anything about the song/artist so I was left hanging and wondering. I just remember thinking I'd never heard anything like it. I was probably 16 or so at the time.
Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of "Little Wing" - inspired me to learn to play differently. I was quite a bit older when I first heard this and this changed my playing approach and song-writing considerably.
Game changers are pretty high bar - but those two do come to mind in that context. I want to mention others, but alot of others would just be progressions more than game changers.
Joe Satriani - "Satch Boogie" - the first time I heard this on the radio I had no idea who it was, or what it was - and with it being on the radio they didn't even say anything about the song/artist so I was left hanging and wondering. I just remember thinking I'd never heard anything like it. I was probably 16 or so at the time.
Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of "Little Wing" - inspired me to learn to play differently. I was quite a bit older when I first heard this and this changed my playing approach and song-writing considerably.
Game changers are pretty high bar - but those two do come to mind in that context. I want to mention others, but alot of others would just be progressions more than game changers.