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[strat0124]

[quote]Originally posted by Tedster: [b]The Berville Lions Club Beer Tent Bingo night at the VFW where they had the guy who thought he was Gene Pitney. A jukebox at the Alibi that had every Red Sovine song you could think of. The Mom and Dads play 20 great waltzes. Those wonderful music teachers on "Saturday Night Live". I don't know why people think they're funny. I think they're great. [/b][/quote] Damn Ted.....I'd love to hang out with you, damn you are hilarious!

[lovesinger]

1st, 2nd and 3rd grade bus trips to the symphony orchestra (the whole school district went on the same day it seemed). I was awestruck by vibrant controlled musical loudness. [b]"Catch A Falling Star"[/b] - Perry Como, [b]"Pledging My Love"[/b] - Johnny Ace, [b]"Sixteen Tons"[/b] - Tennessee Ernie Ford, [b]"Loveletters In the Sand"[/b] - Pat Boone. These showed me a single singer and simple arrangements can be powerfully magic. Also that recorded accidents (Ernie's finger-snapping intro) can make legendary memories. Watching Cowtown Jamboree (live from neighboring Fort Worth) with Buck Owens et al on black and white TV with my grandfather on Saturday night. That and Cowboy G-Men (Southern Gospel) Sunday afternoon helped me appreciate country music early on. [b]"Your Precious Love"[/b], Jerry Butler ....the King of slow-dance back-seat songs. Few words can define the soul-soothing impact. [b]"Gee Whiz"[/b], Carla Thomas ....the Queen of slow-dance back-seat songs. [b]Twist and Shout[/b] by the Isley Brothers - brilliantly captured pop chaos. The fade-out then back-in hinted at music manipulations to come. Seeing Lou Rawls live at the usually adults only Longhorn Ballroom (Dallas) at age 10, hearing his drummer play things with one-hand I could't think of playing with two, watching-hearing his awesome hi-hat syncopations -- THEN being astounded that [i]he gave me his drumsticks[/i], the first ivory-tipped ones I'd ever seen! My mother had gone to the stage to talk with the group (the whole room had, it was a usual chittlin' circuit thing, like a backstage pass at front stage with the 'stars' very approachable), and had told him I was starting drum lessons, which led to my gift. I sewed a little cloth bag for em and everything ... guarded em with my life. Dionne Warwick's [b]"Don't Make Me Over"[/b]... it marked my entrance into "real" teenagedom and the bittersweet joys of adolescent romance. *** [i]These next 'defining moments' showed me music could be more than what I'd known it to be: (backdrop: (you'll quickly see why it's notable) black kid from the hood whose pop favs to date were The Drifters and The Shirelles)[/i] *** [b]"Like A Rolling Stone"[/b], Bob Dylan ...the sound [b]mesmerized[/b] me..felt like floating on lots of Lawrence Welk's bubbles in the middle of the 60's social revolution. [b]"House of The Rising Son"[/b], The Animals ...impressionistic as if recorded on a spaceship suspended in air. Maybe I made a weird association with The Mysterians movie soundtrack and Question Mark & the Mysterians' song 96 Tears all of which shared a spacey keyboard/organ effect. [b]"Come See About Me"[/b], The Supremes ...they had already taken girl-groups to the next level; this coyly demure "come on" song took [i]me[/i] to the next level. Little did I know Motown was about to take EVERYTHING to the next level! [b]"My Girl"[/b], Temptations ...super-soul married to steadily-swelling orchestrations. [b]"Ooh, Baby Baby"[/b], Miracles ...showed me sparsity of verse in a girl-catching slow groove works. [b]"Hold On I'm Coming", "Soul Man"[/b] and almost EVERYTHING by STAX. Brilliant engineering that made records sound like front-row-center live performances in a club! [b]"Oh, Happy Day"[/b], The Edwin Hawkins Singers ... taught me that an excellently recorded real Gospel choir singing real Gospel music stood [i]perfectly[/i] alongside Temptations and others on the Top 40. Van McCoy's [b]"The Hustle"[/b] and everything from [b]Barry White[/b] ...glory! Real-played quality music has returned! [b]"Basketball"[/b] - circa 1980. The first rap song I was aware of __ and liked it a WHOLE lot! [i]Too many more to list ... music is so vibrant and amorphous it seems to be continually re-defining itself in some way[/i] This message has been edited by lovesinger on 10-05-2001 at 06:45 PM

[lrossmusic]

Popmusic wrote: [quote]All of the examples I listed happened to me within the past 10 years (the most recent being Maceo, which happened last year).[/quote] My teenage cover band opened for James Brown at DC stadium in 1968. During the sound check early that afternoon we warmed up on "Cold Sweat" which we had down packed note for note. The only thing missing was James Brown's voice. We even had two drummers. I remember a manager or someone came out to the stage and reminded us that naturally we couldn't play any of Brown's music that night. That was too bad because this was our best material which we often performed at local teen dances at the time. Actually I think we so young and naive that we didn't really know any better. At any rate we ended up doing some Temptation's stuff. I say all that to say Maceo was in the James Brown band at the time and they were [i][b]so bad[/i][/b] that this was one of those moments when I knew I wanted to be a musician.

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[quote]Originally posted by lrossmusic@hotmail.com: [b]I say all that to say Maceo was in the James Brown band at the time and they were [i][b]so bad[/i][/b] that this was one of those moments when I knew I wanted to be a musician. [/B][/quote] Well, I didn't really tell the rest of the story, but the Maceo concert was one of the things that got me back into seriously playing/writing music after a three year hiatus. Maceo put on a great show, had a great band, and played some great one chord songs... To be in a small club in the presence of such great musicianship was inspiring, to say the least. [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] And lross -- you got to open for James Brown in 1968? You got to [i]see[/i] James Brown in 1968? I'm [i]soooooo[/i] jealous!!! [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/cool.gif[/img] This message has been edited by popmusic on 10-05-2001 at 10:11 PM

[lrossmusic]

Yeah 1968 must have been a high point for the James Brown show. I saw them again that year at the Howard Theatre here in DC. Even before the curtain went up and very faintly to where you could bearly hear it the band broke into the funkiest one chord groove I've ever heard. They would accent the downbeat every cadence or so and this lasted for few minutes before the annoucer began talking over it. Anyway it was so funky that the crowd started to get off and the curtain hadn't even come up yet! At 18 years old I was 'hooked' from then on. [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] This message has been edited by lrossmusic@hotmail.com on 10-07-2001 at 04:39 AM

[Ed A.]

Hearing Tangerine Dream's "Phaedra" and "Rubycon" back in 1975 on Allison Steele's show (The Nightbird), WNEW-FM NY. I was a synth head ever since. :-)

[Tedster]

[quote]Originally posted by strat0124: [b] Damn Ted.....I'd love to hang out with you, damn you are hilarious![/b][/quote] GEEZ! (Slaps forehead) How could I forget? My FIRST Slim Whitman concert!!! When I'm calling yoooooooo-(up five octaves)ooooooooeeeeeeeeeoooooooo-ooooooooooo.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

[jflush]

Saw KISS in 76' when I was 8, my first concert... talked my father into taking me... 24 years later, I'm tripping out at a KISS show (2000, Farewell Tour), All of a sudden, I realize that I am the same age that my father was when he brought me to see them in 76'. I got all choked up... an absolute once in a lifetime musical moment!

[aeon]

These are but a few of the experiences that have changed my (musical) life: [list] [*]My family’s Friday-night record-listening time...on Friday nights my parents would sit with me on the couch, Pop on the left, Ma on the right, me in the middle, and all the lights would be out and we would actively [i]listen[/i] to the stereo. I was born in ’69, and these memories are among my earliest and fondest. I remember hearing the Beatles, bossa nova, James Brown, baroque danse musik, Jimi Hendrix, Sarah Vaughan, Mozart, Miles Davis, bluegrass, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, and all kinds of other stuff. My parents would then talk with me about what we had heard and how the music made me feel. It made me think music was fun, but something that should also be deeply respected. [*]My dad taking me to the radio/TV station where he worked when I was a kid. I was 5 years old and I got to play (with supervision) with a mixing board, microphones and a small Moog modular. I remember writing to Santa Claus for my own Moog modular for Christmas. [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img] [*]My dad playing acoustic guitar and seeing how it made my mom happy. [*]Learning to play clarinet starting in 3rd grade. The school I attended had a band and band teachers, but then my family moved to Georgia and the school there had neither. It was part of the district program, but no other kids did it. After a while the school got me a teacher, and it was just me and him. Mr. Jordan was a gentleman in his 80s who taught me that playing music didn’t need to involve sheet music and you could [i]even make up the notes as you went along.[/i] [*]Building audio circuits with my Radio Shack [i]200-in-1 Electronics Kit[/i] when I was 10. [*]Getting my first synthesizer as a teenager and discovering I could recreate some of the sounds I heard on records the first night I had it. [*]Buying an import 7" single on a lark in 1987 because I liked the cover. I got it home and played it, and the song and singer had such resonance with me as a person that to this day I cannot hear it without crying tears of joy. The record was the Sugarcubes’ debut single, “Birthday.” [*]On my 18th birthday, having an older adult friend tell me “this is how we did it when I was 18,” then proceeding to give me 750µg of a certain magic molecule and playing, back to back, “Are You Experienced?,” “The Beatles,” and a Deutsche Grammophon recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony - all recordings I had heard many times before. I got to hear them for the first time all over again, and they (and the world) were transcendent, glorious, and beyond words. [*]Hearing My Bloody Valentine’s “Loveless” album the day it was released and then seeing them live on Valentine’s day a few months later. Oceanic, visceral and blissed out. [*]Hearing and seeing the Master Musicians of Jajouka for the first time and coming to understand that music is a pathway to the divine. I had known music could move me physically, emotionally and intellectually, but this was experiential gnosis, the first time I felt as if my entire being was fused with the sound. I now know that music can alter my state of consciousness as powerfully as any drug and deliver a pleasure as great as any I have ever known. [/list] This message has been edited by aeon@mediaone.net on 10-07-2001 at 06:41 AM

[teh dri]

it looks like im the youngest here! for me: -my first rave, age of 17, a huge event. legal and glamourous event. up on stage beXta, a 'live' hard house/tek house act, was playing the biggest, most bone vibrating descending synth riff i had ever heard. it drove me to 'mess with music on my pc'. getting in contact with her i got some tips on gear... the following years were great [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] -Chemical Brothers live set. their stage rig was huge like a space ship, synchronised visuals, great FOH, and some MAD nordlead tweaking at the end -seeing Igor Cavalera on drums, a Sepultura gig. some pretty bad feedback problems that night but Igor on drums was awesome. -hearing a HYBRID dj set on the radio when they toured australia, quite by accident and recording it. awesome. their album was equally enjoyable. russian symphony orchestra meets nu-skool breaks. very beautiful. no doubt a nightmare to edit and mix-down though -seeing people smile as they dance to my music. the age old joys of music performances... pure and amazing artistic joys -every concert, rave, dance party, busker, and any kind of music performance ive been to. always inspiring, always educational, always digested in some way or other (be it PA ideas, education, song arrangement, great performance, innovation... anything) most of all, all the really good drum and bass ive heard (as in DNB the music genre, not the instruments [img]http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]