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O.T. Musical Influences
O.T. Musical Influences
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LeonStagg
137 posts
Feb 24, 2010
6:53 PM
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Who or what were your earliest musical influences?
Was it a family member, an organization, a favorite band or solo act?
For me it was my family,and listening to the radio growing up in the 60's.
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pharpo
179 posts
Feb 24, 2010
7:01 PM
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For me it was gospel (church) and then the radio of the 50's - Orbison - Pitney -Johnny Rivers
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker
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HarpNinja
218 posts
Feb 24, 2010
7:51 PM
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Blues Traveler and Billy Joel, lol.
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nacoran
1224 posts
Feb 24, 2010
8:04 PM
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My Dad listened to classical, my Mom listened to folk. I got into the Beatles by watching the cartoon. I played baritone in elementary and middle school and sang in choir after that. Somewhere around middle school I started listening to more hard rock sorts of stuff. Not the good stuff! Then I got into grunge. Now I listen to everything from folk to alternative to classical. The only really common thread through the whole thing was, with the exception of the classical, everything I listened to was very vocally driven. Nothing turns me off of music faster than mediocre lyrics.
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jonsparrow
2389 posts
Feb 24, 2010
9:13 PM
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first music i ever listened to when i was little, my dad pops gave me a little richard cassette. when i started buying my own music i was listening to allot of grunge but the first album i ever got was greenday - dookie. then i moved to rock and industrial. then to reggae and dancehall. now the blues. an all in between iv listened to allot of hip hop, allot of classical, some jazz. iv allways liked billy holiday. oh an allot of 60's type music. hippie stuff, jefferson airplane an stuff like the doors. frank zappa. but for the past year iv listened to nothing but blues cause i feel i have allot of catching up to do.
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Bluefinger
115 posts
Feb 25, 2010
12:57 AM
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As a teenager I loved Kiss ... that changed over time :o)
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If it ain't broke you just haven't fixed it enough ...
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MrVerylongusername
922 posts
Feb 25, 2010
2:20 AM
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Before he retired my dad was an architect. when I was about 6 he had a job looking at rebuilding a big building in London that had been split into several different shops. I think the job was to make the building structurally secure again after a fire. Anyway, whilst he was down there, the owners of one of the units - a music shop - told him he could basically help himself to whatever he wanted as it was all fire damaged stock and couldn't be resold. He came home with a case full of percussion, instruments, recorders, whistles and best of all my first harmonica. He said he always regretted not being able to carry more as he was on the train. One of the local contracters who had driven to the site was just loading his car with guitars!
My mum was very musical and played clarinet and piano. I used to love listening to her play. My dad listened to a lot of jazz and my mum liked classical. My brother liked punk and New Wave. I've always had diverse taste and that's why I really stuff that fuses different genres.
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The Gloth
240 posts
Feb 25, 2010
4:22 AM
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Listening to belgian radio in the 70's (hence almost exclusively Chanson Française/French Singers) and the LP's of my parents. I remember that I liked very much "Sergent Pepper" at a very young age.
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Ant138
334 posts
Feb 25, 2010
6:38 AM
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Metallica, Misfits(I love Jason Ricci's cover of I turned into a Martian, a classic Misfits tune), Danzig,Social Distortion,Rancid this list could go on forever.
I think all the rock and punk i've listened to has eventually led me to the Blues now that i'm a little older. I think Punk rock is very much like the Blues attitude wise.
I've pretty much been on a Blues trip for two years now and its not showing any signs of slowing down. Although Avenged Sevenfold has somewhat rekindled my love for metal again.
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Last Edited by on Feb 25, 2010 6:50 AM
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Jaybird
124 posts
Feb 25, 2010
7:17 AM
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When I was a child, and my mother was toilet training me, to keep me on the toilet till I was finished, she would play this kids record that demonstrated all the instruments of the orchestra. Each instrument had it's own track, with a little song and a demo of how it sounds. I still remember some of them...."Krumpet" the trumpet, "Poobah" the Tuba, "Knute" the flute, "Nola" the viola, etc.
Music has been a big of my life ever since!
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Last Edited by on Feb 25, 2010 7:18 AM
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Luke Juke
153 posts
Feb 25, 2010
7:28 AM
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My Dad was a bit of a mod so I grew up listening to The Stones and The Who. I was an indie kid thru the 90's and listened to bands like The Stone Roses, The Verve, Chapterhouse, Carter USM and alot of the shoe gazing music. I played guitar in a couple of bands in my 20's. I used to call the genre we played Dark-Groove ( whatever that means) Been into the blues for about 3yrs now
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isaacullah
765 posts
Feb 25, 2010
9:57 AM
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@Ant138: "I think all the rock and punk i've listened to has eventually led me to the Blues now that i'm a little older. I think Punk rock is very much like the Blues attitude wise."
DITTO! I remember when I was in 7th grade and I first heard Nirvana on my friends walkman at lunch time. Iw as blown away. Until that time I was listening to top 40, "momma said knock you out" shit, and it was a complete revelation to me to hear a bnad like Nirvana. From grunge I went into Punk (Rancid is still one of my all time favs, and is a "hometown" band for me. BayAreaPunks! Oh and Social D too. Huge influences.), from Punk to Ska (Desmond Dekker, The Specials, Madness!), from Ska to Reggae (Bob, Toots, Burnign Spear,etc.), from Reggae to old school country and bluegrass (Woody Guthrie! Johnny Cash!), and from that old school country, I've now migrated to Blues (you don't need me to list artists). All the while, I've kept up with current artists who are usually all lumped together into "Indie" or "Alternative". Among these I cite as huge influences: Ryan Adams, Arcade Fire, The Heartless Bastards, Radiohead, The Catherine Wheel, Lucero, Muse, Death Cab For Cutie, Wolf Parade, Sam Roberts, Elliot Smith, Josh Rouse, Fiest, The The, Black Lab, Modest Mouse, Block Party, and on and on and on...
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