Hehe, too kewl...Musicians abound...Funny thing, as I scratch my head, where is the inspiration with that today?...I too, huge scholastic music, actually had a scholarship to KU in perussion and didn't go as I was sidetracked into semi-pro rock n' rollin', lol...
My oh my how I love Gibsons...I still to this day wish I could just once before I check-out own a black beauty LP custom...Yes, I dabble in the stringthings as well...Left the music scene years ago when I decided it would be nice to eat...Been playing bass for years now and carry a nice acoustic with me constantly on the road for fun and giggles...Like playing the old Yes, Led Zepplin and Jethro Tull ditties...
Ahh, the days...Where have they gone?...And I was supposed to grow up and be a tympanist, LOL...
Any of you ladies rockers?
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Grace
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OK, guess it's time to jump in. I am also of the '50's/'60's generation (just about to turn 58). After I graduated from college, the last thing I wanted to do was work for the next 40 years (whose idea was *that*?). I'd played in a folk group in college, hitchhiked around the country every chance I got, wrote my own material and struck out as a singer songwriter in '70. In '71, I landed on the west coast (Oregon), and immediately started playing with a guy whose voice and mine blended electrically. Over the next year or so, we added another guitarist, bass player, keyboards, and all of us sang. We branched out and played folk, country, country rock, rock, some jazz, and even bluegrass. For the next 11 years, we played all over the Northwest. Kids finally made me decide to settle down, but what a great run! I even was a quarterfinalist in the American Songwriting Contest in 1976.
My band regrouped in 2002 and we have a bunch of new originals, and are having a blast. Sure beats my regular 8-5++ job. I look forward to retirement when I can do it full time again.
Peace.
Grace
My band regrouped in 2002 and we have a bunch of new originals, and are having a blast. Sure beats my regular 8-5++ job. I look forward to retirement when I can do it full time again.
Peace.
Grace
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Margaret
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I love Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson is my musical hero), Richard Thompson and I play the bagpipes. I also have a nice rickenbacker (six string), and mandolin, But the pipes- that my voice. I am impresed, but not suprised by the variety of musicianship found here girls. Nice guitars and hammond organ- really lovely. Margaret
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Absaroka
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I just got around to reading this thread. I hadn't realized how many musically talented people were here.
I love music in all it's forms, from classical to jazz to rock to C&W. Reminds me of I think it was John Lee Hooker who said his favorite recording was a Willie Nelson album. Back in the late 60's early 70's I played the trumpet a bit. I was in several rock bands that never really got out of the garage. We did stuff by Cold Blood, Dreams, White Trash and Ten Wheel Drive. And of course stuff like Vehicle, One Fine Morning, and Them Changes and so on. Anyone remember these songs here?
Never got enough material together to play for more than an hour or two though. I still like to listen to those groups.
Other favorites were/are Santana, some Allmans, ZZ Top, Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor and so forth. And I love jazz-Maynard Ferguson, Duke Ellington, Tito Puente. And then there is Stravinski and Resphigi. I can listen to Stravinski's Petrouchka and be in total awe of how in the world did he ever think of such things. BTW there are a few lines from Petrouchka in Frank Zappa's Big Leg Emma. Kind of surprised me the first time I heard that.
I guess what connects Santana, Stravinski, Willie Nelson, Muddy Waters, and Duke Ellington for me is the passion independent of genre. Listening to them I feel like they are inviting me to walk around inside their soul and look around. Not a note of background music between them. It demands to be listened to wholeheartedly.
Here's an idea that I consider to be fairly profound. The part of our brain that processes music is a much older part in evolutionary terms than the part that processes speech. So humanity had music before it had speech. And it today it is something that every culture has (just like dance) and every culture does it differently.
Last year I started to play again. Now I am in a couple of old folks swing bands (average age is 70 or so. Don't laugh. These guys have been practicing for probably 60 years now and are pretty good) doing stuff like In the Mood with some actual occaisional real jazz-usually there are a few blues tunes that they open up and half the band gets a chance for a solo. They do tend to play the fast songs too slow and the slow songs to fast but that has a lot to do with who comes to listen to us. Imagine watching a bunch of 70 year olds bump and grind to a slow song....Most of those guys hate rock music since after WWII it took so much work away from them. But us young folk in our 50's don't feel that way.
Absaroka
I love music in all it's forms, from classical to jazz to rock to C&W. Reminds me of I think it was John Lee Hooker who said his favorite recording was a Willie Nelson album. Back in the late 60's early 70's I played the trumpet a bit. I was in several rock bands that never really got out of the garage. We did stuff by Cold Blood, Dreams, White Trash and Ten Wheel Drive. And of course stuff like Vehicle, One Fine Morning, and Them Changes and so on. Anyone remember these songs here?
Never got enough material together to play for more than an hour or two though. I still like to listen to those groups.
Other favorites were/are Santana, some Allmans, ZZ Top, Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor and so forth. And I love jazz-Maynard Ferguson, Duke Ellington, Tito Puente. And then there is Stravinski and Resphigi. I can listen to Stravinski's Petrouchka and be in total awe of how in the world did he ever think of such things. BTW there are a few lines from Petrouchka in Frank Zappa's Big Leg Emma. Kind of surprised me the first time I heard that.
I guess what connects Santana, Stravinski, Willie Nelson, Muddy Waters, and Duke Ellington for me is the passion independent of genre. Listening to them I feel like they are inviting me to walk around inside their soul and look around. Not a note of background music between them. It demands to be listened to wholeheartedly.
Here's an idea that I consider to be fairly profound. The part of our brain that processes music is a much older part in evolutionary terms than the part that processes speech. So humanity had music before it had speech. And it today it is something that every culture has (just like dance) and every culture does it differently.
Last year I started to play again. Now I am in a couple of old folks swing bands (average age is 70 or so. Don't laugh. These guys have been practicing for probably 60 years now and are pretty good) doing stuff like In the Mood with some actual occaisional real jazz-usually there are a few blues tunes that they open up and half the band gets a chance for a solo. They do tend to play the fast songs too slow and the slow songs to fast but that has a lot to do with who comes to listen to us. Imagine watching a bunch of 70 year olds bump and grind to a slow song....Most of those guys hate rock music since after WWII it took so much work away from them. But us young folk in our 50's don't feel that way.
Absaroka
everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon