General Music Chat

Yeah but not all songs have three choruses, two verses do they? I think its way deeper than even that.

I agree that music moves you, after all its sort of a tribal isn't it from our forebears, the time in the woods, time for dance and merriment or on a good day of hunting perhaps?

Isn't it funny? (Not) that we take it so seriously while others take it in and enjoy it, buy it, dance to it, jump.............

It's great to hear how you guys started.
Anyone else?

Chippy.

Same as S.P.

A combination of my parents' desires for me and my own, I guess. I got into music at a very young age, around kindergarten. After I started to learn the songs, much to my family's dismay, I began teaching myself to sing. I started playing piano and cello when I was 8, and just picked up other instruments on my own along the way. I guess that means I've been playing piano for 11 years now. Piano was at my parents' request, but my plans weren't really aligned with theirs for me, I guess. They wanted me to be some kind of classical player or something, but as soon as I could, I switched to jazz piano. I've learned a lot over the short time I've been alive, and I'm looking forward to many more years of it!

I was about 6 when I was abducted by aliens and they stuck a guitar in my hands and told me not to tell anybody . But I told my great uncle the giant who plays the congos a couple of years ago and pissed the aliens off. So now I play the Bass I must thank Hayden for getting me so excited today!

I Thank my mom every time I pick one of my guitars up. I remember the last time I got to play with her in 1982 out in Ft Worth. Its those kind of memories that make me the musician I am and hope to be.


Its just another day in Paradise !

My dad used to ground me all the time. I dont know why! But the only thing I had in my room was a stereo with headphones and a guitar, no amp, just an electric unplugged. I did a lot of wood shedding in those days.

I think Im a natural entertainer, and playing in a band is the simplest way to entertain folks.

My gran was a singer in the 40's, my mum was an R & B singer in the 60's and my aunt wrote folk songs on guitar and sang as well. Growing up with them always singing around me just gave me an ear for music. When I was 13 my aunt marrried a drummer. I was fascinated by the drums so he bought me my first kit and instead of playing recorder and clarinet in school band from then, I switched to percussion. I joined a band a couple of years later. No matter what has happened, I never stopped singing, it's just as natural as breathing in my family I guess.

I've got music in my genes, literally. I'm 3/4 Russian and one of my great great great great uncles or something like that was actually the conductor for the Czar of Russia's private orchestra. My brother (God rest his soul ) wrote over 500 songs. My sister is a fine singer and did a solo act singing and playing accoustic guitar in coffee houses many years ago. My parents constantly played music when I was growing up. A few of us I believe are meant to play music. All through public school I sang in choirs. I sang in numerous school plays. I took a liking to blues in my late teens and started in bands as a singer/harmonica player. We always had trouble getting bass players so I switched to bass when a world class harmonica player became available to play in our band. I guess it was ineveitable that I'd be in bands.

Just was sick of other peoples' music and I could hear what I wanted to play in my head.

(I thought you were trying to keep it short ?)

No Chippy, not you.. lol

Who me?

(I thought you were trying to keep it short ?)

I had a dream prior to my 5th birthday, where I was standing before a crowd of people singing praises to the LORD. In the dream I was an adult. After the dream I asked my parents for a guitar, I got one on christmas some years later. I listened to lots of music prior to then and even after to drown out the fighting between mom and dad. when at my grandparents I'd play there organ fun machine. In elementary I was in a music class, then went to band in junior high and high school. After that I didn't play much, just wrote songs, and did solo singing in churches I was in. I purchased another guitar myself in my mid twenties, and been singing every since then off and on. Every time I've tried to lay it down, or get rid of my guitar, it finds me again. So now I've just accepted that my lot in life is to sing and play music

....the thought of being able to get my hands on all sorts of voluptuous boobies is what made me start music...

I chose music, originally because of my dad. I started on acoustic guitar when I was about 7 because my dad played guitar. I lost interest after I realized that guitar just wasn't for me, but I was still looking for an instrument to play. I started playing cello in 6th grade, then filled an open position for double bass in the school orchastra. I've been playing bass for me ever since. I found music to be a great way to express myself, and to touch other people's lives...

Plus, it made it really easy to meet chicks when I was in high school!

I never really thought about it. Music... kinda... just happened. I can't remember it but my parents tell me my dad would play acoustic for me when I was a baby. He was a musician when he was younger. My dad's is closing in on seventy now. So he was in bands when Tommy James was rocking it. Lol. He played piano and guitar. He still plays. My mom played clarinet but it never stuck with here. (Only through high school) So as far as genes go... it's not like I was the child of two musical geniuses. I guess it happened in elementary school. I was a little fat kid around four and a half feet or so. I guess that was around the third grade. I was one of those "picked-on cases." I wasn't really good at anything in school. I was too slow for sports. I was too goofy looking for girls to have a crush on but I could sing decent. So I asked for a guitar one Christmas. My parents bought me a thirty or forty dollar off the wall beginner's acoustic. I wore that guitar out. I just started writing from day one. My mother had a dual deck cassette player. That's where I got my first taste of "dubbing" tracks. Years after that I played alto sax, tenor sax, bari sax and cornet in middle school and high school. I stuck with guitar but then I realized: instead of playing one instrument like a prodigy, I could learn how to play everything decently and be able to really write a song. I don't know... seems like there should be more to the story.

"Plastic Eminee"? "Hooking a guitar in to the parent's hi-fi stereo and blowing it up"? "Cutting out card-board guitars and "jamming" w/ the Beatles in the 60s"? Wow, y'all just told my whole story for me!!
My mom was a nightclub "big-band" era singer/ pianist and my dad was a radio DJ + he played guitar, my step-father played ukelele and sang , his father played banjo and an electric mandolin.. whatz a guy to do? Plus, like Crip always sez- boobies .. actually I'm more of a leg and azz man, myself..

I guess what started with me I was very young listening to my grandmother play piano on an old church style upright. As I got older my aunt would hold like small jam sessions at here house, My parents would take me there and I would listen to my uncle and his friends play.But when I was around 8 I guess my Dad was always a big Hank Williams Sr fan. I was in the fourth grade when I started wrighting poetry. When I really started to listen to Hank Sr with my dad I was like drawn into the poetry of his words.As I grew into my Teens my mom turned me onto Bob Dylan and John Lennon and I started to listen to stuff like Johnny Cash and Kris Krisstoferson. When I was around 16 I think I was hanging out with some friends listening to the radio and Sweet Child O'Mine came Blaring through.And thatr loud ass sound Slash produced off that GoldTop "Yes Sweet Child was org play on a Les Paul Gold Top not the Starburst we all know Slash Plays now"and I was Hooked from there. But My parents had a diffrent plan for me and it didn't involve music at all.
Well Years passed Marriage, Divorce and a buntch of other crap I'd rather not say. But on my 30th Birthday I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer "Stage 2"and spent the next year going through Chemo and Radiation. I w2as completley bed ridden. But a very dear friend new that I always loved a guitar so she whent out and bought an old black cheap "Harmony" guitar from a pawn shop and gave it to me. It was there in the Winter of 05 that I started to begin playing.The guitar and her friendship is what got me through the chemo and radiation. But unfortually in the fall of 05 mother nature almost stopped me from playing again "Hurrican Katrina" but I am now back with 3 new guitars and wrighting my own stuff and soon headed to a studio to cut a demo the rest is still yet to come.

There are some wonderful replies on this thread. It would make a damned good book!