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ALMAH
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3/12/2008 8:30:48 PM
DID YOU BECOME MUSICIAN THANKS TO WHO?? INFLUENCES
Many of us became musicians because influenced from other bands, almost all bigger bands.
Some of us maybe started very young, like Almah singer, he was singing in a choir, of some started because the parents wanted to give them a music education.
In less words, all of us we are playing or singing for a reason.
What has been your reason? and did you choose your band style because of some particular reason?
Did your parents and family were happy about it?
SolMusic Management, Almah's manager
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Vincenzo Pandolfi
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3/12/2008 10:19:26 PM
My Mother!!!
She had the most wonderful soprano voice. Unfortunately, her parents would not let her sing professionally.
Anyway one day she hired a piano, so I taught myself in the beginning...the rest is on my page!
Vincenzo
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srm
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3/12/2008 11:00:04 PM
I'm afaraid that it was my mother, too. She was the church pianist. She usually played staid, Southern Baptist hymns. She was very good, inserting fills and runs where they worked. However, every now and then, she would get a wild hair and break out some boogie-woogie (I may have mentioned- I'm old). It struck me that she could hit a certain mood, and this tune would come bursting straight from her head and out through her fingers. That was magical to me.
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srm
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3/12/2008 11:22:15 PM
I think I need Larree's Comment Editor.
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Jeff Allen Myers
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3/12/2008 11:45:30 PM
The Beatles.....first song that hooked me was "I should have known Better" There was something magical about it when I heard it on the radio, I was 12.. They are the sole reason I write. sing, play, and record.... There is no doubt in my mind, if the did not come along, I would not be into music....period, end of story. ... :)
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Steve Ison
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3/13/2008 2:12:35 AM
Definitely my Mother too..
I can picture her winding up the gramophone and playing the latest charlston 78s as clear as day..
On saturdays if i was very lucky(and been a good boy!) she'd take me to 'the talkies', where the latest Bing Crosby film might be playing..
Even as a young boy i was a huge Bing Crosby fan-and hearing him croon so magically in 'King Of Jazz' or 'Going Hollywood' gave me an excitement for music thats stayed for life..
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RedRobin
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3/13/2008 4:31:53 AM
There's definitely a pattern emerging in this thread - My mother too! Insofar as she used to wake me up every morning by bringing a radio into my bedroom - No wonder I'm ok with 'commercial' music!
I never liked The Beatles much but instantly loved The Rolling Stones. I grew to like John Lennon and George Harrison later but still don't like McCartney's music. My dad wasn't too keen on The Stones!! Nor Led Zeppelin until I tricked him by playing him "Stairway To Heaven" on headphones - He didn't expect the build-up!
I didn't become a musician until after my 4yo son died in my arms and I was given a flute by Native American friends as a route to healing. So my son Jay is why I've become a musician.
My 16yo daughter Sky loves music but isn't a musician. It's the date of my mum's birthday tomorrow and she passed on near this time, so she is very much in my thoughts.
Thanx to my mother for planting the seeds of music.
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Maria Daines
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3/13/2008 4:38:59 AM
Great topic! Definitely my dad, very strange too since he could never sing in front of anyone and I only heard him from the bathroom, occasionally he would forget himself and sing a few lines on passing but if he knew I was listening he would stop, he brought most of the music into our home and as I absorbed it I guess I have to say Diana Trask & Willie Nelson were great influences on me, unfortunately I inherited my dad's shyness and it took me years to be able to sing in public, I still battle this problem but most of the time I'm able to overcome it and feel almost confident these days, some situations still get the better of me & when I think of artists that have affected me deeply I'm thankful that there are always so many great people to look up to. My mother also sung & played guitar & though she rarely got the chance to do this I remember her smiling and enjoying the experience. My grandmother & her sister played piano, sitting on the long stool together they crossed hands & sung duets, gran had a falsetto voice & went to church & her sister sung bawdy blues with a rasp, she played for drinks! They were an amazingly good match though so different. My grandfather played the accordion & they had a band together for many years, I heard they strapped the drum kit to the roof of the car & set off to entertain East Anglia many years ago, they fill me with pride to this day!
Peace & hugs
Maria xx
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Hop On Pop
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3/13/2008 4:40:26 AM
You would never guess it from listening to my music, but:
JUDAS PRIEST
Imagine a 13-year-old Todd rocking out to J.P., and playing air guitar in his full-length mirror. Then, stopping and saying, "I should do this for real!"
I started writing songs under the influence of Meat Puppets, Uncle Tupelo, and The Replacements once I realized that I was never going to be Glenn Tipton or K.K. Downing.
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Two Silo Complex
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3/13/2008 6:41:15 AM
I also come form hard rock beginnings.
I was ispired by the bass playing of Steve Harris - Iron Maiden
TSC
Ken
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The CODE
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3/13/2008 7:09:17 AM
I had a wide range of influences, from my older brother, mum, dad!
But the Hendrix performance on the Lulu Show in the 60's had the
most effect on me!!!
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Tony Vani and Debbie Hoskin
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3/13/2008 7:17:13 AM
Not sure. Support from all directions, the entire family was musical. Family gatherings were usually a big musical jam, with me on violen. Perhaps my dad really impressed me because he could pick up any instrument and play it well.
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Jeff Allen Myers
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3/13/2008 1:12:49 PM
Hey Red Robin... I think there is a gene, or a chemical in the Brain that makes you either Lean Beatles or Stones, Most I know love one, and dislike the other. I respect the Stones and like some of their songs, but overall I can't stomach them very long. :) But to each his own...
My Mom and Dad have no musical ability, in fact I can't find anyone on my family tree with any, except for my young niece. The way my Son reacts to music, he may have the gene.
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Jeff Allen Myers
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3/13/2008 1:16:10 PM
I just saw the part about your 4yr old Son Red. I am so very sorry.... being a father a little over a year I can only begin to know the pain you feel. Jeff
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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3/13/2008 3:45:20 PM
---my first Buddy Holly and the Crickets song "Oh Boy"----singing
then Duane Eddies---"Rebel Rouser"------guitar
says it all really!
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Stegor
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3/13/2008 6:50:45 PM
Brian Eno. Non-musician extrordinaire.
ENOENOENOENOENOENOENOENOENOENOENOENO
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Nerol
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3/14/2008 5:03:17 AM
Well let's see....parents and older brothers. Though hairdressers by trade, my dad hand-built violins and cellos, my mom played cello and piano, and all three of my older brothers played piano. It just seemed natural to gravitate toward music.
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Beth Fridinger
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3/14/2008 6:28:41 PM
Well I wish I had family support...I did take piano lessons as a child...later on...I tried playing guitar in my 30s...then quit...picked it up again recently and some folks heard me singing at a party and I never sang before...and my friend Stu was very supportive of my music...I was very green and he gave me a lot of encouragement.
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Bob Elliott
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3/14/2008 6:36:44 PM
I'm guessing I could have been born into just about any culture and would have fallen into music if allowed.
But I know how it worked in my life was my older sister had her record player right on the shared wall with my room where my bed was, and I was listening to everything every night. She had a cool bunch of albums. Cool bunch of friends, too, and it all looked like it went together to me.
I don't have a memory reaching back to a place where I wasn't into the music that was going on in the house, the instruments available.
What I mean really is you, too, were likely just wired to be a musician if the opportunity was there.
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ROMAN MIROSHNICHENKO
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3/15/2008 10:12:03 AM
I think the music was already in my blood........
The music is an art, everyone has inside an art, the music called me!
Roman
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ALMAH
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3/15/2008 10:41:38 AM
Thanks everyone to add your comment, seems that this topic is loved a lot!
Love
SolMusic Management, ALAMH's manager
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Magnetfisch
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3/15/2008 11:52:55 AM
Hello fellow Swiss citizen,
here are the people who initiated my interest for playing music (and starting a band in 1994):
- my mother and my late father, in the sense that they listen resp. listened to lots of beautiful classical music, and pushed me to learn two instruments (piano, trumpet). And made it possible to afford my first keyboard, which I still use!
- my aunt, who rent an old drum kit for me in the short time where I hesitated between playing the drums -which was cool for Metallica songs!- or keyboards - I chose keys because in addition to programmable E-drums, you get melodies :-)
- our teacher in college who let us play pop music (this is actually where our guitar player Patrick and I first played in common "bands" covering Madonna, Scorpions, the Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd...).
- well known musicians of bands I'm still a fan like Robert Smith (The Cure) and Jim Kerr (Simple Minds)
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