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Hop On Pop
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3/30/2010 9:11:55 AM
What inspired you to start playing music? Writing music?
One day, when I was 13, I was listening to Judas Priest's Point Of Entry and playing air guitar in front of my full-length mirror when, suddenly, it occurred to me that I should be playing for real.
I went on a mission to become a shredder: an unstoppable 6-string machine.
When that didn't happen, I got discouraged, but right around that time I hear a couple of bands: The Replacements and Uncle Tupelo -- that made me think that if I couldn't be a guitar hero, maybe I could write some songs?
So... here I am: an average guitar player who has learned to write some (I think) pretty good songs.
How about you?
How did you get started and who/what inspired you?
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Bryon Tosoff
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3/30/2010 9:14:40 AM
I saw so much crappy music at myspace my face farcebook ilike all over and I i said, damn there is so much crappy music about, i think I will write my own crappy music
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Hop On Pop
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3/30/2010 9:16:09 AM
Oh... somebody is a Negative Nellie these days.
And, I have news for you Bryon: you failed.
Because your music is good.
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Black Velvet Lace
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3/30/2010 11:10:28 AM
I lived next door to an *old woman* named Mae. She used to let me come over her house, have *tea parties* and play with her cat. I was 3. And I loved Mae dearly.
Mae had a piano in her living room that I would *play*. The first song I *wrote* (and one of the last) was the *Hawaiian Song*. It consisted of me standing on front of the piano and waving my arms up and down the keys like a hula dancer. The resulting scales were.. uhm.. *delightful* to my ears. Then Mae would play a song. When I was 4 I started mimicking her, playing by ear after she'd finish.
This started my musical *career*. :P
xox
~Lace~
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Bryon Tosoff
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3/30/2010 11:42:25 AM
oK ALL , I am sure you know I was just kicking the tires around here rustling up the feathers and messing with your heads.
as for inspiration and music and all that. it is a long story, but really it all started in a car, yup way way back so far back I hate to admit it. what year was that? nah none of that. I have to get going to my money pit here so this is gonna be a little shot today and maybe expand on it another day.
ok, that car, in the backseat.
there , ok that sounds kinda inviting dont it, of course it does
ok in the car, my dads driving, my mom is quiet and here I am yanno, in the back seat tapping to a rhythm I heard in my head and then my dad says , we gotta get this boy into lessons, some kinda music lessons, my mom gave a positive yes and when we could afford it , well actually not, way back in the day that piano cost 900 dollars a lot of money way back when and there is where I started my quest thanks to my dads suggestion and my moms insight and awareness of the value of music I started my training...as a child, but like I said before I just was not that good, but worked slowly and developed some skills and over time got to where I am now, it took years, a lot longer then most....ok ,thats about it.....and the inspiration of writing crating songs comes from many sources and ideas and events.
ok, bye, gotsta go
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Jeff Allen Myers
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3/30/2010 12:43:23 PM
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Heard the Beatles on the Radio when I was 12 . it was. "I should have known Better" Maybe I should have known better??? :) I did not know much about them, but the sound just struck me and I was hooked. I saved all my money to buy their records. I bought my first guitar soon after, the fact that they wrote their own music inspired me to do the same. I learned to sing while singing along to their songs. The rest is probably similar to most of you...joined bands, played Gigs, some good...some bad....got into home recording where I only had to rely on myself..., Thats all I am going to say about that... :)
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Eaglehead
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4/1/2010 3:53:11 PM
Wandering into the house after a game of footie and catching this little number on the tube............
:)
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Sign of Descent
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4/1/2010 9:50:08 PM
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When I was in sixth grade, the school I was attending at the time invited a band to come and play in the patio area. It was the first time I had ever seen music being performed live. I recall clearly, thinking, "That's what I want to do!"
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Tony Vani and Debbie Hoskin
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4/1/2010 10:11:30 PM
It is inate. I can't remember a point in time that triggered it. I have always had a desire to create and express myself through music.
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The Mighty Jerkules
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4/1/2010 10:20:05 PM
Playing?Metallica
Writing?Nirvana
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culeoka
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4/6/2010 8:00:40 PM
Every Saterday night, my great grand-dad and his buddies would pile up on the back porch and play Bluegrass all night. This was a long time before I ever heard of Flatt & Scruggs. Kinda funny in a way. out of us 9 kids, I'm the only one who plays.
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Duane Flock
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4/6/2010 9:07:17 PM
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My Dad played Country Western professionally and my mom sang. Early sixties when I was old enough to walk and sneek into the music room and play with the instruments in thier stands. Early influences as I learned to play included; Cream, Allman Bros., Steely Dan, Trower, Pink Floyd, ect......
D.
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